Marc Siegel has been Professor of Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz since October 2020. He was a Visiting Professor at such institutions as University of Chicago, Free University Berlin, Goethe University in Frankfurt, University of Hildesheim and the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. He completed a B.A. in Film Studies at San Francisco State University; an M.A. and a PhD in Critical Studies in Film, Television and Digital Media at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); and a Habilitation in Film Studies at the Free University in Berlin. He has also worked as a freelance curator for film and performance festivals as well as museums and galleries, including Berlin Biennale, the Berlinale, EMAF (Osnabrück), HAU (Berlin), Tate Modern (London), and the Goethe-Institut (Calcutta). He is a co-founder of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) and the Berlin-based artists’ collective CHEAP.

Responsibilities

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

Advisory Board, Society of Media Studies (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft), 2024– Principal Investigator at the Research Training Group “Configurations of Film” (DFG GRK 229; Coordinating University: Goethe University Frankfurt), 2017–2026

Director of the MA Program in Film Studies

Co-Director of the BA Program in Film Studies

Departmental Co-Representative, School of Philosophy and Philology, JGU Mainz, 2026-

1. MA K. Besprechung laufender Forschungsprojekte
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
2. MA K. Besprechung laufender Forschungsprojekte (MA Filmwissenschaft) (2019)
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
3. MA S. Einführung in die filmwissenschaftliche Praxis: Wir holen uns die 90er, die wir verdienen
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
4. PS. Zugänge zur Filmwissenschaft (Sommer): Das Bild
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
5. SLS. Sichtung zum PS (Sommer)
   Instructor: Josefine Hetterich; Dr. Sarah Horn; Dr. Roman Mauer; Camilo Porras Sandoval; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
6. VL. Zugänge zur Filmgeschichte (Sommer)
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel

SoSe 2026

Experimental film

Underground Film

Queer Studies

Moving Image Art

The Palestine Exception in Arts and Culture

Critical Perspectives on Representation (including Antisemitism and Anti-Palestinian Racism)

“Configurations of Film”, Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (GRK 2279, DFG), host university: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

“Moving in Every Direction. Artistic research as a contribution to the development of current spatial configurations for the moving image” , Associated researchers, Host university: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swiss National Science Foundation

“Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia,” Principal Investigator, with Prof. Dr. Kate Ince, Host University: University of Birmingham, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK), 2018-2021