Christina Schmitt is a publications manager at Freie Universität Berlin since 2020, initially at the Center for Advanced Film Studies "Cinepoetics. Poetologies of Audiovisual Images", and since summer 2024 at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective".

She studied theatre studies, film studies, media and communication studies as well as modern German literature at Freie Universität Berlin. She was research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" in the transdisciplinary project "Multimodal Metaphor and Expressive Movement" (2009–2013) and at the Center for Advanced Film Studies "Cinepoetics" (2016–2024), where she was also programme coordinator (2016–2019).

Monograph

Wahrnehmen, fühlen, verstehen. Metaphorisieren und audiovisuelle Bilder. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2020. 

Edited Volumes

Material & Method: The Video Essay. mediaesthetics 5 (2024).
(with Matthias Grotkopp)

Emotionen. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler 2019. 
(with Hermann Kappelhoff, Jan-Hendrik Bakels and Hauke Lehmann)

Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Framework. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018. 
(with Sarah Greifenstein, Dorothea Horst, Thomas J.J. Scherer, Hermann Kappelhoff and Cornelia Müller)

Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication. mediaesthetics 2 (2017).
(with Matthias Grotkopp)

Collaboration

Cornelia Müller and Hermann Kappelhoff: Cinematic Metaphor. Experience – Affectivity – Temporality. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018.
(with Sarah Greifenstein, Dorothea Horst and Thomas J.J. Scherer)

Articles

“Into the wild? Film studies and transitions into ‘openness’”, Open-Media-Studies-Blog, Vol. 4 (2021). Workshop report by KFG Cinepoetics and the AG Open Media Studies (GfM).
(with Alena Horbelt, Maximilian Grenz, Sarah-Mai Dang, Matthias Grotkopp, Franziska Heller, Anna-Luise Kiss and Eileen Rositzka)

Part 1: “An introduction & open publication I: first movers” (11 May 2021)

Part 2: “Open publication II: politics and practices in transition” (19 May 2021)

Part 3: “Further routes of film studies and transitions into ‘openness’ – dissemination, open data, citizen research and participation” (26 May 2021)

“Audio-visual metaphors of the financial crisis: meaning making and the flow of experience”. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada / Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics 15.2 (2015) (= Special Issue: Metaphor and Metonymy in Social Practices, edited by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Luciane Corrêa Ferreira), pp. 311–341. 
(with Cornelia Müller)

Book chapters

“What’s going on between those ears? Skizzen zu Pop und Popkultur als Erfahrungsbereiche in Edgar Wrights BABY DRIVER”. In: Im Verwandeln der Zeit. Reflexionen über filmische Bilder. Edited by Regina Brückner, Bernhard Groß, Matthias Grotkopp and Eileen Rositzka. Berlin: Vorwerk 8 2019, pp. 305–319.

“Embodied meaning in audio-visuals: first steps towards a notion of mode”. In: Building Bridges for Multimodal Research. International Perspectives on Theories and Practices of Multimodal Analysis. Edited by Janina Wildfeuer. Bern/New York: Peter Lang 2015, pp. 309–325. 

In: Body – Language – Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Volume 2 (= Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2). Edited by Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke et al., Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2014:

“Cinematic communication and embodiment”, pp. 2061–2070. 
(with Sarah Greifenstein)

“Expressive movement and metaphoric meaning making in audio-visual media”, pp. 2092–2112. 
(with Sarah Greifenstein and Hermann Kappelhoff)

“Gesture as interactive expressive movement: Inter-affectivity in face-to-face communication”, pp. 2112–2125.
(with Dorothea Horst, Franziska Boll and Cornelia Müller)