Staff A-Z

Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglisik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitatsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 R04 A05
Phone
+49 201 183 4961
E-Mail
barbara.buchenau@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/buchenau
Office hours
during the term / im Semester: Thursday / Donnerstag, 13-14:00 Uhr, during the term break: September 4, 2-3 pm, September 25, 1-2 pm.

Functions

  • Professor/in, Anglistik: Nordamerikastudien II - North American Cultural Studies

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Auf ins Unbekannte! : Denkfiguren und das Leben mit abstrakten Unterscheidungen
    In: Unikate: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, 2022, Nr. 58, Geisteswissenschaften : Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, pp. 108 – 115
    DOI, Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    The Goods of Bad Mobility: Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s Relation of my Voyage, being in Bondage in the Lands of the Irokoits, 1669/1885
    In: Swiss papers in English language and literature (SPELL), 2012, Nr. 27, pp. 53 – 68
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Inventing Iroquoia? Migrating Tropes of Similarity and Heritage in Francophone Narratives of Colonial Possession
    In: FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research, Vol. 4, 2011, Nr. 2
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hecke, Carola
    Die Literatur mit Hilfe didaktischer Ansätze zur eigenen Sache machen: Offener, fächerverbindender Unterricht in der universitären Fremd-sprachenlehrerausbildung
    In: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht : LWU, Vol. 41, 2008, Nr. 2/3, pp. 179 – 196
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Messmer, Marietta
    An Introduction to Intercultural Negotiations in the Americas and Beyond
    In: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Vol. 3, 2001, Nr. 2, 1
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Comparativist Interpretations of the Frontier in Early American Fiction and Literary Historiography
    In: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Vol. 3, 2001, Nr. 2, 8
    DOI (Open Access)

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Buchenau, Barbara; Richter, Virginia
    Introduction: How to do things with empires
    In: Post-empire imaginaries?: Anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires / Buchenau, Barbara; Richter, Virginia (Eds.). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2015, pp. xiii – xxxvi
    DOI

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Scheller, Benjamin; Buchenau, Barbara; Konuk, Kader
    Ausdrücke der Unerreichbarkeit : Bezeichnungen, Begrifflichkeiten und sprachliche Bilder für Konversion und Konvertierte
    In: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Kaleidoskopische Betrachtungen / Scheller, Benjamin; Müllerburg, Marcel (Eds.). Frankfurt: Campus, 2025, pp. 137 – 162
    DOI, Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Kıranoğlu, Gülbin; Scheller, Benjamin
    Crypto-Religion and State Power : Dis/Ambiguating Faith, Granting Rights and Property
    In: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Kaleidoskopische Betrachtungen / Scheller, Benjamin; Müllerburg, Marcel (Eds.). Frankfurt: Campus, 2025, pp. 237 – 272
    DOI, Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hamid, Amad; Keilhau, Max; Marx, Christoph
    Interferenzen in Regimen der Unterscheidung : Geschlecht, race und Religion
    In: Ambiguität und Unterscheidung: Kaleidoskopische Betrachtungen / Scheller, Benjamin; Müllerburg, Marcel (Eds.). Frankfurt: Campus, 2025, pp. 61 – 111
    DOI, Online Full Text
  • Breinig, Helmbrecht; Buchenau, Barbara; Opfermann, Susanne
    Revolutionszeit und frühe Republik
    In: Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte / Zapf, Hubert; Müller, Timo (Eds.). Berlin: Metzler, 2024, pp. 45 – 104
    DOI
  • Sulimma, Maria; Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    City Scripts in Urban Literary and Cultural Studies
    In: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures / Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin; Sulimma, Maria (Eds.). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2023, pp. 1 – 24
    DOI
  • Borosch, Juliane; Buchenau, Barbara
    Walking Down Woodward Avenue : (Re-)Telling a City’s Stories through Urban Figures.
    In: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures / Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin; Sulimma, Maria (Eds.). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2023, pp. 44 – 68
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    "Scripts" in Urban Development : Procedural Knowledge, Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future
    In: Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City / Gurr, Jens Martin (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 141 – 163
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    On the textuality of American cities and their others : a disputation
    In: Projecting American studies: essays on theory, method, and practice / Kelleter, Frank; Starre, Alexander (Eds.). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018, pp. 135 – 152
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Cain's Land, or troping indigenous agriculture
    In: The Routledge companion to inter-American studies / Raussert, Wilfried (Eds.). London ; New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 283 – 295
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Cain’s Land, or troping indigenous agriculture
    In: The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies / Raussert, Wilfried. London: Taylor & Francis, 2017, pp. 283 – 295
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    City scripts : urban American studies and the conjunction of textual strategies and spatial processes
    In: Urban transformations in the U.S.A. :: spaces, communities, representations / Sattler, Julia (Eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, 2016, pp. 395 – 420
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Empire, nation, urbanity : renewing scripts and frames in the Old Northwest
    In: Hemispheric encounters: the Early United States in a transnational perspective / Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele; Heide, Markus (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016, pp. 53 – 72
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hassan, Zohra; Meinel, Dietmar; Furlanetto, Elena; Leyda, Julia
    Urbanität Neu Denken? : Provokationen aus der nordamerikanischen Gegenwartskultur
    In: Neu gedacht und neu gemacht: Lehrideen aus der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Duisburg ; Essen: Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2015, pp. 54 – 59
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Erdichtetes Wissen über das präkoloniale Amerika : Junge Märkte und Ideen im Bann des Song of Hiawatha (1855)
    In: Von Käfern, Märkten und Menschen: Kolonialismus und Wissen in der Moderne / Habermas, Rebekka; Przyrembel, Alexandra (Eds.). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 221 – 232
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hassan, Zohra
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    In: Unter dem roten Wunderschirm: Lesarten klassischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur / Bräuer, Christoph Reinhard (Eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl., 2013, pp. 347 – 361
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    The Captive’s Crucible: Haudenosaunee Violence in Early North American Narratives of Christian and Cultural Conversion
    In: Interculturalism in North America: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and beyond / Raab, Josef; Greiffenstern, Alexander (Eds.). Trier: Wiss. Verl. [u.a.], 2013, pp. 27 – 56
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Ethnic Performance and the Self-Representation of Frederick Philip Grove
    In: American multiculturalism and ethnic survival / von Bardeleben, Renate; Matter-Seibel, Sabina; Schmidt, Klaus H. (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2012, pp. 81 – 96
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Prefiguring CanAmerica? White Man’s Indians and Religious Typology in New England and New France
    In: Transnational American studies / Hebel, Udo J. (Eds.). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012, pp. 165 – 182
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Amerika – ‚für die liebe Jugend frei bearbeitet’
    In: Der rote Wunderschirm: Kinderbücher der Sammlung Seifert von der Frühaufklärung bis zum Nationalsozialismus / Wangerin, Wolfgang; Seifert, Jürgen; Bochem, Angelika (Eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011, pp. 217 – 222
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 174 – 175
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Hecke, Carola; Moya, Paula; Shelton, Nicole
    Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp for Americanists and Future EFL-Teachers
    In: Identity in education / Sánchez-Casal, Susan; MacDonald, Amy (Eds.). New York [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 225 – 250
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Alternate Identities and Creolities in Canadian Literary Discourse
    In: Hybrid Americas: contacts, contrasts, and confluences in New World literatures and cultures / Raab, Josef (Eds.). Berlin: LIT [u.a.], 2008, pp. 33 – 56
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Introduction to Literary Nationalization in the Americas
    In: Do the Americas Have a Common Literary History? / Buchenau, Barbara (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2002, pp. 49 – 57
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Introduction to Varieties of Internationalization
    In: Do the Americas have a common literary history? / Buchenau, Barbara; Paatz, Annette (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2002, 49-57, 295-300
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Findenegg, Eva; Lauterbach, Frank
    Normative Programs and Artistic Liberties: Inter-American Case Studies in Historical Fiction and the Campaign for Cultural Emancipation. A Summary Statement
    In: Do the Americas have a common literary history? / Buchenau, Barbara; Paatz, Annette (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2002, pp. 195 – 200
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Felsberg, Sabine
    From Influence Studies to Writer Response Criticism: A Brief Survey of Books on Anglo-American and British Literatures
    In: The internationality of national literatures in either America: transfer and transformation. 2. British America and the United States, 1770s - 1850s / Frank, Armin Paul (Eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl., 2000, pp. 67 – 72
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Findenegg, Eva; Lauterbach, Frank
    Normative Programs and Artistic Liberties: Inter-American Case Studies in Historical Fiction and the Campaign for Cultural Emancipation
    In: Internationalität nationaler Literaturen: Beiträge zum ersten Symposion des Göttinger Sonderforschungsbereichs 529 / Schöning, Udo (Eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl., 2000, pp. 348 – 389
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    "Wizards of the West" : How Americans Responded to Sir Walter Scott
    In: James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art / 11ᵗʰ Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 1997 / Mac Dougall, Hugh C. (Eds.). Oneonta: SUNY Press, 1999, pp. 14 – 25
    Online Full Text

