Danny Pinto is a joint PhD student in the Departments of Germanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies. Prior to joining the department in 2021, he studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in German and a Certificate in Latin American Studies in 2020.
Danny’s work encompasses media-theoretical, film-historical, and literary methods, largely centered around the media and migrant cultures of the GDR, as well as the German literary canon of the 18th-20th centuries. At the University of Chicago, he organizes an ongoing departmental screening series with Nat Modlin, and was awarded the Film Studies Center Grad Student Curatorial Program Grant for the October 2023 US premiere of the film Death Camp Sachsenhausen; he is also the winner of the 2023 DEFA Film Library Graduate Student Essay Prize on East German Cinema.
