Amanda Halter, M.A.

CV


Since 05/2020	Research Associate in American Studies, FSU Jena
since 09/2019	PhD Candidate in American Studies, FSU Jena Working Title: "Reading Environmental Violence: The Ecopedagogical Potential of Contemporary US-American Young Adult Fiction"
since 2019	Adjunct Lecturer in American Studies, FSU Jena
2018-2019	Leave Replacement: Research Associate in American Studies, FSU Jena
2016-2018	Student Assistant for Editorial Work, Institute of Social Geography, FSU Jena
2016-2017	Student Assistant, Institute of English and American Studies, FSU Jena
2015-2017	M.A. English and American Studies, FSU Jena “The EcoBildungsroman: Coming of Age in Narratives of Ecological Crisis”
2014-2015	English Language Arts Teacher, Bronx Prep Middle School, Bronx, New York, USA
2011-2014	B.S. Adolescent English Education, Nyack College, Nyack, New York, USA
2009-2011	A.A. General Studies, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
2005-2009	Highschool Diploma, East High School, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

Editorial Work

Felgenhauer, Tilo and Karsten Gaebler, eds. Geographies of Digital Culture. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
Gruber, Eva and Caroline Rosenthal, eds. Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Rochester: Camden House, 2018.

Talks & Guest Lectures

"'Re-Drawing' Nature: The Environmental Imagination in Contemporary Picturebooks." Invited guest lecture in the seminar "Bilderbücher in der Grundschule," University of Potsdam, 26.09.2022.
“Addressing a Failing US Environmental Education: The Potential of Young Adult Anthropocene Fiction.” Annual DGfA Meeting: Political Education & American Studies, University of Tübingen, June 9-11, 2022.
“At the Center of the Storm: A Critical Analysis of Adolescence in Young Adult Eco-Fiction.” Workshop on Constructions of Adolescence, Hosted by Technische Universität Dresden, virtual, 16.07.2021.
“Crises, Chasms, and Unlikely Collectives: Growing Up in Contemporary Young Adult Eco-Dystopian Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Climate Change and the Anthropocene, virtual, 20.03.2021.
“’Maybe it was the end of the world- that world’: An Examination of Hope in Young Adult Eco-Dystopian Fiction of the Anthropocene.” 31st Annual Mardi Gras Graduate Student Conference: Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties, Louisiana State University, virtual, 10.02.2021.
“Ecocriticism and Young Adult Literature: Texts as Expressive Agents for Change.” Guest Lecture, Nature Writing and Ecocriticism Lecture Series, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 21.01.2021.
"The Bildungsroman in the Anthropocene: Reading Narratives of Formation in the New Epoch." Regional Colloquium of American Studies. 25.10.2019, Halle, DE.

Research Interests

Teaching

Adaptation: Literature to/from Film and Beyond (WiSe 2022)
The Environmental Imagination in Children's Picturebooks (University
of Erfurt, SoSe 2022)
Introduction to Literary Studies II (SoSe22, WiSe 21/22)
Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism (SS 2021)
Young Adult Literature (WS 2020/21)
Gatsby(s) on the Silver Screen (WS 2020/21)
Revisions of the Bildungsroman in Anglophone Literature and Culture (WS 2019/20)
The Lost Generation (WS 2018/2019)
The American Bildungsroman (SS 2018)

Media

Amanda Halter

+49 3641 9-44523

Raum 623

Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8

07743 Jena