Forschung
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Celebrity Politics / Geschlecht und Macht in der politischen Kultur der USA
- Der nordamerikanische Westernmythos und seine europäischen Ausprägungen
- Kanada-Studien und CanLit im zeitgenössischen anglophonen Roman
- Transnationale Amerikastudien und vergleichende Nordamerikastudien
- Critical Race Studies
- Post/
Individualismus – Die USA im globalen Kontext - Scheitern als Chance: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Scheitern
Abgeschlossene Projekte
Quantified Self
Probing the Limits of the Quantified Self. Read more here
Veröffentlichungen
Lehrstuhl Anglistik III
- Purk, A. (2024). Between the joys of nonsense and the excess of the other: foodways in Laura E. Richards’s children’s poems. European Journal of American Studies : EJAS, 19, 1–15.
- Schäfer, S. (2023). “Grief became my friend, my work:” Mary Todd Lincoln’s uneasy union with memory in LeAnne Howe’s Savage Conversations (2019). New American Studies Journal, 2023, 1–17.
- Schäfer, S. (2021). The Donald, FLOTUS, and the gendered labors of celebrity politics at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 66, 302–307.
- Schäfer, S. (2020). Knots and knowledges : the Canadian West, settler colonial intimacies, and Aritha Van Herk’s Calgary Stampede. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien : ZKS, 40, 163–178.
- Falkenhagen, C. und Schäfer, S. (2018). The importance of being the first : Bürgerrechte und Black Womanhood im Film Hidden Figures untersuchen. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht. Englisch, 2018, 44–48.
- Rosenthal, C. und Schäfer, S. (2016). The Calgary Stampede through a cultural studies perspective: A teaching project. Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 16, 48–57.
- Schäfer, S. (2015). Phenomenal woman : Michelle Obama’s embodied rhetoric and the cultural work of fashion biographies. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 235–254.
- Purk, A. (2014). Multiplying perspectives through text and time: Jamaica Kincaid's Writing of the Collective. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 15, 1–14.
- Purk, A. (2014). Writing possibilities of the past: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter. Discourse : Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 36, 71–86.
- Schäfer, S. (2014). Plantation spaces and the black body : Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained as maroon narrative. Black Studies Papers : BSP, 1, 167–187.
- Schäfer, S. (2012). „Recognition is a form of agreement“ : The workings of self-narration in „The Catcher in the Rye“ and „Invisible Man“. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 57, 603–626.
- Schäfer, S. und Hiergeist, T. (Hrsg.) (2024). Ladies in arms : women, guns, and feminisms in contemporary popular culture. Bielefeld: transcript.
- Purk, A. (2023). Jamaica Kincaid’s writings of history : a poetics of impermanence. Berlin ; Boston, MA: De Gruyter.
- Schäfer, S. (2021). Yankee Yarns : storytelling and the invention of the national body in nineteenth-century American culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Vosters, H. (2021). Canada is… what?! : a meditation on the diasporic threads of settler colonialism. Wien: Universität Wien.
- Rosenthal, C. und Schäfer, S. (Hrsg.) (2014). Fake identity? : the impostor narrative in North American culture. Frankfurt a. M. , New York, NY: Campus-Verlag.
- Schäfer, S. (2024). Cowgirling in Thuringia : the german police procedural Tatort goes Western. In Ladies in arms : women, guns, and feminisms in contemporary popular culture (S. 181–196). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Schäfer, S. (2023). 'Not form which you see, but emotion which you feel' : crisis, time, and hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Earthseed Novels. In The transformative power of literature and narrative : promoting positive change : a conceptual volume in honour of Vera Nünning (S. 53–63). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Schäfer, S. (2022). Jackie (2016). In Lexicon of global melodrama (S. 353–355). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Schäfer, S. (2017). „John Neal and the problem of Romanticism“. In Reading the canon : literary history in the 21st century (S. 315–332). Heidelberg: Winter.
- Purk, A. (2016). A photo album of history: ekphrasis in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book). In America after nature : democracy, culture, environment (S. 349–367). Heidelberg: Winter.
- Schäfer, S. (2012). American Epic(s)? A reflection on genre and the making of heroes. In Elle s'étend, l'épopée : relecture et ouverture du corpus épique (S. 321–342). Bruxelles: Lang.
- Schäfer, S. (2018). Marooning James Bond: Cleopatra Jones, Blaxploitation and the Imperial Mystique. In , Anglistentag 2017 Regensburg : proceedings (S. 221–232). , Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier.
- Schäfer, S. (2016). (Un)Settling North America: the Yankee in the writings of John Neal and Thomas Chandler Haliburton. In , Traveling traditions : nineteenth-century cultural concepts and transatlantic intellectual networks (S. 231–246). Buchreihe der Anglia = Anglia Book Series : ANGB, De Gruyter ; De Gruyter Mouton: Berlin ; Boston, MA.
- Schäfer, S. (2012). Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding’s „The Lion of the West“. In , Transnational American studies : the 58th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies „Transnational American studies“ was held at the University of Regensburg, 16 – 19 June 2011 (S. 183–205). American Studies : A Monograph Series, Winter: Heidelberg.
- Schäfer, S. (2011). “I was a loose end”: Narrative self-fashioning and ethical encounters in contemporary American fiction. In , Ethik – Anerkennung – Gerechtigkeit : philosophische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven (S. 201–216). Ethik, Text, Kultur, Fink: München ; Paderborn.