Amerikanistik | American Studies

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul

Chair

Heike Paul

Office: C403

Phone: ++49 9131 85 22437 / ++49 9131 85 29360 (secretary)

Email: heike.paul(at)amer.phil.uni-erlangen.de

Secretary:
Christine Oswald
Bismarckstr. 1c, room C404
Office hours: Tue-Thu 9.15-3.45
Phone: ++49 9131 85 29360
Fax: ++49 9131 85 26775
Email: christine.oswald(at)amer.phil.uni-erlangen.de

Office hours: March 2, April 13: 10:00-12:00

Examination authorization: BA, MA, LAG, LAR, Promotion

Professor Paul is on a sabbatical in the winter term 2009/2010 and therefore does not offer any seminars in this period. She is available, however, for supervising final theses and for exams.

Research Interests

  • American myths
  • gender studies and African American studies
  • US-American immigrant literature and postcolonial studies
  • German literature about the US and German-American texts
  • popular culture and Americanization, reeducation after 1945
  • cultural mobility and mobility studies
  • Afro-Canadian literature and history
  • Phenomena of presence in American culture and literature

CV

  • Studied American Studies, English and Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main and the University of Washington, Seattle
  • Fellow of the Doctoral Program "Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur," Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich; Ph.D. Leipzig University 1998
  • Ph.D. research in the U.S. (DAAD grant, Harvard University and University of Massachusetts 1995; John E. Sawyer Fellow, Longfellow Institute, Harvard University, spring 1998; DFG grant, Harvard University, Herbst 1998)
  • Postdoctoral Research: Harvard University, Cambridge 1999
  • Assistant Professor at the Department for American Studies, Leipzig University
  • Habilitation 2004
  • Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin 2003/2004
  • Since December 2004 professor for North American Literature and Culture, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Functions

  • German Association for American Studies (DGfA): advisory board member, 2000-2008
  • Review Board Member for Amerikastudien/American Studies since January 2005
  • Bavarian America Academy (BAA), Munich: board member since June 2007
  • German-American Institute Nuremberg: board member since March 2006
  • Reviewer for the Ph.D. programs of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and of the German National Research Council (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg:
    1. Chair and spokesperson, North American Section at the Central Institute for Area Studies, April 2005 - September 2006, October 2008-
    2. Board Member of the Central Institute for Area Studies, April 2005 - September 2006 and since October 2008
    3. Deputy chair, doctoral program "Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Transdifference," April 2005 - March 2007; April 2009-
    4. Founding board member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Contemporary Literature and Culture since January 2006
    5. Co-editor of the series "Erlanger Schriften zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik" (LIT Verlag, with Rudolf Freiburg)
    6. Fulbright contact since April 2007
    7. Head of the commission for study abroad grants for the U.S.
    8. Chair, Department of English and American Studies, April 2006 - March 2007
    9. BA program coordinator, Department of English and American Studies, June 2005 - July 2007

Publications

Monographs

  1. Kulturkontakt und 'Racial Presences'. Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2005.
  2. Mapping Migration. Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1999.

Edited

  1. With Alexandra Ganser. Screening Gender: Geschlechterszenarien in der gegenwärtigen US-amerikanischen Populärkultur. Münster: LIT, 2007.
  2. With Werner Sollors. Amerikastudien 51.1 (2006): Multilingualism and American Studies.
  3. With Katja Kanzler. Amerikanische Populärkultur in Deutschland. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2002.
  4. With Kati Röttger. Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz/Differences within Gender Studies. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1999.
  5. With Stefanie Gehrke. Karibische Erkundungen. 20 Erzähler aus der englischsprachigen Karibik. Berlin: Volk & Welt, 1996.

