Sunka Simon
Professor
Department Chair, Film & Media Studies; Modern Languages & Literatures
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
Film & Media Studies
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Affiliations: Global Studies, Environmental Studies, Film & Media Studies, Modern Languages & Literatures, German Studies
Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.
Sunka Simon received her M.A. in German and American literature from the Universität Hamburg and her Ph.D. in German and Literary Theory from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of the book Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002) and 18 scholarly articles on German literature, film, and popular German culture. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Euro-Eyes: Regionalism and Globalization in German TV Formats.
She is the interim chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Sample Articles
- Der vord're Orient: Colonialist Imagery
- Woman as Biocontrol
- Jelinek in Film and Script
- Weimar Projections in Post-Unification Cinema
Courses
GMST 003. Intensive Intermediate German
GMST 008. Texts in Contexts: German Pop Music from Weimar to Today
GMST/FMST 054. German Cinema
GMST/FMST 059. Re-Envisioning Diasporas, a hybrid international course, more»
GMST 091. Special Topics: Popular German Culture
GMST 108. Wien und Berlin
FMST 001. Introduction to Film and Media Studies
FMST 025. TV and New Media
FMST/LITR 051. European Cinema