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin; Sulimma, Maria (Eds.)
    City Scripts : Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
    Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2023
    DOI
  • Ameel, Lieven; Buchenau, Barbara; Gurr, Jens Martin
    Narrative in Urban Planning : A Practical Field Guide
    Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Richter, Virginia (Eds.)
    Post-empire imaginaries? : Anglophone literature, history, and the demise of empires
    Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2015
    (Cross cultures ; 182)
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Der frühe amerikanische historische Roman im transatlantischen Vergleich
    Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: lang, 2002
    (Interamericana ; 2)
  • Buchenau, Barbara (Eds.)
    Do the Americas have a common literary history?
    Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2002
    (Interamericana ; 1)
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Messmer, Marietta (Eds.)
    Thematic Issue: Intercultural Negotiations in the Americas and Beyond
    West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001
    (CLC Web Comparative Literature and Culture ; 3.2)
    Online Full Text

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • Buchenau, Barbara; Furlanetto, Elena
    Atlantic History : Nation and Empire in Northern Atlantic History
    In: Oxford Bobliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
    DOI
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Adrienne Kennedy, Das dramatische Werk
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 178 – 179
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 178
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 173 – 174
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 175 – 176
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    John Augustus Stone, Metamora
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: 3., völlig neu bearb. Aufl, 2009
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    John Steinbeck, Das Romanwerk
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 550 – 552
    Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok
    In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon / Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Eds.). Stuttgart [u.a.]: Metzler, 2009, pp. 771 – 772
    Online Full Text

    • Lectures

  • Buchenau, Barbara
    Deutungsfragen : Wie statische Denkfiguren gesellschaftlichen Wandel erzeugen und begleiten
    Die kleine Form, 30. November 2016, Essen,
    2016(Die kleine Form 2016/2017)
    Online Full Text, Online Full Text
  • Buchenau, Barbara; Leyda, Julia
    Urban catastrophe in contemporary screen culture
    Grounding Transnational American Studies in Euro-American Contexts ; RUDESA ; Radboud University Duisburg-Essen Spring Academy ; Nijmegen, March 16 – 18, 2015 ; Essen, March 18 – 20, 2015,
    2015

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