Book Chapters, Essays & Articles

  1. "Wie das Toastbrot nach Franken kam: Amerikanisierung in der Nachkriegszeit". Eine Kulturgeschichte des Brotes (forthcoming).
  2. "Mobility between Boston and Berlin: How Germans Have Read and Reread Narratives of American Slavery". Cultural Mobility. Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Zupanov, Heike Paul, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 122-171.
  3. "Literary Criticism", "New Criticism", "Postkolonialismus". Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik. Hg. Oda Wischmeyer et al. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. 367, 418, 442.
  4. With Klaus Lösch. "Captive Women and Praying Indians: Koloniale Hermeneutik und Transdifferenz in Texten der frühen amerikanischen Kolonialzeit." Kulturhermeneutik: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Umgang mit kultureller Differenz. Eds. Christoph Ernst, Walter Sparn, and Hedwig Wagner. Munich: Fink, 2008. 125-58.
  5. "Feminist Chicks?: Chick lit als (post)feministische Populärliteratur." Screening Gender: Geschlechterszenarien in der gegenwärtigen US-amerikanischen Populärkultur. Eds. H. Paul and Alexandra Ganser. Münster: LIT, 2007. 60-75.
  6. "Spuk und Spuren der Sklaverei: Charles Sealsfield, Richard Hildreth und William Wells Brown." Charles Sealsfield. Perspektiven neuer Forschung. Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Charles Sealsfield-Gesellschaft. Ed. Alexander Ritter. Vienna: Praesens, 2004. 45-55.
  7. Afterword to Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Schwester Carrie. Leipzig: Ille & Riemer, 2004. 344-50.
  8. "'Es schmeckte alles gleich schlecht': Food, Race, and Anti-American Sentiments in 19th Century German-American Writing." Eating Culture. Eds. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide, and Susanne Mühleisen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003, 83-106.
  9. "Racialized Topographies of the New and Old World: Jeannette Lander's Atlanta and Hans J. Massaquoi's Hamburg." J.F. Kennedy Institute Berlin, Working Paper Nr. 127/2001: 1-31.
  10. "Chronologie der Begegnung: Afro-Amerikaner in deutschen Amerika-Reiseberichten, 1815-1850." Tourismus Journal 6.1 (2002): 117-41.
  11. "Response to Patricia Fernández Kelly and Stephan Palmié." Transnational America: The Fading of Borders in the Western Hemisphere. Ed. Berndt Ostendorf. Heidelberg: C. Winter 2002. 218-23.
  12. With Katja Kanzler. "Einleitung: Amerikanische Populärkultur in Deutschland." Amerikanische Populärkultur in Deutschland: Case Studies in Cultural Transfer Past and Present. Eds. Katja Kanzler and H. Paul. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2002. 7-19.
  13. "Schwarze Sklaven, Weiße Sklaven: The German Reception of Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin." Amerikanische Populärkultur in Deutschland: Case Studies in Cultural Transfer Past and Present. Eds. Katja Kanzler and H. Paul. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2002. 21-39.
  14. "Simone De Beauvoir," "Marilyn French," "Adrienne Rich," "Asian American Feminism," "Anglo-American Feminist Literary Theory." Metzler Lexikon Gender Studies. Ed. Renate Kroll. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002. 13-5, 22-3, 34-5, 128, 343-4.
  15. With Steffi Richter, Naoki Sakai et al. "Cultural Studies and National Academia: A Panel Discussion between Scholars from the U.S., Japan and Germany." Cultural Studies and Japan. Eds. Steffi Richter and Annette Schad-Seifert. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001. 21-39.
  16. "Old, New and 'Neo' Immigrant Fictions in American Literature: The Immigrant Presence in David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars and T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain." Amerikastudien 46.2 (2001): 249-65.
  17. "Multilingualism and Metaphors of Musicality: Israel Zangwill, Jeanette Lander, Ferdinand Kürnberger." German?American?Literature?. Eds. Winfried Fluck and Werner Sollors. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 359-82.
  18. "The Rhetoric and Romance of Mobility." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 3 (2001): 216-23.
  19. "Erica Jong," "Maxine Hong Kingston," "Tillie Olsen," "Jayne Anne Phillips." Metzler Lexikon Amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000. 375-6, 385-6, 502-3, 535-6.
  20. "Frauen, Hexen, Ehebrecherinnen: Frauenfiguren des (post)kolonialen Amerikas neu entworfen." Gender and American Culture. Eds. Anne Koenen and Catrin Gersdorf. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1999. 61-72.
  21. With Kati Röttger. "Einleitung." Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz/Differences within Gender Studies. Eds. H. Paul and K. Röttger. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1999. 7-32.
  22. "Drag Queens 'Down Under': Postcolonialism Meets Postfeminism in Australian Film." El Debate de la Postcolonialidad en Latinoamerica. Eds. Alfonso de Toro and Fernando de Toro. Frankfurt/M.: Vervuert, 1999. 331-43.
  23. "Not 'On the Backs of Blacks': US-American (Im)Migration and Jewish Diaspora in the German-Language Writings of Jeanette Lander." Multilingual America. Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: New York UP, 1998. 281-96.
  24. "Maxine Hong Kingston." Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon. Eds. Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof, Inge Stephan, and Flora Veit-Wild. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998. 256-7.
  25. "'The Pain of Being Black': (Frauen)Körper erinnern ihre Geschichte." Körper - Gedächtnis - Schrift. Der Körper als Medium kultureller Einschreibung. Eds. Claudia Öhlschläger and Birgit Wiens. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1997. 25-37.
  26. "Indische Tradition und amerikanischer Traum. Ein Portrait Bharati Mukherjees." Die Buchwoche. Munich, March 1996: 5.
  27. "Homeless Men and Nameless Women: Notes on a Postcolonial Canon." Wasafiri 23 (1996): 41-4.
  28. With Anne Boeree. "'A Long Night's Journey into Day': Short Stories by New Zealand Women." Acolit 1 (1995): 53-9.

