Emily Dreyfus is a cultural historian of Cinema, Visual Studies and Music and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam.

Her research interests include the ideological and aesthetic dimensions of art-music in classical European cinema, culture and society; international landscapes of film production and distribution in the Fascist era; and the medium of comics in memory cultures.

Publications include “Wagner, Canned” in 19th-Century Music and “From Stereotype to Sample. Beethoven on Screen” in Beethoven in Context, eds. Glenn Stanley and John Wilson, Cambridge University Press (in print).

She has taught at the University of Chicago, the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin, the Film University Babelsberg and the University of Potsdam.

Beyond academia, Emily enjoys a performance career as a violinist and violist.