Johanna Pelikan

• Modernist Studies, avant-garde poetry, Mina Loy
• Epistemology, Semiotics, American Pragmati(ci)sm
• Intermediality, Visual Culture
• Literary Theory, Aesthetics
• Gender Studies, Craft Studies
• UNESCO World Heritage

CV

• research associate, Universität Hamburg (Germany), 04/2020-03/2025
• Ph.D. (title of doctoral thesis: Incipience, Instability, Infinity: Reality Constitution in Mina Loy’s Creative Work), Universität Hamburg (Germany), 04/2020-01/2025
• M.A. North American Studies (Literature & Culture), Freie Universität Berlin  (Germany), 10/2017-09/2019   
• scholarship for the Fulbright Summer School 2016 in Berlin, German-American Fulbright Commission, 08/2016
• exchange semester, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA), 08/2014-12/2014
• scholarship for Bachelor and Master Studies, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw), 10/2013-09/2019
• B.A. English and American Studies and Political Science, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), 10/2013-03/2017

Publications

Reviews

• Pelikan, Johanna. “Children in Flight and Women in Cages.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2025, www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/children-in-flight-and-women-in-cages.

Editorships

• Pelikan, Johanna, and Burak Seezer, editors. “Flora – Fauna – Gender.” gender forum, 2025. [in preparation]

Conference Reports

• Feline, Emma and Johanna Pelikan. “‘Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023’ Conference Report.” The Modernist Review, 6 Sept. 2023, www.modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/mapping-mina-loy-studies-in-2023-conference-report/.

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

• “Mina Loy: A Transatlantic Modernist”, Seminar  Americans in Europe: A Transatlantic History of Art and Literature, Universität Hamburg (Germany), 17/12/2024
• “Illuminating the Concept of UNESCO World Heritage: A Shared History and Future”, Workshop der The British Arts Society Hamburg e.V., Universität Hamburg (Germany), 22/10/2024
• “Sonic Serendipities: Lessons in Wit and Auditive Power from Mina Loy‘s Poetry Tracks”, DgfA-Jahrestagung: Soundscapes, Universität Oldenburg (Germany), 25/05/2024
• “Shadow Bodies of the Shopping Mall: Homelessness in Mina Loy’s Post-War Poetry and Visual Art”, Workshop Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968), Lund University (online), 27/10/2023
• “Ostracized with Gods in France: Mina Loy’s Parisian Network as Key to her Aesthetic Theory”, Konferenz Mina Loy and Her Networks, Sorbonne Université & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France), 09/09/2023
• “Conflating Fantastical Lunar and Realist Urban Spaces: The Pragmaticist Nature of Mina Loy’s Worlds”, Konferenz All about / Unfolding’: Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023, Universität Leipzig (online), 05/08/23

Courses

• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (SoSe 20) 
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (WiSe 20/21) 
• “Constituting Reality in Modernist Art and Poetry” (SoSe 21) 
• “Beyond Rational Meaning-Making in Modernist Literature” (WiSe 21/22) 
• “Physical Science and the ‘Physics’ of Modernist Visual Art and Poetry” (SoSe 22)
• “American Detective Fiction” (WiSe 22/23)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (SoSe 23)
• “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” (WiSe 23/24)
• “American Poetry and Consumerism” (SoSe 24)
• “Refuse Reflections: American Literature, Visual Art, and Waste” (WiSe 24/25)

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