Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst

Lehrstuhlvertretung

room: PT 3.2.73
phone:+49 (0) 941 / 943 - 3478
fax:+49 (0) 941 / 943 - 3590

American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany

email: julia.faisst@ur.de

Office hours during the semester break summer 2024 (via Zoom):

Wednesday, July 24, 12-1pm
Wednesday, September 4, 12-1pm

To register, please send an email to julia.faisst@ur.de at least 24 hours in advance.?

Research Interests

• Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century North American Literature and Culture
• Visual Cultures (Photography, Film, TV, New Media)
• Transnational American Studies
• African American, Race, and Ethnic Studies
• Postcolonial, Migration, and Diaspora Studies
• Gender Studies and Intersectionality
• Architecture, Space, and Urban Studies
• Environmental Humanities in the US and Canada
• Economic Humanities, Inequality, Class and Poverty Studies
• Cultural Memory in the US and Europe

• Academic Appointments

• Education

• Third-Party Funding, Fellowships, Honors, Awards

Academic Appointments

10/2021- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Professor for American Studies (Lehrstuhlvertretung Prof. Udo ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Hebel), University of Regensburg

Spring 2008? ? ? ? ? ? ? Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Departments of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?American Studies and German, University of Notre? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Dame,?Indiana, USA

2013-? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Akademische R?tin a.Z./Assistant Professor, American Studies,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Prof. Kerstin Schmidt, Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt

2016-2017? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Parental Leave

2012-2013? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Assistant Professor, American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Studies (Literature, Culture, Media), Prof. Kerstin? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Schmidt,?University of Siegen

2010-2012? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Excellence? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Initiative/International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen

2009-2010? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Department of English,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA

Education

2020-21? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt, Eichstaett, Germany
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Habilitation Submission, American Studies, December 2020
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Venia Legendi in “Amerikanischer Literatur- und? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Kulturwissenschaft,” June 2021

2003-2009? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PhD, Comparative Literature, June 2009
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?MA, Comparative Literature, June 2005
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?English, German, French, Latin

2002-2003,? ? ? ? ? ? ? Free University, Berlin, Germany
2000-2001? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?BA (equiv.), Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Literature, Theater Studies, June 2001?

2001-2002? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Visiting Graduate Student, Department of German?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Comparative Literature, American and African American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Literature

1998-2000? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: American Literature,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Theater Studies
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Third-Party Funding, Fellowships, Honors, Awards

2021? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? DFG Funding for “Blackness and the Knowledge(s) of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Intersectionality” Conference?

2021? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Leopold-Franzens-Universit?t Innsbruck Guest Professorship? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2021/22, University of Innsbruck, Austria (postponed)
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2021-2023? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Member, DFG Research Network “Model Aesthetics: Between? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Literary and Economic Knowlege” (James Dorson)

2019/20? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Habilitation Completion Fellowship for Female Researchers,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt

Summer 2019? ? ? ? ? ? Guest Professorship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Volkes/German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Summer? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Academy, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2019? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Secundo Loco, W2-Professorship for American Studies? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (befristet), University of Duisburg-Essen?

Spring 2018? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professorship, University of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Notre Dame, Indiana, USA ?? ??? ??? ??? ?

2015-2018? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Member, DFG Research Network “Cultural Performance in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Transnational American Studies” (Birgit Bauridl and Pia? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Wiegmink)

2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bayerische Forschungsallianz and Bavarian American Academy? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Funding for “The Place of Photography” Conference (with? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Kerstin Schmidt)

2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Habilitation Research Travel Grant to the US (Detroit, Atlanta,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? New Orleans), Faculty of Literatures and Languages, Catholic? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt

2012? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Conference Travel? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Grant, to attend the American Studies Association (ASA)? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

2012? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 Publication Grants, Hyder E. Rollins Fund, Department of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? English, Harvard University and Department of Comparative? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Literature, Harvard University, for Cultures of Emancipation:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature

2010-2012? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, German Excellence? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Initiative/International Graduate Centre for the Study of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Culture,?Justus Liebig University Giessen

2010? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Japan-U.S. Educational Commission Scholarship, to attend the? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar (NASSS), Nanzan? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University, Nagoya, Japan

2010? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence Research Grant, Wake Forest? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University (declined) ? ? ??
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2008-2009? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, New York City? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

2008? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Harvard University, to? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? attend The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University

Fall 2007, 2006? ? ? ? ? 3 Certificates Of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Teaching and Learning, Spring 2006, Harvard University?? ? ??

2008, 2007? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 Summer Travel and Research Fellowships, Comparative? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Literature, Harvard University?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ??? ?

2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Graduate Society Summer Fellowship, Harvard University ?? ??? ??? ??

2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Graduate Student Council Summer Research Grant, Harvard? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University
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2005, 2004? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2 Summer Research Grants, Comparative Literature, Harvard? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University?? ?

2003-2007? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Harvard? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University?

2001-2002? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship, Yale? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University?
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• Monographs

• Edited Volumes

• Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Essays

• Reviews

Monographs

Precarious Belongings: The Unmaking of the American Home, 1980s-Now. Book manuscript. In preparation for publication.

Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature. American Studies: A Monograph Series. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2012.

Reviewed in: Astrid B?ger. Kritikon Litterarum 42.3/4 (2015): 285-288.

Edited Volumes

Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place. Co-edited with Kerstin Schmidt. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2019.

Reviewed in: Johanna Hartmann. Kritikon Litterarum. Forthcoming.

David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors. Second Revised Edition. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2012.

David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2011.

Reviewed in: Amerikastudien/American Studies Forum; Einsicht: Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Institus; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; tachles: Das Jüdische Wochenmagazin; Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg?

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

"The Hidden Self: Secrecy and Transparency in Pauline Hopkins's Work."?The Politics of Transparency: Fear, Secrecy and Exposure in Modern American Fiction.?Eds. Sascha Poehlmann and Paula Martin Salvan. In preparation.

"Extrajudicious Landscapes and Solidarity: On Javier Zamora's Border Poetry."?Re-Thinking Solidarity in the U.S. and Beyond. Eds. Nathalie Aghoro, Katharina Gerund, and Sylvia Mayer. Universit?tsverlag Winter. In preparation.

“Borders in Architecture and Visual Art.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Art. Eds. Barry Sandywell and Martin Hand. London and New York: Bloomsbury. In preparation.

“Unsilencing Voices: David P. Boder’s Transatlantic Holocaust Project, Multilingual Memory, and Intermedia Studies.” andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies, vol. 9/10, 2021, pp. 35-42.

“Capturing Eviction in America: Forced Dislocation and the Iconography of the Housing Crisis.”?Ambivalent Mobility in 21st-Century Literature and Culture. Special Issue of Literary Geographies 5.2 (2019). Eds. Dorothee Birke and Stella Butter. 168-184..

“Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies.” Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place. Eds. Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2019. 124-138.

With Kerstin Schmidt. “Introduction: The Place of Photography.” Picturing America: Photography and?the Sense of Place. Eds. Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2019. 1-11.

“Strolling the Biophilic City: Fl?neurism, Urban Nature and Eco-Fiction.” Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change. Eds. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Plesske, and Eckart Voigts. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2018. 43-57.

Reviewed in: Lucy Hamilton. European Journal of English Studies 22.3 (2018): 336-338.

“Moving In and Out, Up and Down: Real Estate in Twenty-First Century Drama.” Inequality in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Barbara Hahn and Kerstin Schmidt. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2017. 113-124.
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“Ghetto Aesthetics: Performing Spatial Inequality in The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.” Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Eds. Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 265-288.

