Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
Research Interests
- History and Functions of the US-American novel
- Literature and Knowlege
- Autobiographical writing & confessional culture
- Transculturality and the Multiethnic Literatures of the US and the Anglophone Caribbean
- Literary and Cultural theory (esp. Ethics and Aesthetics, Media History and Theory, Poststructuralism, Feminist Theory/Gender Studies, Postcolonial Theory)
Current Research Projects
- Death Becomes Us: Stories of the End of Life in Contemporary US-American Literature, funded througha summer 2020 Fritz Thyssen Lesezeit stipend. DeathBecomesUs_Projektinterview_AVISO4-20.
- Literatur und Öffentlichkeit
Collaborative Research Projects
- Spokesperson of the GRK 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Differentiated Cultures” since Oct. 2022
- Member of the DFG Research Training Group 1718 “Presence and Tacit Knowledge” Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2018
- Member of the DFG research training group “Kulturhermeneutik im Zeichen von Differenz und Transdifferenz” Oct. 2006 – Mar. 2010 (Chair: Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009, Deputy chair: Apr. 2007 – Mar. 2008)
- Member of the interdisciplinary research group “Bio-Objects and Bio-Subjects” (FAU Emerging Fields Initiative) Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2013
Education and Positions
- Studied at the University of Mannheim (English, American Studies and German Studies), Emory University in Atlanta, GA (Women’s Studies) and the School of Criticism and Theory in Hanover, NH
- Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation; research assistant in English and American Studies at the University of Bielefeld; Ph.D. at the University of Mannheim 2000
- Assistant professor at the English Department, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel; Habilitation 2006.
- Since January 2007 professor for North American Literary and Cultural Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; since Nov. 2009 chair of American Studies, in particular Literary Studies
- Visiting scholar at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), spring 2011
- Fellow of the Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ), Aug. 2012
- University Vice President for Teaching and Student Affairs, Equal Opportunities and Teacher Training Oct. 2012 – Mar. 2018
- “LeseZeit” of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung for the Poject “Death Becomes Us”, Apr. – Sept. 2020
Services to the Profession
- Member of the Foundation Council of the Evaluation Agency Baden-Württemberg (evalag), Apr.2020 – Mar. 2026 http://www.evalag.de/
- Member of the University Council of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Oct. 2019 – Sept. 2027
- Member of the University Council of the University of Koblenz-Landau Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2022
- Reviewer for the Ph.D. programs of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Reviewer for the Ph.D and university stipend programs of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA): advisory board member 2008 – 2016
- Review board member for Amerikastudien/American Studies 2006 – 2014
At Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg
- Member of the FAU Accreditation Review Committee Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2025
- Board Member of the Philosophical Faculty and Department of Theology Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2025, Oct. 2007 – Sep. 2009 https://www.phil.fau.de/fakultaet/organe-und-gremien/gremien/#collapse_1
- Executive Director of the Department for English, American Studies, and Romance Languages Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2021; Executive Director of the Institute for English and American Studies, Oct. 2009 – Mar. 2011
- Mentor, AriadnePhil Mentoring Program Mar. 2012 – Mai 2016 and since Oct. 2019
- Executive Director of the Center for Applied Philosophy of Science and Key Qualification Jul. 2012 – Jul. 2022, member since Oct. 2009
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender, Diversity and Difference
- University Vice President for Teaching and Student Affairs, Equal Opportunities and Teacher Training Oct. 2012 – Mar. 2018
- Member of the Commission for Internationalization 2007 – 2012
- Member of the task force ‘institutional strategy’ (initiative for excellence) of the university board Dec. 2008 – Sept. 2010
- Coordinator of the 3rd night of science in the metropolitan area Erlangen/Nuremberg/Fürth for the philosophical faculties (Feb. 2007 – Jan. 2008, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Phillip Balsiger)
Publications
2009
- Kley, Antje. Ethik medialer Repräsentation im britischen und US-amerikanischen Roman, 1741 – 2000. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.
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2001
- Kley, Antje. Das erlesene Selbst: Zu Politik und Poetik der Selbstreflexion bei Roth, Delany, Lorde und Kingston. Tübingen: Narr, 2001.
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1997
- Kley, Antje, and Christine Braß. Will the Parts Hold?: Erinnerung und Identität in Toni Morrisons Romanen 'Beloved' und 'Jazz': Zwei Thesen/Two Theses. Tübingen: Narr, 1997.
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2018
- Kley, Antje, and Kai Merten, eds. What Literature Knows. Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH, 2018.
