About
Pia Singmann is a doctoral candidate in American Studies.
She has a Bachelor and Master of Arts in American Literary and Cultural Studies as well as Comparative Literature from Ruhr University Bochum. In her Master thesis she analyzed a selection of Samuel R. Delany's work as an example for the instrumentalization of paratexts to establish a literary space to construct Critical Theory via fiction and, in turn, to deliberately (re)intellectualize speculative fiction.
Research
Her dissertation project is primarily concerned with speculative fiction’s negotiation of high literaricity, the fluctuating value perception of non-realism and the literary, as well as material infrastructure (a.o. the paratext) that enables this dynamic. With a temporal focus on American science fiction from the 1960s through to the late 1980s, the project aims to outline how these texts renegotiate their position within the larger literary infrastructure, hierarchal value system, and genre dynamic through various practices.
Address
Pia Singmann
- E-mail address: pia.singmann(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49 941 943 3507 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
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Location: PT 3.2.83
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik
Universität Regensburg
93040 Regensburg - Important information: Sprechstunden Wintersemester 2026/27 Nach Vereinbarung. Bitte senden Sie eine Email an American.Studies@ur.de.
CV
2021: B.A. English Studies and Comparative Literature, Ruhr-University, Bochum
Thesis: New Materialism and Non-Human Agency in Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach-Trilogy
2025: M.A. English Studies and Comparative Literature, Ruhr-University, Bochum
Thesis: Samuel R. Delany and the Paraliterary Perception of Speculative Fiction
Jan 2026 - present: Doctoral Researcher, American Studies, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz
Dissertation: A Speculative Negotiation of Literaricity and Literary Infrastructure(s) - Paratexts, Paraliterature, and New Wave Science Fiction
Teaching
- Introduction to Literature and Culture – University Konstanz, SoSe 2026
- Speculative Fiction and the Literary Margin - Ruhr University Bochum, WiSe 2025/2026