Academic Career - Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik

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Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Curriculum Vitae and list of publications
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Department of English and American Studies
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
07743 Jena
+493641-944500
[email protected]
Experience
Since 2010
assistant professor for American Studies, department of English and
American Studies, University of Jena (chair Prof. Caroline Rosenthal)
2007-2009
research assistant, English Department, University of Heidelberg
(chair Prof. Vera Nünning)
2007- 2008
Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education (Baden-Württemberg Zertifikat
für Hochschuldidaktik HDZ)
2006-2007
teacher of English and French at Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg
Education
2009
doctorate exam, University of Heidelberg, doctorate thesis: “‘Just the
Two of Us:’ Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American
Novel”
2009/2010
Shakespeare Study Courses in Stratford upon Avon, GB
2005
double degree (M.A. degree and first state teacher’s degree), University of
Trier, M.A. thesis: “Functions of the body in Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz”
2002-2003
international visiting student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1999-2005
studies of English and French philology and pedagogy, University of
Trier
Grants and Awards
10/2015
good practice- award (teaching), for “The Canadian West in the Literary
and Cultural Imagination” (Seminar with Exkursion), FSU Jena
07/2013
Excursion funding from Ernst-Abbe Projektstiftung, German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), FSU Alumni association
09/2012-02/2013
Postdoctoral research grant, German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)
German Research Fellowship, Library of Congress, Kluge Center, for
postdoctoral research
06/2012
Publication grant for the proceedings of “Fake Identities? Impostors,
ConMen, Wannabes”, American Consulate Leipzig and Association for
Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)
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05/2012
Fellowship, BAA Summer Academy 2012, Washington, DC
04/2012
Conference funding for the symposium “Fake Identities? Impostors,
ConMen, Wannabes”, Association for Canadian Studies in Germanspeaking Countries (GKS)
04/2012
“Library Support Program” for Canadiana at the Jena University
Library ThULB (with Caroline Rosenthal)
08/2011
Research Grant for postdoctoral research at Harvard University,
University of Jena
06/2010
Publication grant, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für
Geisteswissenschaften
2008/2009
Conference and publication funding for project “Learning 9/11: Key
competencies in higher education”, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik
Baden-Württemberg,
06/2009
“Best practice” award, higher education certificate, Zentrum
Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg
2008/2009
Conference and publication funding for project “‘Hello, I say, It’s
Me:’(Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and
Culture,” Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
04/2007
Fellowship, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy
2002-2003
International Study Exchange Program (ISEP) scholarship for
undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota
Research Interests
“Body for the Nation: The Yankee in 19th Century American Literature and Culture”
(Habilitation/second book project)
American popular culture, gender and visual media
Life-writing and autobiography theory
Teaching literature and culture in the university classroom
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Publications
Monograph
‘Just the Two of Us:’ Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel. Trier:
WVT, 2011.
Editorship
1. Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Co-edited with Caroline
Rosenthal. Frankfurt/Main, New York: Campus, 2014.
2.
Learning 9/11: Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with
Irina Bauder-Begerow, Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
3. ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture.
co-edited with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter, Trier: WVT, 2009.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
1. “Phenomenal Woman: Michelle Obama’s Embodied Rhetoric and the Cultural Work
of Fashion Biographies.” Amerikastudien /American Studies 60.2 (2016) (forthcoming)
2. “The Calgary Stampede through a Cultural Studies Perspective: A Teaching Project.”
In: Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies 16.1 (2016): 48-57. Special issue on the Calgary
Stampede, ed. Brian Rusted (with Caroline Rosenthal)
3. “Plantation Spaces and the Black Body: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as
Maroon Narrative.” Black Studies Papers 1.1 (2014): 167-187.
4.
“‘Recognition Is a Form of Agreement:’ The workings of self-narration in The
Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man.” American Studies/Amerikastudien 57.4 (2012):
603-626. special issue on recognition, ed. Winfried Fluck.
5. “From Gender Trouble to the Ethics of Recognition: Judith Butler and Her Critics.”
LWU 4 (2006): 299-317.
Articles
1. “John Neal and the Problem of American Romanticism.” Reading the Canon. Literary
History in the 21st Century. Ed. Philipp Löffler. Heidelberg, Winter, 2016. (accepted for
publication)
2. “(Un)Settling North America: They Yankee in the Writings of John Neal and Thomas
Chandler Haliburton.” Traveling Traditions: 19th-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic
Intellectual Networks. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. 231-246.
3. “Introduction.” In Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Hg.