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2015
- Kley, Antje, and Heike Paul, eds. Rural America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
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2012
- Kley, Antje, and Peter Schneck, eds. Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie, 2012.
URL: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5i.htm
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Jan D Kucharzewski, eds. Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
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2011
- Böhm, Alexandra, Antje Kley, and Mark Schönleben, Hrg. Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, Literarische und Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Paderborn: Fink, 2011.
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2009
- Kley, Antje, and Martin Klepper, Hrg. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht: Medien. Kiel, 2009.
URL: http://lwu.uni-kiel.de/issues/2009_1-2.htm
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2022
- Kley, Antje. "Vulnerability and masculinist notions of control in late capitalist societies. Reading Paul Kalanithi’s autopathography When Breath Becomes Air (2016)." Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 7.2 (2022) (2022): 49 - 69.
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2018
- Kley, Antje. "Interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen auf die Verschränkung von Fachwissenschaft, Fachdidaktik und Bildungswissenschaft in Lehrerbildungscurricula." heiEDUCATION Journal Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung.1-2 (2018): 221-235.
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2017
- Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Beyond the Laboratory: Biotechnology and Literary Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XLVIII, 3 (2015) (2017): 195-212.
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2012
- Kley, Antje, and Peter Schneck. "Looking Backward: Media History from the Perspective of Facebook." Philologie im Netz : Beiheft 5 (2012): 1-3.
URL: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5t0.htm
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Narratives of Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction: Edward P. Jones's 'The Known World' and Richard Powers's 'The Echo Maker'." Amerikastudien 57.4 (2012): 643-661.
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2007
- Kley, Antje. "Die Repräsentation des 'Black Atlantic' in Aphra Behns Erzählung 'Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. A True History' (1688)." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 40.1/2 (2007): 5–19.
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2004
- Kley, Antje. "'keeping pace with the visual revolution': Intermediary Reference in Gertrude Stein’s Prose Poems 'Tender Buttons' and Wyndham Lewis' Novel 'Tarr'." Amerikastudien 49.4 (2004): 515–38.
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2023
- Kley, Antje. "“George Saunders, Lincoln im Bardo (2017).”." Große Werke der Literatur. Hrg. Günter Butzer and Katja Sarkowsky, Tübingen: Narr, 2023.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "“‘No one dies a natural death.’ Lebendige Geister und die Politik der Toten in George Saunders Roman Lincoln im Bardo (2017).”." Die Politik der Toten: Figuren und Funktionen der Toten in Literatur und Politischer Theorie. Hrg. Marcus Llanque and Katja Sarkowsky, Bielefeld: transcript, 2023. 121 - 142.
URL: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6440-9
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2021
- Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things – Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels." Under the Literary Microscope: New Perspectives on Science in Society from Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Sina Farzin, Roslynn Haynes, Susan M. Gaines, University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2021. pp. 198-217.
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2019
- Kley, Antje. "Public Humanities and Literary Knowledge: Four Theses on How Reading Matters for Public Debate." American Counter/Publics. Ed. Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege, Heidelberg, 2019. 397-408.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula’s VAS – An Opera in Flatland." Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture. Ed. Heike Schaefer, Alexander Starre, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 53-67.
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2018
- Kley, Antje. "“What Literature Knows: An Introduction”." What Literature Knows: Forays into Literary Knowledge Production. Ed. Antje Kley, und Kai Merten, Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2018. 9 - 25.
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2017
- Kley, Antje. "John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)." Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Timo Müller, De Gruyter, 2017. 177-191.
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2016
- Kley, Antje. "Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the US." Knowledge Landscapes North America. Ed. Simone Knewitz, Christian Klöckner, Sabine Sielke, Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. 153-177.
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2015
- Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers' 'Das größere Glück'." Quarks and Letters: Naturwissenschaften in Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart. Hrg. Aura Heydenreich und Klaus Mecke, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015. 273-293.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Heike Paul. "Rural America: An Introduction." Rural America. Ed. Kley, Antje und Paul, Heike, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015. 1-11.
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2014
- Kley, Antje. "Robinson Crusoe." Metzler Lexikon Moderner Mythen. Figuren, Konzepte, Ereignisse. Hrg. Stephanie Wodianka, Juliane Ebert, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. 323–25.
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2013
- Kley, Antje. "Literatur als Präsentifikation impliziten Wissens: Kulturkontakt in Mary Rowlandsons 'captivity narrative' (1682) und Toni Morrisons Kurzgeschichte 'Recitativ' (1983)." Präsenz und implizites Wissen: Zur Interdependenz zweier Schlüsselbegriffe der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Hrg. Ernst Christoph und Heike Paul, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013. 211-237.