“The Spatial Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies: Space, Place and the Urban Imagination of Los Angeles.” Key Topics in English and American Studies II. Eds. Ansgar Nünning and Elisabeth Kovach. Trier: WVT, 2014. 55-76.

“Sites of Slavery: Imperial Narratives, Plantation Architecture, and the Ideology of the Romance of the South.” Imagining Spaces/Places. Eds. Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytik?inen, Kirsi Saarikangas, and Renja Suominen-Kokkonen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 185-197.

“Rebuilding the Neighborhood: Race, Property, and Urban Renewal in Tremé.”?American Lives. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2013. 443-463.

“Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography, and the Formation of African American Fiction.” Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media. Eds. Ansgar Nünning and Kai Sicks. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012. 213-227.

“Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and Representations of Freedom.” PhiN. Philologie im Netz. Beiheft/Supplement 5/2012: Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History. Eds. Antje Kley and Peter Schneck. 71-100.

“‘Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between?’ Fictions of Race in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.” Philip Roth Studies, Special Issue: Roth and Race 2.2 (Fall 2006):121-137.

Essays

"V?lkerrecht unter Beobachtung: Die Kunst der Widerrede?und die ?stetik des Dokumentarfilms."?Die Bleiwüste.?Feb. 26, 2019? <http://www.doccollection.de/blog/allgemein/volkerrecht-unter-beobachtung-die-kunst-der-widerrede-und-die-asthetik-des-dokumentarfilms>.

Reviews

Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin. Peter L’Official. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Kritikon Litterarum. Review. Forthcoming.

American Literature and Immediacy: Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television. Heike Schaefer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. American Literary History. Review. Forthcoming.?

Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s. Eds. Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. Kritikon Litterarum (2015). Review.

Pornotopia: Architektur, Sexualit?t und Multimedia im Playboy. Beatriz Preciado. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2012. KULT_online 34 (2013). Review.

Visuelle Kulturen der USA: Zur Geschichte von Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Fernsehen und Neuen Medien in Amerika. Ed. Christof Decker. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2010. KULT_online 29 (2011). Review.

The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Eds. Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2010. KULT_online 28 (2011). Review.
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• Invited Lectures and Presentations

• Conference Papers

• Presentations at Cultural Institutions?

• Conference, Symposium, and Exhibition Organizing

• Panel Organizing, Chairing, and Responding

Invited Lectures and Presentations

6/2022 ? ? ? ? ? ? "Transformation Black and Forth: Feminism, Gender and What? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Else,"?Invited Roundtable Discussion, University of Regensburg,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Regensburg, Germany (upcoming)

1/2022 ? ? ? ? ? ? "Transnational Imaginaries of Child Refugees," Invited Lecture, Center? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?for?International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) Brownbag? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Session, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (virtual) ? ? ?

6/2021? ? ? ? ? ? ?“An Introduction to U.S. American Social Documentary Photography,"? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Invited Lecture, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Germany (virtual)

5/2021? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Macht in der Literatur: Amanda Gorman und die ?ffentlichkeit der? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Lyrik,” Invited Lecture and Roundtable Discussion “Zwischen Sujet? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? und?Soft Power: Macht in der Kultur,” “Macht macht Gesellschaft:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ann?herungen an ein soziales und politisches Ph?nomen”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference,?Max Weber-Programm Bayern/Akademie für Politische? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bildung, Tutzing, Germany (virtual)
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12/2020? ? ? ? ? ?“There’s No Place Like Home: Housing Insecurity in the American ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Imagination,” Invited Lecture, Amerika-Institut, Ludwig Maximilians ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?University, Munich, Germany (virtual)

4/2019? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Working the Lines: On Lockouts and Layoffs in Lynn Nottage’s? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Sweat,”?Invited Lecture, Application for W2-Professorship for ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American?Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany?

