Kathleen Loock / University of Flensburg

Kathleen Loock holds a postdoc position in American Studies at the University of Flensburg (Germany), where she works as associate editor of the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies. Her research focuses on Hollywood’s remaking practice, seriality, and the role memory and cultural repetition perform on the levels of identity formation and for the maintenance of imagined communities. Kathleen is author of Kolumbus in den USA (Transcript-Verlag, 2014), co-editor of Film Remakes, Adaptations, and Fan Productions (with Constantine Verevis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and has edited several special issues: Serial Narratives (LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2014), Exploring Film Seriality (Film Studies, with Frank Krutnik, 2017), and American TV Series Revivals (Television & New Media, 2018). Her video essay on Blade Runner 2049 was recently published in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Image Studies 6.3 (2019), screened at the Besides the Screen Festival (Brazil) and the Adelio Ferrero Festival (Italy), and shortlisted for the Adelio Ferrero Award. Kathleen is currently finishing her book Hollywood Remaking (under contract with University of California Press).