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American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany
email: susanne.leikam@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
CV
Employment
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2012 - present: |
Assistant professor, American Studies, Universität Regensburg |
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2007 – 2011: |
Research assistant/instructor, American Studies, Universität Regensburg |
Education
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2012: |
Ph.D. American Studies, Universität Regensburg (defense in December 2012) |
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2007: |
M.A. American Studies, Geography; First State Exam English, German, and Education, Universität Regensburg |
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2003-2004: |
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA (Fulbright Scholar) |
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2001-2007: |
Universität Regensburg (American Studies, Geography, German as a Foreign Language) |
Academic Activities
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2007 – present: |
Editor of the e-Journal COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies) |
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2007 – 2011: |
Assistant Editor of Amerikastudien / American Studies |
Awards/Grants
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2013: |
DAAD-Förderung Vortragsreise/akademischer Austausch mit dem Department of American Studies der Masaryk-Universität Brno im Rahmen des Ostpartnerschaften-Programms Katharina Sailer Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of British and American Studies |
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2012: |
Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant from the American Studies Association Friends of the University of Regensburg Conference Grant (ASA Annual Meeting 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
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2010:
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German Academic Exchange Conference Grant; |
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Fulbright Scholar, American Studies Summer Institute “Re-Inventing America,” State University, San Francisco |
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Postgraduate Research Grant of the Bavarian America Academy |
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2008-11: |
Doctoral Fellowship, State of Bavaria (Elite Network Bavaria) |
Memberships/Affiliations
American Studies Association, German Association for American Studies, Fulbright Alumni Association, Fulbright Alumni Association, Chicago Historical Society, Heidelberg Spring Academy Network for American Studies
Publications
Editorial Responsibilities
Amerikastudien / American Studies (quarterly; http://www.amerikastudien.de/quarterly/index.html); assistant editor from 2007 to 2011.
COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (ejournal; http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/); editor since 2007.
English Studies in Brno (biannually published academic journal & ejournal; http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/home/publikace); member of the advisory/reviewing board since spring 2013.
Publications
Leikam, Susanne. Framing a City in Motion: Visual Representations of Earthquakes in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century San Francisco. Heidelberg: Winter, forthcoming.
Leikam, Susanne. Rev. of Writing the Northland: Jack London’s and Robert W. Service’s Imaginary Geography. By Barbara Stefanie Giehmann. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 61.2 (2013).
Leikam, Susanne. “‘Transnational Tales’ of Risk and Coping: Californian Disaster Narratives in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Transnational American Studies. Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies 2011, Regensburg. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 467-87. Print.
Leikam, Susanne, and Klara Stephanie Szlezák. “Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2010.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 56.2 (2011): 301-62. Print.
Leikam, Susanne, Ingrid Gessner, Sascha Pöhlmann, Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk, and Klara Stephanie Szlezák. “Editorial: Setting Out into the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century.” COPAS (2011). Web. <http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/pages/view/editorial>.
Leikam, Susanne. Rev. of Public Spaces and the Ideology of Place in American Culture. By Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle, eds. Amerikastudien /American Studies 55.1 (2010): 167-70. Print.
Leikam, Susanne. Rev. of Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America. By Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O’Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland Anglin, eds. Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.4 (2010): 772-75. Print.
Leikam, Susanne, and Klara Stephanie Szlezák. “Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2009.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.2 (2010): 301-62. Print.
Leikam, Susanne. “Depicting ‘Natural’ Disasters in U.S.-American History and Culture: San Francisco’s City Hall as an Icon of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.” COPAS 10 (2009). n. pag. Web.
Leikam, Susanne, and Birgit Bauridl. “Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2008.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 54.2 (2009): 277-329. Print.
Presentations
Presentations / Workshops
“Urban Imaginations of the Rural in T.C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done.” Rural America. 60th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies; Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; 31. May 2013.
“Urban Ruins on Display: The Aesthetics and Politics of San Franciscan Earthquake and Fire Representations into the Early Twentieth Century.” Invited Lecture. Department for English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; 16. May 2013.
“‘It is not about a hurricane—it is about America’? Discursive Framings of Hurricane Katrina.” Invited Lecture. Department for English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; 13. May 2013.
