Kathleen Loock is a postdoctoral researcher at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Her research focuses on Hollywood’s remaking practice, seriality, and the role memory and cultural repetition perform on the level of identity formation and imagined collectivization. She is author of Kolumbus in den USA (Transcript-Verlag, 2014), a book that studies the commemorative constructions and deconstructions of Christopher Columbus in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Her other publications include the co-edited collection Film Remakes, Adaptations, and Fan Productions (with Constantine Verevis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and several special issues: Serial Narratives (LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2014), Exploring Film Seriality (Film Studies, co-edited with Frank Krutnik, 2017), and American TV Series Revivals (Television & New Media, 2018).
