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Current and Future Research

I am currently finishing an interdisciplinary PhD at The University of Nottingham. My project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. My thesis investigates how the belonging and otherness of queer women is represented in terms of space and time in British and German film and television since 2000.

My forthcoming post-doctoral project Freak Feminism: Madness and Non-normative Bodies in the work of Emilie Autumn and Amanda Palmer analyses these artists’ songs, stage performances, music videos, publications, as well as photographs and interviews to investigate the (self) representation of madness and the non-normative body from queer and feminist perspectives. In particular, I wish to focus on the themes of the asylum, (circus) ‘freaks’ and acts of revenge.

Research interests:

• Queer and feminist representations of madness: ‘freaks’, asylums and acts of revenge
• German cinema (in particular: gender and sexuality; the New German Cinema; Heimat; left-wing terrorism)
• Heritage film and television and heritage aesthetics
• Home Studies and representations of home
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Representations of the body (in particular: spatial representations of the body; the non-normative body; ‘freaks’)
• Queer belonging and otherness in British and German film and television

For more information visit: http://nottingham.academia.edu/RebeccaHarper