currently heads the MediaHub at the Department for Media Studies of the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). She was project leader of the interdisciplinary research project ’But I’m not filming, I’m just doing a bit of video’. Cinematic appropriation processes of protest videos from the Middle East and North Africa since 2009 (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research; 2019-2023).
Before that she was scientific coordinator of the research network Re-Configurations. Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research; 2013-2019). She did her PhD on films of the Iranian diaspora and initiated the scientific Open Media Studies Blog. Her research focus includes postcolonial media, (post-)migration and film, social movements and film, racism and film.
Alena Strohmaier is the project’s associate member.
