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Jaimey Fisher Associate Professor of German Ph.D., Cornell University Email: jrfisher@ucdavis.edu Office: 409 Sproul Hall Office Hours

Research Interests
Primary research interests include film studies, twentieth-century German literature, and intellectual history.

Current Projects
Prof. Fisher's Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War will come out in Spring 2007 from Wayne State University Press as part of its Kritik series. He has also co-edited the volume Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects and has published essays on German cinema, on German literature, and on the Frankfurt School. He was awarded a Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler or Buka) Fellowship from Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation to work on an extended research project in Berlin. Prof. Fisher's next project, which takes him to film festivals in Germany each year, will reexamine and refigure some of the recurring themes of German-Studies scholarship via a critical examination of post-1989 cinema.

Selected Publications

Books

1. Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (forthcoming, Wayne State University Press, Kritik series, Spring 2007)

1. Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects, co-editor with Peter Uwe Hohendahl (New York: Berghahn Press, 2001).

Essays in Refereed Journals

1. "Turtle-Walking after the Catastrophe: Filmic Flanerie and The Exploded Panorama after 1945," The German Quarterly 78.4 (forthcoming, autumn 2005).
2. "Familial Politics and Political Families: Consent, Critique, and the Fraternal Social Contract in Schiller's Die Räuber," Goethe Yearbook (forthcoming, 2005).
3. "Globalisierungsbewältigung: Global Flows and Local Loyalties in Contemporary German Cinema," special issue on "Globalization and the Image," Genre XXXVI/3-4 (Fall/Winter 2003): 405-28.
4. "Children of the Stars: Youth and Reconstruction in the Early West-German Cinema," Zeitschrift für Germanistik [in German]? XIV (1/2004): 83-101.
5. "Who's watching the Rubble-Kids? Youth, Pedagogy and Politics in Early DEFA Films," New German Critique 82 (Winter 2001): 91-125.
6. "Deleuze in a Ruinous Context: German Rubble-Film and Italian Neorealism," iris, Special Issue: Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher of Cinema 23 (Spring 1997): 53-74.

Essays in Refereed Volumes

1. "Bombing Memories in Braun's Zwischen Gestern und Morgen (1947) :Flashbacks to the Recent Past in The German Rubble-Film," in William Rasch and Wilfried Wilms, Bombs Away: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan, in series Amsterdamer Beitraege zur neueren Germanistik (forthcoming, 2005).
2. "The Question of German Guilt and the German Young: Politicizing the Postwar University in Kortner's Der Ruf and von Wangenheim's und wieder 48!" in John Davidson and Sabine Hake, German Cinema of the 1950s (forthcoming, Berghahn, 2005).
3. "On the Ruins of Masculinity: The Figure of the Child in Italian Neorealism and the German Rubble-Film," in Laura E. Ruberto, Tomas Taraborrelli, and Kristi M. Wilson, eds., Radical Fantasy: Italian Neorealism's Afterlife in Global Cinema (forthcoming, Wayne State, 2005).
4. "Normativity and its Limits: Toward a Negative Ethics in Critical Theory," Epilogue, in Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Jaimey Fisher, eds., Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects (New York: Berghahn, 2001).

Encyclopedia Entries

1. "Shoah: The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film," The Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, ed. Thomas Riggs (Farmington, Michigan: St. James Press, 2002). Eight-hundred word entry.
2. "Claude Lanzmann," The Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, ed. Thomas Riggs (Farmington, Michigan: St. James Press, 2002). Eight-hundred word entry.

Recent Book and Festival Reviews

1. "Etlin, Richard A., ed. Art, Culture, and Media under the Third Reich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002," German Quarterly (forthcoming).
2. "Munich Film Festival 2004," New Cinemas 2.3 (2004):199-203.
3. "Jeffrey Nealon and Carren Irr, eds. Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique," South Atlantic Review 69:3 (Summer 2004): forthcoming.
4. "Sabine Hake's German National Cinema," German Studies Review XXV:2 ( May 2003): 476-77.
5. "Robert Shandley's Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich," German Studies Review XXV:2 (May 2002): 432-33.
6. "The 1999 Munich Film Festival: Kino Totally Ingenious, " iris 28 (fall 1999): 166-70.

Fellowships and Awards

• Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) Fellowship, Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation
• Einaudi Center Research Grant
• Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
• Direct Exchange Student at the Freie Universität Berlin
• DAAD Research Direct Fellowship
• DAAD Study Direct Fellowship
• Prize for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Stanford University
• Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University Chapter
  

Education

• Ph.D. Cornell University, German Studies
  Minor: Film and Video Studies
  Committee: Peter Uwe Hohendahl (Thesis Director, German Studies)
  David Bathrick and Geoff Waite (German Studies and Film and Video)
• M.A. Cornell University, German and Film and Video Studies
• A.B. Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature; degree with honors and distinction

Additional Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Exchange Scholar
• Freie Universität Berlin