Roger HILLMAN

From Precis

Originally lecturing solely in German Studies, Roger Hillman co-convened the conference ‘Film and the Humanities’ at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University in 1989, from which emerged the volume Fields of Vision: Essays in Visual Anthropology, Film Studies and Photography (University of California Press, 1995). Following on from completion of a musicology major, this proved to be a career turning point, as he and a colleague in Italian then established Film Studies as a new discipline at the ANU, and he and a colleague in Musicology eventually offered a course on Film and Music. Along with two colleagues he has taught a course crossing language borders, on European Narratives: Literary and Visual. Thanks not least to an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (German Government postdoctoral award), contact to Germany (and Austria) has remained frequent, and he also twice took advantage of the opportunity to participate in an exchange with Bologna University, teaching classes there. Since the turn to film, the Universities of Indiana and Berkeley have been regular partners. He has just held a visiting fellowship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University, starting on a new project which examines how history might approach myth, in particular with regard to the Australian founding legend of Gallipoli.

Other publications include books on Film and Music in the New German Cinema, the German social novel of the 19th century, and (co-written with colleagues in Münster) Transkulturalität (on Turkish-German literature and film).