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Dr. Stefanie Weymann-Teschke

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American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany

email: Stefanie.Weymann-Teschke@ur.de


Office hours during the semester break summer 2024:

Wednesday, 24 July, 3-4pm (in person)
Wednesday, 14 August, 3-4pm (in person)
Wednesday, 4 September 3-4pm (in person)
Wednesday, 9 October, 3-pm (Zoom)

and by appointment via Zoom

To register, please send an email to stefanie.weymann-teschke@ur.de at least 24 hours in advance. 


CV

Dr. phil., Amerikanische/Englische Philologie, Heidelberg University: The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

M.A. in English, Kings's College London

B.A. in English and American Studies / Neuere deutsche Literatur, University of Freiburg

Academic Appointments

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, University of Regensburg, current

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, University of Jena, 2022-2024

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Kiel University, 2016-2021

Research Interests

18th to 21st Century American Literature

The City in Literature, Spatial Theory

Spectrality, Gothic Literature

Literature and Material Culture, Thing Theory

Journey Narratives


Publications

Weymann-Teschke, Stefanie. The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses. American Studies - A Monograph Series. Vol. 288. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018. 

Weymann-Teschke, Stefanie: "Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo." The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics. Eds. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov and Estelle Murail. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 83-99.

Weymann, Stefanie. "Performing New York, Narrating Urban Complexity: E.L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley." Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature and Film. Eds. Jens Martin Gurr and Wilfried Raussert. Trier and Tempe Arizona State U: WVT and Bilingual P, 2011. 77-84.


Presentations

"Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo." Persisting Souls in Literature, Art, History, Politics, Institut Catholique de Paris, April 11-12, 2019.

"The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses." University of Notre Dame, Sept. 28-29, 2015.

"Walking New York." Cities of Translation, Trinity College Dublin, May 9, 2014.

"Performing Space: The City in Contemporary American Literature." Simultanety, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityshapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature, Film and Media, University of Bielefeld, June 25-26, 2010.

"Performing Space: The City in Contemporary American Literature." Spring Academy, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 22-26, 2010. 


Teaching

University of Regensburg

American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the 19th Century

University of Jena

Undergraduate Seminars

  • Literature of the Early American Republic
  • Road Stories
  • New York in Literature
  • London in Literature
  • American Postmodernism
  • American Gothic Fiction
  • Introduction to Literary Studies II (multiple times)

Graduate Seminars

  • The Stories That Objects Tell: Readings Things in Literature
  • American Realism and Naturalism
  • British Gothic Fiction
  • Samuel Beckett

Kiel University

Undergraduate Seminars

  • Journey Narratives
  • New York in Literature
  • “No Ideas But in Things”: American Literature and the World of Objects
  • The Art of Satire in British Literature
  • Travelers and Vagabonds: American Tales from the Road
  • Literary London
  • Concepts and Methodologies: Introduction to Reading Literary Texts (multiple times)

Graduate Seminars

  • The Otherness of Things: Encounters with the Object World in Literature
  • American Realism and Naturalism
  • Narrating the City
  • “I Shall Say I No More”: The (De)Construction of Identity in the Works of Samuel Beckett
  • The City in Literature and Film


  1. INSTITUT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK