Barbara Wolfram

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Film and Television, Film Academy Vienna, mdw, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2025-2026).
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wolfram-b@mdw.ac.at
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Research interests: Cultural sociology of film and visual media; Narrative production and collaborative storytelling; Biographical-documentary and autosociobiographical methods in artistic research; Social class and family in cultural and biographical narratives; Socio-political dimensions of film production and reception; Gender, diversity, and representation in film. 


Bio: Barbara Wolfram is a filmmaker and film scholar with a background in psychology. Her work explores (auto)biographical experiences of social class, both in film practice and theory. Born and raised in Vienna, she earned her PhD at the Film Academy Vienna/mdw after completing her master’s degree at the University of Vienna. Research and teaching residencies have taken her to ENS Louis-Lumière and EHESS in Paris, HDK-Valand Academy in Gothenburg, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her recent short films Walter L. and Diamond and Narcissus are currently on the festival circuit, distributed by Lemonade Films and sixpackfilm. In her upcoming Austrian Science Fund project, she will explore the cinematic depiction of rural masculinities.

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last updated 12.28.2025)