Ilinca Iurascu works on modern German and European literary cultures and media studies, with particular focus on histories of materiality and intersections between aesthetics and technology. She has written on realist and epistolary fiction, paper history, Weimar cinema and New German media theory. At UBC, she regularly teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, cinema, and critical theory.

• 18th – 20th century German and comparative literature
• critical theory
• media theory
• material culture studies
• the realist novel
• film studies and early cinema

Selected Publications

Translation. “Johann Peter Hebel: The Rhenish Family Friend’s Preface.” (with Michael Swellander). Cultural Journalism in Germany, 1815–1848: A Critical Anthology. Sean Franzel and Michael Swellander, eds. Camden House, 2025. [link]

Co-edited volume. Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century. (with Sean Franzel and Petra McGillen). De Gruyter, 2024. [link]

Co-edited volume. Friedrich Kittler-Operation Valhalla. Writings on War, Weapons and Media. (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz). Duke University Press, 2021. [link]

Journal article. “Papierdenken: Blasche, Fröbel, and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Paper Modeling.” Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021). 209-224. [link]

Translation. Markus Krajewski. The Server. A Media History from the Present to the Baroque. Yale University Press, 2018. [link]

Edited special issue. Seminar. “The Media Histories of Girls in Uniform.” 55.2 (2019). [link]

Journal article. “Paper Matters: Vielschreiberei and Bookkeeping in August von Kotzebue’s ‘Das Buch Papier.’” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 53.4 (2017). 349-361. [link]

Journal article. “’Annoncenliteratur’: Kleist, Fontane and the Rustle of Paper.” Oxford German Studies. 43.3 (2014). 246-261. [link]

Co-edited special issue. Theory, Culture & Society. “Cultural Techniques” (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Jussi Parikka). 30.6 (2013). [link]