Academia

Daniella’s main project is her doctoral thesis, which she’s writing as a freewheeling biography of her mad alter ego and funhouse mirror reflection: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Papers & Publications

  • ‘Novelty Effects: A Third Reich Film and its Technicolor Muse'

    (Forthcoming)

  • ‘The Translation of Films, 1900-1950', ed. Carol O’Sullivan and Jean-François Cornu

    Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Review, September 2019

  • ‘“Echte, nackte, konkrete Lebenshilfe”: Fassbinder's love for Franz Biberkopf

    German Studies Association annual conference, Indianapolis, September 2021

  • ‘“It’s much more fun to work with women”: Gendering Emotions in Fassbinder's Women’s Pictures’

    Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image annual conference, June 2021

Daniella has over a decade’s experience teaching languages and literature.

She’s given lectures and seminars for Oxford’s Modern German Literature paper and Cambridge’s Comparative Film paper, teaching a wide range of subjects — from Kafka and Nietzsche to Maya Deren and Adorno.

Scholarships & Prizes

  • Doctoral thesis in the MMLL Faculty is fully funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship (2020-2025)

  • Awarded for achieving a First in every exam and the Highest First in the Languages & Linguistics Faculty (BA in German, 2018)

  • Awarded for achieving a First in every exam and the Highest First in the Languages & Linguistics Faculty in preliminary examinations (BA in German, 2015)

  • Awarded for achieving the Highest First in Arts subjects (BA in German, 2018)

  • Awarded for achieving a First in every exam and the Highest First in the Languages & Linguistics Faculty (BA in German, 2018)

  • Awarded for the highest scoring oral examination in German (BA, 2018)

  • Awarded by Worcester College (2015-2018) for achieving the Highest First in preliminary examinations in the languages Faculty