Jaimey Fisher

Jaimey Fisher is Professor and Chair of Cinema and Digital Media and Professor of German at UC Davis. He holds a PhD from Cornell University with emphases in German intellectual history and film studies. His research explores German cinema, postwar reconstruction, and genre theory.

Fisher authored four books: German Ways of War (2022), Treme (2019), Christian Petzold (2013), and Disciplining Germany (2007). He edited seven volumes including The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts (2018) and publishes widely on war films, transnational cinema, and critical theory.

His articles analyze affective geographies in war cinema, transnational art film movements, and ethics in speculative media. Recent work examines New German Cinema's global resonances and AI ethics in Black Mirror.

Fisher developed a summer-abroad course at the Locarno Film Festival and received grants from the Mellon Foundation and NEH. He directs graduate studies and mentors students in critical media analysis.