6/2018? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Orders of Removal and Performative Interventions,” Invited Lecture,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference, Mainz, Germany

3/2018? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Nowhere Matters: The Unmaking of the American Home,” Invited? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Lecture, Notre Dame University, IN, USA

3/2018? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Unsilencing Voices: David P. Boder’s Intermedia Holocaust Project,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Multilingual Memory, and the Question of Affect,” Invited Lecture,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Notre Dame University, IN, USA

10/2017? ? ? ? ? ?“‘Matter Out Of Place’: Homelessness and the Intermediality of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Absence,” Invited Lecture, “‘Poverty Viewed At A Distance’? Depicting? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Destitution Across Media” Conference, Graz, Austria

7/2015? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Strolling the Bio-City,” Invited Lecture, “Transforming Cities”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

9/2014? ? ? ? ? ? ?"Ghetto Aesthetics: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth and the Spatialization of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Class,” Invited Lecture, Departments of English and African? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American?Studies, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? USA

5/2013? ? ? ? ? ? ?“David P. Boder, Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt,” Book Presentation? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and Panel Discussion with Werner Sollors and Andreas Barth, Jewish? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Museum/Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

06/2012? ? ? ? ? ?“David P. Boder, Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt,” Book? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Presentation?and Panel Discussion with Werner Sollors, Frank? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Kelleter, and Frank Mehring, German Association for American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Studies (DGfA), Mainz, Germany

12/2011? ? ? ? ? ?“Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction: The Instability of Language? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and the Play of Meaning,” Invited Guest Lecture, “Literary Theory”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The Netherlands

10/2011? ? ? ? ? ?“David P. Boder, Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt,” Book Presentation? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?and Panel Discussion, Bavarian American Academy, Munich,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Germany?

04/2010? ? ? ? ? ?“Uncovering the Dead: On the Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Photography in Early Twentieth Century African American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Literature,” Invited Lecture, Americanist Speaker Series, Duke? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University, NC, USA?

Conference Papers?

7/2022? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Embodying Necropolitcs: Probing the Archive in Valeria Luiselli’s? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Work,” “Embodied Acts and American Photographs” Conference,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (upcoming)

10/2021? ? ? ? ? ?“U.S.-Mexican Borderlands and (Inter)Media Child Migration? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Narratives,” “Urban Im/mobilities and Borderland Narratives”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? FRINGE/ALUS Symposium (upcoming/virtual)

10/2021? ? ? ? ? ?“Unhousing as Revolt: Charles Lane’s Sidewalk Stories and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Jana?Sophia?Nolle’s Living Room,” American Studies Association? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (ASA),?San Juan, Puerto Rico (cancelled)

6/2021? ? ? ? ? ? ?"Breaking Ground: Vacant Homes and Participatory Culture in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Contemporary Detroit,” German Association for American Studies? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (DGfA), Heidelberg, Germany (virtual)

11/2020? ? ? ? ? ?“Unhousing as Revolt: Charles Lane’s Sidewalk Stories and Jana? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Sophia?Nolle’s Living Room,” American Studies Association (ASA),? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Baltimore, MD, USA (cancelled)

6/2020? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Breaking Ground: Vacant Homes and Participatory Culture in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Contemporary Detroit,” German Association for American Studies? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (DGfA), Heidelberg, Germany (postponed to 2021)

5/2018? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Homelessness 2.0: New Documentary Modes of Precarious Habitats? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? in Late Capitalism,” German Association for American Studies (DGfA),? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? FU Berlin, Germany

9/2017? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Forced Dislocation and the Iconography of the Housing Crisis,” ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Mobilizing Home(s)” Conference, Aarhus, Denmark

10/2016? ? ? ? ? ?“Evicted in America: Dispossession and Resistance in John Moore’s ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Evicted and Allison Lynn’s The Exiles,” American Studies Association ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (ASA), Denver, CO, USA

7/2015? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Moving In and Out, Moving Up and Down: Re-Evaluating Real Estate? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? in Twenty-First Century Drama,” “Cultures of Inequality” Conference,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bavarian American Academy, Munich, Germany

11/2014? ? ? ? ? ?“Framing Urban Inequality: Migration, Multilingualism, Multimedia? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Resistance,” “Keywords in American Literary Studies: A Conference? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? for?Werner Sollors,” Harvard University?

