Presentations
Lukas Hellmuth, M. A.
Conference Papers
“From the Horrors of Feeling Alone to the Horrors of Feeling at Home: Midsommar, Alternative Kinships, and Homonationalism.” (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions. 34th Annual PGF Conference of the GAAS/DGfA. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, November 2024.
"In Search for Alternatives: Queer Theorizing, Affect, and the Horror Film." Narrative, Environment, Social Justice: 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Austria), October 2022.
"Constructing Same-Sex Feelings from Homer to Today: Love and Visibility in Madeleine Miller's The Song of Achilles." Globalized (Neo)Classicisms? Uses of Antiquity in Contemporary World Literatures. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi (India), December 2020.
"On the Possibility of a Female Gaze in Contemporary Photography." Feminisms 2018: Symposium at the Siebold Collegium. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, July 2018.
Guest Lectures
“Screening Drag: Camp Performance, Cultural Mainstreaming, and (De)Politicization.” Guest lecture in the seminar Camp and Screen Cultures. Greifswald University, December 2025.
“Dost thou really live deliciously? Robert Eggers’ The Witch.” Guest lecture in the seminar Home Sweet Home? Wilderness and Civilization in American Horror Films. Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (Austria), June 2023.
“Of Monsters and Men: Horror at the Intersection of Film and Identity.” Guest lecture in the lecture series Gender and American Studies: Intersectional Perspectives. Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (Austria), May 2022.
