Bianka-Isabell Scharmann

Film and Media Researcher | Author and Writer

about

main research areas

  • History of knowledge & feminist theory of film
  • film aesthetics & Textil(ity)
  • Production studies, Film Costume & material culture
  • historiography of experimental film: Female filmmakers of the brd
  • Queer-feminist historiography of media
  • moving image formats of fashion
  • Media history and theory of textilE art(s)

Academic Employment



12/2020 – today		Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Prae-Doc)

Schnittstellenprofessur Kunst- und Mediengeschichte der Bildmedien, Jr.-Prof. Dr. Kristina Köhler

Institute for Media Culture and Theater & Department for Art History, University of Cologne
07/2018 – 04/2019Freelance Researcher

Project: “Kleider in Bewegung”

Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main & University of Paderborn
2015 – 2018Student Assistant & Teaching Assistant

Prof.Dr. Vinzenz Hediger, Chair of Film Studies, & Jr.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Campanini for Film Culture

Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Further professional experience

08/2019 – 12/2020Freelance Editor

Kino-Zeit.de
Since 2018Freelancer in Museum Pedagogy

– Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main (DFF)
– Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main
June 2016 – January 2017Freelance Organizer

Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V.
Project: “Transito. Elvira Notari – Kino der Passage”

Academic education

since 07/2020PhD Candidate

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam
2015-2019Master of Arts

Theater, Film and Media Studies
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
2018Erasmus Study Abroad

Topics: Art History, History of Science, Media Archaeology

Department for Culture and Aesthetics,
University of Stockholm
2011-2015Bachelor of Arts

Theater, Film and Media Studies (Major) & Art History (Minor)
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

awards & scholarships

2024Karsten-Witte-Preis der AG Filmwissenschaft der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft für den besten filmwissenschaftlichen Aufsatz des Jahres
03/2023Erasmus Teaching Mobility

Université de Haute Alsace
07/2020-09/2020Projekt: “Frankfurt, unbekannte Modestadt”

Gefördert durch ein Arbeitsstipendium der Hessischen Kulturstiftung
10/2015-09/2016Deutschlandstipendium der Goethe-Universität

memberships

  • Network of European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
  • Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (GfM)
  • Domitor – The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema
  • netzwerk mode textile / network fashion textile (nmt)
  • Research School for Media Studies (RMeS)
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