Caroline Rosenthal und Stefanie Schäfer. Frankfurt/Main, New York: Campus, 2014.
11-23. (with Caroline Rosenthal)
4. “‘Forever friends:’ Der stage yankee als Reflexionsfigur für das junge Amerika.”
Empathie, Sympathie und Narration: Strategien der Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film.
Ed. Caroline Lusin. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 105-120.
5. “Paul Haggis: Crash.” Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke
et al. Trier: WVT, 2013. 179-198.
6.
“Personal Epics? A Reflection on Genre and the Making of Heroes.” Elle s’étend,
l’épopée. Relecture et ouverture du corpus épique / The Epic Expands.Rereading and Widening the
Epic Corpus. Ed. Vincent Dussol. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2012. 323-342.
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7. “Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding’s The Lion of the West.” Transnational
American Studies. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 183-205.
8. “Das Leben im Kopf: Überlegungen zu einer rezeptionsorientierten Narratologie der
Biographik.” Literatur als Lebensgeschichte. Biographisches Erzählen von der Moderne bis zur
Gegenwart. Ed. Peter Braun and Bernd Stiegler. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 269-287.
9. “‘I Was a Loose End:’ Narrative Self-fashioning and Ethical Encounters in
Contemporary American Fiction.” Ethik – Anerkennung – Gerechtigkeit. Philosophische,
literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Ed. Alexandra Böhm, Antje Kley and Mark
Schönleben. München: Fink, 2011. 201-216.
10. “Introduction.” Learning 9/11. Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies.
Ed. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Stefanie Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter. 2011. 7-25. (with
Irina Bauder-Begerow)
11. “Birth By Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Autobiographical Fiction.” The Aesthetics
and Politics of Cultural Worldmaking. Ed. Ansgar Nünning, Vera Nünning and Birgit
Neumann. Trier: WVT, 2010. 105-117.
12. “Introduction: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and
Culture.” ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and
Culture. Ed. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT,
2009. 1-12. (with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter)
13. “‘Looking Back, You Do Not Find What You Left Behind:’ Postcolonial Subjectivity
and the Role of Memory in White Teeth and The Inheritance of Loss.” ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’
(Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Jan
Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, 2009. 112-132.
14. “Geraldine Brooks: March.” Hot Off the Press: Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane aus
dem neuen Jahrhundert: Ein Lesebuch zur zeitgenössischen US-Kultur. Ed. Dietmar Schloss and
Heiko Jakubzik. Trier: WVT, 2009. 60-69.
15. “Lern- und Memorierungstechniken.” Schlüsselkompetenzen. Qualifikationen für Studium in
Beruf. Ed. Vera Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 140-149.
Reviews
1. Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar (Ed.). Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American
Travelogues and Fiction. In: Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien ZKS 35(2015): 163-165.
2. Kloeckner, Christian, Simone Knewitz and Sabine Sielke (Eds.). Beyond 9/11.
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. In: Anglia.
Anglia. 132.4 4 (2014): 856–859.
3. Engler, Bernd and Guenther Leypoldt (Eds.). American Cultural Icons. The Production of
Representative Lives. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.1 (2013): 167-168.
4. Bieger, Laura, Annika Reich, Susanne Rohr (Eds.) Mode. Ein kulturwissenschaftlicher
Grundriss. In: ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61.2 (2013): 202-204.
5. Hornung, Alfred (Hg). Auto/Biography and Mediation. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies
57.3 (2012): 512-513.
6. Waldow, Stefanie (Ed.). Ethik im Gespräch. Autorinnen und Autoren über das Verhältnis von
Literatur und Ethik heute. Bielefeld, transcript, 2011. In: Anglistik 23.2 (2012): 207-209.
Encyclopedia Entries
In Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon, ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. 3rd, revised and updated editionStuttgart [et al.]: Metzler, 2009.
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 Bainbridge, Beryl. Every Man For Himself. (novel)
 Brooks, Geraldine. March. (novel)
 Gray, Simon, Otherwise Engaged. (drama)
 Lawrence, D. H.. „Das essayistische Werk.“ [The essays]
 Naipaul. V. S . „Die Reiseberichte.“ [The Travelogues, with Simon Cooke]
 Pratchett, Terry. „Das erzählerische Werk. Die Scheibenwelt-Romane“ [The
Discworld novels]
 Wiebe, Rudy. The Scorched-Wood People. (novel)
Conference Papers and Guest Lectures
1. “The Law, Incorporated: Embodiments of Legal Agents in North America”―
Workshop moderation GAAS annual conference 2016 “The United States and the
Question of Law”, Universität Osnabrück (with Alexandra Ganser).