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2012
- Kley, Antje, and Jan D Kucharzewski. "Introduction." Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Ed. Kley, Antje und Kucharzewski, Jan, Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 9–20.
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2011
- Kley, Antje. "Narrative der Anerkennung in der US-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart: Edward P. Jones' 'The Known World' und Richard Powers' 'The Echo Maker'." Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, Literarische und Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Hrg. Böhm Alexandra, Paderborn: Fink, 2011. 179-199.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm, Alexandra, Antje Kley, and Mark Schönleben. "Zur Einleitung: Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit." Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Hrg. Böhm Alexandra, Paderborn: Fink, 2011. 11-34.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "New Directions in the American Short Story of the 1990s: (Multi)Ethnic Identity in Sandra Cisneros's 'Never Marry a Mexican' and Bharati Mukherjee's 'The Middleman'." A History of the American Short Story : Genres - Developments - Model Interpretations. Ed. Michael Basseler und Ansgar Nünning, Trier: WVT, 2011. 395-411.
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2009
- Kley, Antje. "Ethics, Media, Representation: Aesthetic Experience and Identity Formation in Richard Powers' Novel 'Plowing the Dark'." "Ethical Turn"? Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung. Ed. Lubkoll, Christine und Wischmeyer, Oda, München: Fink, 2009. 181-201.
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2008
- Kley, Antje. "Die Postkoloniale Poetik von Derek Walcotts Revisionen des Robinson Crusoe in 'Crusoe’s Journal': Ein literaturwissenschaftlicher Beitrag zum kulturhermeneutischen Selbst- und Fremdverstehen." Kulturhermeneutik: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Umgang mit kultureller Differenz. Hrg. Christoph Ernst, Walter Sparn, Hedwig Wagner, München: Fink, 2008. 187–206.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Ethik und Ästhetik in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Autobiographie: Philip Roths 'My Life as a Man' und 'The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography'." Inszenierte Erfahrung: Gender und Genre in Tagebuch, Autobiographie, Essay. Hrg. Renate Hof, Susanne Rohr, Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 2008. 111–130.
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2005
- Kley, Antje. "Print Culture, Contingency and the Discourse of Femininity in 18th Century England." Anglistentag 2004 Aachen: Proceedings. Ed. Lilo Moessner; Christa M. Schmidt, Trier: WVT, 2005. 121–135.
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2002
- Kley, Antje. "'Beyond control, but not beyond accommodation': Anmerkungen zu Homi K. Bhabha's Unterscheidung zwischen 'cultural diversity' und 'cultural difference'." Räume der Hybridität. Zur Aktualität Postkolonialer Konzepte. Hrg. Christof Hamann, Cornelia Sieber, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002. 53–66.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Orangen, 'Unnatural Passions' und das Autobiographische in Jeanette Wintersons 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'." Erlesenes Essen: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Hunger, Sattheit und Genuß. Hrg. Christa Grewe-Volpp und Werner Reinhart, Tübingen: Narr, 2002. 240–260.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Winterson, Jeanette." Lexikon Englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Hrg. Eberhard Kreutzer, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002. 628–29.
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2001
- Kley, Antje. "A post-Stonewall Account of a pre-Stonewall Life: Samuel Delany's 'The Motion of Light in Water'." The Sixties Revisited: Culture – Society – Politics. Ed. Jürgen Heideking, Jörg Helbig, Anke Ortlepp, Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 317–339.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "'I would have been an outlaw knot-maker': Gender, Genre und Ethnizität in Maxine Hong Kingstons 'The Woman Warrior'." Grenzüberschreibungen: 'Feminismus' und 'Cultural Studies'. Ed. Hanjo Berressem, Dagmar Buchwald, Heide Volkening, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2001. 209–238.
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2000
- Kley, Antje. "'There is no place/ that cannot be home/ nor is': Constructions of 'Home' in Audre Lorde's 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name'." Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Ed. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung und Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. 119–139.
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1999
- Kley, Antje. "Fanny Lewalds 'Meine Lebensgeschichte': Zwischen bürgerlicher Anpassung und emanzipatorischem Aufbruch." Geschlecht – Literatur – Geschichte. Ed. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999. 129–150.
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Reviews
- “Philip R. Yannella. American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.” Review 19, 6. Okt. 2011. 20. Okt. 2011.
