Gabriele Mueller
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Associate Professor
German Program Coordinator
Office: Ross Building, S524
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 66289
Email: gmueller@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Gabriele Mueller is Associate Professor in German Studies at York University. Her research interests lie in the areas of German cultural studies, contemporary German film, and East German studies. She has published on aspects of post-unification and contemporary German cinema and television, on cinematic responses to social change, and on cinematic discourses on cultural memory, in particular related to the remembering of the GDR.
Degrees
Ph.D., German Film Studies, University of the West of EnglandDiplomlehrer, Teacher of German and English (equivalent to M.Ed), Leipzig University
Professional Leadership
Conference and workshop organization
- Program Chair, CAUTG conference 2013, 2014
- Co-organizer (with Peter McIsaac, York University) of international conference “The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Musealization”, held in April 2011
Research Interests
Exhibiting the Past. Museums, Film, Musealization. Ed. With Peter McIsaac. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Ed. with James Skidmore. Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo, Canada, 2012.
“Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migration.” New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction. Ed. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 43-67.
“Introduction.” The Past on Display. Museums, Film, Musealization. Ed. Peter McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 3-20.
“Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR.” Remembering and Rethinking the GDR. Eds. Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 197-213.
Co-authored with James Skidmore: “Cinema of Dissent? Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria.” Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Eds. Gabriele Mueller and James Skidmore. Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012, 1-22.
“The Aged Traveler: Cinematic Representations of Post-Retirement Masculinity.” Narratives of Life: Mediating Age. Aging Studies in Europe. Eds. Heike Hartung and Roberta Maierhofer. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2009. 149-165.
“Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: ‘Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind’ (Carow, 1993) and ‘Raus aus der Haut’ (Dresen, 1997)”. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism, 1968-1998. Eds. Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils. German Monitor. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 269-284.
“Committing to ‘Third Space’: Teaching Film in the International Classroom”. The International Classroom: Challenging the Notion. Eds. Cecchetto, Vikki and Magda Stroinska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2006. 161-170.
Jennifer M. Kapczynski. “‘The German Patient.‘Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture.” Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2008. In: German Quarterly. 84:3, 2011, 387-8.
“Boy 7 in double exposure: European genre cinema between transnational industry practices and national consumption”. Studies in European Cinema, 19:1, 2022, published online 2019. DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2019.1708037
“Cultural ‘Transfer’ in European Science Fiction Cinema: From Elia Barcelo’s Mil euros por tu vida to Damir Lukacevic’s Film Adaptation Transfer.” Comparative Literature Studies 56:3 (2019): 504-519. Forthcoming.
“Metamorphosis of a Film Festival: The Transformation of the Ludwigshafen Film Festival from National Auteur Film Festival to Regional Film Event.” Film International 16:2 (2018): 42-53.
“Rattenfänger von Europa” – Generationsnarrative und Zukunftsbilder im gegenwärtigen deutschsprachigen Science-Fiction-Film.” Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 9:1 (2018): 137-154.
Co-authored with Peter McIsaac and Diana Spokiene: “Introduction.” Visions of Tomorrow. Science and Utopia in German Culture. Ed. With Peter McIsaac and Diana Spokiene. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. Vol. XLVIII, No.1, Feb. 2012, 1-8
“Surviving Ourselves: Mothers, Clones, and the Legacy of 1968 in Elementary Particles (Roehler, 2006) and Blueprint (Schübel, 2003).” German Politics and Society. 28:4, 2010. 1-18.
“Going East, Looking West: Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema”. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 44:4, 2008. 453-469.
“’Welcome to Reality’. Constructions of German Identity in ‘Lichter’ (Distant Lights, Schmid, 2003) and ‘Halbe Treppe’ (Grill Point, Dresen, 2002)”. New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Film. 4:2, 2006. 117-127.
“Education (Documentaries) as Utopian Practice.” Council for European Studies annual conference.
“Communism without Communists? Utopian Ideas Revisited in German-Language Cinema.” Council for European Studies, annual (virtual) conference.
“From Hollywood to Hoyerswerda: Reclaiming East German (Film) History in Andreas Dresen’s Gundermann.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, German Studies Canada, virtual conference.
“Boy 7 in Double Exposure: European Genre Cinema between Transnational Industry Practices and National Consumption." NECS Conference, Amsterdam.
“Projecting Europe’s Future: Migration and Race in European Science Fiction.” Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest.
“Rattenfänger von Europa” – Generationsnarrative und Zunkunftsbilder im gegenwärtigen deutschsprachigen Science-Fiction Film.” Annual ZiG-Tagung 2017, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
“Die Vermissten – Searching for the Future of Society.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Ottawa.
