Klara Stephanie Szlezák

room: PT 3.2.70
phone:+49 (0) 941 / 943 - 3475
fax:+49 (0) 941 / 943 - 3590

American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany

email: klara-stephanie.szlezak@ur.de

office hours winter term 2013/2014: Tuesday 12-13.30

Editorial Responsibilities

COPAS: Current Objectives of Post-Graduate American Studies (2010- )

Publications

“‘Capturing’ Immigrant Children: The Issue of Americanization in Photographs by Augustus F. Sherman and Lewis W. Hine.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 57.1 (2012): 9-29. Print.

“‘Dressing Up American’ for the Camera: The Rhetorics of Clothing in Late Nineteenth-Century Immigrant Photography.” Abito e Identità. Vol. XI. Ed. Cristina Giorcelli. Rome, Italy: Ila Palma, 2011. 199-218. Print.

-----, Ingrid Gessner, Susanne Leikam, Sascha Pöhlmann, and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk. “Editorial: Setting Out into the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century.” COPAS—Current Objectives in American Studies 12 (2011). Web. <http://www-copas.uni-regensburg.de/editorial.php>.

-----, and Susanne Leikam. “Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2010.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 56.2 (2011): 277-323. Print.

“‘Welcome to Our Home!’: Staging Practices at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.” COPAS—Current Objectives in American Studies 12 (2011). Web. <http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/138/164>.

“Taming the Teeming Masses: Visualizing Order at Ellis Island.” Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies. Ed. Udo J. Hebel and Christoph Wagner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. 273-89. Print.

-----, and Susanne Leikam. “Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2009.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.2 (2010): 301-62. Print.

“The Ellis Island Experience: Through the Eyes of Lewis Hine.” aspeers 2 (2009): 71-89. Print and Web. <http://www.aspeers.com/2009/szlezak>.

Presentations

“Following the Cheese Trail: ‘Branded’ Vermont in Contemporary Food and Tourism Industries.” 60th Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies; University of Erlangen, Erlangen, June 1, 2013.

“Picturing the Young ‘Other’: The Ambivalence of Augustus F. Sherman’s Child Portraits.” International Conference “Devils and Dolls: Dichotomous Depictions of ‘The Child’”; University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, March 27, 2013.

“Evoking the Long Eighteenth Century at 19 North Square, Boston: The Paul Revere House as a Museal Approach to Spanning a Century.” SCSECS Annual Convention; Austin, Texas, February 22, 2013.

“Consuming the Sages of Concord: The Origins of American Literary Tourism in Concord, MA.” International Conference “Buying America: Literature and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century”; University of Paderborn, Paderborn, June 13, 2012.

“Housing American Poets’ Lives: The Biographies of Longfellow and Dickinson Exhibited in Their Homes in Cambridge and Amherst.” 59th Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies; University of Mainz, Mainz, June 2, 2012.

“The (Re-)Creation of Pasts in New England Writers’ Houses.” University of Erlangen, Erlangen, February 2, 2012.

“Ellis Island/Angel Island: Spaces of Immigrant Experiences.” English Teachers’ Conference “Teaching Spaces: British and American Literature and Culture”; University of Regensburg, Regensburg, July 9, 2011.

“Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House: ‘Welcome to Our Home!’” Post-Graduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies; University of Leipzig, Leipzig, November 7, 2010.

“Einwanderung und Identität in der U.S.-Demokratie.” 8. Kontaktstudium für Geschichtslehrer an der Universität Regensburg, “Die amerikanische Demokratie: Geschichte und Struktur des U.S.-Regierungssystems”; University of Regensburg, Regensburg, November 20, 2009.