Alison Guenther-Pal is chair of German Studies and affiliated faculty in Film Studies and Gender Studies. Like the students at Lawrence University, she is "multi-interested," but her main topics of inquiry are otherness and alterity. She has published in the areas of German cinema, genre fiction (especially detective fiction), the 1950s, and queer and LGBT studies. Other research and teaching interests include the Weimar Republic, critical identity studies (critical race studies, fat studies, feminist studies), and equity, inclusion, and social justice in higher education. Prof. Guenther-Pal's courses focus primarily on 20th and 21st century German cultural studies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. She was a founding member of Lawrence's Film Studies Program.
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SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT
- Introduction to German Cinema
- German Horror Film
- Der Krimi: Narratives of Crime and Detection in the German-speaking Countries
- Texts and Contexts: Introduction to German Cultural Studies
- Vampires, Monsters, and Man-Eaters
- Weimar Culture
- Weimar Cinema
In Film Studies
- Film Theory and Criticism
- Gender and Cinema
- Introduction to Film Studies
