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American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany
email: nassim.balestrini@ur.de
| office hours during the summer semester: |
Thursday, 15-15:45 Friday, 11-12 |
CV
Qualifications
| 05/02/2009 | Professorial-level accreditation for American Studies, Universität Regensburg |
| 18/02/2004 | Inaugural lecture and professorial-level accreditation (venia legendi for American Studies), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
| 14/01/2004 | Postdoctoral university quali fication lecture and colloquium |
| 06/2003 | Submission of a postdoctoral study (Habilitationsschrift) on "A Di fferent Kind of Reception History: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century American Literature into Opera" |
| 20/02/1995 | Ph.D. in American Studies, Slavic Studies, and Mass Media Research, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität, Mainz |
| 21/03/1994 | Submission of a dissertation on "Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian Novel (Dar), Its English Translation (The Gift), and Other Prose Works of the 1930s" |
| 08/1987-05/1988 | M.A. studies, American and Slavic Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| 10/1985-11/1991 | M.A. studies, American Studies (major), Slavic Studies (minor), and Mass Media Research (minor), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
Employment
| Since 9/2008 | Tenured senior lecturer (comparable to status of associate professor), Department of British and American Studies, Universität Regensburg |
| 10/2006-8/2008 | Temporary senior lecturer (comparable to status of associate professor), Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 04/2005-09/2006 | Interim chair, American Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Universität Paderborn |
| 04/2005 | Appointment as temporary senior lecturer (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit), Department of English and Linguistics (American Studies), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 10/1998-03/2005 | Postdoctoral researcher and instructor (wissenschaftliche Assistentin), American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 10/1997-09/1998 | Researcher and instructor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 09/1995-07/1997 | Lecturer, English Department, University of California, Davis |
| 04/1995-08/1995 |
Researcher and instructor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
Learned Societies
Memberships
- American Studies Association
- Bayerische Amerika-Akademie
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German
Association for American Studies) - European Association of American Studies
- International Vladimir Nabokov Society
- Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations
- Modern Language Association
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Offices and Duties
- Reader for PMLA. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (3/2011, 8/2011)
- Reader for Amerikastudien/American Studies (2011-)
- Executive Council of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society (2007-2008)
- Associate Editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (http://etc.dal.ca/noj/) (2007-)
- Executive committee of the Discussion Group on Operaas a Literary and Dramatic Genre, Modern Language Association (2006-2011)
Research Funding
- Scholarships
- Research Grants
- Grants for Conferences and Events
- Funding for Research Assistants
- Travel Grants
Scholarships |
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| 04/1986-11/1991 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 08/1987-05/1988 | German Academic Exchange Service, year of university study in the United States |
| 12/1991-03/1992 | Ph.D. grant, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität, Mainz |
Research Grants |
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| 04/2001-09/2001 | Gutenberg Fellowship, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
| 09/2000-09/2001 | American Studies Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Commission and the German Association for American Studies |
| 04/1992-03/1994 | Ph.D. fellowship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate |
Grants for Conference and Events |
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| 12/2005 | Friends of the Universität Paderborn and the Chancelor of the Universität Paderborn (evening of art song with settings of poems by Emily Dickinson) |
| 12/2004 | Center for Intercultural Studies and the Interdisciplinary Research Group for North-American Studies (evening of art song with settings of poems by Emily Dickinson) |
| 10/2003 | Thyssen Foundation and the Center for Intercultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (Conference: "Russian Emigration from 1917 to the Present: Literature - Language - Culture" in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Frank Göbler, Institut für Slavistik) |
Funding for Research Assistants |
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| 5/2008 | Funding for research assistance, Presidential Fund for Women with Postdoctoral Degrees, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 10/2007 | Funding for research assistance, Presidential Fund for Women with Postdoctoral Degrees, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
Travel Grants |
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| 10/2011 | Regensburg University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| 12/2008 | DFG (San Francisco, California) |
| 12/2006 | DFG (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| 07/2006 | Research fund of the Universität Paderborn (Oxford, England) |
| 02/2005 | DFG (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| 07/2004 | DFG (Salem, Massachusetts) |
| 11/2002 | SOCRATES Fellowship (Vienna) |
| 12/2000 | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Washington, D.C.) |
| 12/1999 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Chicago) |
| 11/1999 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Freiburg) |
| 10/1999 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (St. Petersburg, Russia) |
| 05/1996 | University of California, Davis (San Diego) |
Publications
- Monographs
- Editorial Responsibilities
- Articles in Journals and Books
- Articles in Handbooks and Encyclopedias
- Reviews
Monographs
Vladimir Nabokovs Erzählwerk: Eine Einführung (Vladimir Nabokov's Fiction: An Introduction). Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik 86. München: Otto Sagner, 2010 [c2009]. viii, 304 p.
