Prof. Dr. Daniel Illger

Research Focus

Fantastic genres in audiovisual media; aesthetic theory; theology and popular culture

Bio

Daniel Illger studied film studies, general and comparative literature, and philosophy in Berlin and Münster. From 2007 to 2010, he was a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Aesthetic Experience in the Context of the Dissolution of Boundaries between the Arts’ at the Free University of Berlin, and from 2011 to 2014, he was project coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Languages of Emotion’, also based there. After three years as a freelance writer in Zurich – during which time the Skargat trilogy was published by Klett-Cotta – he worked from 2017 to 2019 at the Center for Advanced Film Studies ‘Cinepoetics – Poetologies of Audiovisual Images’. Since 2022, he has been Professor of Popular CultureStudies at the European University Viadrina. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the aesthetic construction of the city in Italian post-war cinema and his habilitation thesis on the fantasy mode in video games. He is co-editor of the series Pop: Kultur | Medien | Ästhetik, published by Rombach Wissenschaft in the Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. He is currently working on a series of essays on speculative theology and popular culture, to be published by Matthes & Seitz.

Selected Publications

Heim-Suchungen. Stadt und Geschichtlichkeit im italienischen Nachkriegskino (Berlin 2009);

Filmische Seitenblicke. Cinepoetische Exkursionen ins Kino von 1968 (co-editor, Berlin/Boston 2018);

Grüne Sonnen. Poetik und Politik der Fantasy am Medium Videospiel (Berlin/Boston 2020);

Kosmische Angst (Berlin 2021).

You can visit the personal page of Prof. Dr. Daniel Illger on the website of European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).