Anke Hennig is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 'Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits' and teaches at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the author of" Sowjetische Kinodramaturgie. Konfliktlinien zwischen Literatur und Film in der Sowjetunion der 1930er Jahre", a media history of Soviet Cinematic Dramaturgy published in 2010.