Benjamin Betka, M.A.

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Sprechstunde im Semester: donnerstags, 16:00-17:00 Uhr

Sprechstunde in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit: nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail

Education: 

2002 - FH Hannover. Informations- und Kommunikationswesen. Vordiplom.

2006 - Angelo State University, Tx. English, Philosophy. Bachelor of Arts.

2007 - Leibniz Universität Hannover.  American Studies, Philosophy, Pedagogics. Magister Artium.

05/2010 - PhD project at Goethe University Frankfurt. 

Interests: 

20th/21st Century || Media Literacies || Transgressive US Literatures || Marketing || Cinema(-tics) || Affect || Philosophy of Mind || Deleuze || Mass(ive) Culture || Suicidology || Ecology || Zen 

Stipends and Grants: 

Carr Academic Scholarship (tuition + fees), Angelo State University, 2005/06. 

Travel stipend, Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, CSGSA Conference Mind, Body, Cinema San Francisco & "The Self Industry" Poland; 2011. 

Current: 

PhD on Cinema & Brain(s) & (Dis-)Affection. 

Classes tought: 

Fall 2010: 20th Century Adole|scenes. Framing Youth in Motion.

Summer 2011: Fictions of Sobriety. High and|or Dry in the US.

Fall 2011: Californian Contexts. From Steinbeck to 'The Dude'.

Summer 2012: The Western. An American Horizon in Cinema('s)Scope. 

Memberships: 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Post Graduate Forum (PGF) der DGfA. 

Presentations at Conferences: 

"De-Pressed Masses: Affective Dissonance in Melancholy, Disease, and the Screened (American) World." The Self Industry. Ustron, Poland. 9/2011. 

"Cinema as Brain, Brain as Cinema: Changing Rules of Affection and the Screening of (Deframed) Minds." CSGSA Conference, Mind, Body, Cinema. San Francisco State University. 10/2011. 

"Screening Humor, Mediating Affect, and New Face Values. A Jagged (Punch) Line from Bob Hope towards Sarah Silverman." Who's laughing now? Humor as Resistance and Oppression in U.S. American Culture. Humboldt University Berlin. 11/2011. 

"Cinema, Brains, and Disaffection." Postgraduate Forum Gießen. 11/2011.

geändert am 27. Februar 2012  E-Mail: Webmaster der AI-Seitenninowak@em.uni-frankfurt.de