6/2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Wear Your Shelter: Natural Risks and Speculative Sustainability in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies,” German Association for? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American Studies (DGfA), Wuerzburg, Germany

6/2013? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Policies of Poverty, Aesthetics of Denial: Debunking ‘The Pruitt-Igoe? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Myth’ in Contemporary Documentary and Film,” “Screening Class”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Conference, University of Freiburg, Germany

11/2012? ? ? ? ? ? "Touring Urban Empires: Documenting Latin American Disparity,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Poverty Tourism, and Media Resistance in The City,” American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Studies Association (ASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico ?? ?

06/2012? ? ? ? ? ? “Rebuilding the Neighborhood: Race, Property, and Urban Renewal in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??Tremé,” German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Mainz,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Germany
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08/2011? ? ? ? ? ? “Sites of (Neo-)Slavery,” “Imagining Spaces/Places” Conference,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Helsinki, Finland

06/2011? ? ? ? ? ? “Reconstruction in East Berlin: Black Transnationalism, Architecture,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?and Leitkultur in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland,” German Association? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?for?American Studies (DGfA), Regensburg?

01/2011? ? ? ? ? ? “Democratizing Images: LIFE Pictures Douglass in 1968,” Modern? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Language Association (MLA), Los Angeles, CA
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11/2010? ? ? ? ? ?“‘Teach Germans Disobedience:’ Gertrude Stein, Popular Media, and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Post-Sovereignty,” Austrian Association of American Studies? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(AAAS),?Innsbruck, Austria?

07/2010? ? ? ? ? ? “Ralph Ellison, Photographer,” Nagoya American Studies Summer? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Seminar (NASSS), Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan?

11/2009? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Shadow Archive: Lynching Photography, Afro-Modernist Literature,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?and Black Citizenship,” American Studies Association (ASA),? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Washington, D.C.

02/2009? ? ? ? ? ? “Changing Faces: The Visual Archive of Lynching and Modernist? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Literary Productions of African American Citizenship,” American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Literature with a Focus on African American, Ethnic, and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?International Studies Colloquium, Harvard University?

10/2008? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Show Business: The Labor of Photography and Henry James’s? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Changing Image,” American Studies Association (ASA),? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Albuquerque, NM

06/2008? ??? ? ? ? “‘Yet Words Are Not The Thing:’ Photography and Showing Off in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts,” The Futures of American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Studies Institute, Dartmouth University

05/2008? ? ? ? ? ? ?“On Becoming a Quasi-Photographer: Harold Frederic’s Marsena and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Henry James’s New York Edition,” American Literature Association? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(ALA), San Francisco, CA

05/2007? ? ? ? ? ? ? “A Writer’s Camera Work: The Literary Portraits of Gertrude Stein,”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, MA
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04/2007? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Capturing Character: Photo-Narrative Portraits, Serialization, and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Motion in Modern American Literature,” American Literature with a? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Focus on African American, Ethnic, and International Studies? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Colloquium, Harvard University
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06/2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Representations of Freedom,” German Association for American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Studies (DGfA), G?ttingen, Germany
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10/2005? ? ? ? ? ? ? “‘Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between?’? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Fictions of Race in?Philip Roth’s The Human Stain,” South Central? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Houston, TX

10/2005? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Exile Doubly Exposed: Photography, Text, and Genre in Frederick? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Douglass and W. G. Sebald,” The New Comparativism Conference,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Columbia University, NY?