From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera. Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 51. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005. xii, 582 p.
Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian Novel (Dar), Its English Translation (The Gift), and Other Prose Works of the 1930s. Dissertation. Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 31. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995. 396 p. [under: Berdjis]
Editorial Responsibilities
Adaptation and American Studies: Perspectives on Research and Teaching, with an Afterword by Linda Hutcheon. American Monograph Series 216. Heidelberg: Winter, November 2011.
Nabokov Online Journal (http://etc.dal.ca/noj/). Associate Editor since 2007.
Articles in Journals and Books
"Transnational and Transethnic Textures; or, `Intricate Interdependencies' in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo (2002)." Accepted for publication in Amerikastudien / American Studies.
"Appropriating `The Birth-mark' in the Twenty-First Century: From Aylmer's Experiment to Aesthetic Surgery." Accepted for publication in Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 38.1 (Spring 2012).
"Adaptation Studies and American Studies: Interfaces." Adaptation and American Studies: Perspectives on Research and Teaching, with an Afterword by Linda Hutcheon. Hg. Nassim Balestrini. American Monograph Series. Heidelberg: Winter, November 2011. 1-29.
"Adaptation and the American Band Tradition: A Conversation with Jonathan Elkus." Adaptation and American Studies: Perspectives on Research and Teaching, with an Afterword by Linda Hutcheon. Hg. Nassim Balestrini. American Monograph Series. Heidelberg: Winter, November 2011. 31-67.
"Lawson Fusao Inada's Poetic Practice in His Drawing the Line (1997)." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 51 (2010): 343-56.
"National Memory and the Arts in Paul Laurence Dunbar's War Poetry." We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality. Ed. Willie Harrell, jr. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2010. 17-31.
"Nabokov's Lolita: A Screenplay: Epic - Dramatic - Cinematic." Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne. Ed. Erik Martiny. Paris: Armand Colin/Sedes, 2009. 149-58.
"Emily Dickinson im amerikanischen Künstlerdrama." Das Künstlerdrama als Spiegel ästhetischer und gesellschaftlicher Tendenzen. Ed. Frank Göbler. Mainzer Forschungen zu Drama und Theater 41. Tübingen: Francke, 2009. 225-48.
"Authenticity and Aesthetics: Names and Naming in Eudora Welty's Losing Battles." `My age is as a lusty winter': Essays in Honour of Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Mainz University Studies in English 15. Trier: WVT, 2009. 15-23.
"The Bridges in Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister and in Ödön von Horváth's Hin und Her (Back and Forth)." The Nabokovian 60 (Spring 2008): 44-50.
"Paul Laurence Dunbar and Postbellum African-American Poetry." Approaches to Teaching Nine- teenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Paula Bennet, Karen Kilcup, and Philip Schweighauser. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007. 172-84.
“The Scarlet Letter as Centennial Melodrama and Contemporary Opera: Between the Threat and the Promise of a Shared Puritan Past." Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Ruth Mayer. American Monograph Series 145. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 185-207.
