Dr Leila Mukhida
(they/them)
Lecturer in Modern German Studies
Email address: lm783@cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1223 335 021
Department
German & Dutch (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages)
About
Dr Mukhida specialises in German and Austrian visual culture, with a focus on cinema and the Frankfurt School, sound and industrial history, as well as queer and intersectional approaches to global film and literature. In their research and their teaching, they advocate for diversity and decolonization in German Studies. Their book, Sensitive Subjects: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema, looks to early German-language film theory in order to explore how post-1989 films by directors including Valeska Grisebach, Michael Haneke, Andreas Dresen and Elke Hauck engender a political sensitivity in viewers.
Dr Mukhida welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research topics that correspond to their interests.
Teaching interests
Dr Mukhida teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in German (Ge1; Ge6; Ge13), Comparative Studies (CS5, CS6) and Film (‘Queer Cinema’; ‘Feminisms’).
Research interests
Queer and trans cinema
Film sound and industrial history
Labour and migration in German-language writing and film
The Frankfurt School
Published works
‘Choose Your Own Adventure’, New German Critique, 50:3 (November 2023), 149–161
‘The Talkie That Failed to Talk: An Exploration of Sounds in G. W. Pabst’s Kameradschaft (1931)’, Oxford German Studies, 49 (December 2020), 436-454
Sensitive Subjects: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German & Austrian Cinema (Berghahn, 2021)
‘Violence in the Age of Digital Reproducibility: Political Form in Valeska Grisebach’s Longing (2006)’, German Politics & Society, 33 (May 2015), 172–185
‘Against the Pull of Convention: Subversive Laughter in Angelina Maccarone’s Alles wird gut’ (1998), German Life and Letters, 65 (Oct. 2012), 489-502
Films
Das Schönste Geschenk (2011). Film directed by Leila Mukhida and Subir Che Selia
