Academic Career - Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Transcription

Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Curriculum Vitae
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
student of English and French philologies and pedagogy, University of
Trier
Grants and Awards
Funding for student excursion to the Calgary Stampede, July 2013 from Ernst-Abbe
Projektstiftung, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), FSU Alumni
association
Postdoctoral research grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Sept 2012 to
February 2013
German Research Fellowship, Library of Congress, Kluge Center, for postdoctoral research,
September 2012 to February 2013
Publication grant for the proceedings of “Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes”,
American Consulate Leipzig and Association for Canadian Studies in Germanspeaking Countries (GKS), June 2012
Fellowship, BAA Summer Academy 2012, Washington, DC, May 2012
Conference funding for the symposium “Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes”,
Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS), April 2012
Curriculum Vitae
“Library Support Program” for Canadiana at the Jena University Library Thulb, April 2012
(with Caroline Rosenthal)
Research Grant for postdoctoral research at Harvard University, University of Jena, August
2011
Publication grant, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geistes-wissenschaften,
June 2010
Conference and publication funding for project “Learning 9/11: Key competencies in higher
education”, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg, 2008/2009
“Best practice” award, higher education certificate, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik BadenWürttemberg, 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,
2008/2009
Fellowship, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2007
International Study Exchange Program (ISEP) scholarship for undergraduate studies at the
University of Minnesota, 2002-2003
Research Interests
“From Stage to Page and Beyond: The Yankee in 19th Century American Literature and
Culture”: current book project on American popular culture, humor, drama, and visual culture
The West as a symbolic space in the US and Canada
Life-writing and autobiography theory
Narratology and narrative identity
Teaching literature and culture in the university classroom
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, forthcoming 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.
Articles
1. Michelle Obama, American Icon: Fashion Biography and the Making of a Postfeminist
First Lady Persona.” (in preparation)
Curriculum Vitae
2. “Plantation Spaces and the Black Body: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as
Maroon Narrative.” Black Studies Papers (accepted for publication)
3. “Introduction.” In Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Hg.
Caroline Rosenthal und Stefanie Schäfer. Frankfurt/Main, New York: Campus.
(forthcoming 2014; with Caroline Rosenthal)
4. “‘This land is full of materials:’ Der stage yankee als Reflexionsfigur für das junge
Amerika.” Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten. Eds. Irina Bauder-Begerow and
Caroline Lusin. Berlin: De Gruyter. (accepted for publication)
5. “‘Recognition Is a Form of Agreement:’ The workings of self-narration in The
Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man.” American Studies/Amerikastudien Special Issue on
Recognition, ed. Winfried Fluck. (accepted for publication)
6. “Paul Haggis: Crash.” Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke
et al. Trier: WVT, 2013. 179-198.
7.
“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.
8. “Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding’s The Lion of the West.” Transnational
American Studies. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 183-205.
9. “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.
10. “‘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.
11. “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)
12. “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.
13. “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)
14. “‘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.
15. “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.
16. “Lern- und Memorierungstechniken.” Schlüsselkompetenzen. Qualifikationen für Studium in
Beruf. Ed.Vera Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 140-149.
17. “From Gender Trouble to the Ethics of Recognition: Judith Butler and Her Critics.”
LWU 4/2006, 299-317.
Reviews
Curriculum Vitae
1. Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar (Ed.). Riding/Writing Across Borders in North
American
Travelogues and Fiction. In: Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien ZKS. (forthcoming 2013)
2. Engler, Bernd and Guenther Leypoldt (Eds.). American Cultural Icons. The Production of
Representative Lives. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. (accepted for publication)
3. Bieger, Laura, Annika Reich, Susann Rohr (Eds.) Mode. Ein kulturwissenschaftlicher
Grundriss. In: ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61.2. 2013- 202-204.
4. Hornung, Alfred (Hg). Auto/Biography and Mediation. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. In:
Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.3 Hornung, Alfred (Ed). Auto/Biography and
Mediation. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies (accepted for
publication)
5. 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.
Conference Papers and Guest Lectures
1. “Literaturgeschichte schreiben heute” ― panelist, interdisciplinary podium on literary
historiography, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, June 5, 2013.
2. “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.
3. “Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, and the Yankee” ― guest lecture, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, February 15, 2013.
4. “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.
5. “The Yankee and the Making of American National Character” ― guest lecture,
University of Pennsylvania, Altoona. January 17, 2013.
