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 [email protected]
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