Berenike Jung

Berenike is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Previously, she taught film and media at King's College London, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Tübingen in Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick in 2016; her monograph The Invisibilities of Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television was published with Edinburgh University Press in 2020. Recent publications include with Derilene Marco: ‘De-marginalising and de-centring film studies in bodies, places and on screens’ Film Education Journal (June 2022), Vol. 5(1):10-23; and ‘Do you see what I see? The ethics of seeing race in Get Out’ in Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew, edited by Lucy Bolton, David Martin-Jones, Robert Sinnerbrink (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her research centres around the cinematic representation of violence and the politics of memory; cinemas of Latin America and the Global South; decolonising film education; and aesthetics in contemporary digital media formats.