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Daniel Winkler is since 2021 Professor at the Seminar for Romance Studies. Before he was, among other things, Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, Research Fellow at the École normale supérieure and the Institut historique allemand in Paris and at the Universities of Aix-Marseille and Turin. He has co-edited and published more than 20 books and special issues and more than 70 articles. 

The focus of Daniel Winkler's working group is on the question of the societal and affective role of literature and media with an emphasis on Italy and France, the Mediterranean, the Alps and Canada. In terms of Romance Media Cultural Studies, this means not only a theoretical and cultural-historical contextualisation of representations, but also their concrete formal-aesthetic, affect-poetic and media-specific analysis. This implies a critically distanced reflection of one’s own approaches, personal positions and ideological contemporary trends in identity politics.

At the same time, in the sense of the societal mission of foreign language philologies as teaching subjects, this area of research strives to dovetail teaching with cultural, educational and academic practice, as well as to critically bring it into perspective against the backdrop of the increasing political and bureaucratic functionalisation and economisation of these areas. See the RoSe-instagram channel and our blogs Cinéphilie and Literaturästhetik & Theaterkultur, where student film and theatre reviews are published, among other things.

Current Projects

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2024- Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1671), sub-project Visual Ciphers of Home (with Henry Keazor, Alexandra Vinzenz)

2022- Master Project Popular Cultures (with Andrea Albrecht, Henry Keazor, Alexandra Vinzenz)

2022- DFG research grant Luis Trenker – (Dis-)Continuities of a Transalpine Media Brand (► WDR-Zeitzeichen interview & fabulari podcast about Trenker)

2022- Leo Spitzer Lecture (with Herle Jessen, LMU, and the Poetry Cabinet Foundation)

2021- see our blogs Cinéphile and Literary Aesthetics & Theater Culture on the collaborations with the Franco-German Cultural Centre, the Heimann Foundation, the Montpellier House and various cinemas, theatres, festivals and the media

2010- Annual Graduate Workshops in Italian, Canadian and Romance Studies (with Eugen Banauch, Sybille Große, Cora Rok, Sabine Schrader et al.)

Organisational Functions & Activities

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Head of the Board of Studies MA Classical and Modern Literary Studies, Member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate Academy of Heidelberg University and heiDocs, Contact Person for the Cultural Studies part of the bi-national MA Études transculturelles (Heidelberg University and Paul-Valéry University Montpellier) and for the TRK Theatre in the Romanesque cellar

2024- Board member of the Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano (Leuven), Advisory Board of the Kurt Ringger Foundation, Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz)

2021-23 Member of the Evaluation Panel Humanities of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern)

2018- Member of the Advisory Boards of the Journals ATeM (Innsbruck) and Regards (Beirut)

2014-23 Co-Editor of the Journals lettere aperte and Zibaldone

Publications (► Complete List of Publications ► Academia.edu)

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Five Peer-reviewed Articles

2025 Sophonisbe, das funesto fine und die Nation. Auf- und Abschwung eines Opern- und Tragödienstoffs im langen 18. Jahrhundert, in: Artes. Zeitschrift für Literatur und Künste der frühmodernen Welt 4/5

2025 High and Low. Porosity in the Neapolitan Anthology Film 'The Vesuvians' (I vesuviani, 1997), in: Christian Quendler et al. Ed., Global Mountain Cinema. Edinburgh: University Press. 51-65.

2020 Aging, Auteurism and the 'Bergfilm': Olivier Assayas’s 'Sils Maria/ Clouds of Sils Maria' (2014) and Paolo Sorrentino’s 'La giovinezza/ Youth' (2015), in: Journal of Film and Video 72/3-4. 73-89 (with Christian Quendler)

2017 A Mediterranean Gap in the National Canon? Paul Carpita’s Anti-Colonial Cinema between Militant Amateurism and New Wave, in: Studies in French Cinema 17/1. 21-43

2015 'Alzire, ou Les Américains' de Voltaire et le théâtre 'sensible' dans le contexte transeuropéen, in: Dalhousie French Studies 106. 47-62

Monographs

2016 Körper, Revolution, Nation. Vittorio Alfieri und das republikanische Tragödienprojekt der Sattelzeit. Fink (peer-reviewed)

2013 Marseille! Eine Metropole im filmischen Blick. Schüren (revised second edition)

2007 Transit Marseille. Filmgeschichte einer Mittelmeermetropole. Transcript

2001 Repräsentationsformen der Pariser Banlieue der 90er Jahre zwischen Dokumentation und Konstruktion: Bertrand & Nils Taverniers Dokumentarfilm ‚De l’autre côté du périph’‘ und Tahar Ben Jellouns Erzählung 'Les raisins de la galère', in: Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie

Volumes

2025 Cultures populaires postcoloniales. Dynamiques transcontinentales et approriations médiatiques (= HeLix 18, with Christoph Vatter)

2025 Marseille und die Provence. Eine literarische Einladung. Wagenbach (2nd edition)

2024 Luis Trenker. Edition text + kritik (= Film-Konzepte 73, with Sophia Mehrbrey)

2023 Armut und Reichtum in Italien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 74, with Cora Rok)

2023 'Provinz' in Serie. Regionalität und Glokalität in seriellen Erzählungen und TV-Serien seit der Moderne (= HeLix 15, with Veronica Camarero Garcia, Teresa Hiergeist)

2022 Neapel als intermediale Bühne. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 72, with Sabine Schrader)

2021 Italienisch-österreichische Verflechtungen. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 70)

2020 Rijeka/Fiume. Italien und Kroatien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 68, with Marijana Erstic)

2019 Matera und die Basilikata. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 66)

2018 Geschlechterinszenierungen. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 64)

2018 Serialität und Moderne. Feuilleton, Stummfilm, Avantgarde. Transcript (with Ingo Pohn-Lauggas, Martina Stemberger)

2017 Gegenwartstheater aus Italien. Stauffenburg (= Zibaldone 62)

2015 Italienisches Theater. Geschichte und Gattungen von 1480 bis 1890. Theater der Zeit (with Sabine Schrader, Gerhild Fuchs)

2015 Italo-America. Transatlantic Connections and Italian Cultural Studies (= lettere aperte 2, with Sabine Schrader)

2014 Prospettive e polemiche per lo studio della letteratura italiana (= lettere aperte 1, with Fabien Kunz-Vitali)

2014 TV glokal. Europäische Fernsehserien und transnationale Qualitätsformate. Schüren (with Sabine Schrader)

2013 The Cinemas of Italian Migration. European and Transatlantic Narratives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (with Sabine Schrader)

2013 Marseille und die Provence. Eine literarische Einladung. Wagenbach

2010 Strategien des Entziehens. Löcker (with Karin Harrasser, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah et al.)

2009 Apropos Canada/À propos du Canada. Fünf Jahre Graduiertentagungen der Kanada-Studien. Peter Lang (with Eugen Banauch et al.)

2008 Alpine Avantgarden und urbane Alpen. Löcker (with Karin Harrasser, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah et al.)

2007 Montréal – Toronto. Stadtkultur und Migration in Literatur, Film und Musik. Weidler (with Verena Berger, Peter Kirsch)

2001 Exil in/aus der Romania. Beispiele aus dem 20. Jahrhundert (= QVR 17, with Anke Gladischefski)