CV
Winfried Pauleit has been a professor at the University of Bremen since 2003. Prior to that, he was a lecturer in the Film Studies Department at Freie Universität Berlin and a research assistant in the Department of Art and Design History at the University of Wuppertal.
Several visiting positions in the U.S. and England led him to serve as a lecturer at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) with DAAD funding in 2010, as a researcher at the University of Chicago with DAAD funding in 1996, and as a visiting lecturer at the London Institute, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, in 1995.
He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the Berlin University of the Arts on the topic of “Film Stills: Passages Between Art and Cinema” and was a fellow of the Graduate College for Aesthetic Education at the University of Hamburg from 1994 to 1996. He studied art history, literary studies, and cultural studies at the University of Osnabrück and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Research Interests
- Film Aesthetics
- Film History
- Film Education
- Film as a Medium of Scholarly Research
- Audio History of Film
- Auteur Cinema
- Essay Film
- History of Feminist Film Theory
- Film Stills
- Press Photography
- Video Surveillance as an Image Machine
Memberships
- Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GFM)
- European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
- Co-founder and editor of the online journal “Nach dem Film”
Completed reasearch projects
- The Face in Film and Media Art as an aesthetic Play with Identity and Criticism of Security Systems (2019 – 2022)
- Digital Curating: Visual History of the Holocaust (2019 – 2023)
- Audio History. On the Production of History through Film Sound and Film Soundtrack (2014 – 2015)
- Web-based documentary film at the intersection of discourse, technology and communitization: the Pragmatic Turn. (2014 – 2017)
- Towards a New Feminist Cinematic Resistance Movement in the Muslim World Women Filmmakers: Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan (2013 – 2015)