Alexandra Schneider is Professor of Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz since September 2014. In the Department of Film, Theater, Media, and Cultural Studies, she heads the master program in Media Dramaturgy. Before Mainz, she taught at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Seminar for Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. After her studies at the University of Zurich (Film Studies, Sociology, Political Theory), where she also earned her doctorate, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne.

Principal Investigator at the Research Training Group “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices” (DFG GRK 3064, 2026–)

Member of the coordination committee “Georg Foster Forum” (Collaborative Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, GFF), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2024–

Director Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS), 2020–

Principal Investigator at the Research Training Group “Configurations of Film” (DFG GRK 229; Coordinating University: Goethe University Frankfurt), 2017–

Founding Member necs – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2005-2011 (Board Member)

SoSe 2026

Decentered Film History

Media Archaeology

Amateur Media and Useful Cinema

Home Movies

Digital Storytelling

Ongoing projects:

“DiCi-Hub: A Research Hub for Digital Film Studies” (Collaborative project by the VW foundation within the funding initiative “Global Knowledge – Structural Strengthening of Small Subjects”, Coordinating University Marburg)

Completed projects:

“Mapping German Film Migration 1933-1950 | A Data Graph-Based Perspective on Film Migration” (together with Dr. Imme Klages; DFG research grant; 2021-2024)

“New Directions in Film Historiography. Digital Tools and Methods in Film and Media Studies ” (DFG Network, Head: Dr. Sarah Mai Dang, Philipps University Marburg; 2019-2023)

“Witnessing. Epistemes of a Media and Cultural Practice ” (Spokesperson, GYR doctoral candidate group, 2018-2022)

“Rhinédits: Amateur Films of the Upper Rhine Region: For an Online Platform of Digital Images” (Cooperation partner of the Interreg project, Project Sponsor: University of Strasbourg and higher education institution Offenburg; 2018–2021)

“Creative Media Lab” (GLK Innovation Project together with Katja Schupp, Olaf Hirschberg and Thomas Meder, 2019-2021)