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She teaches cinema studies at the Free University in Berlin. She was visiting professor and scholar at Columbia University, NYU, Washington University, at UIC, UPenn, the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles and the Sorbonne III in Paris and many others.

Her many books and articles deal with aesthetic theory, feminist film theory as well as with questions of historical representation. Books on Herbert Marcuse and Siegfried Kracauer, the latter came out in English 2005 Princeton UP, on Feminist Film Theory and on the representation of Jewish history. Editor of volumes on Holocaust representation, perception and interaction, art and film theory. Co-editor and board member of numerous German and international journals like Babylon, Frauen und Film, October, Constellations, Philosophy&Social Criticism. She currently works on a book about the aesthetics of illusion in film and the other arts.

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