Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

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Dr. Stefanie Schäfer Assistant professor of American Studies, Department of English and American Studies Friedrich-Schiller University Jena Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8 07743 Jena +493641-944500 [email protected]

Experience Since 2010

assistant professor for American Studies at the department of English and American Studies, University of Jena (chair Prof. Caroline Rosenthal)

2007-2009

research assistant at the English Department, University of Heidelberg (chair Prof. Vera Nünning)

2007- 2008

Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education (Baden-Württemberg Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik HDZ)

2006-2007

teacher of English and French at Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg

Education 2009

doctorate exam, University of Heidelberg, doctorate thesis: “‘Just the Two of Us:’ Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel”

2009/2010

Shakespeare Study Courses in Stratford upon Avon, GB

2005

double degree (M.A. degree and first state teacher’s degree), University of Trier, M.A. thesis: “Functions of the body in Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz”

2002-2003

international visiting student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1999-2005

student of English and French philologies and pedagogy, University of Trier

Grants and Awards Grants for student excursion to the Calgary Stampede, July 2013 from Ernst-Abbe Projektstiftung, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD/PROMOS), Freunde und Förderer der FSU Postdoctoral research grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Sept 2012 to February 2013 German Research Fellowship from the Library of Congress, Kluge Center, for postdoctoral research, September 2012 to February 2013 Publication grant for the proceedings of “Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes”, from American Consulate Leipzig and Association for Canadian Studies in Germanspeaking Countries (GKS), June 2012 Fellowship, BAA Summer Academy 2012, Washington, DC, May 2012 Conference funding for the symposium “Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes”, Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS), April 2012

Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

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“Library Support Program” for Canadiana at the “Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena”, April 2012 (with Caroline Rosenthal) Research Grant for postdoctoral research at Harvard University from the University of Jena, August 2011 Publication grant for dissertation, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften, June 2010 Conference and publication funding for project “Learning 9/11: Key competencies in higher education”, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg, 2008/2009 “Best practice” award, university teacher training course, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik BadenWürttemberg, 2009 Conference and publication funding for project “‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’(Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture,” Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, 2008/2009 Fellowship, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2007 International Study Exchange Program (ISEP) scholarship for undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, 2002-2003

Research Interests Current book project: “From Stage to Page and Beyond: the Yankee in 19th Century American Literature and Culture” (WT, habilitation) Life-writing and autobiography theory Narratology and narrative identity Contemporary American fiction Teaching literature and culture in the university classroom

Publications Monograph ‘Just the Two of Us:’ Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel. Trier: WVT, 2011.

Editorship 1. Fake Identities? Impostors, Con Men, Wannabes in North American Culture. Co-edited with Caroline Rosenthal. Frankfurt/Main, New York: Campus, 2014. 2.

Learning 9/11: Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Irina Bauder-Begerow, Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.

3. ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. co-edited with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter, Trier: WVT, 2009.

Articles 1. “‘This land is full of materials: ’ Der stage yankee als Reflexionsfigur für das junge Amerika.” Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten. Eds. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Caroline Lusin. Berlin: De Gruyter. (accepted for publication)

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2. “‘Recognition Is a Form of Agreement:’ The workings of self-narration in The Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man.” American Studies/Amerikastudien Special Issue on Recognition, ed. Winfried Fluck. (accepted for publication) 3. “Paul Haggis: Crash.” Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke et al. Trier: WVT, 2013. 179-198. 4.

“Personal Epics? A Reflection on Genre and the Making of Heroes” Elle s’étend, l’épopée. Relecture et ouverture du corpus épique / The Epic Expands.Rereading and Widening the Epic Corpus. Ed. Vincent Dussol. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2012. 323-342.