- “Jeffrey Folks. From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative. New York: Lang, 2001.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 52.1 (2004): 95–6.
- “Heike Paul. Mapping Migration: Women’s Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.2 (2003): 265–66.
- “Stefan Horlacher: Visualität und Visualitätskritik im Werk von John Fowles. Tübingen: Narr, 1998.” Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews 4 (2002): 464–66.
- “Vera and Ansgar Nünning. Grundkurs anglistisch-amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Klett, 2001.” LWU 35.2 (2002): 176–77.
- “Roy Sommer. Fictions of Migration: Ein Beitrag zur Theorie und Gattungstypologie des zeitgenössischen interkulturellen Romans in Großbritannien. Trier: WVT, 2001.” LWU 35.2 (2002): 190–91.
- “John Pier, ed. Recent Trends in Narratological Research: Papers from the Narratology Round Table ESSE4-September 1997-Debrecen, Hungary and other contributions. GRAAT, 21. Tours: Université de Tours, 1999.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 49.3 (2001): 289–91.
- “Robert Cook. Sweet Land of Liberty: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. London: Longman, 1998.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 48.2 (2000): 188–89.
Workshops, Conferences, and Lecture Series
- Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) on “Rural America” (with Heike Paul). May 30, – June 2, 2013
- Panel moderation, Spiel und Ernst: Formen – Poetiken – Zuschreibungen für Erika Greber (section VII), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 12 – 14, 2012
- International Conference “‘Ideas of Order’: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 26 – 28, 2010 (with Jan Kucharzewski, University of Hamburg)
- Panel Moderation, “Pragmatism and Scientific Theories”, International Conference “Revisioning Pragmatism: William James in the New Millennium”, University of Hamburg, Jun. 24 – 26, 2010
- Panel Moderation, “Determinierung der Geschlechtsidentität: biologische Programmierung oder soziale Konstruktion?”, Symposium “Let’s Talk About Sex – Geschlechtlichkeit, Geschlechtsidentität und Geschlechterdifferenz”, Faculties of Medicine and Philosophy/FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 24, 2009 (with Helmuth-Günther Dörr)
- International and interdisciplinary Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy “Visual Cultures – Transatlantic Perspectives”, BAA München, Jul. 2 – 4, 2009 (with Christof Decker, Volker Depkat, Karsten Fitz, Barbara Hahn, Petra Dorsch-Jungsberger, Meike Zwingenberger) and Panel “Gender and Sexuality in Post/Modern Image Culture”
- Panel Moderation, “Pirates”, International Conference “Imagining Alternative Mobilities: Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives in the U.S. and Beyond”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jun. 18 – 20, 2009
- International and interdisciplinary Conference of the Erlangen Graduate College 706 “Das Andere der Trans/Differenz”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 6 – 8, 2008 (with Cristian Alvarado and Philip Erchinger)
- Workshop “The Mediality of American Literature”, 53. Annual conferece of the German Association of American Studies, Göttingen, Jun. 8 – 11, 2006 (with Peter Schneck)
- Section “British/American Studies and Media Studies”, Anglistentag Bamberg, Sep. 18 – 21, 2005 (with Angela Krewani)
- Lecture Series “Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies”, University of Bielefeld, Summer 1999 and Winter 1999/2000 (with Sabine Kyora and Dagmar Buchwald)
Papers, Lectures, Panel Contributions
- “Knowledge in the Face of Death: Contemporary Literary Narratives of the End of Life in the US” (The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure: An International Conference, Universität Mannheim, 04-06.05.2023);
- “Literary Epistemologies of Death in the 21st Century” (SLSAeu 2023: Models, Metaphors and Simulations. Epistemic Transformation in Literature, Science and the Arts, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 18-21.05.2023);
- “Narrative des Lebensendes: Gesellschaftliche Funktionen der Literatur” (FAU Scientia Gaststudium, 21.06.2023);
- “Literarische Narrative des Lebensendes: Relevanz und Funktion in US-amerikanischen Öffentlichkeiten” (Ringvorlesung des GRK 2806 “Literatur und Öffentlichkeiten,” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 15.11.2023
- “Public Interventions: The Literary Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Work, or ‘the complicated mess of a true conversation,’” American Studies Research Colloquium, Universität Bochum, December 6, 2022
- “Death Becomes Us: Contemporary US-American Narratives of the End of Life,” International Conference: Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking the Humanities Across Disciplines, December 2-3, 2022, Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” online
