Cord-Heinrich Plinke _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Personal Correspondence University of Southern California

Taper Hall of the Humanities, Room 160

3501 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, CA 90089

E-Mail cplinke@usc.edu

Born June 12, 1986

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Academic

Education

Since 08/2016 University of Southern California

Ph.D. Program: Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

Track 1: Comparative Media

- Gender Studies Graduate Certificate (Candidate)

- Visual Studies Graduate Certificate (Candidate)

10/2014 - 09/2016 Freie Universität Berlin

Master of Arts: North American Studies Designated Emphasis: American Culture & Sociology Master’s Thesis: “Melancholia, Murder, Masculinity”

09/2013 - 05/2014 University of California, Berkeley

Gender & Women’s Studies, Sociology (Student Exchange Freie Universität Berlin & UC Berkeley)

10/2011 - 09/2014 Freie Universität Berlin

Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, North American Studies

Bachelor’s Thesis: “Post-9/11 Action-Film Masculinities”

Fellowships and Grants

03/2018 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant

06/2017 Ralph and Jean Hovel Endowed Fellowship Summer Research Grant

08/2016 - 05/2021 Ralph and Jean Hovel Endowed Fellowship Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California

09/2013 - 05/2014 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst (DAAD) Undergraduate Scholarship for Study Abroad at UC Berkeley

Select Presentations and Publications

11/2018 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Annual Conference. Presentation: “Cruising Nostalgia.”

In Submitted Panel “Alternative Masculinities: The Promises and Pitfalls of Utopian Imaginaries”

06/2018 The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas

(MESEA), Eleventh Biennial Conference. Presentation: “A Community of Shame: Mass Media, Kinship, and Totalitarianism in the 21st Century.”

03/2018 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Annual Conference. Presentation: “1980s Nostalgia and Boyhood as Happy Object”

11/2017 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Annual Conference. Presentation: “Remapping the Margins.”

04/2017 University of Southern California, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture. Annual Graduate Symposium. Presentation: “Soothing the National Body: Racialization and Disability in Post-2015 Germany.”

Teaching

Fall 2018 University of Southern California

SWMS 499: Why #MeToo? Sexual Violence in American Culture Teaching Assistant for Dr. Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro

Spring 2018 University of Southern California HIST 180: The Middle East Teaching Assistant for Dr. Sarah Gualtieri

Fall 2017 University of Southern California COLT 102: The Location of Culture Teaching Assistant for Dr. Michael Deon du Plessis

Summer 2015 & Freie Universität Berlin, GermanySummer 2016 Understanding North America B: Sociology Teaching Assistant for Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel

Winter 2014/15 Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Understanding North America A: Culture Teaching Assistant for Prof. Dr. Martin Lüthe

Service to the Institution

Since 08/2016 Media Reading Group: Organizer

University of Southern California, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Doctoral Program

Since 02/2017 CSLC Students Board: Vice President

University of Southern California Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Doctoral Program

Professional Memberships

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies (MESEA)

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Language Proficiency

German Native LanguageEnglish Level C1 (GER), Score 120/120 TOEFL iBT 05/2016Spanish Intermediate

Turkish Intermediate

Arabic Reading Comprehension

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Internships & Volunteering

Since 07/2017 Outfest: Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival Emerging Leaders Council Member

06/2017 - 07/2017 Outfest: Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival Volunteer11/2013 - 02/2014 BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits)

Volunteer Coordinator for Annual Pow-Wow

01/2014 - 06/2014 Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival

Programming & Hospitality Intern

01/2014 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, San Francisco

Hospitality & Events Volunteer

Last Updated May 2018