“Between California and Camp: Space and Structure in the Multipart Poems of Lawson Fusao Inada."Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Diana von Fink and Oliver Scheiding. Würzburg:Königshausen und Neumann, 2007. 173-93.
“Robert Hayden (1913-1980): Artistic Integrity and Religious Belief." Religion in African-American Culture. Ed. Winfried Herget and Alfred Hornung. American Monograph Series 83. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.195-217.
“`Britva' and Abstract Art." The Nabokovian 56 (Spring 2006): 31-38
“Rip Van Winkle on the Stage: Myth and Icon of American Origins." US Icons and Iconicity. Ed. Walter W. Hölbling, Klaus Rieser, and Susanne Rieser. American Studies in Austria 4. Wien: LIT, 2006. 75-92.
„Exilerfahrung in den Erzählungen Nabokovs." Russische Emigration im 20. Jahrhundert: Literatur -Sprache - Kultur. Ed. Frank Göbler, unter Mitarbeit von Ulrike Lange. Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik 76.München: Sagner, 2005. 225-44.
“The Mythical Pocahontas on the American Stage: Musical Characterization in James Nelson Barker's and John Bray's The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage (1808)." Colonial Encounters: Essays in Early American History and Culture. Ed. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. American Studies: A Monograph Series 109. Heidelberg:Winter, 2003. 263-82.
“The Architecture of the Mind: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Short Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James." Amerikastudien / American Studies 47.3 (2002): 345-57.
“The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Naming in Vladimir Nabokov's Stories." Names: A Journal of Onomastics 50.1 (March 2002): 23-42.
“Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's `Music' and Leo Tolstoy's `The Kreutzer Sonata'." Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Steven Kellman and Irving Malin. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 35. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 53-73.
“Nabokov Criticism in German-Speaking Countries: A Survey." Nabokov Studies 5 (1998/1999) [c2000]: 185-234
“Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka." Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. Ed. Lisa Zunshine. New York: Garland, 1999. 87-110.
Articles in Handbooks and Encyclopedias
"July, Miranda." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Online literature encyclopedia. Stuttgart: Metzler, to appear 2011.
"July, No One Belongs Here More Than You." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Online literature encyclopedia. Stuttgart: Metzler, to appear 2011.
"Boucicault, Dion." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 3. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 1.
"Boucicault, The Poor of New York." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 3. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold.Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 2.
"Dove, Rita." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 4. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 751.
"Dove, Das lyrische Werk." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 4. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 752-53.
"Jones, Edward P.." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 8. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 428.
"Jones, The Known World." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 8. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 428-29.
"Mowatt, Anna Cora." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 11. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 536.
"Mowatt, Fashion." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 11. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 536-37.
"Nabokov, Ada." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 11. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 705-06.
"Nabokov, Lectures on Literature." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 11. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 707. Reprinted in: Vladimir Nabokov. Die Kunst des Lesens. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2010. 551-53.
"Paulding, James Kirke, The Lion of the West." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Vol. 12. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Third ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 604-05.
"Those Winter Sundays." Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. 495.
"Fragmented Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1945)." Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Ed. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 115-17.
"The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress's Florence (1950)." Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Ed. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 108-11.
Reviews
Astrid Franke. Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. Forthcoming in Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 53 (2012).
Barbara Straumann. Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.1 (2010): 173- 77.
Dieter E. Zimmer. Wirbelsturm Lolita: Auskünfte zu einem epochalen Roman. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2008. To appear in Anglistik.
Sharon Hoover, ed. Willa Cather Remembered. Lincoln:U of Nebraska P, 2002. Amerikastudien / American Studies 53.1 (2008): 129{30.
Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Amerikastudien / American Studies 52.3 (2007): 451-53.
Barbara Hüppe. Von Wortspielen zu Weltspielen: Elemente postmodernen Erzählens in Vladimir Nabokovs englischen Romanen. Beiträge zur Anglistik 12. Trier: WVT, 2003. Amerikastudien / American Studies 50.1-2 (2005): 325.
