Forschung

Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung

Nord-amerikanische Literatur und Medienwissenschaft

Kulturtopos 9/11

Energie und Kultur

Interkulturelle Literatur- und Mediendiskurse (Migration, Postkolonialismus, Globalisierung)

Ethik und Menschenrechtsdiskurs

Populäre Kultur

 

Laufende Forschungsarbeiten

Habilitationsprojekt: Nordamerikanische Ölkulturen

Forschungsprojekt: Energie und Kultur

Forschungsprojekt/Konferenz: Electoral Cultures

Herausgeberschaften/Kooperationen:

--The Look of Human Rights

--Political Autobiography

--Weibliches Flanieren

--Das Fotobuch

 

Publikationen

Monographie

Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after 9/11 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012) 

Herausgeberschaft

The Look of Human Rights: Image, Narrative, Evidence (in Vorbereitung)

 

Aufsätze

Artikel

9. “Scapegoating in ‘Ground Zero’: Patrick McGrath’s Allegory of World-Historical Trauma.” Textual Practice 26.2 (2012): 293-317.

8. “9/11 Trauma and Visual Witnessing in Helen Schulman’s A Day at the Beach.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 53.2 (2012): 1-15.

7. “‘The Internationalization of Conscience’: Representing Ethics in Pat Barker’s Double Vision.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 58.1 (2010): 55-70.

6. “‘Home Squared’: Barack Obama’s Transnational Self-Reliance.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 33.1 (Winter 2010): 24-45.

5. “Race, Risk, and Fiction in the War on Terror: Laila Halaby, Gayle Brandeis, and Michael Cunningham. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 21.4 (2010): 242-68.

4. “Escaping Binarism: The Bosnian War in the Canadian Imagination.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 30.2 (2010): 1-18.

3. “Decency, Torture, and the Words that Tell Us Nothing.” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 20.1 (Spring 2008): 58-66.

2. “Scorched Earth Tactics: Preemptive Ecopolitics in the Aftermath of 9/11.” Parallax 48 (July-September 2008): 125-138.

1. “‘The Same, Identical Woman’: Sylvia Plath in the Media.” M/MLA Journal 40.2 (Fall 2007): 38-60.

 

Buchbeiträge

20. “Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film.” In Robert A. Rosenstone/Constantin Parvulescu (Hgg.) Blackwell Companion to Historical Film. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 301-327.

19. “The Kite Runner's Transnational Allegory: Anatomy of an Afghan-American Bestseller.” In Churchwell, Sarah/Thomas Ruys Smith (Hgg.) Must Read: The Life and Times of the American Bestseller. New York: Continuum, 2012. 319-339.

18. “‘The Power to Imagine’: Genocide, Exile, and Ethical Memory in Atom Egoyan’s Ararat.” In Crowder, Tomas/Kristi Wilson (Hgg.) Film and Genocide. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 87-106.

17. “Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ontaatje’s Divisadero.” In Göbel, Walter/Saskia Schabio (Hgg.) Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres. New York: Routledge, 2012. 208-222.

16. “Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence.” In Denson, Shane/Christina Meyer/Daniel Stein (Hgg.) Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. New York: Continuum (im Erscheinen).

15. “Middle Hours: Terrorism and Narrative Emplotment in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days.” In Gruber, Eva /Michael Frank (Hgg.) Literature and Terrorism: Comparative Perspectives. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 213-232.

14. “Raymond Williams and Online Video: The Tragedy of Technology.” In Monika Seidl/Roman Horak/Lawrence Grossberg (Hgg.) About Raymond Williams. London: Routledge, 2010. 94-105.

13. “Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11.” In Peeren, Esther/ María del Pilar Blanco (Hgg.) Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture. London: Continuum, 2010. 94-105.

12. “Poetry and Collective Grief: The Popular Turn to Lyricism after 9/11.” In Martens, Klaus (Hg.) States of the Art: Considering Poetry Today. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 169-87.

11. “Chris Ware and the Pursuit of Slowness.” In Ball, Dave/Martha Kuhlman (Hgg.) The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 177-190.

10. “Revisioning the Western: Landscape and Gender in The Misfits.” In Tracy, Anthony/Roddy Flynn (Hgg.) John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland 2010. 94-110.

9. “Philip Roth’s Fictions of Intimacy and the Aging of America.” In Maierhofer, Roberta/Heike Hartung (Hgg.) Narratives of Life: Mediating Age. Münster: LIT, 2009: 91-112.

8. “Die Ikonographie des Exils in Andrej Tarkowskijs Nostalghia.” In Meurer, Ulrich/Maria Oikonomou (Hgg.) Fremdbilder: Auswanderung und Exil im internationalen Kino. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 107-120.

7. “Affect, Kitsch, and Transnational Literature: Azar Nafisi’s ‘Portable Worlds.’” In Hamdi, Noha/Sarah Säckel/Walter Göbel (Hgg.) Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image, and Trans-Nation. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009: 87-102.

6. “Canons of Diversity in Contemporary Canadian Literature.” In Nischik, Reingard M. (Hg.) History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008: 387-412.

