Angelica Fenner is a cross-appointed Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and the current Graduate Coordinator in the Cinema Studies Institute. She is the author of Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2011), which investigates the implications of early West German discourses on race and integration for visualizing the early postwar terms of citizenal belonging. She has also guest edited with anthropologist Uli Linke (Rochester Institute of Technology) a themed 2014 issue on “Contemporary Remediations of Race & Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures” for UC Berkeley’s online journal Transit.

Drawn to women’s authorship, especially those filmmakers whose creative practice constitutes a minor or countercinematic stance in visual storytelling, financing, and production, Professor Fenner has guest co-edited with Hester Baer (U Maryland) a 2018 edition of Camera Obscura, "Revisiting Feminism and German Cinema: Contemporary Women's Film Authorship in Neoliberal Times," and with Barbara Mennel (U Florida) “The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice” for Feminist German Studies, forthcoming in 2022. Building on her keen interest in the first-person film, she co-edited with Robin Curtis the volume The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film (2014).

She publishes filmmaker interviews that explore most expecially the first person documentary mode and has further publications in progress or forthcoming that grapple with naturecultural entanglements read through the lens of animal studies and posthumanism within the Environmental Humanities. A current project focuses on early feminist filmmaking of the 1960s among directors trained at the Ulm School of Design.

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