Roland Hagenbüchle and Joseph Raab, eds. Negotiations of America's National Identity. 2 Bde. Tübingen: Stauenburg, 2000. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 42 (2001): 489-92.
Nina Allen. Madness, Death and Disease in the Fiction of Nabokov. Birmingham, 1994. Nabokov Studies 3 (1996): 227-29. [unter: Berdjis]
Christopher Hüllen. Der Tod im Werk Vladimir Nabokovs: Terra Incognita. München: Otto Sagner, 1990. Nabokov Studies 3 (1996): 229{33. [unter: Berdjis]
Presentations
Public Lectures
2011
"A Community of Internet Performers: Miranda July's and Harrell Fletcher's Learning to Love You More (2007)." Annual Conference of the American Studies Association. Baltimore, 21 October.
"Ballrooms and Buses: Three Approaches to Teaching Rita Dove." Teacher training seminar "Teaching Spaces," Regensburg University, 8 July.
Workshop with PD Dr. Kerstin Schmidt. \Black Transnationalism Reconsidered." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Regensburg University, 18 June.
"The Interfaces of Oral and Visual Cultures in Eudora Welty's Losing Battles (1970)." Duisburg-Essen University, 8 June.
Organisation of a session of the Discussion Group on Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form on "Contemporary Self-Reexive Opera" at the annual convention
of the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles, 7 January.
2010
"Essentialism, Self-Invention, and Post-Nationalist American Studies: A Reading of Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo (2002)." Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1 June.
2009
"`New Mestizas' and `Aztec Moments': Approaching Sandra Cisneros's Novel Caramelo (2002)." Universität Bamberg, 23 June.
"The Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring Options for a Transnational Project." Universität Regensburg, 7 May.
"Robert Hayden (1913-1980): Poet, Professor, Public Figure." Eighth Conference of the Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, 26 March (paper read by B. Bauridl, M.A.).
"The Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada in the Twenty-First Century." Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 22 January.
2008
Organizer and chair of a panel on "Adaptation" at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association in San Francisco, 27 December (upon invitation of the president of the Lyrica Society for Word{Music Relations, Prof. Paul-André Bempéchat, Harvard University).
"Canonized, Popular: Emily Dickinson in the Theater." Universität Bayreuth, 17 November. Lecture recital of an evening of art song (with musicians Prof. Melinda Paulsen and Ulrich Kone
ke) with settings of poems by Emily Dickinson, Hochschule für Kunst und Musik, Frankfurt, 7. November.
"The Political Dimension of William Bartram's Travels (1791)." Universität Erfurt, 19 June.
"Teaching African American Poetry: Three Approaches to Rita Dove's Works." Workshop on "Contemporary American Literature" for high-school English teachers. Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Institut für schulische Fortbildung, Boppard, 25 April.
"Eugene O'Neill: A Moon for the Misbegotten." Staatstheater Mainz, 3 April.
"Emily Dickinson im amerikanischen Drama" (Emily Dickinson in American Drama). Lecture series of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Drama and Theater, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 23 January.
"Lawson Fusao Inada's Poetic Practice in Drawing the Line (1997)." Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 11 January.
2007
"Of Virgins and Witches: Religiosity and Ethnic Identity in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo (2003)." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Bochum and Dortmund, 1 June.
2006
"Dmitrij Shostakovich: Singing Nikolaj Gogol's Nos." Annual convention of the Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, 28 December.
Chair of a session on "Reading American Literature in the Bush Era." Conference on "Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe." Oxford, England, 16 July (upon invitation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society).
"Rip Van Winkle: A Nineteenth-Century American Stage Icon." Lecture series on "American Icons" sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Research Group for North-American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz, 4 May.
2005
"Walter Kaufmann's Scarlet Letter Opera." Annual convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., USA, 29 December.
"Vladimir Nabokov and Abstract Modern Art." Annual convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., USA, 28 December. Lecture recital of an evening of art song (with musicians Prof. Melinda Paulsen and Ulrich Kone
ke) with settings of poems by Emily Dickinson. Rathaussaal Paderborn, 9 December.