- “Disruptions in Place and Time in Contemporary US-American Narratives of the End of Life”, Here, There and Somewhere in Between: Placing, Practicing, Configuring, International Midterm Conference, RTG “Practicing Place”, Universität Eichstätt, November 11, 2022
- “Literary Public Interventions: Claudia Rankine’s Poetics”, Universität Mannheim, October 8, 2022
- „Vulnerabilität, Macht und Übersetzung in Katie Kitamuras Roman Intimitäten (2021)“, Ethik – Text – Kultur: Eine Ringvorlesung des Masterstudiengangs Ethik der Textkulturen, Universität Augsburg, July 28, 2022
- „Death Becomes Us: Narrative des Lebensendes in der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur“, Forschungstag der Philosophischen Fakultät und FB Theologie, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 21, 2022
- „Narrative des Lebensendes: Zeitdiagnosen in der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur“, Die drei Kulturenreconsidered: Interdisziplinäre Tagung zur Literatursoziologie, Universität Bielefeld, May 5, 2022, online
- “Vulnerability and the Fear of Death in Don DeLillo’s Novel Zero K (2016),” American Studies Research Colloquium, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 19, 2021, online
- “The End of Vulnerability? The Technological Deferral of Death in Don DeLillo’s Novel Zero K (2016),” American Studies Research Colloquium, LMU München, Jul. 15, 2021, online
- “Literary and Medical Knowledge Production around Death: Being Mortal in Paul Kalanithi’s Autopathography When Breath Becomes Air (2016),” Exploring Trans/Regionality: The Workings of Infrastructures and the Production of Knowledge, Second Workshop of the Knowledge Infrastructures Network, Center for International and Transnational Area Studies, Universität Regensburg, Jul.1–2, 2021, online
- “Knowledge, Fiction, and the (Technological) Deferral of Death: Reading Don DeLillo’s Novel Zero K (2016),” Death, Dying, Technology and Human Mortality, Annual Conference of the Center for Death and Society, University of Bath, Jun. 7–15, 2021, online
- „Politik und Poetik des vergänglichen Körpers in der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur,“ Interdisziplinärer Workshop Body Politics. Intersektionale Forschungsperspektiven auf den Körper, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Feb. 17 – 19, 2021, online
- “George Saunders, Lincoln im Bardo,” Große Werke der Literatur – Vortragsreihe der Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, Oct. 21, 2020, online
- “Tod – Körper – Geschlecht: Literarische Freiheit und Moralische Verantwortung in aktuellen US-amerikanischen Krankheitsmemoiren,” Keynote, 9. Öffentlicher Workshop des Arbeitskreises Biographie und Geschlecht, “Auto/Biographie und Geschlecht: Fake und Fiktion,” Universität Bayreuth, Oct. 1 – 2, 2020, online
- “Being Mortal: Literary and Medical Infrastructures of Knowledge Production around Death,” kick-off meeting of the Knowledge Infrastructures Network at the University of Regensburg, Aug. 24, 2020, online
- “Reading Death in Contemporary US-American Narrative: Julia Alvarez’ Afterlife (2020) and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo (2017),” American Studies Research Colloquium, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 28, 2020, online
- “Tod und Trauer in der Gegenwart: eine literarische Spurensuche,” Soziologisches Hauptseminar unter Leitung von Prof. Aida Bosch “Affektivität, Ästhetik und Sozialität,” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 4, 2020
- Respondent, Medical Humanities Workshop “Processing Threat: Constructing and Negotiating Vulnerability and Agency”, SFB 923 Bedrohte Ordnungen an der Universität Tübingen, Oct. 29, 2018
- Panel participation, Ohne Leitbilder? Zum Nutzen und Nachteil der Tradition für das Leben, Kooperation der FAU und der Brown University, Workshop des MA Elitestudiengangs Ethik der Textkulturen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 20 – 21, 2018
- “Public Humanities and Literary Knowledge: Four Theses on How Reading Matters”, Panel 8: American Studies as Engaged Scholarship: Doing Public Humanities from the Local to the Transnational, American Counter/Publics, Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, FU Berlin, May 24 – 27, 2018.
- mit Dorothee Brovelli, “Interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen auf die Verschränkung von Fachwissenschaft, Fachdidaktik und Bildungswissenschaft in Lehrerbildungscurricula”, Zwischen Aufwind und Aufwand: Positionen, Kontroversen und Ziele der Lehrerbildung, Summer School der Heidelberg School of Education, Jul 10 -14, 2017.
- “US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland.” Internationales Symposium Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture, Universität Konstanz, November 5 – 7, 2015.