6. “Indigenous Drama” ― Workshop at “Imagine Canada Day- Introducing Canadian
Studies at FSU Jena”, Jena, Jun 21 2012.
7. “Theories of American Autobiography / Theorizing American Autobiography” ―
Workshop moderated at GAAS Annual Conference 2012, “American Lives,”
University of Mainz, May 31 2012.
8. “Yankee democracy? Canon Formation and the Struggle for Cultural Independence”;
― BAA Summer Academy 2012, German Historical Institute Washington DC, May 7
2012.
9. “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.
10. “Who wants flowers when you’re dead? The iconic voice of Holden Caulfield” ―
guest lecture, University of Trier, July 12 2011.
11. “Across the Wire: Literary Configurations of the Borderland Community” ―
conference paper at international conference “Conceptions of Collectivity in
Contemporary American Literature,” University of Mainz, July 7-9 2011.
12. “James Kirke Paulding’s The Lion of the West and the making of an American
dramatic tradition” ― conference paper at GAAS Annual Conference 2011
“Transcultural American Studies”, University of Regensburg, June 16-20 2011.
Curriculum Vitae
13. „‚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“ ― conference
paper at international conference “Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten,”
University of Heidelberg, April 8-9 2011.
14. “Personal Epic(s): Metageneric Reflections on the Epic in the Contemporary
American Novel” ― conference paper at international conference “The Epic’s
Extension Today: Between Expansion and Extinction”, Université Paul Valéry III,
Montpellier/France, October 21-23 2010.
15. “Visions of India: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog
Millionaire in the Cultural Studies Classroom” ― conference paper at international
conference “Teaching Literature and Culture in Higher Education Hochschuldidaktik in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften,” University of
Giessen, June 10-11 2010.
16. “My Own True Story: Why Reading and Teaching Autobiographical Narration
Matters” ― guest lecture, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 7 2010.
17. “Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Recognition” ― conference paper at
international conference “Rethinking Narrative Identity: A Question of Perspective,”
Humboldt University of Berlin, November 26-28 2009.
18. “Ethical Turn, Narrative Turn: Towards a New Ethical Theory of the Novel” ― 10.
Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 20-22
2009.
19. “Workshop Popular Culture” ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, panel chair, November 20-22 2009.
20. “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.
21. “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.
22. “‘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.
23. “T. S. Eliot Day ― A Student Symposium” ― workshop with Dr. Lutz Schowalter
(Trier) and Irina Bauder-Begerow (Heidelberg), University of Trier, January 16 2009.
24. “The Beat Generation: Literature and Myth” ― guest lecture, University of Constance,
January 7 2009.
25. “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.
26. “The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Fiction’ ―
conference paper at international graduate conference “Paris Graduate Conference in
American Studies,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April 19
2008.
27. “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” ― conference paper at
international conference “Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ Reconstructions of Subjectivity in
Contemporary Literature and Culture,” University of Düsseldorf, April 5 2008.
Curriculum Vitae
28. “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.
29. “I Was a Loose End:’ Narrative Self-fashioning and the Ethics of Recognition” ― “
conference paper at Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne: Revisionen
der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21. Jahrhundert,” 8. Erlanger
Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 23 2007.
30. “Narrating Selves: the Ethics of Autobiography in the Contemporary American
Novel” ― “PGF 2007,” University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 2 2007.
31. “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.
32. “Literary Self-Performance in the American Novel’ ― “HCA Spring Academy 2007,”
University of Heidelberg, April 16 2007.
Professional Associations Membership
ASA (American Studies Association)
DGfA (German Associations for American Studies)
GKS (German Association for Canadian Studies)
C 19 The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Administrative Work
Coordinator of Master North American Studies (NAS), American Studies branch (since 2010)
Elected member of administrative council (Fakultätsrat) of FSU (since 2010)
Teaching
Jena
Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (BA level, every summer term)
The West in the Canadian Literary and Cultural Imagination (with student excursion), cotaught with Caroline Rosenthal (Module Advanced Research)
The Knickerbocker School (MA, Module Fiction/NonFiction)
How the West was won: The American Western, co-taught with Dirk Vanderbeke (advanced
level, Module Intermediality)
American Cultural Icons (BA, Module Media)
Wissenschaftliche Texte lesen (Reading Secondary Literature, BA level)
Across a Wire? Theorizing the Mexican-American Border (advanced, Module Text and
Context)
Robber Barons at the Barbecue? American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age (BA,
Module Literature in Context)
Early to Mid-20th Century American Drama (BA, Module Genres)
American Literature and Culture of the 1950s (BA, Module Periods)
Heidelberg
Visions of India (BA level 1)
Curriculum Vitae
Literature and Terrorism (BA level 2)
Introduction to Modernism (BA level 1)
Of Rape, Travellers, and Virtuous Heroes: Three Satires of the Golden Age (BA level 2)
Crossing the Line: Fictions of Passing in the African-American Novel of the Early 20th
Century (BA level 2)
Literature of the New Woman (BA level 1)

Academic Career - Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Transcription

Documents pareils

Academic Career - Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik