Dr Caroline V. Schroeter

Dr Caroline V. Schroeter is a PhD researcher and recipient of the University College Cork Celtic Studies, Arts and Social Studies PhD Excellency Scholarship. Currently, she is working in a full position as a University Language Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Culture at University College Cork.

She received a Master of Arts degree at Clark University in Boston in English Language, Literature and Linguistics and a second MA in English, psychology and anthropology at Trier University in Germany. Caroline is also a certified teacher for English and German as a Foreign Language and has taught at different institutes around the world for the last 13 years. In the past four years, she has taught BA and MA level at UCC’s School of English, the Department of Film and Screen Media and is currently a full-time College Language Lecturere at the Department of German at UCC.

Her most recent publications are entitled “From Griffith to Parker: Constructing and reconstructing race and the history of the US South in The Birth of a Nation (1915–2016)” (Kentucky UP) and “Racism and Slavery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries” (Greenwood Imprint). Caroline’s research focuses on North American literature and film, cinematic education, African American representation, audience reception, race, gender and identity.

For the last 1,5 years, she was the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Aigne Journal and is currently an Editorial Board member and editor of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Caroline has organized several national and international conferences for Irish Association for American Studies, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and University College Cork. Currently, she is working on a book project exploring the genre of cinematic slave narratives.

Research interests: North American literature and film, mediation/mediatisation, cinematic education, African American representation in cinema, modern and historical slavery, slavery, slave narratives, public awareness raising, anti-racism / anti-discrimination, activism through film, audience reception, cinematic and televisual representation, online and offline communication strategies, gender, identity and ethnicity in film, adaptation theory, African-American literary theory (Signifyin(g)), auteurship theory, Schreiber Theory, the role of the filmmaker, audience reception

Other research Interests: digital learning, social media in the classroom, education and politics, translation, academic expression and writing, second language acquisition, bilingualism, forensic linguistics, intercultural communication