Dr. Leila Mukhida

Biography

Leila Mukhida is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Modern German Studies. She serves as the Deputy Director of the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub and is a Fellow at Trinity Hall. Previously, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at King's College London, where she taught German Film. At Cambridge, she teaches courses that include Modern Literature and Film, Transnational Texts, and Politics and Desire in German Cinema. Her postgraduate teaching focuses on queer and trans cinema as well as post-1945 German-language literature within the Film and Screen Studies MPhil program. Her research interests encompass German and Austrian visual culture with a particular focus on queer cinema and film sound, grounded in the Frankfurt School tradition. Mukhida advocates for diversity and decolonization within German Studies. Her significant publication, 'Sensitive Subjects: Political Aesthetics in Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema,' published by Berghahn Books in 2021, critically engages with early German-language film theory and examines how contemporary films by directors such as Valeska Grisebach and Michael Haneke cultivate a political sensitivity in viewers. Mukhida is committed to supervising PhD students in German Film and encourages inquiries from prospective MPhil or PhD candidates.

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