Ursula Ganz-Blätter

Affiliation

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Seminar

During the ACS Summer Institute 2011, Ursula Ganz-Blätter will organize two seminars:
- Casted for Life?
- What Time's Got to Do With It. Storytelling and Popular Culture

About

Ursula Ganz-Blaettler (º1958) holds a PhD in Medieval History and a Habilitation (the German equivalent of academic "license to teach") in Film and Television Studies. Before venturing into an academic career she was a journalist and free-lance film and television critic. She is currently teaching Popular Culture in Fribourg, Lugano, Lucerne and St.Gall (Switzerland) as well as in Hildesheim (Germany). Her competencies lie within the following fields: editorial strategies in audiovisual media, the narrative use of backstories within popular media, the reality modes of reality shows, and collaborative storytelling within social media. When not teaching or writing she is working on her first documentary film project.