“Redefining the Autorenfilm? The German Film Festival Ludwigshafen – a National Auteur Film Festival in the Age of Transnational and Industrial Filmmaking.” SCMS conference, Chicago, March 2013.
"Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR." After the Wall: Remembering and Rethinking the GDR.", Bangor University, UK.
May 2010 “Virtual Museums: Reconstructing the GDR on Screen.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Montreal.
“Zeitenwende 1989: ‘Ost-Zeit’ in Film und Fernsehen.“ International colloquium of the Mitteleuropazentrum of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
June 2008 “Schultze’s Journey to Retirement: Constructions of Aging in Recent German Cinema.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Vancouver.
July 2008 “Surviving Ourselves: Mothers, Clones, and the Legacy of 1968 in Elementary Particles (Roehler, 2006) and Blueprint (Schübel, 2003).” 11th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), Helsinki.
November 2007 “The Road to Retirement: Male Aging on Screen in Harry and Tonto (Mazursky, 1974) About Schmidt (Payne, 2002), and Children of Nature (Fridriksson, 1992).” Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia.
September 2006 “Going East, Looking West: Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA.
November 2005 “Frankfurt (Oder) Berlin? City Spaces and the Construction of German Identity in ‘Nachtgestalten’, ‘Die Polizistin’, and ‘Halbe Treppe’ by Andreas Dresen.” AATG Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA.
September 2005 “Idealistische Gutmenschen? ‘Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind’ (Carow, 1993) and ‘Raus aus der Haut’ (Dresen, 1997) - Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective.” Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. Cardiff University, UK.
May 2005 “Terrorists as Heroes? Representations of the RAF within East German Contexts.” Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German at the University of Western Ontario.
October 2005 “Unification: Hour Zero for a New German Cinema?” 15 Years United Germany – The Effects of Unification. Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo. (invited)
July 2005 ““Welcome to Reality”. Constructions of ‘Germanness’ in Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002) and Lichter (Distant Lights, 2003).” European Cinema Research Forum. University of Leeds, UK.
“‘Links is wat, rechts is wat, und wir sind mittendrin’ - Representation of Teenagers in Helmut Dziuba’s Film Jana und Jan.” Millennial Essays on Film and Other German Studies. Ed. Daniela Berghahn and Alan Bance. Southampton: Peter Lang, 2002. 79-91.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/GER3989 6.0 | A | Germany and the Global Imaginary | ONLN |
Gabriele Mueller is Associate Professor in German Studies at York University. Her research interests lie in the areas of German cultural studies, contemporary German film, and East German studies. She has published on aspects of post-unification and contemporary German cinema and television, on cinematic responses to social change, and on cinematic discourses on cultural memory, in particular related to the remembering of the GDR.
Degrees
Ph.D., German Film Studies, University of the West of EnglandDiplomlehrer, Teacher of German and English (equivalent to M.Ed), Leipzig University
Professional Leadership
Conference and workshop organization
- Program Chair, CAUTG conference 2013, 2014
- Co-organizer (with Peter McIsaac, York University) of international conference “The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Musealization”, held in April 2011
Research Interests
All Publications
“Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migration.” New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction. Ed. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 43-67.
“Introduction.” The Past on Display. Museums, Film, Musealization. Ed. Peter McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 3-20.
“Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR.” Remembering and Rethinking the GDR. Eds. Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 197-213.
Co-authored with James Skidmore: “Cinema of Dissent? Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria.” Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Eds. Gabriele Mueller and James Skidmore. Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012, 1-22.
“The Aged Traveler: Cinematic Representations of Post-Retirement Masculinity.” Narratives of Life: Mediating Age. Aging Studies in Europe. Eds. Heike Hartung and Roberta Maierhofer. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2009. 149-165.
“Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: ‘Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind’ (Carow, 1993) and ‘Raus aus der Haut’ (Dresen, 1997)”. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism, 1968-1998. Eds. Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils. German Monitor. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 269-284.
“Committing to ‘Third Space’: Teaching Film in the International Classroom”. The International Classroom: Challenging the Notion. Eds. Cecchetto, Vikki and Magda Stroinska. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2006. 161-170.
Jennifer M. Kapczynski. “‘The German Patient.‘Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture.” Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2008. In: German Quarterly. 84:3, 2011, 387-8.
Exhibiting the Past. Museums, Film, Musealization. Ed. With Peter McIsaac. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Ed. with James Skidmore. Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo, Canada, 2012.
“Boy 7 in double exposure: European genre cinema between transnational industry practices and national consumption”. Studies in European Cinema, 19:1, 2022, published online 2019. DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2019.1708037
“Cultural ‘Transfer’ in European Science Fiction Cinema: From Elia Barcelo’s Mil euros por tu vida to Damir Lukacevic’s Film Adaptation Transfer.” Comparative Literature Studies 56:3 (2019): 504-519. Forthcoming.
