Intellect

Marit Knollmueller has a Ph.D. in film studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her thesis is entitled ‘A Cinema under the Influence? Contemporary European Auteurism beyond the Postmodern’. She also has an MA in cinema studies from NYU. Her research interests include influence theory, contemporary perspectives on authorship and such film-makers as Amenábar, François Ozon,
Thomas Vinterberg, Tom Tykwer and Danis Tanovic. In addition to European cinema topics, she has published work on the intersection of film and museums. She has taught European Cinema at The University of Cambridge, The University of Kent, and London Southbank University.