"The Political Dimension of William Bartram's Travels (1791)." Universität Bamberg, 1 December.
"Between Minstrelsy and Poetry: African American Artists in the 1920s." Universität Paderborn, 8 November.
"Enter Hester Prynne: The Scarlet Letter as Opera." University of California, Davis, 12 April.
"Enter Hester Prynne: The Scarlet Letter as Musical Theater." St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, California, 4 April.
"The Aesthetics of Exile: Vladimir Nabokov's `Britva.'" Session of the Vladimir Nabokov Society at the
"33rd Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference." Louisville, Kentucky, 26 February.
2004
"Between Myth and Mississippi: Names in Eudora Welty's Losing Battles." Session of the American Name Society at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, 28 December.
Lecture recital of an evening of art song (with musicians Prof. Melinda Paulsen and Ulrich Koneffke) with settings of poems by Emily Dickinson. Institut für
Musikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 17 December.
"150 Years of The Scarlet Letter as Drama and Opera." Conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society on occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hawthorne.
Salem, Massachusetts, 2 July.
Chair of the session on "Per/Formative Identities." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Mannheim, 5 June.
2003
"Rip Van Winkle on the Stage: Myth and Icon of American Origins." Annual meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Universität Graz, 7 November.
"Exilerfahrung in Vladimir Nabokovs russischen und amerikanischen Erzählungen" (The Experience of Exile in Vladimir Nabokov's Russian and American Short
Stories). Conference on "Russische Emigration von 1917 zur Gegenwart" (Russian Emigration from 1917 to the Present). Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Institut für Slavistik, 16 October.
2002
Four courses sponsored by the SOCRATES Lecturer Exchange Program. Topics: American Theater History; The Civil Rights Movement; Henry James and Edith Wharton; Lorraine Hansberry. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Wien, November.
"Creating Cultural Memory: Colonizers and Indians in James Nelson Barker's and John Bray's The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage (1808)." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies.Wittenberg, 25 May.
2000
"Mythology, Patriotism, and Independence: Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle as American Opera by George Frederick Bristow and John Hill Hewitt." Annual convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., USA, 30 December.
"Vladimir Nabokov: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Multilingual Naming." Annual conference of the American Name Society. Washington, D.C., USA, 29 December.
"Settling Mentally and Physically: Contemporary California Poetry." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Universität Dresden, 15 June.
1999
"Art and Marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's `Music' and Leo Tolstoy's `The Kreutzer Sonata."' Conference on
"Nabokov at 100." Universität Freiburg, 5 November.
"Nabokovs Leben und Werk im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Presse" (Depictions of Nabokov's Life and Work in the German Press). Conference on
"Nabokov and Germany," Vladimir Nabokov Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia, 23 October (upon invitation of the Vladimir Nabokov Museum).
"Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and the Black Arts Controversy." Annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Universität Köln, 26 May.
1998
"Nineteenth-Century Literature in Twentieth-Century Opera: Edgar Allan Poe's `The Fall of the House of Usher.'" Annual convention of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, 29 December.
"The Libretto as/and Literature: Research Trends." Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies. Universität Münster, 15 November.
1997
"Robert Hayden: Artistic Integrity and Religious Belief." Memorial Conference in Honor of Dr. KarlWilhelm Dietz on "Religion in African American Literature."
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 6 December.
"Welcome to the Puppet Show: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Igor Stravinsky' Petrushka." Scholars' Symposium. University of California, Davis, 5 June.
1996
The Spiderweb and the Wide-Open House: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Short Stories by Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov." Annual convention
of the American Literature Association. San Diego, 30 May.
