Maria Stehle

Maria Stehle joined the faculty at UT in the fall of 2007. Her publications focus on German and European cultural studies, gender and media, and cultural histories of Germany since 1945. Aside from scholarly articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, she has published four monographs, Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes (Camden House, 2012), Awkward Politics: The Technologies of Popfeminist Activism (McGill/Queens UP, 2016, with Carrie Smith-Prei), Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary European Cinema (Northwestern University Press, 2020, with Beverly Weber) and Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film (Camden House, 2023).

Dr. Stehle is currently working on a new book project on witches and food that draws on her experience teaching about media representations of witches. She is also part of a newly formed research cooperative on critical food studies in German studies (with Beverly Weber and Bradley Boovy) and a participant in a research-creation collaboration with artist Emily Bivens.

Dr. Stehle is a core faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema Studies, affiliated faculty in the graduate program in Time-Based Art, and Steering Committee Member for the Interdisciplinary Program in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is interested in developing creative strategies for teaching, critical pedagogy, and student-centered learning and regularly teaches classes on German cinema and literature and seminars on film and media studies.

Email: mstehle@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst