CENES welcomes Dr. Ervin Malakaj as a new Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at UBC, Dr. Malakaj was an Assistant Professor of German at Sam Houston State University in Texas.
Dr. Malakaj specializes in late-18th- to 21st-century German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history (Imperial Germany, Weimar Germany, cinema of the 1960s and 1970s), narrative theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.
In the 2018/19 academic year, Dr. Malakaj will teach courses on “The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema,” “Out of Line: Rebellion, Failure, and Other Queer Ways of Being,” and “Empire & Mass Media.”