5. “‘No More Idols but Me’: Sylvia Plath as Cinema Icon.” In Kelleter, Frank/Daniel Stein (Hgg.) American Studies as Media Studies. Heidelberg: Winter 2008: 119-126.

4. “The Ecology of Love: Reading Annie Dillard with Félix Guattari.” In Herzogenrath, Bernd (Hg.) An Un(Easy) Alliance: Thinking the Environment with Deleuze/Guattari. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008: 297-313.

3. “9/11, YouTube, und die neue Empfindsamkeit.” In Seiler, Sascha/Sandra Poppe/Thorsten Schüller (Hgg.) 9/11 als kulturelle Zäsur. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008: 279-297.

2. “A Sentimental Journey: Janice Kulyk-Keefer, ‘Dreams:Storms:Dogs.’” In Nischik, Reingard M. (Hg.) The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2007: 375-86.

1. “Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor.” In von Flotow, Luise/Reingard M. Nischik (Hgg.) Translating Canada: Charting the Institutions and Influences of Cultural Transfer: Canada in German/y. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press 2007: 187-217.

 

Rezensionen

10. “Prelude to the Energy Era in Film Studies: Nadia Bozak, The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources.” Imaginations. Special Issue “Sighting Oil,” September 2012.

http://www.csj.ualberta.ca/imaginations/?p=3521

9. “Technologien der irreversiblen Sichtbarkeit: Christof Deckers lesenswerte Einführung in visuelle Kulturen der USA.” Rezension über Christof Decker (Hg.) Zur Geschichte von Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Fernsehen und Neuen Medien in Amerika.” IASLonline

http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php?vorgang_id=3450

8. “Antje Kley. Ethik medialer Repräsentation im britischen und US-amerikanischen Roman, 1741-2000.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (eingereicht)

7. “Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights.” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 21.1 (2010): 229-33.

6. “Patricia Hayes (Hg.) Visual Genders, Visual Histories.” Canadian Journal of History 43.3 (Winter 2008): 605-607.

5. “Coral Ann Howells (Hg.) The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood.” Anglia. Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 125/3 (2007): 557-560.

4. “Nick Mount. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York.” American Studies/Amerika-Studien 52.1 (2007): 159-161.

3. “Julia Ulrike Köneke. A Rock and a Hard Place. Eine Untersuchung über die Traditions- und Kulturpflege der Ukrainer in Kanada.“ Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 26: 2 (2006): 159-62.

2. “Allan Gould. Anne of Green Gables vs. G.I. Joe.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 25: 2 (2005): 117-19.

1. “Margaret Atwood. Negotiating with the Dead. A Writer on Writing.” Anglistik 16:2 (2005): 195-99.

 

Eingeladene Gastvorträge

10. “Underground Environments and the Texas Oil Gothic.” Vortragsreihe Making America, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 11. Juli 2012. 

9. “‘I Am Going to Tell You Something’: American Writers on the Campaign Trail. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Normal Mailer, David Foster Wallace.” Universität Gießen, 20. Juni 2012. 

8. “American Petrofiction.” United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 1. Juni, 2011.

7. “A Possibility of Oil: Expenditure, Consumption, and the Gothic World of William Goyen.” English Department, University of Sydney, 20. April, 2011.

6. “Fiction, Racial Profiling, and the War on Terror,” Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Juli 2010.

5. Einleitender Vortrag und Podiumsdiskussion, 57. Jahrestagung der DGfA, American Economies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 29. Mai 2010.

4. “Genocide, Gender, and the Volatility of History: The Bosnian War in the Canadian Imagination,” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS), From Canada to Europe and Back, Grainau, 19.-21. Februar, 2010.

3. “Postkoloniale Ethik, oder das Esperanto der globalen Verantwortung.” Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Workshops Das Planetarische, Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg “Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation,” Universität zu Köln, 8. Juli, 2008.

2. “Emerson’s Planetary Ethics.” Gastvortrag im Rahmen des dritten Kolloquiums des Seminars für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Oldenburg, 1. Juli, 2008.

1. “Exil und Ikonostase: Eine Ikonographie der Grenze in Andrej Tarkowskij’s Nostalghia,” Film- und Vortragsreihe Auswanderung und Exil im internationalen Kino, Universität München, 9. Dezember, 2005.

 

Konferenzbeiträge

32. “Edmonton, Texas: On the Skeptical Globalism of Canadian Oil Culture.” Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture, University of Alberta, 6.-9. September, 2012.

31. “Antonionis Ölmalerei: Zum unbewussten Rohstoff einer materiellen Filmästhetik.” Michelangelo Antonioni: Modernist. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 14. Juni, 2012. 

30. “Writing Global Energy Security after 9/11.” 9/11—Ten Years after, Looking Ahead, Universität Bonn, 8.-11. September, 2011.

29. “‘A Mysterious, Wasting Illness’: Writing the Osage Oil Boom.” Native American Literature Workshop, English Department, University of Sydney, 10. Mai, 2011.

28. “American Petroleum History on Film.” American History Day, University of Melbourne, 12. November 2010.

