John E. Davidson, Associate Professor
427 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-292-4860
Fax: 614-292-8510
Office Hours:
AU 09: Mon 1:30-3 in Smith Lab 4108 and by appointment through filmstudies@osu.edu [An appointment is recommended even during office hours]
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/davidson92/
John Davidson, PhD (Cornell University, 1993). Associate Professor; Director of Film Studies.
Specializations: German film and visual culture; post-Enlightenment literature; contemporary critical theories.
Books: Deterritorializing the New German Cinema (U Minn P, 1999). Framing the Fifties (Co-Edited w/ Sabine Hake -- Berghahn 2008)
Articles on: the Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih; New German Cinema; Black Humor; Uwe Johnson; Representations of the Radical Right; Post-Wall Cinema; Wolfgang Liebeneiner; The Mourning of Labor...
Major courses taught: Survey of German Drama; German Romanticism; Surveys of German Literature from 1750-1870 and 1870-1950; Modernism/Postmodernism; Frankfurt School; Post-WW II Culture in the Two Germanies; Post-WW II Literature in German; German Film; Detective Fiction; War and Revolution; The Window of Cinema.
Project: Film and Architecture

