Simon Spiegel

Simon Spiegel, born 1977 in Basel, Switzerland, is a lecturer at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich and Privatdozent at the University of Bayreuth.

From 2019 to 2021 he was scientific research manager in the ERC Advanced Grant research project «FilmColors» and from 2014 to 2018 he was a collaborator in the research project «Alternative Worlds. The Political-activist Documentary Film» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation which resulted in his professorial thesis on utopias in nonfiction films (published 2019 with Schüren as «Bilder einer besseren Welt», translated as «Utopias in Nonfiction Film» with Palgrave Macmillan in 2021).

He is chief editor of the interdisciplinary «Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung».