Kyle Frackman

Wall Associate

Title

Associate Professor

Department/School

Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies

Faculty

Arts

University

UBC

Geographic Location

Canada
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Kyle Frackman

Dr. Kyle Frackman has a doctorate in German Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on 18th to 20th-century literature, film and music as well as feminist and gender theory, queer studies, and cultural studies.

Research projects currently include a study of German local/regional crime fiction, examinations of the reception and uses of classical music in East German film, analyses of German cinematic portrayals and discourses of transsexuality, and the experiences of gay men in East Germany. Other research topics have included German language instruction and curricular reform, Scandinavian visual art, early German sexological theory, Turkish-German identity and boarding school literature.

Primary Recipient Awards

Kyle Frackman – Early Career Scholar Start-Up Research Grant – 2013