Carolin Heymann-Serota completed a Master of Arts in Theater, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main between October 2017 and September 2023. During this time, from August 2018 to May 2019, she served as a Visiting Assistant in Research (VAR) at the German Department of Yale University in New Haven, USA.

Previously, Carolin Heymann-Serota earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, Film and Media Studies with a minor in Business Administration from Goethe University Frankfurt, studying from October 2012 to February 2018.

Her academic work has been supported by scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES). Additionally, from April 2018 to September 2020, she served as a founding member of the Association of Jewish Students in Hesse (VJSH).

• Modern Jewish History of Central Europe, especially German speaking countries
• History of Jewish Emancipation(s)
• Jewish (Self-)Representation in and of the Shoah throughout different forms of media
• Jewish (Self-)Representation in Literature, TV and Film
• Jewish Collecting

Wem gehört der Körper? Der Terror der Hamas, Bilder sexualisierter Gewalt gegen Frauen und die Frage der Zeugenschaft, in: Die Macht der Projektion und der 7. Oktober: antiisraelische Obsessionen als Weltwahrnehmung, 1. Auflage, edited by Doron Kiesel and Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin & Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich 2025.

Freud’s Uncanny and the Proscenium Stage. Thoughts on The Ego in Theater, in: Thewis, Ausgabe 6, 2017, URL: https://www.theater-wissenschaft.de/miszellen-freuds-uncannyand-the-proscenium-stage.