10/2004? ? ? ? ? ? ?“History Stares Back: Oblique Gazes and the Eye of the Object in? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? W.?G. Sebald’s Austerlitz,” Southern Comparative Literature? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Association?(SCLA), Columbia, SC

09/2004? ? ? ? ? ? ?“Embroidered Blackness: The Discourse of the Other in Claire Goll’s? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Der Neger Jupiter raubt Europa,” “In Black and White” International? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Americanist-Germanist Colloquium Conference, Harvard University

11/2004? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Ex-Post-Infancy in Walter Benjamin,” Midwest Modern Literature? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Association

07/2004? ? ? ? ? ? ? (MMLA), St. Louis, MO, and Culture and the Unconscious? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference,?University of East London, London
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Presentations at Cultural Institutions

2/2019? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Melanie Liebheit and Gereon Wetzel (Dir.), The Art of Argument,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Introduction to Documentary Film and Panel Discussion with the? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? directors, Filmstudio Eichst?tt, Germany

12/2017? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zoe Rosenblum, “Colors in Motion,” Introduction to Art Exhibition,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany

12/2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? Hubert P. Klotzeck, “Non-Places: The Stone Quarries Near? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Eichst?tt,”?Opening of photography exhibition and discussion with? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? the artist, Galerie Bildfl?che, Eichst?tt, Germany
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Conference, Symposiums, and Exhibiting Organizing

2023? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Co-organized DFG Research Network Workshop “Economic Justice? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and Literary Knowledges” (with Elisabeth Reichel), University of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Osnabrück, Germany (upcoming)

4/2022? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Organized conference “Blackness and the Knowledge(s) of? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Intersectionality,” Amerikahaus Munich (moved from 10/2021,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? upcoming)

12/2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? Co-organized conference “The Place of Photography” (with Kerstin? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Schmidt), Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt?

12/2014? ? ? ? ? ? ? Curated photography exhibition by Hubert P. Klotzeck, “Non-? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Places: The Stone Quarries Near Eichst?tt,” Galerie Bildfl?che,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Eichst?tt

11/2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? Co-organized symposium “A Foreign Affair: Witnessing,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Photographing, Remembering, and Assessing the American? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Occupation of Germany, 1945-1955,” Harvard University

09/2004? ? ? ? ? ? ? Co-organized conference “In Black and White: Imagining Blackness ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? in Germany and Austria,” International Americanist-Germanist ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Colloquium: Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard (BTWH) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Conference, Harvard University?

07/2003? ? ? ? ? ? ? Assisted Directors of conference “Narrating Frontiers:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Confrontations, Transgressions and Exchanges Along North? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American Borders,” John F. Kennedy Institute for North? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? American Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany

04/2002? ? ? ? ? ? ? Co-organized conference “Back to the Text? The 13th Annual? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Graduate Student Conference,” Department of Germanic Languages? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and Literatures, Yale University
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Panel Organizing, Chairing, and Responding

6/2013? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? “The City Goes Rural,” Co-Workshop Organizer and Chair (with? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Nathalie Aghoro), German Association for American Studies (DGfA),? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Erlangen, Germany

02/2009? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Literature and Design in Twentieth-Century America,” Panel? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Organizer and Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (NeMLA), Boston, MA

11/2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Shooting the War,” Chair and Respondent to Tony Vaccaro, “A? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Foreign Affair: Witnessing, Photographing, Remembering, and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Assessing the American Occupation of Germany, 1945-1955,”? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Harvard University

04/2006? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Infinite Regress,” Panel Chair and Respondent, Humanities Center? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference “Mirrorings: Reflections on? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Reflection,” Harvard University?

10/2005? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Representation and the ‘Representative Man:’ Frederick Douglass’s? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Rhetoric of Possibility,” Respondent to Allyson Field, Word and? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Image Workshop, Harvard University

04/2002? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Text and Image,” Chair and Respondent, “Back to the Text? The ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference,” Department of ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

WiSe 2023/2024

35800? Introduction to American Studies

35815? Introduction to English and American Literary Studies

35825? American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries

35840? Enslavement and Resistance