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Dr Nick Hodgin

Lecturer in German Studies

Degree: PhD (Sheffield)

Current Teaching

I teach German Studies and Film Studies on the following modules:

GERM 100/101: German Part I

GERM 201: German Language: written and reading skills

GERM 233: Becoming German: identity-formation in modern German society and culture

DELC 212: Cinema and Society in Europe and Latin America:

GERM 354: Culture and Politics in the GDR

Research Interests

My research and teaching interests lie primarily in the field of cultural studies (especially visual culture) with a particular interest in identity and community studies, and memory studies. My research has hitherto been in twentieth century and contemporary German studies and film studies and I have published essays and article on a variety of contemporary German films. My monograph, Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989 (Berghahn Books, 2011), traces the emergence and representation of a separate post-communist east German identity and the various responses to unification, looking at how these are mediated in film specifically, and, more broadly, in popular culture (museum/exhibition studies, developments in literature, advertising).My interest in the ways in which the GDR has come to be represented has also resulted in a co-edited volume, The GDR Remembered: Representions ofthe East German State since 1989 (Camden House, 2011).

Current research projects focus on:

• visual culture and subversion in the GDR
• DEFA (East German cinema), including documentaries
• international film and history in context
• Berlin and film

My wider research interests include film aesthetics, film reception and marketing, film history, film theory, World Cinema, and underground film; and with regards the GDR, East German cultural life (plastic arts,graphic arts, sub-cultural art), its intellectual history, the history of the Spanish Civil War in East Germany.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I welcome PhD proposals on any topic which falls into the broad research areas outlined below.

Biographical Information

I originally studied English and German during which time I spent a year studying at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena. It was there that I became interested in the GDR. After an MA in film studies and film theory, during which time I returned to eastern Germany (this time to Dresden) for a number of years to conduct research into east German cinema (DEFA) and worked as an English tutor, I returned to the UK to write a PhD on contemporary German film. Since gaining my PhD I have taught German studies and film studies at the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield.

Publications

Books

Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989 (Berghahn, 2011)

The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German state since 1989 (Camden House, 2011) co-edited with Caroline Pearce

Articles/Book chapters

'Eastern Blues, Southern Comforts. Searching for Heimat in the Bayous', Mississippi Quarterly 28p - Summer/Fall 2011

'Screening the Stasi. The Politics of Representation in Postunification Film', in The GDR Remembered. Representations of the East German State, ed. by Hodgin and Pearce (Camden House, 2011), 69-93

'Introduction' (co-authored with C. Pearce) in The GDR Remembered. Representations of the East German State, ed. by Hodgin and Pearce (Camden House, 2011), 1-18

'Aiming to Please: Good Bye Lenin! and the Cinema of Consensus' in New Directions in German Cinema, ed. by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood (I.B. Tauris, 2011), 94-112

'Marginalised Subjects, Mainstream Objectives. Insights on Outsiders in Contemporary German Film', New Readings, Vol. 8, 2006 (Autumn 2007), 20p

'Berlin is in Germany and Good Bye, Lenin! Taking Leave of the GDR?', Debatte. Review of contemporary German affairs, Vol. 12 No.1 (May 2004), 25-46

Other Activities

Peer Reviewer for: The Historian, Camden House books, New Readings, History & Memory

Reviews in Scope. Online Journal of Film Studies, Modern Language Review (Oxford), German Studies Review

Invited to present films by Screen Education (Sheffield Showroom, November 2009, October 2010, October 2011)

Invited to present film by Irish Film Institute (Dublin, January 2010)

Translations

Jürgen Luh, 'Frederick300 in 2012: A Case Study of Institutional Management of Heritage in Germany', in Rebecca Braun and Lyn Marven (eds), CULTURAL IMPACT: Theoretical and Practical Issues of Reception in the German-Speaking World (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2010)

Thomas Ahbe, 'Geschichtspolitik and Competing Master Narratives in Three German Societies', in Nick Hodgin and Caroline Pearce (eds), The GDR Remembered. Representations of the east German State since 1989 9(Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)

Francesca Vidal, Welf Schröter, ‚Gibt es Hoffnung auf aufrechten Gang in einer informatisierten Arbeitswelt?' in Peter Thompson, Slavoj Žižek (eds), Ernst Bloch and the Privatisation of Hope (Duke University Press, 2011)

Wolfgang Emmerich, 'Literature in the GDR. A Summary' in Karen Leeder (ed), Re-reading East Germany. The Literature and Film of the GDR, 1949-2009 (Cambridge: CUP, 2011)

Norbert Otto Eke, '"Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mir, macht nichts". Herta Müller's Romanian Novels' in Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven (eds) volume on Herta Müller (2012)

Other Interests and Hobbies

In addition to my research interests in film, I am interested in filmmaking, film co-operatives and other non-mainstream and non-professional filmmaking and discourses. I have a similar interest in sound/field recordings.

Associated Keywords: Cinema, Community, Cultural Studies, Cultural theory, Culture, Culture and media, Film, Film authorship, Film noir, Film studies, Film style, Film theory, German, German language, culture and society, German studies and text analysis , Germany, Identity, Identity politics, Material culture, Memorialisation, Memory, Postmodernism, Socialism, Visual culture

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