2.
“The First Lady: Feminism, Fashion, and National Womanhood.” ― guest lecture,
Kühne Logistics University Hamburg, February 19, 2016.
3. “Michelle Obama, American Icon: The Cultural Work of Fashion Biographies.” ―
guest lecture, Leuphana University Lüneburg, November 20, 2014.
4. Visiting Professor, Erasmus Staff Exchange, University Naples l’Orientale, November
3-7, 2014.
5. “National Landscapes, Romantic Crosscurrents: The Uses of Nature in Revolution
Narratives by James Fenimore Cooper and John Neal.” ― conference paper, GAAS
Annual Conference 2014, workshop “American Romanticism and the Politicization of
Nature”, University of Würzburg, June 12-15, 2014.
6. “(En)Gendering the Nation: Allegories of the US from Columbia to Uncle Sam.” –
“Coding Gender in Romance Cultures.” Opening of the Interdisciplinary Research
Seminar “Coding Gender”, University of Leipzig, May 30, 2014.
7. “Transatlantic Kinship Between Colony and Nation: John Neal and Thomas Chandler
Haliburton.” ― paper at international conference “Travelling Traditions: NineteenthCentury Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks”
University of Halle-Wittenberg, April
8. “Django Unchained- A Study in Space and Genre.” ― guest lecture, University of
Bremen, November 15, 2013.
9. “Literaturgeschichte schreiben heute” ― panelist, interdisciplinary podium on literary
historiography, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, June 5, 2013.
10. “Django in Candieland: Plantation Landscapes and the Western in Quentin
Tarantino’s Django Unchained” ― conference paper at GAAS Annual Conference 2013,
“Rural America”, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, May 30 – June 2, 2013.
11. “Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, and the Yankee” ― guest lecture, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, February 15, 2013.
12. “Jonathan Going South: The Yankee and the Making of American National
Character” ― Kluge Fellowship Lecture, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress,
Washington DC, February 7, 2013.
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13. “The Yankee and the Making of American National Character” ― guest lecture,
University of Pennsylvania, Altoona. January 17, 2013.
14. “Indigenous Drama” ― Workshop at “Imagine Canada Day- Introducing Canadian
Studies at FSU Jena”, Jena, Jun 21 2012.
15. “Theories of American Autobiography / Theorizing American Autobiography” ―
Workshop moderated at GAAS Annual Conference 2012, “American Lives,”
University of Mainz, May 31 2012.
16. “Yankee democracy? Canon Formation and the Struggle for Cultural Independence”;
― BAA Summer Academy 2012, German Historical Institute Washington DC, May 7
2012.
17. “From Rags to Riches Revisited: The Yankee and the American Success Myth” ―
“American Dream? Ideale, Ideologien, künstlerische Inszenierung aus transnationaler
Sicht”, Workshop, University of Berne/Switzerland, September 23-24 2011.
18. “Who wants flowers when you’re dead? The iconic voice of Holden Caulfield” ―
guest lecture, University of Trier, July 12 2011.
19. “Across the Wire: Literary Configurations of the Borderland Community” ― paper at
international conference “Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American
Literature,” University of Mainz, July 7-9 2011.
20. “James Kirke Paulding’s The Lion of the West and the making of an American
dramatic tradition” ― paper at GAAS Annual Conference 2011 “Transcultural
American Studies”, University of Regensburg, June 16-20 2011.
21. „‚All fresh in youth, strength, and beauty‘: Sympathie für das junge Amerika in William
Dunlaps A Trip To Niagara und James K. Pauldings The Bucktails“ ― paper at
international conference “Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten,” University of
Heidelberg, April 8-9 2011.
22. “Personal Epic(s): Metageneric Reflections on the Epic in the Contemporary
American Novel” ― paper at international conference “The Epic’s Extension Today:
Between Expansion and Extinction”, Université Paul Valéry III, Montpellier/France,
October 21-23 2010.
23. “Visions of India: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog
Millionaire in the Cultural Studies Classroom” ― paper at international conference
“Teaching Literature and Culture in Higher Education - Hochschuldidaktik in den
Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften,” University of Giessen, June 10-11 2010.
24. “My Own True Story: Why Reading and Teaching Autobiographical Narration
Matters” ― guest lecture, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 7 2010.
25. “Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Recognition” ― paper at international
conference “Rethinking Narrative Identity: A Question of Perspective,” Humboldt
University of Berlin, November 26-28 2009.
