Contact
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Amerika-Institut
Schellingstr. 3, VG
80799 München
Amerika-Institut
Schellingstr. 3, VG
80799 München
Room:
110
Phone:
+49 (0)89 2180-3980
Email:
christina.heflin@lmu.de
Office hours:
Please make an appointment via email and specify if you would prefer an in-person meeting or a Zoom-call.
Areas of Research
Transatlantic Cultural History of the 19th and 20th Centuries (USA, UK, Italy and France), Modernism and the Avant-Garde, History of Science, Visual Culture, Blue Humanities, 20th Century Military History, Works on Paper, Photography and Early Cinema
Teaching in WiSe 2025
- Interwar Americans in Paris
Recent Publications
- “Aquatic Sensing in Jean Painlevé’s Early Filmic Environments” in Surrealism and Ecology, Vernon Press, 2025.
- “Eileen Agar and the Undersea Marvelous” Colloquy, Stanford University, 2025.
- “Surrealism in England” in The Routledge Companion to Surrealism, Routledge, 2023.
- “The Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse d’Eileen Agar et les modes sensoriels” Horsd’oeuvre nº 48, 2022.
Affiliations
- Board Member and Co-Chair of the Communications Committee for the International Society for the Study of Surrealism
- Bavarian American Academy
- ICOM
Photo credit: Enrico Fontolan, Bibliotheca Hertziana 2024