Peter Hintz

Peter Hintz

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Junior Assistant Professor for American Cultural History)

GWZ
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 3.5.01
04107 Leipzig

Telephone: +49 341 973 7336

I received my B.A. in American Studies and Philosophy and my M.A. in American Studies from the University of Leipzig. I have been a lecturer, Ph.D. candidate, and research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute for American Studies since 2023. At the institute, I teach in the undergraduate SHP (social history) track as well as in the graduate practical skills module iCAN (aspeers).

Very broadly speaking, my research is located in the field of US cultural history, investigating histories of masculinity, the body, and emotion in twentieth-century America. In my Ph.D. project, I am interested in the gendered, embodied, and culturally mediated dimensions of the development of discourses of ‘care’ in post-1960s US society----particularly the ways in which these discourses were negotiated in 1970s ‘New Hollywood’ cinema. Probably triggered by my lifelong enthusiasm for cycling and alpinism, I also have a growing interest in the global history of sports and its intersection with processes of decolonization during the twentieth century.

Apart from that, I have been working as a literary critic and commentator for various German media (e.g., 54books, DLF Kultur) since 2019.

Upcoming

“Affektgemeinschaften von Blut und Sorge: Der US-Kriegsheimkehrerfilm der 1970er Jahre im zeitgenössischen Diskurs um die männliche Pflegekrise,” 15th Conference of the Working Group AIM Gender, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 13 Dec. 2024.

Recent

“Ostflimmern: Wir Wende-Millennials,” Literarischer Herbst: Leipziger Festival für Literatur, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, 22 Oct. 2024. Panel Discussion.

“Nostalgic Americanism and the Psychedelic World: The ‘New Hollywood’ as Cinema of Globalization,” Workshop American Globalization Projects, SFB 1199 Leipzig, 11 Jul. 2024.

Review of Das Private in der Sicherheitsgesellschaft: Umstrittene Freiheitsrechte in den USA 1963–1977, by B.J. Neuroth, H-Soz-Kult, 9 Apr. 2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-140733.

“Reconsidering the ‘Me Decade’: 1970s Caring Masculinity as Cultural History,” Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA, Erfurt University, 4 May 2024.

“Wie kann man heute über den Osten schreiben?,” Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 30 Mar. 2023. Panel Discussion.

“'How Patricia Highsmith Became Hip': Anmerkungen zur Highsmith-Industrie der Gegenwart,” Kriminalerzählungen der Gegenwart: Zur Ästhetik und Ethik einer Leitgattung, ed. Sandra Beck, Rombach Wissenschaft, 2022, pp. 61-77.

“Introduction to Historical Discourse Analysis” (BA-level; WS 2020/21)

iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2021/22)

iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2022/23)

“American Masculinities since 1945” (BA-level; SS 2023)

“African-American History since the Civil War” (BA-level; WS 2023/24)

“Terror in American History and Culture” (BA-level; SS 2024)

iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2024/25)

Find my regular literary essays and criticism at 54books. Feel free to subscribe to my (irregularly updated) Substack newsletter on contemporary cultural history and politics.