Bordering / Rebordering / Debordering: Bordertexturing the German-Polish Borderlands

Tuesday, May 23
1 pm CET / 2 pm Kyiv time

Dr. Tobias Schank is a researcher in the BMBF project Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries (sub-project Hybrid Borderlands) at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. He has a PhD in English Literature from Trier University, where he completed his dissertation on the construction of heteronormativity in American Western films produced between 1903 and 1969. His research interests include Film Studies, Border Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Heavy Metal Studies.