- “Wissenschaftskommunikation und literarisches Erzählen,” ELINAS Lecture Series Narrating Science: Wissenschaft Erzählen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 22, 2015.
- “Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the US,” Knowledge Landscapes North America, Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Bonn, May 31, 2015.
- “This World is Not Conclusion‘: What does Literature Know?“ Amerikanistisches Forschungskolloquium, University of Mannheim, April 25, 2015.
- mit Karin Höpker, “Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things – Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels,” Fiction Meets Science: The World of Science under the Literary Microscope, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, November 20, 2014.
- “Response to Panel VI: Gendering TV Between Private and Public,” Television in Europe beyond the Iron Curtain – National and Transnational Perspectives since the 1950s, History and Media Studies Conference at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Dec. 7, 2013.
- with Karin Höpker. “Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers: Das Größere Glück“. Summer Academy of the German National Merit Foundation, La Colle sur Loup, France, Sept. 24, 2013.
- with Karin Höpker. “Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers: Das Größere Glück“. Lecture series: Quarks and Letters: Naturwissenschaften in Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jan. 7, 2013.
- “Kulturkontakte lesen – Lesen als Kulturkontakt,” Graduate School Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs, Rostock University, Jan. 25, 2012.
- “Narrative der Anerkennung in der US-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart”, Forschungskolloquium der Abteilung Literatur und Kultur am Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin, Apr. 22, 2010.
- “Zur Ethik medialer Repräsentation: Richard Powers’ Roman Plowing the Dark (2000),” Ethik des Erzählens in der Gegenwartsliteratur, conference of the chair for New German Literary History at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 3 – 5, 2008.
- “Ethics – Media – Representation: Aesthetic Experience and Identity Formation in Richard Powers’ Novel Plowing the Dark (2000).” Keynote. 8th international graduate conference of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 23 – 25, 2007.
- “Stranger than Paradise: Novelists, Immigrants, and Other Strangers: on Gary Steyngart’s Absurdistan.” USA: Amerikanische Autoren & Europäische Leser, House of Literature Basel, Jan. 27, 2007.
- “Print Culture, Contingency and the Discourse of Femininity in 18th Century England,” Anglistentag, Aachen, Sep. 26 – 29, 2004.
- “Media History and the Beginnings of the Novel in 18th Century England and America,” Cultures. Literatures. Histories. The Bremen Lectures, Jul. 7, 2004.
- “John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer,” Lecture series: Novels of the 20th century, University of Kiel, Nov. 25, 2003.
- “Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe,” Lecture series: Novels of the 20th century, University of Kiel, Nov. 26, 2002.
- “Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary American Autobiography,” W.E.B DuBois Lectures at the Humboldt University Berlin, Jun. 11, 2002.
- “Ethics of media representation in the English and the American Novel,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, LMU Munich, Nov. 9, 2001.
- “keeping pace with the visual revolution: Two Versions of Cubist Writing in the Anglo-American Modernism of Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis,” 48th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Bremen, Jun. 5 – 8, 2001.
- “Zwischen Relativismus und Universalismus: Das “erlesene” Selbst im zeitgenössischen autobiographischen Schreiben in den USA,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, University of Regensburg, Nov. 12 – 14, 1999.
- “A post-Stonewall Account of a pre-Stonewall Life: Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” 46th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Cologne, May 25 – 28, 1999.
- “Doubling Strategies and the Rhetorics of Sexuality in Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” 3rd international conference of the Collegium for African American Research, University of Münster, Mar. 18 – 21, 1999.
- “I would have been an outlaw knotmaker: Gender, Genre und Ethnische Identität in Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior,” series of lectures on the topic Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies, Bielefeld University, Jan. 18, 1999.
- “I would have been an outlaw knotmaker: Genre and Ethnicity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, University of Münster, Nov. 13 – 15, 1998.
- “There is no place/ that cannot be home/ nor is: Constructions of ‘home’ in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” MELUS Europe Founding Conference, Heidelberg University, Jun. 25 – 28, 1998.
- “Doubling Strategies in Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1997.
- “Fanny Lewalds Meine Lebensgeschichte: Zwischen bürgerlicher Anpassung und emanzipatorischem Aufbruch,” 3rd Colloquium Genderstudies/Frauenforschung, University of Mannheim, Jan. 27, 1995.
- “A River Called Treason to Rely On: Identitätskonstitution in Toni Morrisons Jazz,” 2nd Colloquium Genderstudies/Frauenforschung, University of Mannheim, Jan. 28, 1994.