Mareike Herrmann

Dr. Herrmann’s research focuses on 20th and 21st-century German and transnational film, food studies, and environmental humanities. Her research is informed by feminist perspectives, spatial theories, and shaped by new materialist approaches to the humanities. She has published articles in a variety of journals and edited collections and is completing a monograph entitled Geographies of Ordinary Lives: Physical and Emotional Landscapes in German Film Since 2000.

Dr. Herrmann teaches courses in German language and culture, cinema, and environmental studies. Some of her recent courses include “Outsiders in German Film;” “The Forest for the Trees” (FYS); “Transnational Migration in Contemporary Germany” and “Divided Germany: History, Culture, Memory.” She also leads a TREK to Germany with a focus on “Sustainability and Green Living.”

Prof. Herrmann is completing a monograph on German film entitled Geographies of Ordinary Lives: Physical and Emotional Landscapes in German Film Since 2000.

Her most recent articles include:
“Radical Care in the Neoliberal Institution: Two Administrators in Conversation.” With Alexandra Stewart. Feminist German Studies 40.1, Spring/Summer 2024.

“The Work of Moving Through Nature: New Material Readings of Thomas Arslan’s Gold and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff.” German Studies Review 42.1, Feb. 2019.

“Imagined Homes: Negotiating German Identity in the Eastern Provinces in Thomas Arslan”s Ferien and Dominik Graf”s Komm mir nicht nach.” Representations of German Identity, eds. Thomas Hakenson and Deborah Ascher Barnstone. Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2013.

“Geisterlandschaften: The Memory of Heimat in Recent Berlin School Films.”Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space, eds. Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

“Show and Tell: Doris Dörrie’s Strategies of Adaptation in Bin ich schön.” Re-Mediations: German Texts and Contexts, eds. Susan Figge and Jenifer Ward. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010.

“The Spy as Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others.” Gegenwartsliteratur, Spring 2008.

• Modern Language Association
• German Studies Association
• Coalition of Women in German