Professor Majer O'Sickey joined SUNY Binghamton in 1991. She teaches German Cinema (all periods), German literature (20th Century), Feminist Film Theory, and German Language Acquisition. In addition to teaching in the German Studies Program, Professor Majer O'Sickey serves as associated faculty in the Women's Studies Program and the Translation Research and Instruction Program at Binghamton University. Majer O'Sickey is the recipient of several research awards (National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright German Studies Seminar), and she received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from Binghamton University (2002). Professor Majer O'Sickey is a frequent lecturer on German film and film theory at conferences and universities in the U.S. and in Europe. She is currently completing a monograph that studies the representation of women in films of the Nazi era (forthcoming with Berghahn Books in winter 2004/5).

Selected publications

Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema (co-editor: I. von Zadow). Albany: SUNY University Press, 1998

Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar (co-editor: Judith Holland Sarnecki). Forthcoming with Fairleigh Dickinson Press, winter 2004.

"It was Murder: Who framed Malina?" In: Ingeborg Bachmann. Views and Reviews. Ed. Gisela Brinker-Gabler. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Verlag (forthcoming: winter 2004).

"Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets (Or Does She?): Time and Desire in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run." In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, May 15, 2002.

"Representing Blackness: Instrumentalizing Race and Gender in R. W. Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun." In: Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 17 (winter 2001): 15-29.

"Cinematic Ciphers: Potsdamer Platz, Berlin." In: German Politics and Society, Issue 61 Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2001.

"Staging Fables of Identity: Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality in Percy Adlon's Salmonberries. Special Issue on German Film, Seminar, Vol 34 (1997).

"Framing the unheimlich: Heimatfilm and Bambi." In: Germanness and Gender. Eds. M. Mueller and P. Herminghouse. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997.

"Europa Europa: On the Borders of Vergangenheitsverdrängung and Vergangenheitsbewältigung" (co-authored with Annette Van). Perspectives on German Cinema: Critical Interventions. Eds. Terri Ginsberg and Kirsten Thompson. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. 231-250.

"Jewish Women in the Diaspora," translation with a critical introduction to Gabriele Kreis' chapter two of Frauen im Exil. Home-making: Politics and Poetics in Contemporary Women's Writing. Eds. C. Wiley and Fiona Barnes. New York: Garland, 1996.

"The Narratives of Desire in Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin." Narrative and Culture, Eds. J. Carlisle and D. R. Schwarz. Athens, Georgia: Georgia University Press, 1994. 143-159.

"The Aesthetic Commodification of Femininity in Barbie Magazine." On Fashion, Eds. Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. 21-40.

Selection of Course Offerings
"Art or Propaganda? The Leni Riefenstahl Case" (GERM241)
"Berlin-Hollywood: Grrrls and Cinema" (GERM380)
"Contemporary German Literature" (GERM241).
"Digital Revolution in Cinema" (GERM380)
"German Cinema from 1895 to 2000" (GERM241)
"Film and Society: Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Class" (GERM380)
"Growing Up Female: Girls and Visual Cultures" (GERM241)
"Introduction to German Language and Culture" (GERM101/102)
"Practicum of College Teaching" (GERM291).
"Women and the Holocaust: Gender, Memory, and Representation" (GERM380)
"Women in Nazi Cinema" (GERM242)
"Theories of Film and Theatre: Bertolt Brecht" (GERM380)