Ian Fleishman

Ian Fleishman is an Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Chair of Cinema & Media Studies and Graduate Chair of his department. He holds a PhD in French and German Literature from Harvard University, with prior studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Nouvelle, École Normale Supérieure, and Middlebury College.

His research explores intersections of sexuality, violence, and narrative form across modernist and postmodernist literature and cinema, with a focus on queer aesthetics, ecocritical theory, and affect studies. His monograph An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino (2015 NeMLA award) and edited volume on Isabelle Huppert’s performative opacity exemplify this approach.

His recent articles span queer film analysis, ecocritical interpretations of Kafka’s Odradek, and political tourism in Austrian literature. Current projects include Homodystopia: Porn Culture and the Ethno-Ecological Imaginary and Counterfeit Identities: Camp Abjection, both extending his work on queer narrative strategies and utopianism.

He is affiliated with Penn’s Environmental Humanities Program, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature & Literary Theory. Scientific recognition includes the NeMLA Best Book Award for his first monograph.