Curriculum Vitae
Lukas Hellmuth, M. A.
Education
Since 10/2021: PhD Project: "The Horrification of Queerness, the Queerification of Horror: Intersections of Film, Form, and Theory” (working title)
04/2021: Master of Arts, English-Speaking Cultures, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
09/2017: Bachelor of Arts, English and American Studies/German Language and Literature, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Publications
“The Politics of Camp: Drag Between Cultural Mainstream and Reactionary Politics.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, Special Issue “Queer Politics in Media and Legal Cultures” 69.4 (2024): 425-43. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/4/8.
“In Search for Alternatives: Queer Theorizing, Affect, and the Horror Film.” JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 5.2 (2024): 239-59. https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v5i2.207.
Conference Papers
“From the Horrors of Feeling Alone to the Horrors of Feeling at Home: Midsommar, Alternative Kinships, and Homonationalism.” (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions. 34th Annual PGF Conference of the GAAS/DGfA. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, November 2024.
“Dost thou really live deliciously? Robert Eggers’ The Witch.” Guest lecture in the seminar Home Sweet Home? Wilderness and Civilization in American Horror Films. Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (Austria), June 2023.
"In Search for Alternatives: Queer Theorizing, Affect, and the Horror Film." Narrative, Environment, Social Justice: 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Austria), October 2022.
“Of Monsters and Men: Horror at the Intersection of Film and Identity.” Guest lecture in the lecture series Gender and American Studies: Intersectional Perspectives. Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (Austria), May 2022.
"Constructing Same-Sex Feelings from Homer to Today: Love and Visibility in Madeleine Miller's The Song of Achilles." Globalized (Neo)Classicisms? Uses of Antiquity in Contemporary World Literatures. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi (India), December 2020.
"On the Possibility of a Female Gaze in Contemporary Photography." Feminisms 2018: Symposium at the Siebold Collegium. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, July 2018.
Membership in Professional Organizations
DGfA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German Association for American Studies)
