Claudia Breger

Claudia Breger is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research bridges twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural studies, focusing on intersections of gender, sexuality, and race in film, theater, and literary/media theory.

• Key Research Areas: Narrative performance, affect theory, political aesthetics, queer studies, cinematic worldmaking
• Departments: German and Comparative Literature

Her work synthesizes cultural studies approaches with aesthetic analysis and close reading. Recent publications explore affective collectivity in European cinema and dialogues between historical sexology and contemporary affect studies. While no formal awards or advisees are listed in the available text, her scholarly contributions emphasize transdisciplinary methodologies in literary and cultural analysis.