Reviews

  1. "Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin, eds. German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation. Rochester, NY: Camden, 2005." Amerikastudien/American Studies 54:2 (2009): 268-70.
  2. "Claire Parfait. The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-2002." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57:1 (2009): 96-98.
  3. "Axel O.W. Schmidt. Der rothe Doktor von Chicago - ein deutsch-amerikanisches Auswandererschicksal." Frankfurt/M. 2003. Amerikastudien/American Studies 51:1 (2006): 118-19.
  4. "Regina U. Hahn. The Democratic Dream: Stefan Heym in America. Oxford 2003." Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.1/2 (2005): 254-55.
  5. "Petra Goedde. GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949. New Haven 2003." Amerikastudien/American Studies 49.4 (2004): 594-96.
  6. "Christine Gerhard. Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im amerikanischen Roman. Heidelberg 2002." Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.13 (2003): 470-73.
  7. "Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther, eds. Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective. Washington D.C. 2002." H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences: www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews.
  8. "Maria Diedrich and Carl Pedersen, eds. Mapping African America: History, Narrative Formation, and the Production of Knowledge. Hamburg 1999." Amerikastudien/American Studies 47.1 (2002): 153-54.
  9. "Ulla Haselstein. Die Gabe der Zivilisation: Kultureller Austausch und literarische Textpraxis in Amerika, 1682-1861. Munich 2000." Poetica 34.3/4 (2002): 450-53.
  10. "Jochen Achilles and Carmen Birkle, eds. (Trans)Formations of Cultural Identity in the English-Speaking World. Heidelberg 1998." Amerikastudien/American Studies 46.1 (2001): 155-58.
  11. "Arthur Asa Berger, ed. The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture and Society. Walnut Creek 1998." Paratexte 1.2 (2000): 558-60.
  12. "David Theo Goldberg. Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America. New York 1997." Paratexte 1.2 (2000): 261-2.
  13. "Mary E. John. Discrepant Dislocations. Berkeley 1996." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 31.2 (1999): 251-2.
  14. "John Ernest. Reformation and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature. Jackson 1995." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 31.2 (1999): 349-52.
  15. "Nicoline Hansen. (Not) Coming Home: Die Darstellung der Konfrontation der amerikanischen Gesellschaft mit den Folgen des Vietnamkriegs im amerikanischen Roman der achtziger Jahre. Frankfurt/M. 1997." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 31.2 (1999): 359-60.
  16. "Jerry Bryant. Victims and Heroes: Racial Violence in the African American Novel. Amherst 1997." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 31.3 (1999): 555-58.
  17. "Neil Campbell and Alasdair Kean, eds. American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to American Culture. New York 1997." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 31.3 (1999): 627-28.
  18. "Gary Collison. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge 1997." Amerikastudien/American Studies 44.3 (1999): 421-23.
  19. "M. Jaqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, eds. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York 1997." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 30.3 (1998): 591-94.
  20. "Susanne Opfermann. Diskurs, Geschlecht und Literatur: Amerikanische Autorinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart 1996." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 29.4 (1997): 683-4.
  21. "Farah Jasmine Griffin. "Who Set You Flowin?" The African American Migration Narrative. New York 1995." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 30.2 (1998): 335-6.
  22. "Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Black Chant. Languages of African-American Postmodernism. Cambridge 1997." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 30.3 (1998): 527-8.
  23. "Françoise Lionnet. Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity. Ithaca 1995." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 29.1 (1997): 33-4.
  24. "Allison Weir. Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity. New York 1996." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 29.2 (1997): 347-8
  25. "Petra Krimphove. Mutter-Tochter-Beziehungen in der US-amerikanischen Literatur. Frankfurt/M. 1995." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 28.3 (1996): 457-8.
  26. "Judith R. Baskin, Hg. Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Detroit 1994." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 28.2 (1996): 203-4.
  27. "Mae G. Henderson, Hg. Borders, Boundaries, and Frames: Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies. New York 1995." Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft 28.1 (1996): 35-8.
  28. "Jana Gohrisch. (Un)belonging? Geschlecht, Klasse und Ethnizität in der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur: Joan Rileys Romane. Frankfurt/M. 1994." Gulliver 37 (1995): 162-4.

