Professor Tim Bergfelder is Professor of Film at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. His research focuses on historical developments in European cinema, and on transnational connections in world cinema.
After studying English Literature, Journalism, and History in Berlin, and working as a film critic in Germany, I came to the UK in the 1980s to do a Masters degree and subsequently a PhD in Film at the University of East Anglia, before taking up a post at BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. My research is recognized internationally, evidenced by regular invitations as a keynote speaker at conferences, and through talks and events in Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe. I have appeared in and advised on television and film documentaries, radio, exhibitions, and film retrospectives.
My publications focus on various aspects of European and international cinema. Since 2005 I have been an editor for the book series ‘Film Europa' for Berghahn Publishers. Since 2010 I am on the editorial board of Screen, one of the most prestigious journals in the field. I am an editorial advisor on Transnational Cinemas and Cinema&Cie.
I have been a founding member of NECS (Network of European Film and Media Studies) and BAFTSS (British Association of Film and Television Studies), and am a member of MeCCSA (Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association), and the German GfM (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften). I have been a peer reviewer for a variety of institutions, and a subpanel member on REF2014 and REF2021.
Between 2004 and 2007 I coordinated a research project on German-speaking émigrés and British Cinema, funded by the AHRC. In 2007, the British Academy funded two workshops on stardom and intertextuality in Brazilian cinema. in 2012 I hosted a delegation of scholars from eleven countries for a workshop on transnational film histories, funded by the ESF. Since 2019 I have been participating in a collaborative five-year ERC project (led by the University of Bristol), called Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60.
