Who We Are - Introducing the Members of the Study Group "American Studies"
(in alphabetical order)
Brasse, Stefan
Working Title of Thesis: "Representing the Unrepresentable – A Comparative Analysis of the Representation and Communication of Traumas in U.S. - American Fiction from the Civil War to 9/11"
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, Medicine, Post-Structuralism, Simulation and Virtuality, Information Technologies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: stefan.brasse(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Working Title of Thesis: "Representing the Unrepresentable – A Comparative Analysis of the Representation and Communication of Traumas in U.S. - American Fiction from the Civil War to 9/11"
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, Medicine, Post-Structuralism, Simulation and Virtuality, Information Technologies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: stefan.brasse(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Füllgrabe, Britta
Working Title of Thesis: "The Unknowable in the Writing of Siri Hustvedt: Coping with the Illness of Absence"
Research Interests: Siri Hustvedt; postmodernism; medicine; autobiography; gender
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: britta.bein(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Research Interests: Siri Hustvedt; postmodernism; medicine; autobiography; gender
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: britta.bein(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Heil, Johanna
Working Title of Thesis: "An Inquiry into Knowledge: Narratives, Scieces, and Works of Art in Richard Powers's Fiction"
Research Interests: modern, postmodern, and contemporary fiction; theory, esp. poststructuralism, feminisms and gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, the corporeal turn; dance studies and performance studies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: johanna.heil(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Research Interests: modern, postmodern, and contemporary fiction; theory, esp. poststructuralism, feminisms and gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, the corporeal turn; dance studies and performance studies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: johanna.heil(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Koch, Christina Maria
Working Title of Thesis: "Envisioning the Body in Graphic Medicine"
Research Interests: graphic narratives/comics; intermediality; literature and medicine; feminist theories/gender studies; political iconography
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: christina.koch(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Working Title of Thesis: "Envisioning the Body in Graphic Medicine"
Research Interests: graphic narratives/comics; intermediality; literature and medicine; feminist theories/gender studies; political iconography
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: christina.koch(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Rojek, Janina
Working Title of Thesis: "An Archaeology of Seriality"
Research Interests: seriality; popular culture; television studies; crime and the gangster in American culture; 9/11 literature
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: janina.rojek(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Research Interests: seriality; popular culture; television studies; crime and the gangster in American culture; 9/11 literature
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: janina.rojek(at)staff.uni-marburg.de
Schmidt, Silke
Working Title of Thesis: (Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim: Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing
Research Interests:Arab American Studies, media theory, empirical Literary Studies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: SilkeSchmidt888(at)aol.com
Research Interests:Arab American Studies, media theory, empirical Literary Studies
Department: Department of English and American Studies; North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Philipps-University of Marburg
Contact: SilkeSchmidt888(at)aol.com