Soldovieri, Stefan

Biography

Stefan Soldovieri : Prof. Soldovieri received his PhD in German from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto, he taught for three years in the German Department at Northwestern University. His book, Managing the Movies: Censorship, Modernisation and the End of the East German New Wave , addresses what has been called the “single most massive instance of censorship in German film history” – the withdrawal over the course of 1965/66 of nearly an entire year’s film production in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). His current research project, which has been supported by a SSHRC Standard Grant, is dedicated to uncoverin g processes of cinematic exchange between the cinemas of East and West Germany in the early postwar period. The project has generated articles on contrasting discourses on modernisation, national belong, and entertainment in journals such as Film History a nd CiNéMAS . He teaches a wide range of undergraduate courses in German language, literature, and culture, most recently on Berlin, contemporary German literature, and post -unification German cinema. Stefan Soldovieri : Prof. Soldovieri received his PhD in German from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto, he taught for three years in the German Department at Northwestern University. His book, Managing the Movies: Censorship, Modernisation and the End of the East German New Wave , addresses what has been called the “single most massive instance of censorship in German film history” – the withdrawal over the course of 1965/66 of nearly an entire year’s film production in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). His current research project, which has been supported by a SSHRC Standard Grant, is dedicated to uncoverin g processes of cinematic exchange between the cinemas of East and West Germany in the early postwar period. The project has generated articles on contrasting discourses on modernisation, national belong, and entertainment in journals such as Film History a nd CiNéMAS . He teaches a wide range of undergraduate courses in German language, literature, and culture, most recently on Berlin, contemporary German literature, and post -unification German cinema.

Research Interest

German