Ervin Malakaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ervin Malakaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ervin |
| FAMILY NAME | Malakaj |
| SIGNATURE | MALAKAJ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0923-6963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Burdened Solidarities Beyond the Impasse
This special issue focuses on sites of relational and cultural practice at which border violence is challenged by solidarity, a major technology of resistance to border regimes. This form of collective action describes the social formation among displaced peoples crossing borders. It also describes the social formation of anyone who enters into solidarity with those displaced people crossing borders. The issue assembles articles that highlight so…
Cyd Sturgess. Different from the Others
Queer occultism
The rise of German sexology in the nineteenth century coincides with the rise of occult discourse and practice. The former has always maintained an important status in queer German studies. Scholars have historically turned with great interest to the works of, among others, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll, and Magnus Hirschfeld, in order to advance the famous Foucauldian notion that the homosexual was born in the clinic. And with good reaso…
Anders als die Andern
"2019 marked the centennial for the German hygiene film melodrama Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others), which premiered at the Apollo-Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 24, 1919. In film history, it is heralded as the first feature-length moving picture depicting explicit queer love. The film was a collaboration between Richard Oswald (who directed the film), one of the leading genre filmmakers of the 1910s, and the German sexologist Ma…
Queer Time and the Cinematic Pleasures of theLocus AmoenusinFree Fall
The locus amoenus boasts a long history in cultural representation as a motif affiliated with impossible unions. This article seeks to articulate it as an analytic category for contemporary queer cinema. It does so on the basis of a detailed analysis of Stephan Lacant's Freier Fall (Free Fall, 2013). Lacant's film presents two intertwined temporal structures that converge in the film's evocation of the locus amoenus. On the one hand, Free Fall de…
Introduction
In their 2022 minicomic titled “Feindselig” (Hostile), the Munich-based nonbinary nonfictional comics and graphic novelist Illi Anna Heger casts into sharp relief how structures of belonging informing urban design support some forms of life and living at the cost of others. 1 Across eleven panels, Heger shows how hostile designs thwart attempts by animals and humans to dwell in public settings at particular times and in particular ways. In one pa…
Preface from the Special Issue Editors
While this special issue was in production, we received the unhappy news that one of the issue’s contributors and a leading scholar in our discipline, Robert “Bob” Deam Tobin, had died. Bob’s work had an incredible impact on the field of German Studies and, more broadly, on the subfield of
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha
The protagonist in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha (2010) is caught in the midst of competing claims on his future. While his mother ardently nurtures his piano practice, insisting on a career in musical performance in Germany, his father hopes his entire family will return back to their homeland—Montenegro. During his coming out phase, Saša also confronts a mainstream queer culture that does not quite provide him with means by which to fully negotiate …
Queer Time in Contemporary German Cinema
Time has been an important analytic category in both queer and cinema studies. The former has considered how normative life structures abide by their own temporal rhythms unaccommodating of queer body-minds. The latter has examined how the constitutive factors of cinematic mediation often draw their esthetic prowess from the manipulation of time. Recent scholarship on queer cinema studies—in particular work on global queer cinemas—productively en…
A comparative analysis of cultural representations in collegiate world language textbooks (Arabic, French, and German)
DDGC and Digital Misfit Archives
In this forum contribution, the authors reflect on the founding of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective by considering the important role of digital venues in this endeavour. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, the authors consider the individual constitutive spaces in which knowledge is created and circulated by the members of the collective as digital misfit archives. Such archives contain informat…
Autorschaft und Bibliothek. Sammlungsstrategien und Schreibverfahren. Herausgegeben von Stefan Höppner, Caroline Jessen, Jörn Münkner und Ulrike Trenkmann. Göttingen
Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies
Queer Derailment and Pederast Adoration in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael (1924)
Some critics of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael (1924) have cast the queer bond between the title character and the master painter Zoret as too frail to warrant a queer designation for the film. Especially Zoret's paternal commitment to Michael in conjunction with Michael's rejection of his guardian in lieu of a romantic relationship to an impoverished Russian aristocrat, Zanikow, was seen as cause to doubt queer aesthetic commitments in the film's…
Celluloid Revolt
Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings
Queer Derailment and Pederast Adoration in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael (1924)
Some critics of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael (1924) have cast the queer bond between the title character and the master painter Zoret as too frail to warrant a queer designation for the film. Especially Zoret's paternal commitment to Michael in conjunction with Michael's rejection of his guardian in lieu of a romantic relationship to an impoverished Russian aristocrat, Zanikow, was seen as cause to doubt queer aesthetic commitments in the film's…
Celluloid Revolt
Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings
Autorschaft und Bibliothek. Sammlungsstrategien und Schreibverfahren. Herausgegeben von Stefan Höppner, Caroline Jessen, Jörn Münkner und Ulrike Trenkmann. Göttingen
Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies
A comparative analysis of cultural representations in collegiate world language textbooks (Arabic, French, and German)
DDGC and Digital Misfit Archives
In this forum contribution, the authors reflect on the founding of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective by considering the important role of digital venues in this endeavour. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, the authors consider the individual constitutive spaces in which knowledge is created and circulated by the members of the collective as digital misfit archives. Such archives contain informat…
Introduction
In their 2022 minicomic titled “Feindselig” (Hostile), the Munich-based nonbinary nonfictional comics and graphic novelist Illi Anna Heger casts into sharp relief how structures of belonging informing urban design support some forms of life and living at the cost of others. 1 Across eleven panels, Heger shows how hostile designs thwart attempts by animals and humans to dwell in public settings at particular times and in particular ways. In one pa…
Preface from the Special Issue Editors
While this special issue was in production, we received the unhappy news that one of the issue’s contributors and a leading scholar in our discipline, Robert “Bob” Deam Tobin, had died. Bob’s work had an incredible impact on the field of German Studies and, more broadly, on the subfield of
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha
The protagonist in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha (2010) is caught in the midst of competing claims on his future. While his mother ardently nurtures his piano practice, insisting on a career in musical performance in Germany, his father hopes his entire family will return back to their homeland—Montenegro. During his coming out phase, Saša also confronts a mainstream queer culture that does not quite provide him with means by which to fully negotiate …
Queer Time in Contemporary German Cinema
Time has been an important analytic category in both queer and cinema studies. The former has considered how normative life structures abide by their own temporal rhythms unaccommodating of queer body-minds. The latter has examined how the constitutive factors of cinematic mediation often draw their esthetic prowess from the manipulation of time. Recent scholarship on queer cinema studies—in particular work on global queer cinemas—productively en…
Anders als die Andern
"2019 marked the centennial for the German hygiene film melodrama Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others), which premiered at the Apollo-Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 24, 1919. In film history, it is heralded as the first feature-length moving picture depicting explicit queer love. The film was a collaboration between Richard Oswald (who directed the film), one of the leading genre filmmakers of the 1910s, and the German sexologist Ma…
Queer Time and the Cinematic Pleasures of theLocus AmoenusinFree Fall
The locus amoenus boasts a long history in cultural representation as a motif affiliated with impossible unions. This article seeks to articulate it as an analytic category for contemporary queer cinema. It does so on the basis of a detailed analysis of Stephan Lacant's Freier Fall (Free Fall, 2013). Lacant's film presents two intertwined temporal structures that converge in the film's evocation of the locus amoenus. On the one hand, Free Fall de…
Queer occultism
The rise of German sexology in the nineteenth century coincides with the rise of occult discourse and practice. The former has always maintained an important status in queer German studies. Scholars have historically turned with great interest to the works of, among others, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll, and Magnus Hirschfeld, in order to advance the famous Foucauldian notion that the homosexual was born in the clinic. And with good reaso…
Burdened Solidarities Beyond the Impasse
This special issue focuses on sites of relational and cultural practice at which border violence is challenged by solidarity, a major technology of resistance to border regimes. This form of collective action describes the social formation among displaced peoples crossing borders. It also describes the social formation of anyone who enters into solidarity with those displaced people crossing borders. The issue assembles articles that highlight so…
Cyd Sturgess. Different from the Others
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Queer (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · German (6 works) · German History and Society (5 works)