- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Professor
Email: mccor001@umn.edu
phone: (612) 623-4073
I am a scholar of German film and culture whose work has focused on the intersection of art, culture, and politics, with a special emphasis on gender, sexuality, and ethnic/national identity. I have worked in two main areas of special relevance to Jewish studies: 1) the representation of the legacy of the Holocaust and of Nazism in postwar German film (and the role of gender in such representations); and 2) the emancipatory political and artistic culture of Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933), to which many German Jews were major contributors, as well as the anti-democratic/anti-Semitic/misogynistic/homophobic tendencies in Weimar culture that led to the triumph of the Nazis in 1933. Currently I am working on a book on Ernst Lubitsch, a German-Jewish filmmaker who was the most successful filmmaker in Germany when he left for Hollywood in 1922, where he also had great success; the working title of the book is "Sex, Politics, and 'Transnational' Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch--From Berlin to Hollywood."