ist Studentische Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Innsbruck. Sie schloss 2020 das Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik ab, von dem sie ein Semester an der Universität Malta verbrachte. Im Laufe des Bachelorstudiums entwickelte sich ein Forschungsinteresse im Bereich der Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften besonders im Bezug auf popkulturelle Phänomene. In ihren Bachelorarbeiten befasste sie sich einerseits mit der Übersetzung von Wortspielen in TV Sitcoms und andererseits mit den Einflüssen von Multimedia Franchises auf die menschliche Realität. Derzeit befindet sich Anna in den Masterstudiengängen Anglistik und Amerikanistik und Medien an der Universität Innsbruck.
Gastlehrende
Adam Ganz
Adam Ganz is the 2022 writer-in-residence of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Innsbruck. He is Professor in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and also a professional screenwriter and director for radio, film and television. His principal research interests focus on audiovisual narrative, with particular reference to the migration of audiovisual production processes to the digital, and on the TV development process and other forms of collaborative narrative, including the collaboration between author and audience. His monograph Robert De Niro at Work: From Screenplay to Screen Performance (co-written with Professor Steven Price and based on research done as a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin) was published in 2020. His dramas for radio include The Chemistry Between Them (2014), The Gestapo Minutes (2013), Nuclear Reaction (BBC Radio 4 2010) and Listening to the Generals (BBC Radio 4 2009 and 2010). For TV his work includes Murder Without Motive (BBC1 1998, writer) and Pillow Talk (Channel 4 2005, director) as well as a number of short films, including Threesome (2000, writer/director), Show Home (2007, director), Shiftwork (1993, writer/director), One Armed Bandits (1990, writer/director), and One of Us (1986, writer/director).
Anna Ladinig
Anna Ladinig studierte Slawistik und Romanistik an der Universität Innsbruck und absolvierte im Zuge dieser Auslandsaufenthalte in Kazan' und Moskau. In ihrer Dissertation beschäftigt sie sich mit den unterschiedlichen Lokalisierungen des Zentralasiatischen Kinos. Seit Oktober 2019 leitet sie das IFFI – Internationales Film Festival Innsbruck und seit 2022 ist sie Sprecherin des FÖFF – Forum österreichischer Filmfestivals.
Maria San Filippo
Maria San Filippo is a 2021-22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the Department of American Studies at Universität Innsbruck. She is Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College and Editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (2013) and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), both published by Indiana University Press, and edited the collection After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age (Wayne State University Press, 2021). Her Queer Film Classics volume on Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behavior (2014) is forthcoming in fall 2022 from McGill-Queen's University Press.