27. “Drawing Boundaries: Journalism, Genocide, and the Graphic Novel--Joe Sacco, J.P. Stassen, Guy Delisle,” Life Writing and the Graphic Novel: An International Conference, Universität Paderborn, 2.-3. Juli, 2010.

26. “Trompe L’Oil: Politics, Deceit, and American Petrofiction,” MLA Convention, “Oil Ontologies” Panel, Philadelphia, 27.-30. Dezember, 2009.

25. “Psychotherapy and Psychosis in post-9/11 Literature and Film,” 9/11 as Catalyst: American and British Cultural Responses, Universität Bayreuth, 27.-29. November, 2009.

24. “Unfolding the Plot of Terror: Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days,” Workshop Literature and Terrorism, Universität Konstanz, 31. Juli-1. August, 2009.

23. “Distant Divisions: Michael Ondaatje and the World Novel,” Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres, Universität Stuttgart, 16.-19. Juli, 2009.

22. “On the Sacredness of Dust: Urban Memorialization and the Toxic Legacy of 9/11,” Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the Millenium, JFK Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 30. October – November 1, 2008.

21. “Poetry and Collective Grief: The Popular Turn to Lyricism after 9/11,” Internationale Konferenz States of the Art: Considering Poetry Today, Department of North American Literature and Culture, Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken, 24.-26. Oktober, 2008.

20. “Remembering Terror between Image and Text,” presented at Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse University, 4.-6. Oktober, 2008.

19. “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dump: Bioethics and the Remains of the World Trade Center,” The Aesthetics of Trash: Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective, University College Dublin, 4.-6. September, 2008.

18. “Body Fragments: Philip Roth’s Late Fiction,” 9. Jahrestagung der European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Panel: Ageing Studies: Age, Illness, and the Question of Beauty in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures, Universität Aarhus, 22.-26. August, 2008.

17. “Colonizing the Image, or the Abused Lolitas of Tehran,” Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation, Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, 17-20 Juli, 2008.

16. “Neil Bissoondath and the Ambivalent Novel of Terror,” The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism, Seminar für englische Philologie, Universität Göttingen, 10.-12. Juli, 2008.

15. “‘This Is a New Country’: Atom Egoyan’s Ararat on Canadian Exile and Ethical Memory," Narratives of (In)dependence and Partnership: Old Europe and New World, Canadian Studies Center, Universität Marburg, 20.-22. Juni, 2008.

14. “Unbinding the Self: Recent American Fictions of Surveillance,” Watching America: Visuality and Surveillance in US Literature and Culture. Konferenz der Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) und der Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 31. Mai-3. Juni, 2008.

13. “Memorial Park: The Permanent Limbo,” Europäische Konferenz der Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Figurations of Knowledge, Stream 7 Bodies of Evidence, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 2.-8. Juni, 2008.

12. “The Bodies of Terrorism,” Engaging Objects, Internationales Workshop der Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Bodily Interventions Panel, Amsterdam, 26.-28. März, 2008.

11. “9/11, YouTube, and the Visual Crisis of Affect,” 9/11 als kulturelle Zäsur, Universität Mainz, 14.-15. Februar 2008.

10. “Narratives of Planetarity: Introducing the Global Narrator,” Transmediality and Transculturality, internationale und transdisziplinäre Konferenz, Universität Mainz, 6.-9. Dezember, 2007.

9. “Intervisuality: Toward an Ethics of Seeing,” Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne: Revisionen der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21sten Jahrhundert, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 23.-25. November, 2007.

8. “Open.Ended: Poetic Closure and the Digital Interface,” The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium: Creative Process and Product, University of Oxford, 25.-28. Oktober, 2007.

7. “An Aesthetics of Compassion: Writing Terrorism in 21st Century Britain,” Literature for Our Times, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 14th Triennial Conference, University of British Columbia, 17.-22. August, 2007.

6. “‘Scissor Work’: Clipping, Interleaf, and Illustration in Visual Poetry,” Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the Present, University of York, 5.-8. Juli, 2007.

5. “‘Pretending to Be Dead’: Lyric Representations of Thomas Hardy," Hardy at Yale, erste Konferenz der Thomas Hardy Association, Department of English, Yale University, 14.-17. Juni, 2007.

4. “‘Actual Visions’ or ‘Agreeable Possibilities’: Nativity Narratives in Eliot and Auden,” 18. Jahrestagung der American Literature Association (Panel der T.S. Eliot Gesellschaft), Boston, 24-27 Mai, 2007.

3. “The Hybrid Iconicity of Literary Authorship: Writing Bodies and the Digital Media,” Synthetics, 18. Southland Graduate Student Conference, UCLA Department of English, 4. Mai, 2007.

2. “Re-Visioning the Western: Landscape and Gender in The Misfits,” Arthur Miller and the American West, 11. Internationale Konferenz der Arthur Miller Gesellschaft, Community College of Southern Nevada, 19.-21. Oktober, 2006.

1. “An All-American Sweetheart: Sylvia Plath as Media Icon,” Media, Poetics, and the Public Sphere, 53. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Göttingen, 8.-11. Juni, 2006.