Teaching
Teaching
Courses |
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| Universität Regensburg | |
| SS 2012 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies,
PS American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the Nineteenth Century, PS American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries, HS American Music Videos Review American Literature Presentation B.A. |
| WS 2011/2012 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; Proseminar "American Literature II: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"; Seminar "Topical Issues in Contemporary American Culture"; Seminar "The Politics of Poetry"; Academic Writing for M.A. Students |
| SS 2011 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; Proseminar "American Literature II: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"; Seminar "Topical Issues in Contemporary American Culture"; Seminar "Twenty-First-Century American Fiction"; Presentation Strategies (for B.A. students in American Studies, British Studies, and English Linguistics); American Literature Review |
| WS 2010/2011 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; Proseminar "American Literature II: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries"; Seminar "Topical Issues in Contemporary American Culture"; Seminar "Transnational American Studies"; Academic Writing for M.A. Students |
| SS 2010 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; American Literature Review; Proseminar "American Literature II: The Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries"; Seminar "Topical Issues in Contemporary American Culture"; Seminar "American Nature Writing"; Academic Writing/Academic Skills for M.A. Students |
| WS 2009/2010 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; American Literature Review; Contemporary American Cultures; Seminar "European- American Dislocations"; M.A. Seminar "Readings in European-American Relations"; Academic Writing/ Academic Skills for M.A. Students |
| SS 2009 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; American Literature Review; Contemporary American Cultures; Seminar "American Theater Culture from the Beginnings to the Civil War"; Academic Writing/Academic Skills for M.A. Students |
| WS 2008/2009 | Introduction to English and American Literary Studies; Presentation Strategies (for B.A. students in American Studies, British Studies, and English Linguistics); American Literature Review; Contemporary American Cultures; Proseminar "Indians in American Literature and Culture"; Academic Writing" Academic Skills for M.A. Students |
| Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz | |
| SS 2008 | Lecture Course "American Drama and Theater from the Beginnings to the Civil War"; Culture Studies I |
| WS 2007/2008 | Lecture Course "American Literature, 960-2007"; Proseminar "Contemporary American Poetry" |
| SS 2007 | Lecture Course "American Literature, 1920- 1960"; Seminar "Literature of the American South in the Canon: Current Debates"; Culture Studies I |
| WS 2006/2007 | Lecture Course "American Literature,1870{1920"; Seminar (with Dr. Peter Niedermüller from the Institute for Musicology) "Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe: Reception in Literary Criticism, on the Stage, and in Music"; Culture Studies I; Introduction to English Philology |
| Universität Paderborn | |
| SS 2006 | Lecture Course "American Novelists since 1950"; Seminar "Literature of the American South"; Seminar 2Formal Pluralism in American Poetry since 1970"; Proseminar "The American Short Story: A Flexible Genre" |
| WS 2005/2006 | Seminar "Between History and Myth: The U.S. Civil War"; Seminar "American Poetry from the Puritans to the Revolution"; Proseminar "Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry"; Lecture Course "Introduction to American and British Literary Studies"; Proseminar "Literary Analysis" |
| SS 2005 | Seminar "Emily Dickinson"; Seminar "American Theater History from the Revolution to the Civil War"; Proseminar \Vladimir Nabokov's Stories"; Lecture Course "Introduction to American and British Literary Studies" |
| Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz | |
| WS 2004/2005 | Lecture Course "American Drama and Theater from the Beginnings to the Civil War"; Culture Studies I |
| SS 2004 | Lecture "Multi-Ethnic America"; Proseminar "Contemporary American Theater: Broadway, O-Broadway, Hollywood"; Culture Studies IV "Versions of the American Civil War" |
| WS 2003/2004 | Proseminar "Emily Dickinson"; Culture Studies I |
| SS 2003 | Proseminar "Henry James"; Introduction to English Philology |
| WS 2002/2003 | Proseminar "Washington Irving's Sketch-Book"; Culture Studies II |