5. “Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding’s The Lion of the West.” Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 183-205. 6. “Das Leben im Kopf: Überlegungen zu einer rezeptionsorientierten Narratologie der Biographik.” Literatur als Lebensgeschichte. Biographisches Erzählen von der Moderne bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Peter Braun and Bernd Stiegler. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 269-287. 7. “‘I Was a Loose End:’ Narrative Self-fashioning and Ethical Encounters in Contemporary American Fiction.” Ethik – Anerkennung – Gerechtigkeit. Philosophische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Ed. Alexandra Böhm, Antje Kley and Mark Schönleben. München: Fink, 2011. 201-216. 8. “Introduction.“ Learning 9/11. Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Stefanie Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter. 2011. 7-25. (with Irina Bauder-Begerow) 9. “Birth By Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Autobiographical Fiction.” The Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Worldmaking. Ed. Ansgar Nünning, Vera Nünning and Birgit Neumann. Trier: WVT, 2010. 105-117. 10. “Introduction: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture.” ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, 2009. 1-12. (with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter). 11. “‘Looking Back, You Do Not Find What You Left Behind:’ Postcolonial Subjectivity and the Role of Memory in White Teeth and The Inheritance of Loss.” ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, 2009. 112-132. 12. “Geraldine Brooks: March.” Hot Off the Press: Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane aus dem neuen Jahrhundert: Ein Lesebuch zur zeitgenössischen US-Kultur. Ed. Dietmar Schloss and Heiko Jakubzik. Trier: WVT, 2009. 60-69. 13. “Lern- und Memorierungstechniken.” Schlüsselkompetenzen. Qualifikationen für Studium in Beruf. Ed.Vera Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 140-149. 14. “From Gender Trouble to the Ethics of Recognition: Judith Butler and Her Critics.” LWU 4/2006, 299-317.

Reviews 1. Engler, Bernd and Guenther Leypoldt (Eds.). American Cultural Icons. The Production of Representative Lives. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. (accepted for publication) 2.

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar (Ed.). Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American Travelogues and Fiction. In: Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien ZKS. (forthcoming 2013)

3. Hornung, Alfred (Ed). Auto/Biography and Mediation. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies (accepted for publication)

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4. Waldow, Stefanie (Ed.). Ethik im Gespräch. Autorinnen und Autoren über das Verhältnis von Literatur und Ethik heute. Bielefeld, transcript, 2011. In: Anglistik 23.2, 2012. 207-209.

Conference Papers and Guest Lectures 1. “Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, and the Yankee” ― guest lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 15, 2013. 2. “Jonathan Going South: The Yankee and the Making of American National Character” ― Kluge Fellowship Lecture, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC, February 7, 2013. 3. “The Yankee and the Making of American National Character” ― guest lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Altoona. January 17, 2013. 4. “Indigenous Drama” ― Workshop at “Imagine Canada Day- Introducing Canadian Studies at FSU Jena”, Jena, Jun 21 2012. 5. “Theories of American Autobiography / Theorizing American Autobiography” ― Workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2012, “American Lives,” University of Mainz, May 31 2012. 6. “Yankee democracy? Canon Formation and the Struggle for Cultural Independence”; “― BAA Summer Academy 2012, German Historical Institute Washington DC, May 7 2012. 7. “From Rags to Riches Revisited: The Yankee and the American Success Myth” ― “American Dream? Ideale, Ideologien, künstlerische Inszenierung aus transnationaler Sicht”, Workshop, University of Berne/Switzerland, September 23-24 2011. 8. “Who wants flowers when you’re dead? The iconic voice of Holden Caulfield” ― guest lecture, University of Trier, July 12 2011. 9. “Across the Wire: Literary Configurations of the Borderland Community” ― “Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature,” University of Mainz, July 7-9 2011. 10. “James Kirke Paulding’s The Lion of the West and the making of an American dramatic tradition” ― Annual conference of the German Association for American Studies 2011, workshop “Traveling Stages, Performing Mobility: The Performing Arts in Transnational Perspective,” University of Regensburg, June 16-20 2011. 11. „‚All fresh in youth, strength, and beauty‘: Sympathie für das junge Amerika in William Dunlaps A Trip To Niagara und James K. Pauldings The Bucktails“ ― “Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten,” University of Heidelberg, April 8-9 2011. 12. “Personal Epic(s): Metageneric Reflections on the Epic in the Contemporary American Novel” ― “The Epic’s Extension Today: Between Expansion and Extinction”, Université Paul Valéry III, Montpellier/France, October 21-23 2010. 13. “Visions of India: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire in the Cultural Studies Classroom” ― “Teaching Literature and Culture in Higher Education - Hochschuldidaktik in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften,” University of Giessen, June 10-11 2010. 14. “My Own True Story: Why Reading and Teaching Autobiographical Narration Matters” ― guest lecture, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 7 2010. 15. “Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Recognition” ― “Rethinking Narrative Identity: A Question of Perspective,” Humboldt University of Berlin, November 26-28 2009.

