Christian David Zeitz
Christian David Zeitz holds a BA and MA in English and Media & Cultural Studies from the University of Cologne, where he also worked as an editorial assistant and reviews editor for the peer-reviewed e-publication gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His dissertation draws on recent theories of posthumanism so as to rethink the status and significance of Orientalism and Islamophobia in contemporary German-language television and post-television narratives. His other, broader research interests and expertise revolve around theories of media and culture, intersections between the postcolonial and the posthuman, as well as questions of popular culture and cultural representation, specifically as they pertain to the politics and aesthetics of contemporary German & European (TV and streaming) series.
Selected Work
- “Between matter and meaning: The Trope of the Kopftuchmädchen.” Culture, Theory and Critique 63.1 (2022): 46-60.
- “Markus Schmitz. Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2020).” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 32.1 (2021): 178-180. (review)
- “Fatma Aydemir & Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, eds. Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Berlin: Ullstein, 2019).” German Studies Review 43.1 (2020): 225-227. (review)
- “Ann duCille. Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018).” Journal of Popular Television 7.3 (2019): 374-376. (review)
- Guest Editor: Special Issue: New Feminist Materialism and Queer Studies in the Anthropocene. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 71, 2019.
- "A Lesser Human Future: Posthuman Monstrosities in World War Z (2013) and Annihilation (2018)." Special Issue: New Feminist Materialism and Queer Studies in the Anthropocene. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies, 71, 2019.
- "Orientalisms, Re-imaginations and Ambivalences: Representing South Asian Migrants in Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies.” Journal of Alterity Studies and World Literature 1.1, 2018.
- Guest Editor: Special Issue: Contemporary Muslim Women’s Voices. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 65, 2017.
- “Dreaming of Electric Femmes Fatales: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: Final Cut (2007) and Images of Women in Film Noir.” gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 60, 2016.
Awards
- 2023 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Research Grant
- 2022 Weisdorf Bell Family PhD Fellowship in Cinema Studies
- 2021 Robert Lantos Cinema Studies Scholarship
- 2021 Mary H. Beatty Fellowship
- 2021 DAAD-Scholarship Kolleg Europa “Sustainable Europe”
- 2020 Faculty of Arts and Science Alumni & Friends Graduate Scholarship
- 2018-2021 University of Toronto Fellowship Stipend
- 2016-2018 a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne Research Master
- 2015 Erasmus+ Mobility Grant
