Academia

Daniella’s main research project is a freewheeling biography of the crazy, queer German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Papers & Publications

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

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

  • 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

    Book review for Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation journal, September 2019

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

    Paper given at the German Studies Association annual conference, Indianapolis, September 2021

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

She’s given lectures and seminars for Oxford’s ‘Modern German Literature’ paper and Cambridge’s ‘Comparative Film’ paper, which are much more exciting than they sound.

She’s taught a wide range of subjects including Kafka’s insomnia; Freud’s cocaine stash; Maya Deren’s hair; and Adorno’s grumpy critique of the culture industry.

Scholarships & Prizes

  • Doctoral thesis at Cambridge University is fully funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council OOC DTP scholarship (2020-2025)

  • Awarded for achieving a First in every finals exam, and for the Highest First in Oxford’s languages faculty (BA in German, 2018)

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

  • Awarded for achieving the best results in finals across all arts subjects (Finals, 2018)

  • Awarded for achieving a First in every finals exam, and the Highest First in Oxford’s languages faculty (BA in German, 2018)

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

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