Associate Research Professor
Media Theorist German and Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218 Telephone: 410.516.7511
E-Mail: berna@jhu.edu
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Bernadette Wegenstein, a linguist and semiotician, received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Vienna University. She is Associate Professor in the department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, where she also directs the Film Studies Program. Currently she is Visiting Associate Professor in the department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, on the representation of AIDS in the European Media, Die Darstellung von AIDS in den Medien, appeared in 1998 with Vienna University Press. She is the author of Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press 2006), The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty, (forthcoming, MIT Press 2009), the edited volume Reality Made Over: The Culture of Reality Television Makeover Shows as special volumes of Configurations 15.1. and 15.2, from The Johns Hopkins University Press 2008 and 2009, and of numerous articles on body criticism, performance art, and film theory. She has recently produced and co-directed a feature-length documentary film on the topic of the technologies and culture of bodily makeover called Made Over in America, which is distributed through Icarusfilms.
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