Johannes von Moltke's research and teaching centers on Film and German Cultural History of the 20th century. He studied in Germany , France , and the US , and has previously taught at the University of Hildesheim in Germany . He is the author of No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10235.html. Together with Julia Hell, he edits The Germanic Review, http://www.heldref.org/ger.php, and together with Gerd Gemünden he is the series editor for Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual at Camden House. He is the organizer of the "German Film Institute" http://141.211.177.75/german/resources/germanfilm/ at the University of Michigan .

During the 2007/2008 Academic Year, JvM holds a fellowship as Steelcase Research Professor at the Institute for the Humanities [hyperlink to  http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin/] , where he is a working on a project entitled "Moving Images: Film, History, and the Politics of Emotion". He continues to serve as the editor for Germanic Review  as well as for the book series Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual  at Camden House. Recent and forthcoming publications include chapters on 1950s cinema in two recent anthologies on German film ( The Cosmopolitan Screen , University of Michigan Press; and Framing the Fifties , Berghahn Books); an article on the representation of Hitler in Downfall  (forthcoming in New German Critique ); a review essay on recent books about Nazi Cinema (forthcoming in Film Quarterly ); and an essay on the 1941 Nazi Propaganda Film Heimkehr  (forthcoming in Werkstatt Geschichte ), among others. For the summer of 2008, JvM plans to organize the third installment of the German Film Institute at the University of Michigan, which will be devoted to Film around 1968.

His courses and teaching interests include Film Analysis, Film Theory, German Film History, Fascist Cinema, New German Cinema, Siegfried Kracauer, and Melodrama.

Professor von Moltke holds a joint appointment with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/

Publications include:

No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema ( Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005).  Winner of the MLA's A ldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2006. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10235.html

"Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic " [with Julia Hell], in Germanic Review vol. 80, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 74-95.

" Heimat and History: Viehjud Levi ," in New German Critique , Special Issue on "Postwall Cinema," no. 87 (Fall 2002), pp. 83-105.

"Home Again: Revisiting the New German Cinema in Edgar Reitz's Die Zweite Heimat ," in Cinema Journal vol. 42, no. 3 (Spring, 2003).

"Evergreens: The Heimat Genre ," in Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Göktürk, eds. The German Cinema Book ( London : BFI, 2002).

"Heimat and History: Viehjud Levi ," in New German Critique, Special Issue on "Postwall Cinema," no. 87 (Fall 2002).

"Heimatfilm als Horrorfilm: Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab (1952)," in WerkstattGeschichte vol. 11, no. 33 (December 2002). http://www.werkstattgeschichte.de/index.php?ref=71_abstract.html

"Between the Young and the New: Pop Sensibilities and Laconic Style in Rudolf Thome's Rote Sonne ," in Screen vol 41, no. 3 (Autumn, 2000).

"Für Rudolf Arnheim" [with Jörg Schweinitz], in montage/av vol. 9, no. 2 (2000), pp. 5-17. http://www.montage- av.de/pdf/092_2000/09_2_Johannes_v_Moltke_Joerg_Schweinitz_Fuer_Rudolf_Arnheim.pdf

"Radikale Verpflichtung zur Interdisziplinarität." Interview with David Morley in montage/av vol. 6, no. 1 (1997), pp. 36-66. http://www.montage- av.de/pdf/061_1997/06_1_David_Morley_Radikale_Verpflichtung_zu_Interdisziplinaritaet.pdf

"Exhibiting Ethnicity" in Jews and Other Differences , ed. by Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin (University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

"Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film" in New German Critique 63 (Fall, 1994).