Dr. Stephanie Seul
Research Associate
Vita
Dr. Stephanie Seul is an historian and a tenured research associate at Deutsche Presseforschung (German Press Research) in the Department of Cultural Studies. She studied History, Art History and German Literature at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and holds an M.Phil. in European Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK. Moreover, she earned a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2014, she was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Humanities at the University of Trento in Italy. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
Stephanie Seul is a co-editor of the journal Media History (Taylor&Francis) and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Journalism History (Taylor&Francis) and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Cambridge University Press).
Research areas
Her areas of expertise are the history of media and communication, international and transnational history, the history of war, the history of the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich”, Jewish history, and women’s history. Above all, her research focuses on the intersection between international/transnational history and the history of media and communication in the era of the two World Wars.
Research project
Stephanie Seul is currently researching the biography of the forgotten American journalist Avis Waterman (1882 – 1939). During the First World War, she reported as the only woman war correspondent of The Times from the Italian front in the Trentino and along the river Isonzo. Research for the project is being carried out in numerous archives in Italy, Britain, France and the United States, as well as in a variety of digital (newspaper) archives from different countries.
Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)
- Review of: Norman Domeier: Weltöffentlichkeit und Diktatur: Die amerikanischen Auslandskorrespondenten im „Dritten Reich“. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2021.. H-Soz-Kult
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-98832 - “The Jewish Weekly ‘Jüdische Rundschau’ During the First World War.”. Diversity Essay Series, Journalism History. Journalim History
https://journalism-history.org/2022/09/12/diversity-essay-the-jewish-weekly-judische-rundschau-during-the-first-world-war/ - Stephanie Seul (2021). Transcending Boundaries: Daily Express Correspondent Annie Christitch’s Reporting from First World War Serbia. TMG Journal for Media History. 24 (1-2). 1. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
https://doi.org/10.18146%2Ftmg.791 - Review of: Heidi J.S. Tworek: News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2019.. German Studies Review 43,1 (2020), pp. 179-81
https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2020.0016 - German Antisemitism and the International Press during the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933.. European Holocaust Studies1 (2019), pp. 221-31.
- Women War Reporters. In: Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (eds.), 1914-1918 Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2019.
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/women_war_reporters - “For a German Audience We Do Not Use Appeals for Sympathy on Behalf of Jews as a Propaganda Line”: The BBC German Service and the Holocaust.. In: Simon Eliot and Marc Wiggam (eds.), Allied Communication to the Public during the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. 131-48
- The Absence of “Kristallnacht” and Its Aftermath in BBC German-language Broadcasts during 1938–1939.. In: Wolf Gruner and Steven J. Ross (eds.), New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, vol. 17). West Lafayette, Indiana: Perdue University Press, pp. 171-93
- Review of: Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell: Propaganda & Persuasion: Seventh Edition. Los Angeles et al.: Sage 2019.. Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 21 (2019), p. 217
- Review of: Kaarle Nordenstreng, Ulf Jonas Björk, Frank Beyersdorf, Svennik Høyer, and Epp Lauk: A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.. European Journal of Communication 33,2 (2018), pp. 234-36.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323118761090