| SS 2002 | Proseminar "Henry James"; Introduction to English Philology |
| WS 2001/2002 | Proseminar "Vladimir Nabokov's Stories"; Culture Studies IV "Theater in American Culture: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War" |
| SS 2000 | Proseminar "African American Drama: Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry"; Culture Studies I |
| WS 1999/2000: | Proseminar "African American Poetry"; Culture Studies IV "Nature Writing" |
| SS 1999 | Proseminar "American Literary Realism"; Culture Studies I |
| WS 1999/1998 | Proseminar "American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950"; Culture Studies I |
| SS 1998 | Proseminar "Early Romanticism in American Literature" |
| WS 1997/1998 | Lecture Tutorial "American Literature, 1865-1920" |
| University of California, Davis | |
| 09/1995-06/1997 | Intro. to Literature & Composition |
| Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz | |
| SS 1995: | Translation; Essay Writing; Integrated Language Course (grammar review); Culture Studies II |
Advisory Work
2011
Idealization and Deconstruction: Negotiating Gender in the `Old South' during the 1930s (M.A. thesis, second reader)
2010
Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (dissertation, second reader)
Pioneer Women on the Frontier: Deconstructing the Ideology of a Masculine Frontier West (M.A. thesis, second reader)
African Americans in Selected Vietnam War Movies (M.A. thesis, second reader)
Visualizing a National Farewell: Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train (B.A. thesis, second reader)
The American Thanksgiving Tradition in Selected American TV Series (B.A. thesis, second reader)
Negotiating Transformations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry (dissertation, second reader)
Research Policies in the U.S. and Europe: Political, Economic, Cultural Perspectives (M.A. thesis, second reader)
`We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail': Reasserting Trust in the United States after 9/11 (B.A. thesis, second reader)
Negotiating the American Dream in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Manhattan Transfer (B.A. thesis, second reader)
Segregation and Music in Nothing But a Man (B.A. thesis, second reader)
Bilingual Education in the Toppenish (WA) School District: Policy, Application, Obstacles, Best Practices (M.A. thesis, second reader)
`Hunger is nothing if not a void': Hunger and Eating in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (M.A. thesis, second reader)
2009
Residential School Apology = Residential School Apology? Media Responses in Comparison (B.A. thesis, second reader)
War Reporting in the 21st Century: Ulrich Tilgner and John Lee Anderson in Comparison (B.A. thesis, second reader)
2008
Reality Is Dead; Long Live the Dream: The Nihilistic Realism in Fitzgerald's Novels (M.A. thesis, second reader)
2007
Im Reich des Disney-Dollar: Inszenierungen in deutschsprachigen Fernsehreportagen zwischen 1980 und 2000 (dissertation, fourth reader)
An Ecocritical Study of Selected Works by William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Janisse Ray, and Eudora Welty (M.A. thesis, rst reader)
The Signi cance of Family in African-American Drama after 1950 (M.A. thesis, second reader)
`The Hills Rise Wild': Postcolonial Perspectives in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (M.A. thesis, second reader)
2006
Names in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo (B.A. thesis, rst reader)
Naturalistic Elements in Selected Stories by Jack London (B.A. thesis, rst reader)
Di erenz und Gesellschaft: Ethnische Dramen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Israel Zangwills The Melting Pot und Angelina Weld Grimkes Rachel (dissertation, third reader)
Contemporary Autobiographies by Black Women (dissertation in progress, rst reader)
2005
Framing and Reframing the Ladies: Viewing Attitudes in The Portrait of a Lady and Its Cinematic Counterpart (dissertation, third reader)
Community and Family Structures in Selected Works by Alice Walker and Eudora Welty (M.A. thesis, rst reader)
Contemporary Autobiographies by Black Women: The Back-to-Africa Memoir as a Means to Trace (One's) Identity (M.A. thesis, second reader) Blurring the Color Line in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Juneteenth (M.A. thesis, second reader)
Dealing with the Destructive Element: American Discourse on the Atomic Bomb (M.A. thesis, secondreader)
2004
Representation of the Legacy of King Philip's War in American Historiography until 1865 (M.A. thesis, second reader)
The Staging of American Politics: Melodrama in the Nineteenth Century (M.A. thesis, second reader)
