Wednesday 9-10

1994-2000
Universität Hannover. Studium der Anglistik/Amerikanistik & Politikwissenschaft

15.06.2000
Magister Artium (Note: sehr gut)

2000-               
Universität Potsdam. Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. Lehrstuhl für Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur

2002
University of California, Irvine. Department of English and Comparative Literature. Visiting Scholar (DAAD)

08.07.2005
Promotion. "Beyond National Imaginaries: Chicana/o Transit Poetics in Southern California" (summa cum laude)

2007-2008
St. Lawrence University, English Department. Visiting Assistant Professor of Early American Literature

2009
Harvard University, Program in the History of American Civilization. Fulbright American Studies Fellowship

2008-2010
The New School, Department of Social Sciences. part-time instructor (online)

2010-2013
Universität Potsdam, Institut f. Anglistik & Amerikanistik. DFG "Eigene Stelle"

2010
University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. Research Associate

30.06.2011
Einreichung der Habilitationsschrift "Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England, 1620-1730" an der Universität Potsdam

2011-2012
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lehrstuhlvertretung "Nordamerikastudien: Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft" (WS 2011/2012 & SS 2012)

• Early American Literature and Culture
• History of Medicine in the United States
• Latina/o Literature and Culture
• Native American Literature
• Popular Music
• The Indian Diaspora in the United States
• Cultures in/of Mobility
• Postcolonial Studies
• Transnational American Studies

"Healing Trades: Gender and the Medical Marketplace in Puritan America." American Economies. Ed. Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper, and Reinhardt Isensee. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. (im Druck)

"Resistance without Borders: Shifting Cultural Politics in Chicana/o Narratives." Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe. Dartmouth: UP of New England, 2011. 265-279.

"The Commuting Island: Cultural (Im)mobility in 'The Flying Bus.'" Mobilisierte Kulturen: Themen, Theorien, Tendenzen. Hg. Norbert Franz und Rüdiger Kunow. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag, 2011. 135-147.

"Zones of Transition: Interfacing Postcolonial Theory and Chicana/o Literature." The Natural and the Artificial: Constructions of American Identities, Landscapes, Social Institutions, and Histories. Ed. Magdalena Zapedowska and Pawel Stachura. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2010. 67-78.

mit Francisco Lomelí und Kevin Concannon, eds., Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

"Visions of a Queer Aztlán: Ethnicity, Sexual Preference and the Invention of Community in Terri de la Peña's Margins." Representation and Decoration in American Culture. Ed. Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow. American Studies – A Monograph Series, Vol. 94. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. 135-150.

Writing Transit: Refiguring National Imaginaries in Chicana/o Narratives. American Studies – A Monograph Series, Vol. 140. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007.

"Making a Home away from Home: Traveling Diasporas in María Escandón's Esperanza's Box of Saints." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.4 (2006): 581-593.

mit Anja Bandau, eds., Mobile Crossings: Representations of Chicana/o Cultures. Reflections - Literatures in English outside Britain and the USA, Band 15. Trier: wvt, 2006.

"Cross-cultural Aging: Configurations of Growing Old in Bless Me, Ultima and The Road to Tamazunchale." Mobile Crossings: Representations of Chicana/o Cultures. Ed. Anja Bandau and Marc Priewe. Trier: wvt, 2006. 153-164.

"'Make a Run for the Border': Ethnic Performance Art and the Search for a Space of/for Difference." Close Encounters of An Other Kind: New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and American Studies. Ed. Roy Goldblatt, Jopi Nyman and John A. Stotesbury. Joensuu, Finland: University of Joensuu, Studies in Literature and Culture 13, 2005. 148-158.

"Bio-Politics and the ContamiNation of the Body in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 29.3-4 (2004): 397-412.

"The Transnational Mimic Man: El Vez's (Re-)Appropriation of Elvis Presley." Postmodern Practices. Beiträge zu einer vergehenden Epoche. Ed. Thomas Dörfler and Claudia Globisch. Münster: LIT, 2002. 213-228.

"Negotiating the Global and the Local: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead as Glocal Fiction." Amerikastudien/American Studies 47.2 (2002): 223-235.

• 20th-Century American Drama
• A History of American Literature
• American Modernism
• Captivity Narratives: Themes and Variations of an “American” Genre
• Hawthorne and Melville
• Medicine in American Culture since 1620
• Puritanism in America: Lives and Legacies
• U.S. Culture & Society in the 1950s