Lorena Bickert, M.A.

Essays

Conference Presentations

  • 06-07/2021: “Heroic Bodies Underwater: Aquatic Eco-Heroism in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986).” Summer-Institute: “Water Ecologies: Interdisciplinary Currents in the Humanities”,Bucknell Humanities Center; USA. Online.
  • 07/2020: “Re-building the American Hero’s Body: Cyborg Heroes in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans.” X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Ecoculture. Online.
  • 12/2019: “Heroes in Body Bags: Renegotiating Heroism in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning.” PGF Konferzen “Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies” (Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, GAAS ), University of Passau.