Workshops, Conferences, Lecture Series

  1. Lecture series "Literaturen und Kulturen der Amerikas: Interamerikanistische Perspektiven," Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, summer 2009 (with Andrea Pagni).
  2. International confernece "Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives in the US and Beyond," Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, June 2009 (with Alexandra Ganser and Katharina Gerund).
  3. Founder and organizer of the first DAAD-sponsored International Summer School of the Bavarian America Academy Munich for doctoral students in American Studies, theme: "Transatlantic American Studies: Cultural Mobility and Intercultural Exchange," May 2009 (with Meike Zwingenberger).
  4. Fulbright Lecture Series "Critical Perspectives on War and Violence in American Literature and Culture," Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg 2008 (with Karin Höpker and Dieter Meindl)
  5. International conference "Drogas in the Americas/Drugs entre las Americas: Societies, Cultures, Politics," Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, June 2006 (with Thomas Fischer and Harald Zapf)
  6. Lecture series "Der Vietnamkrieg - 30 Jahre Krieg, 30 Jahre Erinnern," Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2005/06
  7. Workshop "Transatlantic Love," Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, May 2005 (with Katja Kanzler)
  8. Lecture series "Sex in the City - und anderswo", Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and German-American Institute (DAI) Nuremberg, 2005 (with Andreas Falke)
  9. International conference "Religion and Mobility in Political Landscapes, 16th-18th Century", Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, June 2004 (with Ines Zupanov)
  10. Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Leipzig 2002 (with Katja Kanzler)
  11. Workshop "The German Reception of American Popular Culture Past and Present", Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Bremen 2001 (with Katja Kanzler)
  12. Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Leipzig 1998 (with Anne Koenen et al.)
  13. International symposion „Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz - Differences within Gender Studies", Doctoral Program "Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur", Munich, and Instituut voor Vrouwenstudies, Utrecht, Tutzing 1997 (with Kati Röttger)

