{"id":12219,"date":"2025-09-27T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/film-medien.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=12219"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:32:11","slug":"dr-leonie-zilch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/film-medien.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/en\/dr-leonie-zilch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Leonie Zilch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n\n\n
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Mail<\/strong>: leozilch@uni-mainz.de<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Room 00-236<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medienhaus – Wallstra\u00dfe 11, 55122 Mainz<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n<\/jgu-base-buttonitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-button><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leonie Zilch (Dr. phil) has been a staff member and lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since October 2020. Her research and teaching focuses on images of sexuality in feature films and pornography, on documentary films and media, feminist film theory and film and media education from an anti-discriminatory perspective. She\u2019s the coordinator of the scientific network \u201cInterdisciplinary Pornography Research\u201d funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2016 to 2020, she was a doctoral researcher in the DFG Graduate Research Training Group \u201cDocumentary Practices. Excess and Privation\u201d at the Ruhr University Bochum. Within this framework, she completed her PhD entitled Arousing Documents. Pornography and Documentary Authority (published in German in 2025 as Erregende Dokumente. Pornografie und dokumentarische Autorit\u00e4t). From 2010 to 2016, she studied Theater, Film and Media Studies (B.A.) as well as Philosophy and German Literature (Exam.) at the Goethe University Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic Advisor for B.A. Film Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Person of trust for students in FTMK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of the working group on anti-discrimination<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coordinator of Course Planning in Film Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Society for Media Studies<\/em> (GfM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n