Assistant Professor of German and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University. Her current book project reassesses technological reproducibility based on a sweeping emergence of hands in European modernism. Her publications include an essay on Paul Valéry and Walter Benjamin, a reflection on the linguistics of vampirism as well as an article on the manipulative hands of Fritz Lang´s Dr. Mabuse (Screen, Spring 2023). Regina serves on the editorial board of RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse. Her fellowships include KWI (Essen) and the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald.