Mila Ganeva, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D. Germanic Studies, University of Chicago (2000)

Teaching and Research Interests

• German language and the literatures and cultures of German speaking countries
• Berlin in film and literature
• Film history and contemporary German film
• Literature, film, and fashion of the Weimar Republic
• Visual culture of the Cold War
• Aesthetics
• Consumerism
• Mass Culture

Courses Taught

• GER 201 - Second Year German I
• GER 202 - Second Year German II
• GER 252 - The German-Jewish Experience (MPF)
• GER/FST 261 - German Film in Global Context (MPF –Global)
• GER 311 - Passionate Friendships (course in German literature and culture)
• GER 312 - Coming of Age in German Culture (course in German literature and culture)
• GER 410E - Berlin in Film and Literature (advanced seminar for students in German)
• GER 410F - Culture in Weimar Germany (advanced seminar for students in German)

Selected Publications

Books

• Film and Fashion Amidst the Ruins of Berlin: Between Nazism and Cold War, 1945-1953. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. Pp. 256
• Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008)

Articles

• “Cabaret in Transition: Ilse Bois’ Parodies Between the Times and Between the Genres,” Modernity in Transition, ed. Deborah Barnstone and Donna Brett (London: Bloomsbury, 2025) 199-218
• “Fashion for a Global Audience: 1920s Glamour and Grit,” ‘Babylon Berlin’: German Visual Spectacle and Global Media Culture, ed. Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith (London: Bloomsbury, 2024) 58-76.
• “Between the Studio and the Stage: Elli Marcus’s Portrait, Fashion and Theater Photography,” FOTOGESCHICHTE, Special issue on Studio Photography, ed. Anne Vitten, No. 170, 2023, 22-32.
• “Kleider machen Filme. Die Kostümabteilung der Ufa 1938–1945,“ Ufa International: Ein deutscher Konzern mit globalen Ambitionen, ed. Philipp Stiasny, Jürgen Kasten, and Frederik Lang (Munich: edition text + kritik, 2021) 353-366.
• “Making the New Woman: Female Fashion Photographers in Berlin between the Wars,” Women Behind the Camera, ed. Andrea Nelson (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2020), 181-212.
• “Berlin Babylon: Costumes and Set Designs,” Forum on Babylon Berlin: Media, Spectacle, and History, edited by Veronika Fuechtner and Paul Lerner. Central European History, 53 (2020) 834-854.
• “Fashion für Fräuleins: Mode im Nachkriegsberlin,“ Berliner Geschichte. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur, Nr. 23 (September 2020), 40-49.
• “Jewish Comedians Beyond Lubitsch. Siegfried Arno in Film and Cabaret.” Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema, ed. Valerie Weinstein and Barbara Hales (New York: Berghahn, 2020) 88-110.
• “‘Stoffe über die Luftbrücke’: Film und Mode trotz der Blockade.” In Die Berliner Luftbrücke: Erinnerungsort des Kalten Krieges, edited by Corinne Defrance, Bettina Greiner, and Ulrich Pfeil, 253–70. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2018.
• Mode und Film in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Modell Bianka (1951) und Ingrid. Geschichte eines Fotomodells (1954).” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 14 (2017) 384-394.
• “Vicarious Consumption: Fashion and Fashion Media in Germany during the War Years 1939-1943,” The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective, ed. Felix Römer, Jan Logermann, and Hartmut Berghoff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 199-221.

Professional Organization Memberships

• German Studies Association
• Women in German
• American Association of Teachers of German

Languages

• Bulgarian (native)
• English (near native)
• German (near native)
• Russian (reading)