Faculty
Hake, Sabine
Professor
Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture
Office: EPS 3.134
Phone:512-232-6379
hake@mail.utexas.edu
Education: Dr. Phil., University of Hannover (Germany)
Research interests:
German film, Weimar culture, modernism and the avant-garde, the culture of the metropolis, fascist aesthetics, working-class culture, Marxist theory.
Current research:
Book project on the fascist imaginary in world cinema
Courses taught:
Introduction to German Film Studies; Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Culture; Berlin: World City; Film and Fascism; Filming the Holocaust; Anti-Americanism and the Americanization of Europe; Survey of 20th-Century German Literature; Contemporary European Cinema; Germany Today; Bertolt Brecht.
Awards/Honors:
NEH Fellowship 2003-4, Rockefeller Fellowship 2004, Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award 1995, German Studies Association/DAAD Book Prize for The Cinema's Third Machine 1994, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 1987-88, Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship 1986-87, several DAAD Grants (2003, 1999, 1996, 1993).
Recent Publications:
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich (2002)
Cinema in a Divided Germany (co-edited with John Davidson, 2007)
German National Cinema (revised and enlarged edition, 2008)
Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Culture in Weimar Berlin (forthcoming).
Articles on Downfall, The Last Laugh, the DEFA Berlin films, and West German revue films from the 1950s.