Felix Brinker

Dr. Felix Brinker is a researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the English Department, Leibniz University Hannover. His academic focus spans contemporary American popular culture, visual culture, and media studies, with a particular emphasis on conspiracy theories, film/television studies, and critical theory. He has co-edited a Brill Publishers volume on modernity and periodical press (2023) and authored a monograph on Superhero Blockbusters: Seriality and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Brinker investigates seriality's role in post-cinematic media ecologies, analyzing how narrative forms structure audience engagement and labor dynamics in convergence-era entertainment.