Felix Haase, M.A.

CV

   
Since 03/2016

Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Department for English and
American Studies, FSU Jena

07/2012- 02/2015

Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal, FSU Jena

10/2013-11/2015

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, FSU Jena. Thesis: "Redescribing
Surveillance and Sorting out Identities in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad
True Love Story and Dave Eggers’ The Circle"

08/2011-12/2011

Semester Abroad at Louisiana State University (English Studies und
Political Science)

10/2009-03/2013

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, FSU Jena. Thesis: "'The Invisible Scar':
Trauma and Narrative in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22"

Publications
  • with Stefanie Schäfer. "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 Analysis. Ed. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. WVT, 2019, pp. 87-100.
  • Review. "The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 67.1: 97-99.
  • "Death by Data: Identification and Dataveillance in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story". Surveillance | Society | Culture. Eds. Zappe, Florian, and Andrew S. Gross. Bern, Schweiz: Peter Lang D, 2019.
  • "'Within the Circle': Surveillance and Space in Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Aspeers 8 (2015): 71-88.


Talks & Guest Lectures
  • "Data = Language? Sorting out the Relation between Surveillance and Identity Formation in Super Sad True Love Story." Surveillance / Society / Culture Conference, Göttingen: 28. Februar, 2016.
  • "Überwachung in dystopischen Romanen." Vortragsreihe Menschenrechte im Digitalen Zeitalter, Amnesty International, Jena: 25. November, 2015
Research Interests
  • Surveillance Studies
  • The New Sincerity
  • American Romanticism
Teaching
  • Introduction to Literary Studies II (SS 2020)
  • Literary Periods: Dark Romanticism (WS 2019/2020)
  • Introduction to Literary Studies II (SS 2019)
  • Literary Periods: The New Sincerity (WS 2018/2019)
  • Introduction to Literary Studies II (SS 2018)
  • Media: Adaptation Studies (WS 2017/2018)
  • Introduction to Literary Studies II (SS 2017)
  • Literary History: Reading Course – Melville (WS 2016/17)
  • Literature in Context: The Literature of Surveillance (SS 2016)