Werdegang
Current:
SS 2011
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Akademische Oberrätin, Lehrstuhl North American Studies
am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
WS 10/11
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Vertretungsprofessorin, Lehrstuhl North American Studies
am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
WS 08/09
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Vertretungsprofessorin für Nordamericanische Literatur- und
Kulturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik der
Universität Hamburg
since 8/06
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Privatdozentin für Amerikanistik am Fachbereich 10- Sprach-
und Literaturwissenschaften der Universität Bremen
Freelance work:
2008-
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Language Trainers (Great Britain, Frankfurt/Main)
freie Mitarbeiterin
- Abat AG (SAP Software Training) Bremen
- Bremische Beamten-Baugesellschaft GmbH
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Translation Consultant
Research Project funded by the American Councel of Learned
Societies
Education
- Habilitation, University of Bremen, Germany, 2006 (American Studies / Cultural Studies´)
- Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1993 (U.S. History)
- M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1988 (U.S. History)
- B.A., with Highest Honors, California State University, Fullerton, 1986 (American Studies/Sociology)
Employment History:
2000-2006
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Universität Bremen
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin für Amerikanistik:
Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
1994-1999
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Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen
Lektorin (lecturer) für US Cultural Studies und English
1993-1994
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University of California, Irvine
Lecturer in History and Women’s Studies
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Irvine Valley College, Irvine, California
Instructor in History
1987-1993
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University of California, Irvine
Teaching Assistant, Department of History
Teaching Associate, Humanities Core Course,
Teaching Assistant, Department of English
Schwerpunkte in der Lehre
Teaching (Areas of
Specialization):
- American Cultural and Literary Studies
- Film History and Transnational Film Studies
- Gender Studies
- U.S. History
- Methods in Cultural Studies
Recent Courses Taught (2010/2011)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Lectures:
- Adaptation as Reception: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Hollywood Film
(2 SWS-Master’s Level, WS 2010-2011)
- From Puritanism to Postmodernism: U.S. Literary History (2 SWS-BA Level, SS 2011)
Seminars:
- Literary and Cultural Studies (2 SWS-Master’s Level/Magister)
- U.S. Family Affairs: Literary, Historical and Cinematic Narratives of a Cultural Institution
- Work and Identity in 19th and 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture
- Research Kolloquium (WS 2010/11)
- Research Kolloquium w/Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke (SS 2011)
- Literary and Cultural Studies (2SWS- BA level)
- Rupture and Continuity : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 11.Sept. 2001, co-taught with Christian Klöckner, Jared Sonneckson and Lars Metzger
- North American Literatures and Cultures (Übungen-2x, SS 2011)
Publikationen
Monographs
From Fidelity to History: Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming).
An Orgy of Propriety: Jane Austen and the Emergence and Legacy of the Female Author in
America, 1826-1926 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1999).
Articles
“Adaptation as Reception: How a Transnational Analysis of Hollywood Films can Renew the
Literature to Film Debates” Amerikastudien/American Studies, 54.4(2009):657-682.
"Thelma and Louise and Sense and Sensibility: New Approaches to Challenging Dichotomies in
Women's History Through Literature and Film." Journal of South Texas English Studies 1(2009):
n.pag. Web. 10 December 2009. URL: http://southtexasenglish.blogspot.com
« "Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and
the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany », European Journal of
American Studies, EJAS 2009-1, [Online], article 5, put online Jun. 17, 2009. URL :
http://ejas.revues.org/document7610.html. (twenty page article).
“The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Revisited: Combat Cinema, American Culture, and the
German Past” German History: Journal of the German History Society (Oxford Journals),
26(2008): 219-250.
http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ghn004?
ijkey=xvlXozrHP01h7yV&keytype=ref
“Rescuing Adaptation as a Concept for Cultural Studies” in Nadja Gernalzick, ed. Proceedings of the
Conference Transmediality/Transculturality, Passagen/Passages Series (Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms Verlag, forthcoming)
mit Linda Berg-Cross, JoAnne Long, Ewa Grzeszcyk, Anjali Roy. "The Single Professional Woman
as Global Phenomenon, Challenges and Opportunities." Journal of International Women’s Studies,
Vol. 5, 5 (June 2004): 34-59.
http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Jun04/Single.pdf
"’Eine Revolution des Films: The Third Man, The Cold War, and Alternatives to Nationalism and Coca-colonization in Europe." Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 21.1(2001): 44-53.
"'Jane-Mania': The Jane Austen Film Boom in the Nineties", in Peter C. Rollins, John E. O' Connor and Deborah Carmichael, eds. 1999 Film and History CD-ROM Annual (Stillwater, OK: Film and History Press, 1999): 1-24.
"The Politics of Importing Postmodernity: Teaching Gender Studies in Germany," in Cristina
Giorcelli and Rob Kroes, eds., Living with America, 1946-1996, European Contributions to American Studies, Vol. 38 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1997): 259-266.
"Facts are such horrid things!": The Austen Canon and Lady Susan." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 45.1(1997): 33-42.
"American Way of Life for the World?": Notes Toward an International Discussion on American
Popular Culture." Proceedings of the KAAD Jahresakademie (Bonn: Hermann Weber, 1995): 139-143.
In Preparation
„Katherine Anne Porter, Stanley Kramer, and the Ship of Fools: U.S. Cold War Adaptation Strategies
and German Identity in the 1960s“ (to be submitted to the Journal of Transnational American Studies)
“Beyond Hemingway’s Dignified Drunk: Modernity and Alcohol in the Short Fiction of
Dorothy Parker and Katherine Anne Porter”
Reviews and Reference Works
Review of Verena Grünefeld, Dokumentarfilm populär: Michael Moore und seine Darstellung der
amerikanischen Gesellschaft (Frankfurt/New York 2010) forthcoming in Amerikastudien/American Studies.
Review of Stefan L. Brandt, The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America:
1945-1960 (Heidelberg, 2007) ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57.4 (2009):424-426.
Review of Constanza Del Río-Álvaro and Luis Miguel García-Mainar, eds. Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film (Heidelberg, 2004)Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.1/2(2005): 313-316.