Hester Baer is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland, where she also serves as a core faculty member in the Film Studies and Comparative Literature Programs. Her research and teaching interests focus on gender and sexuality in film and media; historical and contemporary feminisms; and German literature and culture. Her work on digital feminist activism has been published in Feminist Media Studies and Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. Baer is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (2009) and the co-editor, with Alexandra Merley Hill of German Women’s Writing in the 21st Century (2015). She has recently published a special issue of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, co-edited with Angelica Fenner entitled “Women’s Film Authorship in Neoliberal Times: Revisiting Feminism and German Cinema” (2018). Baer currently serves as the co-editor of the journal Feminist German Studies.
Digital Feminisms and the Impasse: Time, Disappearance, and Delay in Neoliberalism
Women’s Film Authorship in Neoliberal Times: Revisiting Feminism and German Cinema