Brigitte Peucker

Elias Leavenworth Professor of German/Professor Film Studies
brigitte.peucker@yale.edu

Brigitte Peucker, the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and a Professor of Film Studies, received her PhD from Yale University, where she studied German and English Literatures. She has published books on pre-Romantic tropes in  the 18th-century  (Bouvier,1980), and on poetry, Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition (Yale,1987).  A book on film, Incorporating Images:  Film and the Rival Arts (Princeton, 1995), was translated into German and appeared with Verlag Vorwerk 8 in Berlin (1999); The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film  appeared in the  Cultural Memory in the Present series at Stanford University Press (2007), and she is currently working on a book titled Fassbinder's Performance; concurrently, she is editing Blackwell's Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder in their Cinema Directors series. She writes about and teaches  German cinema (Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders; Weimar  cinema; Nazi cinema);  film and the other arts; spectatorship; Hitchcock; and the horror film. In the German Department, her teaching includes courses on theories of visuality and on literature and the visual arts,18th-20th centuries. She served as Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale from 1986-2000, Chair of German 1997-2002 and 2003-4, and is a recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Morse, and Mellon Fellowships.