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"I’m currently working on a book about the phantoms of psychoanalysis. My research and teaching interests focus on the ways in which cultural constructions of gender, sexuality, and religion shape and are shaped by science and media technologies. "

Bettina Mathes is associate professor of German, STS, and Women's Studies who joined the faculty from Humboldt University in Berlin. She is a historian of culture whose research and teaching interests include the negotiations between science and arts, feminist science studies, and media studies. In her work she traces the processes by which fictional ideas that originate in the arts become facts about the truth of the gendered body in science. She is especially interested in how media technologies appropriate the human body and create new ideas of corporeality.

Recent projects

Books

Verhandlungen mit Faust: Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (Faustian Negotiations: gender in early modern culture), (Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2001) 242pp.

reviews in: Feministische Studien; GLQ; Zeitschrift für Germanistik; Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung.

Under Cover. Das Geschlecht in den Medien. (Under Cover: the bodily origins of media technologies) (transcript, December 2006), 183pp.

as co-author

Verschleierte Wirklichkeit. Die Frau, der Islam und der Westen (Veiled Realities: Woman, Islam and the West) (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, February 2007, with Christina von Braun), 476pp; 2nd edition forthcoming October 2007, paperback edition forthcoming spring 2008.

reviews in (selection): DIE ZEIT, FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau; Das Parlament; Neue Zürcher Zeitung; Literaturen; frauenpolitischer dienst; Freitag; Germanic Review (in preparation); Deutschlandfunk (radio feature); Saarländischer Rundfunk (radio feature); ORF (radio feature), WDR (TV feature).

as editor:

Die imaginierte Nation. Identität, Körper und Geschlecht in DEFA-Filmen (A Nation Imagined: identity, body and gender in East German studio films), (DEFA-Schriftenreihe, August 2007), 333pp.

CV

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