Papers & Lectures

  1. (With Klaus Lösch.) "Praying Indians and Ex-centric Natives: Cultural Mobility and the Construction of Indigeneity". Guest lecture, University of Potsdam, January 2010.
  2. "Fremdheit und Mythos in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur." Lecture series "Phänomene der Fremdheit," Interdisciplinary Center for Contemporary Literature and Culture. FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 2009.
  3. "'Mutts Like Me': Barack Obamas Selbstbeschreibungen und die Widersprüche des US-amerikanischen racial discourse." "Obama - An Interdisciplinary Lecture Series," North America section, Central Institute for Area Studies. FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, October 2009.
  4. "Between Canada and Cuba: 19th Century African American Border Writings," international Interamerican Conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, "Beyond Borders: Reconceptualizing Fine Lines, Fences, and Frontiers in the Americas," Bielefeld, July 2009.
  5. "American Studies and Mobility Studies: The Myth(s) of Christopher Columbus," guest lecture, University of Tübingen, June 2009.
  6. "Cultural Mobility and Transatlantic American Studies," Key-Note Address, International Summer School of the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, May 2009.
  7. "The German Reception of Black Writing and Black Authorship in the 18th and 19th Century," international conference at the German Historical Institute, "Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries," Washington D.C, March 2009.
  8. "A Playground for the Imagination: Die amerikanische Sklaverei in der deutschen Populärkultur," lecture series "Wissen - Transfer - Differenz: Transnationale Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700," Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, June 2008.
  9. "American Studies in Germany: Between Cultural Work and Cultural Studies," guest lecture, Wayne State University, Detroit, May 2008.
  10. "How Germans Have Read and Reread Narratives of American Slavery," guest lecture, David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University, March 2007.
  11. "Postfeminism in Popular Culture," Colloquium of the Literature and Culture Sections, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin, December 2006.
  12. "Differenz und (post)feministische Entgrenzung in der gegenwärtigen anglo-amerikanischen (Populär-)Literatur und Kultur," with Doris Feldmann, lecture series of the Interdisciplinary Center for Contemporary Literature and Cultur, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 2006.
  13. "Chick Lit," guest lecture, University of Bayreuth, July 2006.
  14. "Africa in America?: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Constructions of African Americans in German Writings about the USA, 1870-1914," internationale conference "Crossovers: African Americans and Germany," University of Münster, March 2006.
  15. "Uncle Tom's Cabin und The White Slave: Kulturelle Mobilität zwischen Boston und Berlin," inaugural lecture, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, January 2006.
  16. "The Cultural Mobility of American Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Case for Transatlantic Studies." guest lecture, University of Bonn, December 2005.
  17. Concluding lecture, international conference "Ambivalent Americanization in Eastern and Central Europe," University of Leipzig, November 2005.
  18. "Die Türkinnen Amerikas?: Deutsche Migrantinnen in den USA im 19. Jahrhundert," Cornelia Goethe-Zentrum, Frankfurt/Main, June 2005.
  19. "Ambivalent Americanization before and after 1945," conference "Transatlantischer Kulturtransfer und Kalter Krieg," France Center and Center for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, October 2004.
  20. "Nach Amerika reisen und Afrika sehen: deutsche Kolonialfantasien um 1900," "Black Atlantic" program, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, September 2004.
  21. "First Saved, Then Sold: The Diaspora of the Praying Indians," conference "Religion and Mobility in Political Landscapes, 16th-18th Century." Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, June 2004.
  22. "'Sie sprechen gut Englisch und sind auch größthenteils sehr gesittet': Afro-Amerikaner in der deutschen Amerika-Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts," conference of the Center for Advanced Studies "Die vertraute Fremdheit," University of Leipzig, February 2004.
  23. "Wie weiß ist Gérard Depardieu?: Die ambivalente Darstellung des illegalen Immigranten in Peter Weirs Film Greencard," Americas Day, University of Potsdam, January 2004.
  24. "Cultural Mobility - Mobile Objects" (group presentation with Stephen Grreenblatt, Pal Nyiri et.al.), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, December 2003.
  25. "Cultural Contact and Racial Presences: African Americans and German Writing about America, 1815-1848," Tuesday Colloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, December 2003.
  26. "Diskursverschiebung: Afro-Amerikaner in der deutschen Amerika-Literatur vor und nach 1870/71," German Studies Colloquium, University of Leipzig, February 2003.