“Metamorphosis of a Film Festival: The Transformation of the Ludwigshafen Film Festival from National Auteur Film Festival to Regional Film Event.” Film International 16:2 (2018): 42-53.
“Rattenfänger von Europa” – Generationsnarrative und Zukunftsbilder im gegenwärtigen deutschsprachigen Science-Fiction-Film.” Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 9:1 (2018): 137-154.
Co-authored with Peter McIsaac and Diana Spokiene: “Introduction.” Visions of Tomorrow. Science and Utopia in German Culture. Ed. With Peter McIsaac and Diana Spokiene. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. Vol. XLVIII, No.1, Feb. 2012, 1-8
“Surviving Ourselves: Mothers, Clones, and the Legacy of 1968 in Elementary Particles (Roehler, 2006) and Blueprint (Schübel, 2003).” German Politics and Society. 28:4, 2010. 1-18.
“Going East, Looking West: Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema”. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 44:4, 2008. 453-469.
“’Welcome to Reality’. Constructions of German Identity in ‘Lichter’ (Distant Lights, Schmid, 2003) and ‘Halbe Treppe’ (Grill Point, Dresen, 2002)”. New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Film. 4:2, 2006. 117-127.
“Education (Documentaries) as Utopian Practice.” Council for European Studies annual conference.
“Communism without Communists? Utopian Ideas Revisited in German-Language Cinema.” Council for European Studies, annual (virtual) conference.
“From Hollywood to Hoyerswerda: Reclaiming East German (Film) History in Andreas Dresen’s Gundermann.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, German Studies Canada, virtual conference.
“Boy 7 in Double Exposure: European Genre Cinema between Transnational Industry Practices and National Consumption." NECS Conference, Amsterdam.
“Projecting Europe’s Future: Migration and Race in European Science Fiction.” Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest.
“Rattenfänger von Europa” – Generationsnarrative und Zunkunftsbilder im gegenwärtigen deutschsprachigen Science-Fiction Film.” Annual ZiG-Tagung 2017, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
“Die Vermissten – Searching for the Future of Society.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Ottawa.
“Redefining the Autorenfilm? The German Film Festival Ludwigshafen – a National Auteur Film Festival in the Age of Transnational and Industrial Filmmaking.” SCMS conference, Chicago, March 2013.
"Re-Imaging the Niche: Visual Reconstructions of Private Spaces in the GDR." After the Wall: Remembering and Rethinking the GDR.", Bangor University, UK.
May 2010 “Virtual Museums: Reconstructing the GDR on Screen.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Montreal.
“Zeitenwende 1989: ‘Ost-Zeit’ in Film und Fernsehen.“ International colloquium of the Mitteleuropazentrum of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
June 2008 “Schultze’s Journey to Retirement: Constructions of Aging in Recent German Cinema.” Annual CAUTG Meeting, Vancouver.
July 2008 “Surviving Ourselves: Mothers, Clones, and the Legacy of 1968 in Elementary Particles (Roehler, 2006) and Blueprint (Schübel, 2003).” 11th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), Helsinki.
November 2007 “The Road to Retirement: Male Aging on Screen in Harry and Tonto (Mazursky, 1974) About Schmidt (Payne, 2002), and Children of Nature (Fridriksson, 1992).” Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia.
September 2006 “Going East, Looking West: Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA.
November 2005 “Frankfurt (Oder) Berlin? City Spaces and the Construction of German Identity in ‘Nachtgestalten’, ‘Die Polizistin’, and ‘Halbe Treppe’ by Andreas Dresen.” AATG Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA.
September 2005 “Idealistische Gutmenschen? ‘Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind’ (Carow, 1993) and ‘Raus aus der Haut’ (Dresen, 1997) - Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective.” Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. Cardiff University, UK.
May 2005 “Terrorists as Heroes? Representations of the RAF within East German Contexts.” Annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German at the University of Western Ontario.
October 2005 “Unification: Hour Zero for a New German Cinema?” 15 Years United Germany – The Effects of Unification. Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo. (invited)
July 2005 ““Welcome to Reality”. Constructions of ‘Germanness’ in Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002) and Lichter (Distant Lights, 2003).” European Cinema Research Forum. University of Leeds, UK.
“‘Links is wat, rechts is wat, und wir sind mittendrin’ - Representation of Teenagers in Helmut Dziuba’s Film Jana und Jan.” Millennial Essays on Film and Other German Studies. Ed. Daniela Berghahn and Alan Bance. Southampton: Peter Lang, 2002. 79-91.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2023 | AP/GER3989 6.0 | A | Germany and the Global Imaginary | ONLN |
