Collegium Helveticum
Switzerland
fellow
Jacqueline Maurer
2022-2023
Discipline(s)
Arts and arts studies
Theme(s)
Visual Arts
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Jacqueline Maurer (born 1984 in Aarau, Switzerland) is a scholar and film critic. In her research, she examines interrelations between film, architecture, urbanism, and landscape.
Jacqueline studied art history and German philology at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and at University College London (United Kingdom). In 2021, she received her PhD from the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. While working on her dissertation, she was a research fellow at various institutions, including La Fémis – École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image et du Son in Paris (France), the German Center for Art History in Paris (France), and the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton in London (United Kingdom).
Since August 2023, Jacqueline has been a resident at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Italy). She is currently working on her postdoc-project tentatively titled Italienische Landschaften als spezifische und universelle Erzählräume im Gegenwartskino (Italian Landscapes as Particular and Universal Narrative Spaces in Contemporary Cinema)
Research Project
Schweizer Landschaften im Kino (Swiss Landscapes in Films): An Online Exhibition
In her fellowship project, Jacqueline Maurer created the Schweizer Landschaften im Kino online exhibition: a continuously-updated website focusing on documentary and feature films in which rural landscapes in Switzerland play a leading role.
The development of this mapped, illustrated, and commented-upon collection initiated an inter- and transdisciplinary exploration of rural landscapes both on location and through the medium of film. To enable an interdisciplinary exchange, Jacqueline has also been interviewing practitioners and researchers—such as film directors, architects, historians, and geographers. The website serves as a platform for everyone interested in aesthetic, cultural, ecological, economic, historical, political, and social dimensions related to a holistic understanding of landscapes via cinema. In addition to her fellowship, Jacqueline also curated film series and served on juries for film festivals.
Research Interests:
Film history; geography; history; landscapes