  27. "When the Germans Became White: Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts," guest lecture at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, January 2003.
  28. "Die neuen Immigrantinnen: Perspektiven US-amerikanischer Einwanderung seit 1965", series "Grenzfall," Frauenkultur Leipzig e.V., Leipzig, October 2002.
  29. "Spuk und Spuren der Sklaverei: Charles Sealsfield, Richard Hildreth und William Wells Brown," Conference of the International Charles Sealsfield Society, Vienna, May 2002.
  30. "From the Imagological to the Dialogical: German-American Studies in a Transatlantic Framework," conference of the European Association for American Studies, Bordeaux, March 2002.
  31. "Sonntags nach der Tagesschau: Tatorte deutscher Alltagskultur," German Studies Colloquium, University of Leipzig, November 2001.
  32. "New Historicism". Methods lecture, University of Leipzig, June 2001.
  33. "Die deutsche Rezeption von Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin," annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Bremen, June 2001.
  34. "Das symbolische Potential der Afro-Amerikaner für die deutsche Amerika-Literatur nach Uncle Tom's Cabin," German Studies Colloquium, University of Leipzig, May 2001.
  35. "Musikalische Wollköpfe, ironische Diener, tapfere Freunde: African American Figures and Presences in 19th Century German-American Literature," University of Bremen, January 2001.
  36. "Racialized Topographies of the New and Old World: Jeannette Lander's Atlanta and Hans J. Massaquoi's Hamburg," lecture series "Encounters on Intricate Issues," John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, November 2000.
  37. "Kulturkontakt und racial presences in der deutschen Amerika-Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts," University of Münster, November 2000.
  38. "Tasting America: Food and Race in 19th Century German-American Writing," W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series, Humboldt Universität Berlin, November 2000.
  39. "Reading Race in 19th Century German-American Travel Writing," international conference "Ethnic Encounters and Identities," University of Leipzig, July 2000.
  40. "'Das Frauenvolk hat hier besonders große Vorrechte und Freiheiten': Ambivalent Engenderings of the New World in German-American Immigrant and Travel Writing," annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, TU Dresden, June 2000.
  41. "'Es schmeckte alles gleich schlecht': Food, Anti-American Sentiments, and Racial Attitudes in German-American Writing," symposion "Eating Culture," Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, April 2000.
  42. "Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz," Colloquium in Women's and Gender Studies, University of Leipzig, October 1999.
  43. "Multilingualism and Metaphors of Musicality," conference "German-American History and Literature." Harvard University, Cambridge, September 1998.
  44. "The Romance and Rhetoric of Mobility: Theorizing the Postcolonial Condition at the (American) Century's End," annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Leipzig, June 1998.
  45. "The Politics and Poetics of Location: Frauenliteratur und (Im)Migration," The Feminist Wednesday Lecture, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, July 1997.
  46. "Erinnerung, Geschichte, Schmerz: Kulturelles Gedächtnis und literarische Narbenschrift," "Memoria" lecture series, University of Leipzig, May 1997.
  47. "'The Black Atlantic': Representations of Slavery and the Middle Passage in Film and Fiction," postgraduate workshop "Paradigms of the Postcolonial: Migration, Minority, Modernity," Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/M., April 1997.
  48. "Drag Queens 'Down Under': Postcolonialism Meets Postfeminism in Australian Film," international symposion "Die Postkolonialismus-Debatte im Dialog mit Ibero-Amerika", University of Leipzig, April 1997.
  49. "Weiße Frauen, schwarze Frauen: Geschlechterdifferenz und Ethnizität in der amerikanischen Geschichte, Kultur und Literatur," Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, February 1997.
  50. "Fragilität und Fragmentarisierung als Chance: Literarische Paradigmen der Migration," conference of the Protestant Academy Tutzing, Passau, January 1997.
  51. "Women Writing, Postcoloniality and the Immigrant Experience," Summer School of the Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen, Osnabrück, September 1996.
  52. "Patterns of Passage: Postcolonial Narratives of Afro-America," annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen, Konstanz, September 1996.
  53. "Not 'On the Backs of Blacks': Migration and Diaspora in the German-Language Writings of Jeannette Lander," conference of the European Association for American Studies at Warszaw, March 1996.
  54. "'The Pain of Being Black': Frauen(Körper) erinnern ihre Geschichte," 4th symposion of the Doctoral Program "Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur" at the Protestant Academy Tutzing, February 1996.
  55. "Postkoloniale Theoriebildung: Ursprünge, Entwicklungen, Widersprüche," conference of the doctoral programs Konstanz and Munich, Munich 1995.
  56. "Of Women and Witches: Postcolonial Rewritings of Colonial (His)Stories," annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, Hamburg, June 1995.