Stefan Soldovieri
Current affiliations
- Affiliated Faculty, School of Cities
Areas of interest
- 20th-21st Century German Literature and Cultural Studies
- German Cinema and Cinema Studies
- Cold War Culture
- Popular Culture
- The Future
- Tactical German Studies
- Languages
Biography
Prof. Soldovieri’s current research and teaching interests are in environmental humanities and cultures of extraction and energy production in German contexts. He is a member of the Environmental Humanities Working Group in the Jackman Humanities Institute and graduate faculty member at the School of the Environment.
Professor Soldovieri is cofounder of iPRAKTIKUM, an experiential learning and internationalization initiative that provides U of T students from all disciplines with impactful internships in the GTA and abroad. iPRAKTIKUM’s Germany-based futurGenerator programs in Berlin and Freiburg focus on sustainability and social innovation. Professor Soldovieri has also been instrumental in creating a new learning pathway in the form of a Certificate in Global German Studies.
Select publications
- “Betting on Genre: The Cold War Scandal of Spielbankaffäre (1957).” Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in National and Transnational Context. Eds. Sean Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke. Berghahn: New York/Oxford. 2016.
- “Not Only Entertainment: Sights and Sounds of the DEFA Music Film.” DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture. Eds. Marc Silberman and Henning Wrage. DeGruyter: Berlin, 2014. 133-155.
- “Sozialistische Sichtweisen. DDR-Kinoarchitektur vom repräsentativen Nationalismus zur internationalen Moderne.” DEFA International. Grenzüberschreitende Filmbeziehungen vor und nach dem Mauerbau. Springer: Wiesbaden 2013. 113-129.
- “Socialists in Outer Space: East German Film’s Venusian Adventure. A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas, ed. Aniko Imre. Blackwell: Oxford, 2012. 201-223.
- “Edgar Wallace goes East: Locations of Genre and German Identities in Joachim Hasler’s Fog (Nebel, GDR 1962),” The Meaning of Culture, eds. Martin Kagel & Laura Tate. Camden House: New Jersey, 2009. 146-161.
- “Germans Suffering in Spain: Cold War Visions of the Spanish Civil War.” Cinémas 18.1 (Fall 2007): 53-69.
- “Finding Navigable Waters: Inter-German Film Relations and Modernization in Two DEFA Barge Films of the 1950s.” Film History 18.1 (2006): 59-72.
- “Finding Navigable Waters: Inter-German Film Relations and Modernization in Two DEFA Barge Films of the 1950s.” Film History 18.1 (2006): 59-72.