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Professor Nikolaj Lübecker holds the position of Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and is a Fellow of St John's College. His research explores intersections of literature, philosophy, and film to interrogate contemporary human subjectivity in the context of technological and ecological shifts. Current projects include Images of Unrest (on political violence in documentary film) and World Brains (examining world-as-system narratives). He teaches undergraduate courses on 19th-21st century French literature, film studies, and continental philosophy, and supervises graduate work on topics like nonhuman turns in literature and semiotic ecologies. Recent publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism (2022, awarded the R. Gapper Prize) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Awards include recognition for reinterpreting 19th-century Symbolism through modern ecological lenses.
- Education Background: PhD under Julia Kristeva (Mallarmé studies), earlier studies in Paris.
- Research Themes: Ecocriticism, technoculture, posthumanism, avant-garde film, interdisciplinary theory.
- Awards: 2023 R. Gapper Book Prize for Twenty-First-Century Symbolism.
- Teaching: MSt Film Aesthetics modules (Phenomenology, Spectatorship) and Modern Languages critical theory courses.
- Collaborations: Co-authorship with Daniele Rugo on documentary film studies and edited collections like James Benning's Environments.
- Future Projects: 'World Brains' exploring Gaia theory, cybernetics, and 20th-century sci-fi.
His work bridges historical texts with contemporary crises, emphasizing how art and theory can navigate anthropocentric limitations. Recent articles span Mallarmé's digital poetics, Marker's non-representational documentaries, and Cézanne's ecological materialism.
