Dr. Roman Mauer is Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) in Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). He completed his degree and PhD in Mainz (2004, dissertation on Jim Jarmusch). He subsequently taught at University of Television and Film Munich, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and Mainz University of Applied Science. Since 2008, he is a member of the academic staff at JGU, serving among others as program coordinator (2008–10) and contributing to the development of the BA and MA degree programs (2008–17). His work includes international lecture series as well as innovative and media practice projects in cooperation with ZDF/arte, the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin and Filmuniversität Babelsberg. From 2021 to 2024, he headed the DFG-funded project TIB AV-Analytics at JGU in cooperation with TIB Hannover. He is co-editor of the book series Film, Fernsehen, New Media (4 vols.) and most recently of Dinge im Film (2022), Angewandte Filmtheorie (2023) and Alles im Blick: Perspektiven einer intermedialen Panoramatik (2025). Click here for publications, lectures & conference organization, innovative teaching projects, courses, supervised final theses.

Erasmus Coordinator for Film Studies and Media Dramaturgy

Module Coordinator for Career Internships

Examiner for the Module Interdisciplinary Orientation

Committee for “Curatorial Interest”, funding program of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) and the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for the digitization of Germany’s national film heritage (as deputy member since 2018)

Film- und Mediennachwuchsförderung Rheinland-Pfalz (JGU jury since 2012; chair 2015-24)

Comic Research Working Group, Society for Media Studies (GfM)

1. HS. Perspektiven: Der US-Independentfilm: Alternative Erzählungen zwischen Underground und Indiewood
   Instructor: Dr. Roman Mauer
2. Pr. Berufspraktikum (180h)
   Instructor: Dr. Roman Mauer
3. Pr. Berufspraktikum (90h)
   Instructor: Dr. Roman Mauer
4. PrS. Perspektiven einnehmen: Mapping Mongolia: Nomadische Räume und filmische Konstruktionen kultureller Differenz
   Instructor: Dr. Roman Mauer
5. PS. Zugänge zur Filmwissenschaft (Winter): Film als Traummaschine
   Instructor: Dr. Roman Mauer
6. SLS. Sichtung zum PS (Winter)
   Instructor: Josefine Hetterich; Dr. Sarah Horn; Dr. Roman Mauer; Camilo Porras Sandoval; Dr. Matthias Wittmann

WiSe 2026/27

Narratology of Film, Comics and Radio Drama

Film Cartography and Theories of Cinematic Space

Audiovisual Essay and Methods of Visualizing Narrative Structures

Inter- and Transcultural Approaches to Cinema

Contemporary Documentary Film

Film Stylistics

French Cinema