Javier Gago Holzscheiter
Javier Gago Holzscheiter is a lecturer at IfEK at the University of Bremen. The focus of his teaching is on everything audible and its mediation through various media. With the term ethnophonography, he has developed a method for exploring the world through the sense of hearing and “acoustemology” by means of sound and speech.
In 2020, he completed his doctorate at the University of Bremen with a thesis on Ballarò. A market of cultures in Sicily – The radio feature as ethnophonography. He had previously completed his Master of Arts, Magister Artium, on the topic The spatial turn in cultural studies – A spatialization of Sicily in the Mediterranean. With these studies, he is both an italianist and a cultural studies scholar.
He studied, lived and researched in Bremen, Rome and Palermo. He is currently working in Italy, Spain and Scandinavia.
In addition to seminars providing a basic introduction to cultural studies, he has led seminars on culture and business. His focus today is on sound. He also sees his teaching as a continuation of the defunct Campus Radio Bremen. New ideas about radio, especially in the form of the popular and versatile podcast culture, are central to his media-critical teaching.
Courses such as The Sense of Hearing, Sensory Studies: Focus Sound or The Radio Feature as Ethnography pursue the central ideas of research-based learning, in which students gain experience in media practice and theory as well as in ethnographic research.
In addition, he supervises bachelor theses with a focus on the Mediterranean and, in another seminar, critically examines the Images of the South or Our lawning for the Mediterranean from a film studies perspective.
Holzscheiter, Javier Gago (2020). Ballarò. Ein Markt der Kulturen in Sizilien. Das Radiofeature als Ethnophonographie, Bremen.
Various radio works for Radio Bremen and Deutschlandfunk