Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

Wissenschaftliche Assistentin

Speaker Biography

Dr. Stefanie Schäfer is assistant professor (wissenschaftliche Assistentin) of American Studies at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena. She studied English and French in Trier and Minneapolis and received her M.A. and state teacher’s degrees from the University of Trier in 2005 with a thesis on Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz. From 2007 to 2010, she was a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg’s English Department. In 2009, she completed her PhD thesis ’Just the Two of Us’: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel, which examines the workings of narrative identity formation as a scene of address in autodiegetic novels (published with Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier in 2011). She has co-edited books on contemporary subjectivity and teaching 9/11 literature and is currently preparing a collection of essay about Impostors, ConMen, and Wannabes (to be published with Campus Verlag 2013). Research interests include postmodernist and contemporary American and British literatures and 9/11, autobiography studies and narrative theory, and the teaching of literature and culture in the university classroom.

Her current research project (Habilitationsschrift) is a cultural history of the Yankee as national allegory and stereotype in 19th century drama, novels and popular culture. From September 2012 to March 2013, Stefanie Schäfer was a research fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Listen to her fellowship lecture HERE.

Kontakt

Sprechzeiten: siehe Tabelle

Bereich: Amerikanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

Anschrift:
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Raum 623
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
D-07743 Jena

Tel. +49 (0)3641 944500 (Sekretariat)
Tel. +49 (0)3641 944523 (direkt)
Fax: +49 (0)3641 944502

Email: schaefer.stefanie@uni-jena.de

Forschungsinteressen und Projekte

Habilitationsprojekt: “From Stage to Page and Beyond: The Yankee in 19th Century American Literature and Culture” (AT)

zeitgenössische amerikanische Literatur und “9/11 literature”

narrative Identität und Rezeptionstheorie

“Life writing”: Auto/Biographietheorien

Narratologie

Didaktik der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Hochschule

amerikanisches Drama des 19. Jhdts.

Mitgliedschaften

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)

Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS)

American Studies Association (ASA)

Drittmittel, Stipendien und Fellowships

2012: Fellow, BAA Summer Academy 2012, Washington, DC

2011: Pro Chance Förderlinie A2 der FSU Jena für einen Forschungsaufenthalt in Cambridge, MA und Washington, DC

2010: Druckkostenzuschuß zur Dissertation durch die Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften

2009/2010. Learning 9/11: Schlüsselkompetenzen und ihre didaktische Umsetzung im kulturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht an der Hochschule (mit Irina Bauder-Begerow). Gefördert durch das Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg

2008/2009. ‘Hello, I say, It’s Me’: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture (mit Jan Kucharzewski und Lutz Schowalter). Gefördert durch die Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung

Publications

Monographs and editions

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

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

‘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.

Selected articles

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

“‘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, 71-95. (forthcoming)

“Paul Haggis: Crash.” Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture 3. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke et al. Trier: WVT (forthcoming).

“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.323-342. (forthcoming)

“Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding’s The Lion of the West.” Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 183-205.

“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.

“‘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.

“From Gender Trouble to the Ethics of Recognition: Judith Butler and Her Critics.” LWU 4/2006, 299-317.

Reviews

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

Waldow, Stefanie (Ed.). Ethik im Gespräch. Autorinnen und Autoren über das Verhältnis von Literatur und Ethik heute. Bielefeld, transcript, 2011. In: Anglistik (accepted for publication).

Vorträge und Workshops

“Yankee democracy? Canon Formation and the Struggle for Cultural Independence”; “― BAA Summer Academy 2012, Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington DC, 7. Mai 2012.“Theorizing American Autobiography/Theories of American Autobiography“ Workshop im Rahmen der 59. DGfA-Jahrestagung “American Lives”, mit Dr. Philipp Löffler (Heidelberg), Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 31. Mai – 3. Juni 2012.

“From Rags to Riches Revisited: The Yankee and the American Success Myth” ― American Dream? Ideale, Ideologien, künstlerische Inszenierung aus transnationaler Sicht, Workshop, Universität Bern, 23.-24. September 2011.

“Who wants flowers when you’re dead? The iconic voice of Holden Caulfield.” ― Gastvortrag, Universität Trier, 12. Juli 2011.

“Across the Wire: Literary Configurations of the Borderland Community” ― “Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature,” Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 7.-9. Juli 2011.

“James Kirke Paulding’s The Lion of the West and the making of an American dramatic tradition” ― DGfA-Jahrestagung 2011, workshop “Traveling Stages, Performing Mobility: The Performing Art in Transnational Perspective”, Universität Regensburg, 16.-20. Juni 2011.

„‚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” Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, 8.-9 . April 2011.

“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/Frankreich, 21. – 23. Oktober 2010.

“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”, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, 10. und 11. Juni 2010.

“My Own True Story: Why Reading and Teaching Autobiographical Narration Matters” ― Gastvortrag, Alexander von Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 7. Juni 2010.

“Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Recognition” ― “Rethinking Narrative Identity: A Question of Perspective”, Alexander von Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 26. November 2009.

“Ethical Turn, Narrative Turn: Towards a New Ethical Theory of the Novel” ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 20. – 22. November 2009.

“Workshop Popular Culture” (Workshopmoderation) ― 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 20. – 22. November 2009.

“The Eighteenth Century as Golden Age of Satire: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)” ― Ringvorlesung Literaturwissenschaft des Anglistischen Seminars der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2. November 2009.

“Talking in Class: Ein Selbststeuerungsmodell zum Bewerten von mündlichen Beiträgen und Diskussionskompetenzen im universitären Literaturunterricht” ― Gastvortrag, Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau, Kreuzlingen/Schweiz, 28. Oktober 2009.

“‘Critique for What?’ Teaching American Studies in a Changing Academic Landscape” ― Workshop im Rahmen der 56. DGfA-Jahrestagung “Education and the USA“, mit Dr. Alexandra Ganser (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, 5. Juni 2009.

“T. S. Eliot Day A Student Symposium” ― Workshoporganisation und –durchführung in Zusammenarbeit mit Lutz Schowalter (Trier) und Irina Bauder-Begerow (Heidelberg), Universität Trier, 16. Januar 2009.

“The Beat Generation: Literature and Myth” ― Gastvortrag, Universität Konstanz, 7. Januar 2009.

“The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Fiction” ― “Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 19. April 2008.

“Narrating Selves: the Ethics of Autobiography in the Contemporary American Novel” ― “PGF 2007”, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2. November 2007.

“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, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, 31. Juli 2007.

“Literary Self-Performance in the American Novel” ― “HCA Spring Academy 2007”, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, 16. April 2007.

Lehre

Jena

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (BA/PS, Einführungsmodul, jedes Sommersemester)

The Knickerbocker School (HS, Modul Fiction/Nonfiction)

How the West was won: The American Western (HS, Modul Intermediality)

American Cultural Icons (BA/PS, Modul Media)

Wissenschaftliche Texte lesen (BA, ASQ-Modul)

Across a Wire? Theorizing the Mexican-American Border (HS, Modul Text and Context)

Robber Barons at the Barbecue? American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age (BA/PS Modul Literature in Context)

Early to Mid-20th Century American Drama (BA/PS Modul Genres)

American Literature and Culture of the 1950s (BA/PS, Modul Periods)

Heidelberg

Visions of India (PS I)

Literature and Terrorism (PS II)

Introduction to Modernism (PS I)

Of Rape, Travellers, and Virtuous Heroes: Three Satires of the Golden Age (PS II)

Crossing the Line: Fictions of Passing in the African-American Novel of the Early 20th Century (PS II)

Literature of the New Woman (PS I)