About Dagmar Brunow

Dagmar Brunow is professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research centres on archives and audiovisual heritage, cultural memory, documentary filmmaking as well as feminist and queer experimental filmmaking and video practice. She is the author of Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention (2015), editor of Stuart Hall: Aktivismus, Pop und Politik (2015) and co editor of Queer Cinema (with Simon Dickel 2018). Her research projects “The Lost Heritage: Improving Collaborations between Digital Film Archives (2021 2024) and “The Cultural Heritage of Moving Images” (2016 2018) have been financed by the Swedish Research Council. Dagmar Brunow is the leader of the workgroup “Cultural Memory and Media” at NECS – Network of European Cinema Studies. She is an international fellow at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform and the founder of the regional workgroup MSA Nordic in the MSA. 
Her current research project on film archives and diversity "The Cultural Heritage of moving images" (2016-2018) has been financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Dagmar's book Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention (de Gruyter, 2015) is a contribution to the emerging field of media memory studies, offering new takes on concepts such as transculturality, remediation and the archive. After publishing an edited collection on Stuart Hall (Ventil Verlag, 2015), she is currently co-editing the first German-language volume on Queer Cinema Studies (with Simon Dickel). Dagmar is the founder and leader of the workgroup "Media and Cultural Memory" within NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. She is also a founding member of filmvet.se, the Swedish national association of film studies, now a part of NECS, as well as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema (intellect).