PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

CV


2020-2022	Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Universität Wien, Projekt TACOMO (Transnational Cowgirl Mobilities) https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research/research-projects/tacomo/
2020	Visiting Professor of American Studies, Augsburg University (chair Prof. Katja Sarkwosky)
2018-2019	Visiting Professor of American Studies (esp. culture) FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, (chair Prof. Heike Paul)
2017	Habilitation at FSU Jena, venia legendi: North American Literature and Culture, Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19th-Century American Culture (under contract with Edinburgh UP, publication date: 2021)
2017	Pro Chance A1 Förderlinie der FSU Jena zur Steigerung der Berufungsfähigkeit
2015-2016	parental leave
2015	„good practice“-award in teaching, Prorektorat Lehre, FSU Jena
2012-2013	research fellowship, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC; funded by a DAAD Postdoc-scholarship
2010-2020	assistant professor of American Studies, FSU Jena (chair Prof. Caroline Rosenthal)
2007-2010	research assistant English Literature and Culture, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg (chair Prof. Vera Nünning)
2006-2009	Dr. phil. (Anglistik/English), Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Dissertation: Just the Two of Us: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel (Trier, WVT, 2011)
1999-2005	MA and state teacher’s degree, English and French Philologies, Trier University and University of Minnesota

Publications and Research Interests

Publications

Select Recent Publications

Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19th-Century US Culture (monograph, accepted for publication, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures, Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Esi Eudygan: Washington Black. Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon. 3^rd rev. ed. Stuttgart [et al.]: Metzler, 2009. Update 2019.
"Geraldine Brooks." The Encyclopedia of American Fiction 1980-2020. Ed. Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen Burn and Lesley Larkin. Blackwell/Wiley Online 2019 (forthcoming).
"Knots and Knowledges: The Canadian West, Settler Colonial Intimacies, and Aritha Van Herk’s Calgary Stampede". ZKS Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien (forthcoming)
"Black Womanhood in Popular Culture", Open Culture Studies (1) 2018, special issue, co-edited with Katharina Gerund.
"Revisioning and Rewriting American History in Geraldine Brook’s March (2005), James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird (2013), and E.L. Doctorow’s The March: A Novel (2006)." The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts--Literary Developments--Critical Analyses. Eds. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning, Trier: WVT 2019. (with Felix Haase)
“Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things To Me. (Essays)." Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon. 3^rd rev. ed. Stuttgart [et al.]: Metzler, 2009. Update 2018.
"‘The Importance of Being the First‘: Bürgerrechte, black womanhood und die Ära Obama im Film Hidden Figures Unerkannte Heldinnen (2016).“ Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 153 (2018): 45-48. (with Charlott Falkenhagen)
“Marooning James Bond: Cleopatra Jones, Blaxploitation and the Imperial Mystique.” Anglistentag 2017: Proceedings. Ed. Katharina Böhm, Jochen Petzold and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Trier: WVT, 2018, 227-238.
“Portrait: Die Calgary Stampede.” Länderbericht Kanada. Hg. Ursula Lehmkuhl. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2018.
(Re-Publication:) “‘Recognition Is a Form of Agreement:’ The Workings of Self-Narration in The Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man.” (American Studies/Amerikastudien 57.4, ed. Winfried Fluck (2012). 603-636) will be republished in Harold Bloom (ed.), The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger. Modern Critical Interpretations, Chelsea House, 2017.
“Phenomenal Woman: Michelle Obama’s Embodied Rhetoric and the Cultural Work of Fashion Biographies.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 60.2/3 (2015): 235-254, peer-reviewed.
“The Calgary Stampede through a Cultural Studies Perspective: A Teaching Project.” In: Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies 16.1 (2016): 48-57. Special issue on the Calgary Stampede, ed. Brian Rusted (with Caroline Rosenthal), peer-reviewed.
“Plantation Spaces and the Black Body: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as Maroon Narrative.” Black Studies Papers 1.1 (2014): 167-187, peer-reviewed.

Talks & Guest Lectures

“Teaching Critical First Lady Studies”. Sponsored Session for Committee on Gender and Sexuality: Creative Pedagogical Forms for Feminist Thought. ASA American Studies Association annual meeting, Baltimore, November 12-15, 2020.
“Im Osten nichts Neues? German American Studies in East and West Germany.“ Panel chair and round table organization, GAAS/DGfA annual meeting 2020, Heidelberg, June 4 , 2020.
“Power and Sentiment: First Ladies and the Cult of Domesticity.” Guest lecture, FAU Erlangen, May 14, 2020.
“History reloaded? Eternal girlhood in the afterlives of Annie Oakley.“ Guest lecture, Mainz University, January 31, 2020.
“Cowboys all! Settler colonialism and the invention of tradition at the Western spectacle.“ Guest lecture, Mainz University, January 30, 2020.

Research Interests