Jun.-Prof. Dr. Peter W. Schulze
Romanisches Seminar
Raum 3.226 & 3.227, Philosophikum
Universitätsstraße 41, D-50923 Köln
E-mail: peter.schulze@uni-koeln.de
Tel: +49 221 470 2447
Kurzbiographie
2018 - present
Assistant Professor for Latin American Studies incl. Brazilian Studies, University of Cologne
2018 - present
Director of the Luso-Brazilian Institute (PBI), University of Cologne
2018 - present
Managing Director of the Center for the Portuguese-Speaking World (ZPW), University of Cologne
2013 - present
Co-Speaker of the Genre Studies Working Group at the German Society for Media Studies (GfM)
2016
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communication and Contemporary Culture, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador da Bahia
2015 - present
DFG-funded research project “Glocalising Modes of Modernity: Transnational and Cross-Media Interconnections in Latin American Film Musicals”, University of Bremen
2015 - 2018
Scientific Coordinator of the Ibero-American Institute (IIA), University of Bremen
2015
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading
2015
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Yaşar University, Izmir
2015
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Arts and Communication, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
2013 - 2015
Research Associate, Department of Romance Studies / Hispanic Studies, University of Bremen
2013
Visiting Lecturer, Film Department, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
2013
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza
2013
PhD in Film Studies / Brazilian Studies, University of Mainz
2009 - 2013
Research Associate, Department of Film, Theatre and Cultural Studies, University of Mainz
Forschungsinteresse
- Postcolonial theories and cultural practices
- Transregional entanglements in Latin America and between Latin American countries, the USA and the Iberian Peninsula
- Genre studies with a focus on Hispanic and Lusophone countries
- History and aesthetics of photography and film in Latin America
- Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st century (with a focus on Brazil)
- Popular Latin American music in the context of media history
Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt
Glocalising Modes of Modernity: Transnational and Cross-Media Interconnections in Latin American Film Musicals (Research Project funded by the DFG – German Research Foundation)
This research project will provide the first comparative analysis of film musicals from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, in the 1930s–1950s, through their transnational, intercultural and cross-media interconnections, thus unveiling an important sector of media history and popular culture in the Americas. As one of the first in-depth studies of early cinematic “glocalisation” in Latin America, the proposed project promises to give new insights into complex transnational exchange processes, both symbolic and in terms of media capital, including their role for shaping imaginaries of modernity in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. A network of “crisscrossing histories” will be mapped on the basis of a body of around 500 film musicals, focusing on paradigmatic films featuring the most popular singer-actor star figures who have played a central role in the transnational cultural economy of Cine Tanguero, Chanchada and Comedia Ranchera genre productions. Combining semiotically-grounded genre and star studies with postcolonial, gender and globalisation theories, the project proposes the following objectives: (1) to analyse the cultural economy of musical film productions in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and their multi-directional media flows as glocalising modes of modernity in Latin America; (2) to frame film genre productions in the Americas as a site of converging, but also conflicting identities and discourses and to investigate the local appropriations of Hollywood film genre structures; (3) to establish the interdependence between film and music industries in the period in focus and the kind of transnational and cross-media relations they elicited across the cultural practices of tango, samba and ranchera; (4) to analyse the role played by singer-actor stars and film crews in the interbreeding of different film musical subgenres; and (5) to establish and analyse the results of political interventions into the film industry by governments, corporations and lobbies in Argentinean, Brazilian and Mexican cinemas.