Simon Spiegel
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PD Dr. Simon Spiegel
Cooperation Partner
Department of Film Studies
University of Zurich
Affolternstrasse 56
CH-8050 Zurich
Switzerland
Mail: simon@simifilm.ch
Education & Research Experience
- 2023-present: Senior Researcher at the Department of Film Studies, UZH.
- 2021-2023: Representation of the prof Flückiger at the Department of Film Studies UZH
- since 2021 President of the Board of Fantoche Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm Baden (board member from 2017-2020)
- 2019-2021: Scientific Research Manager in the ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors. Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Aesthetics
- 2018-2019: Research Assistant at the Institute for Media Cultural Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
- 2018: Habilitation at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Bayreuth (Bilder einer besseren Welt. Die Utopie im nichtfiktionalen)
- 2018: Research assistant in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth.
- 2014-2018: Habilitation project on utopia in non-fictional film as part of the SNF research project Alternative Weltentwürfe: Der politisch-aktivistische Dokumentarfilm
- 2008–2014: Delégué general Semaine de Critique am Filmfestival Locarno
- 2012-2014: Collaborator in the SNF research project Analog/Digital
- 2011-2013: Research assistant at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at the ZHdK
- Since 2004: regular lecturer at the Seminar for Film Studies
- Since 2003: Freelance film journalist and film critic
- 2003–2006: PhD, Department of Fiom Studies, University of Zurich (Die Konstitution des Wunderbaren)
- 1998-2003: Studied German language and literature, film studies and economic and social history at the University of Zurich and Humboldt University Berlin