“Setting Out for the Empire at Home: Domestic Negotiations of Imperial Images ‘on Tour.’” Workshop organized with Birgit M. Bauridl (University of Regensburg). American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future, November 2012. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 16. Nov. 2012.
“‘They were merely sight-seeing’: Imperial Encounters with San Francisco’s Post-Earthquake Chinatown ‘on Tour.’” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future, November 2012. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 16. Nov. 2012.
“The Emplacement of American Lives.” Workshop organized with Sascha Pöhlmann (LMU München). American Lives. 59th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies; Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Mainz. 1. June 2012.
“Bilder als Quelle der Geschichtswissenschaft.” 10. Kontaktstudium für Geschichts- und Sozialkundelehrer an der Universität Regensburg: Migration, Kulturtransfer, Nationenbildung. University of Regensburg, Regensburg. 10 Nov. 2011.
“Sites of Disaster.” Teacher’s Conference “Teaching Spaces: British and American Literature and Culture.” University of Regensburg, Regensburg. 8 July 2011.
“Navigating Urban Disasterscapes: Documentary Photography of Natural Disasters in San Francisco’s Bay Area.” Symposium on Documentary Photography and the Aesthetics of the Waste Land; LMU Munich, Amerika-Haus. 27 June 2011.
“‘Transnational Tales’ of Risk and Coping: Californian Disaster Narratives in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” 58th Annual Conference of the GAAS; University of Regensburg, Regensburg. 17 June 2011.
“‘The Return to the Frontier’: Framing Earthquake Ruins in San Francisco at the Turn-of-the-Century.” Invited Lecture. Department for North American Studies / American Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, 20. Dec. 2010.
“‘Heaven and hell combined to produce chaos’: (Dis)orientation in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Crisis, Chains, and Change—American Studies for the Twenty-first Century November 2010. San Antonio, TX, 19. Nov. 2010.
“Narrating (Cultural?) Trauma: Jack London’s Eyewitness Report of the ‘Day of the End of the World.’” Symposium. Clinton Institute; Dublin, Ireland. 10 July 2009.
“‘Our Conflagration beats the Last Days of Pompeii’: Ideology in the Visual Representations of the City of San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.” Ghent Urban Studies Team [GUST] Doctoral Colloquium 2010; Ghent, Belgium, 7 May 2010.
“‘Mirrors of Horror’: Natural Disaster Photography in the United States.” Spring Academy 2009, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg. 2 Apr. 2009.
“Depicting ‘Natural’ Disasters in U.S.-American History and Culture: San Francisco’s City Hall as an Icon of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.” Postgraduiertenforum (PGF) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster. 30 Oct. 2008.
Teaching
Classes Taught
WS 2013/13: Introduction to English and American Literary Studies / American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries Block
SoSe 2012: Introduction to English and American Literary Studies / American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries Block / American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries
WS 2011/2012 Introduction to English and American Literary Studies / Block American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries/ / Reading American Literatures for Beginners
SoSe 2011 Block American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries/ American Literature I: From the Beginnings Through the 19th Century
WS 2010/11 American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries
SoSe 2010 “Representations of Disaster in American Literatures and Cultures”
WS 2009/10 Introduction to English and American Literary and Cultural Studies
WS 2009/10 American Literature II: The 20th and 21st centuries
SoSe 2009 “21st-century American Immigrant Literature”
WS 2008/2009 Introduction to English and American Literary Studies
SoSe 2008 “Short Forms of Modernist American Literature”
Teachers' Conferences
“Young Adult Literature: Coming of Age in the 21st Century.” W-Seminar Workshop, Gabelsberger-Gymnasium, Mainburg. 4 Mar. 2013.
“Bilder als Quelle der Geschichtswissenschaft.” 10. Kontaktstudium für Geschichts- und Sozialkundelehrer an der Universität Regensburg: Migration, Kulturtransfer, Nationenbildung. University of Regensburg, Regensburg. 10 Nov. 2011.
“Sites of Disaster.” Teacher’s Conference “Teaching Spaces: British and American Literature and Culture.” University of Regensburg, Regensburg. 8 July 2011.