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16. “Ethical Turn, Narrative Turn: Towards a New Ethical Theory of the Novel” ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 20-22 2009. 17. “Workshop Popular Culture” ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, panel chair, November 20-22 2009. 18. “The Eighteenth Century as Golden Age of Satire: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)” ― lecture at the English Seminar University of Heidelberg, November 2 2009. 19. “Talking in Class: Ein Selbststeuerungsmodell zum Bewerten von mündlichen Beiträgen und Diskussionskompetenzen im universitären Literaturunterricht” ― guest lecture, Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau, Kreuzlingen/Switzerland, October 28 2009. 20. “‘Critique for What?’ Teaching American Studies in a Changing Academic Landscape” ― workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2009, “Education and the USA,” with Dr. Alexandra Ganser (Erlangen-Nuremberg), University of Jena, June 5 2009. 21. “T. S. Eliot Day ― A Student Symposium” ― workshop with Dr. Lutz Schowalter (Trier) and Irina Bauder-Begerow (Heidelberg), University of Trier, January 16 2009. 22. “The Beat Generation: Literature and Myth” ― guest lecture, University of Constance, January 7 2009. 23. “Response to Martin Genovese: ‘Presidential Power in an Age of Terrorism: Full Circle?’” ― workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2008, “The American Presidency and Political Leadership,” University of Heidelberg, May 17 2008. 24. “The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Fiction’ ― “Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April 19 2008. 25. “Looking back you do not find what you left behind:’ Memory and Ethnicity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” ― “Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture,” University of Düsseldorf, April 5 2008. 26. “Opening remarks” (with Lutz Schowalter and Jan Kucharzewski) ― “’Hello, I say, It’s me:’ Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture,” University of Düsseldorf, April 4 2008. 27. “I Was a Loose End:’ Narrative Self-fashioning and the Ethics of Recognition” ― “Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne: Revisionen der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21. Jahrhundert,” 8. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 23 2007. 28. “Narrating Selves: the Ethics of Autobiography in the Contemporary American Novel” ― “PGF 2007,” University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 2 2007. 29. “Birth by Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex’” ― “Ways of Worldmaking. Narratives, Archives and Media,” European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) 2007, University of Giessen, July 31 2007. 30. “Literary Self-Performance in the American Novel’ ― “HCA Spring Academy 2007,” University of Heidelberg, April 16 2007.

Professional Associations Membership ASA (American Studies Association) DGfA (German Associations for American Studies) GKS (German Association for Canadian Studies)

Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

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Administrative Work Coordinator of Master North American Studies (NAS), American Studies branch (since 2010) Elected member of administrative council (Fakultätsrat) of FSU (since 2010)

Teaching Jena Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (BA level, every summer term) The West in the Canadian Literary and Cultural Imagination (with student excursion), cotaught with Caroline Rosenthal (Module Advanced Research) The Knickerbocker School (MA, Module Fiction/NonFiction) How the West was won: The American Western, co-taught with Dirk Vanderbeke (advanced level, Module Intermediality) American Cultural Icons (BA, Module Media) Wissenschaftliche Texte lesen (Reading Secondary Literature, BA level) Across a Wire? Theorizing the Mexican-American Border (advanced, Module Text and Context) Robber Barons at the Barbecue? American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age (BA, Module Literature in Context) Early to Mid-20th Century American Drama (BA, Module Genres) American Literature and Culture of the 1950s (BA, Module Periods) Heidelberg Visions of India (BA level 1) Literature and Terrorism (BA level 2) Introduction to Modernism (BA level 1) Of Rape, Travellers, and Virtuous Heroes: Three Satires of the Golden Age (BA level 2) Crossing the Line: Fictions of Passing in the African-American Novel of the Early 20th Century (BA level 2) Literature of the New Woman (BA level 1)