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College: Jesus
Email: ds939@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr听Martin Ruehl
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About
Daniella DeVinter is a writer and filmmaker based in 海角社区. She took her bachelor鈥檚 at Oxford, graduating in German with two Gibbs Prizes for the highest degree in the languages faculty (prelims and finals) and winning the Worcester Society Arts Prize for the best results in arts subjects. She stayed on at Oxford for her master鈥檚, getting a Distinction in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation.听
Research
Daniella鈥檚 doctoral thesis is a critical biography of the provocative German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.鈥�
Scholarships/Prizes
Fully funded AHRC scholarship (2020-2023)听
Gibbs Prize (Highest First in MML faculty: finals), Oxford (2018)听听
Gibbs Prize (Highest First in MML faculty: prelims), Oxford (2015)听听
Worcester College Society Arts Prize, Oxford (2018)听
Special Distinction in spoken German, Oxford (2018)听
Academic scholarship, Worcester College, Oxford (2015-2018)听
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Teaching
Daniella has seven years鈥� experience as a teacher of language, literature, and film. She has taught Oxford鈥檚 modern literature paper (Thomas Mann; Romanticism), and given lectures and seminars for 海角社区鈥檚 comparative film paper (Adorno鈥檚 Culture Industry; Neorealism).听
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Conference papers
听鈥樷�淓chte, nackte, konkrete Lebenshilfe鈥�: A filmmaker鈥檚 intimate relationship with Alfred D枚blin鈥檚 Berlin Alexanderplatz鈥�, German Studies Association annual conference, September 2021, Indianapolis.听
鈥樷�淚t鈥檚 much more fun to work with women鈥�: Gendering Emotions in Fassbinder鈥檚 Woman鈥檚 Films鈥�, Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image annual conference, June 2021.听
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Publications
鈥楴ovelty Effects: A Third Reich Film and its Technicolor Muse鈥� (forthcoming).听
, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Review (September 2019).听
, various culture and politics articles published in German (2017).听
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Other activities and roles
Daniella writes screenplays for television (mostly crime dramas and mysteries), and is currently in post-production on her third film. She has sat on directors鈥� juries of UK film festivals, and worked as a journalist in Munich.鈥�
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Personal website
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