Randall Halle
Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German and Film Studies
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1995
1409 Cathedral of Learning(412) 648-2614
rhalle@pitt.edu
Areas of Research and Teaching Focus
- German Film Studies
- German social thought
- Gender studies
- Globalization
Courses Taught Recently
- Nazi Culture
Recent and Significant Publications and Projects
Books and Edited Volumes
- Toward a Transnational Aesthetic: German Film after Germany. Champagne: University of Illinois Press: (awaiting contract).
- After the Avant-garde: New Directions in Experimental Film. Co-edited with Reinhild Steingröver. Camden House Press, 2007.
- Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno. Champagne: University of Illinois Press: 2004.
- Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Co-edited with Maggie McCarthy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press: 2003.
- Marginality and Alterity in Contemporary European Cinema. Special two volumes of Camera Obscura. Co-edited with Sharon Willis. (#s 44 & 46, Fall 2000, Spring 2001).
Selected Articles
- “German Film European Film: Transnational Production, Distribution and Reception,” Screen (Feb 2006).
- “From Perverse to Queer: Rosa von Praunheim’s Films in the Liberation Movements of the FRG.” German Cinema after Unification. David Clarke ed. Birmingham: Birmingham UP, 2006.
- “German Film, Aufgehoben: Ensembles of Transnational Cinema.” New German Critique (87) 2002: 1-48.
- "Will Everything be Fine? Anti-Racist Practice in Recent German Cinema." In Not So Plain As Black and White: Afro-German History, Literature, and Culture 1890-2000. Reinhild Steingröver and Patricia Mazón eds. Rochester: Camden House, 2004.
- "Weber's Methodology and His German Context." From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory. Tom Powers and Paul Kamolnick, eds. Florida: Krieger, Spring 1999.
- "Between Marxism and Psychoanalysis: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Homosexuality in the Frankfurt School." Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left. Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis, and James Steakley, eds. New York: Haworth, 1995.
- "Women's Literary Production in the Two World Wars." With Sherri Sokeland and Sue Tyson. 1914/1939: German Reflections of the Two World Wars. pps. 137-53. Jost Hermand and Reinhold Grimm, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Awards/Honors
- Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University (2004-2005)
- NEH fellowship for study at the University of Chicago
- DAAD fellowship for study at Cornell University
Other
- Editor, Passages, a Journal of Transnational Studies

