Jaimey Fisher
Associate Professor of German
Ph.D., Cornell University
Email: jrfisher@ucdavis.edu
Office: 409 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Professor Fisher studied German literature and thought at Stanford University, at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in German with a minor in Film and Video Studies. His primary research and teaching interests include film and media studies, German literature, and intellectual history.
Prof. Fisher is the author of Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (Detroit: Wayne State University, 2007) and is co-editor of Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects (New York: Berghahn, 2001). He is currently co-editing Collapse of the Conventional: German Cinema and its Politics at the Turn of the New Century. He has also published numerous articles and book chapters, including in the journals New German Critique, The German Quarterly, Iris, The Goethe Yearbook, and Zeitschrift für Germanistik, among others. He is currently working on a project about contemporary German cinema and on a study of German war films from the first half of the twentieth century.
Prof. Fisher teaches courses at UC Davis in German and Film Studies, on topics ranging from Bertolt Brecht to contemporary European cinema. He has also developed a summer-abroad course for UC Davis, entitled "World Cinema and the European Film Festival," which is based in Berlin but travels to the Locarno Film Festival in southern Switzerland/northern Italy. At UC Davis, Prof. Fisher is an affiliated faculty member in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Jewish Studies; he also serves on the executive committee of Film Studies as well as on the advisory board of the Davis Humanities Institute.
Before coming to Davis in 2004, Prof. Fisher taught at Tulane University as an Assistant Professor of German. He has held two fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (the DAAD) and was awarded a Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler or Buka) Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