26. “Ethical Turn, Narrative Turn: Towards a New Ethical Theory of the Novel” ― 10.
Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 20-22
2009.
27. “Workshop Popular Culture” ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, panel chair, November 20-22 2009.
28. “The Eighteenth Century as Golden Age of Satire: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
(1726)” ― lecture at the English Seminar University of Heidelberg, November 2 2009.
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29. “Talking in Class: Ein Selbststeuerungsmodell zum Bewerten von mündlichen
Beiträgen und Diskussionskompetenzen im universitären Literaturunterricht” ― guest
lecture, Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau, Kreuzlingen/Switzerland, October 28
2009.
30. “‘Critique for What?’ Teaching American Studies in a Changing Academic Landscape”
― workshop moderated at GAAS Annual Conference 2009, “Education and the
USA,” with Dr. Alexandra Ganser, University of Jena, June 5 2009.
31. “T. S. Eliot Day ― A Student Symposium” ― workshop with Dr. Lutz Schowalter
(Trier) and Irina Bauder-Begerow (Heidelberg), University of Trier, January 16 2009.
32. “The Beat Generation: Literature and Myth” ― guest lecture, University of Constance,
January 7 2009.
33. “Response to Martin Genovese: ‘Presidential Power in an Age of Terrorism: Full
Circle?’” ― workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2008, “The American Presidency
and Political Leadership,” University of Heidelberg, May 17 2008.
34. “The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Fiction’ ―
paper at international graduate conference “Paris Graduate Conference in American
Studies,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales EHESS, Paris, April 19 2008.
35. “Looking back you do not find what you left behind:’ Memory and Ethnicity in Zadie
Smith’s White Teeth and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” ― paper at international
conference “Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary
Literature and Culture,” University of Düsseldorf, April 5 2008.
36. “Opening remarks” (with Lutz Schowalter and Jan Kucharzewski) ― “’Hello, I say, It’s
me:’ Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture,”
University of Düsseldorf, April 4 2008.
37. “I Was a Loose End:’ Narrative Self-fashioning and the Ethics of Recognition” ―
paper at graduate conference “Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne:
Revisionen der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21. Jahrhundert,” University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 23 2007.
38. “Narrating Selves: the Ethics of Autobiography in the Contemporary American
Novel” ― paper at graduate conference “PGF 2007,” University of ErlangenNuremberg, November 2 2007.
39. “Birth by Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex’” ― “Ways
of Worldmaking. Narratives, Archives and Media,” European Summer School in
Cultural Studies (ESSCS) 2007, University of Giessen, July 31 2007.
40. “Literary Self-Performance in the American Novel’ ― paper at graduate conference
“HCA Spring Academy 2007,” University of Heidelberg, April 16 2007.
Professional Associations
ASA (American Studies Association)
DGfA (German Associations for American Studies)
GKS (Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries)
C 19 The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
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Administrative Work
Coordinator of Master North American Studies (NAS), American Studies branch (since 2010)
Elected member of administrative council (Fakultätsrat) of FSU (2010-2013)
Courses Taught
Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (BA, every summer term)
Key competences: Reading Skills (BA, Jena)
US-American literature and culture (19th century)
Yankee Theater: American Drama of the 19th Century (MA, Jena)
The Knickerbocker School (MA, Jena)
The American Tall Tale (MA, Jena)
Robber Barons at the Barbecue? American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age
(BA, Jena)
Literature of the New Woman (BA, Heidelberg)
North American Literature and Culture (20th and 21st centuries)
Canadian Creative Nonfiction (BA, Jena)
Early to Mid-20th Century American Drama (BA, Jena)
Across a Wire? Theorizing the Mexican-American Border (MA, Jena)
Southern Spaces (MA, Jena)
The Canadian West in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (MA, Jena, with Caroline
Rosenthal)
American Literature and Culture of the 1950s (BA, Jena)
Crossing the Line: Fictions of Passing in the African-American Novel of the Early 20th
Century (BA, Heidelberg)
Film, popular culture and cultural studies
Black Femininities (MA, Jena)
Film Analysis: Storytelling on the Big Screen (BA, Jena)
How the West was Won: The American Western (MA, Jena, with Dirk Vanderbeke)
American Cultural Icons (BA, Jena)
Visions of India (BA, Heidelberg)
Literature and Terrorism (BA, Heidelberg)
Further seminars
Introduction to British Modernism (BA, Heidelberg)
Of Rape, Travelers, and Virtuous Heroes: Three Satires of the Golden Age (BA,
Heidelberg)
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