Sabine Doran

Sabine Doran specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature and culture, film and film theory, media studies, art history, and Jewish studies. She pursued her doctoral studies at Stanford University (Visiting Researcher 1996-1999) and at the Free University of Berlin (Ph.D., 2004). She has taught at Oberlin College (2003-04) and at the University of California, Riverside (2004-14), where she was Director of the German Program.

Her first book, _The Culture of Yellow, or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity_ (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), explores the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color of stigma and scandal.

Her work traces the relation between literature and the visual arts (film, painting, video, plastic art), in terms of the genetic and figural connections between aesthetics, politics, and history, as can be seen in her recent articles: “The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Cinema in Raoul Ruiz’s Three Crowns of the Sailor” (Postcolonial Cinema, Routledge, 2012); “Writing van Gogh through Francis Bacon: Mayroecker’s Non-Human Aesthetics” (Gegenwartsliteratur, 2011); and “Synaesthesia in European Film Theory” (European Film Theory, Routledge, 2009). She is currently working on a book on synaesthesia.