Research Colloquium: Current Projects in American Studies

• July 12, 2017
  Biljana Oklopcic
  (University of Osijek, Croatia)
  "Stereotypes in American (Popular) Literature."
  




• June 21, 2017
  Maximilian Meinhardt
  (University of Mainz)
  "Absorbing the Machine: Hart Crane's Technologic of Metaphor and Poetic Form"
  


• June 14, 2017
  Chang Liu
  (Research Fellow, University of Goettingen / Jilin University, Changchun, China)
  "Transnational Plastic Music: The Social and Environmental Life of Waste from the Music Industry"
  




• April 26, 2017
  Laura Vorberg
  (Universität Erlengen Nürnberg)
  "Emptied Conservatism: Media Staging and Populist Political Rhetoric in Donald J. Trump's 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign"
  




• November 16, 2016
  Katharina Motyl
  (Universität Tübingen)
  "Confined, yet Escaping: Morphinism and Separate Spheres Ideology in Victorian Women's Self-Portrayals"
  




• November 9, 2016
  Mirna Zemann
  (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
  "Zyklographie der Dinge"
  




• Mai 11, 2016
  James Dowthwaite
  (University of Oxford)
  "The Place of Anti-Semitism in Ezra Pound's Cultural Vision"
  




• February 3, 2016
  Svenja Fehlhaber
  (Universität Osnabrück)
  "Productively Failing to Accelerate: Alternate Visions in 1920s American Prose"
  


• January 27, 2016
  Wiebke Kartheus
  (Universität Leipzig)
  "Presenting Art, Preserving Value: The American Art Museum and Capitalism in the 21st Century"
  


• January 8, 2013
  Martin Lüthe
  (Universität München)
  "Flying by Foot: The ‚Air Jordan’ Television Commercials of the 1990s and the Fetishization of Basketball Materiality"
  


• December 18, 2012
  Lukas Etter
  (Universität Bern)
  "Aesthetic Aspects of Seriality in Alternative Graphic Narratives (Bechdel, Lutes, Ware)"
  


• December 4, 2012
  Eric Erbacher
  (Universität Münster)
  "Narrating Urban Change: Media and the Gentrification of New York and Los Angeles."
  


• July 17, 2012
  Cedric Essi
  (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  "Rethinking Kinship: Interraciality & Family in Contemporary Life Writing"
  


• May 22, 2012
  Daniela Wentz
  (Universität Weimar)
  "'Events Occur in Real Time': 24's Split Screen as Diagram of Time"
  


• May 15, 2012
  Birgit Spengler
  (Universität Frankfurt)
  "Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon, Revisiting the Nineteenth Century"
  


• January 31, 2012
  Dr. Marcel Hartwig
  (Universität Siegen)
  "The Failure of Imagination? -- Popular Cultural Premediations and Representations of Pearl Harbor and 9/11"
  


• November 22, 2011
  Dr. Michaela Wünsch
  (ICI Berlin)
  "Wiederholung und Serialität in Fernsehen und Psychoanalyse"
  


• May 31, 2011
  Dr. Johannes Völz
  (Universität Frankfurt)
  "Slavery and the Aesthetics of Security in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred"


• December 20, 2010
  Susanne Leikam, M.A.
  (Universität Regensburg)
  "'The Return to the Frontier': Framing Turn-of-the-Century Earthquake Ruins in California"


• June 22, 2010
  Florian Groß, M.A.
  (Universität Hannover)
  "Conspicuously Creative: Post-Network Television Series"