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Dr. Sarah-Mai Dang

This is a picture of Sarah-Mai. She is wearing a yellow and white striped t-shirt. She is smiling.
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Affiliation & Contact

Philipps-Universität Marburg
Profile (Institute of Media Studies)
E-Mail: sarah-mai.dang[at]uni-marburg.de
Personal Website: oabooks.de
Twitter: @SarahMaiDang
Mastodon: @SarahMaiDang@fedihum.org

Research Areas

Digital Methods in Film History, Data Visualization, Research Data Management, Feminist Theory, Open Access/Open Science, Audiovisual Media, Film Theory and Film Aesthetics

Biography

Sarah-Mai Dang is Principal Investigator of the BMBF research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) (2021-2025). Additionally, she is the Project Leader of the international DFG research network "New Directions in Film Historiography" (2019-2022). With a doctoral degree in Film Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and a Master of Arts from the University of Michigan, her current research and teaching focuses on digital data visualization, research data management, film historiography, feminist theory, open access/open science, and the production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Based on her research interests, she founded the hybrid self-publishing project oa books, where she published her dissertation on aesthetic experience, feminist theory and chick flicks and blogs about academic publishing. She also translated her dissertation into English and published it with Palgrave Macmillan. Furthermore, she was fellow of the "Open Science Fellows Program" (funded by Wikimedia, Stifterverband, VolkswagenStiftung) and initiated the Open Media Studies Blog (ZfM) and the Open Media Studies working groug (GfM). She holds numerous posts, including member of the Scientific Advisory Board of adlr.link.

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