PD Dr. Regina Schober
Senior Lecturer with Tenure
Only at the University of Mannheim until the end of March. She doesn't accept any final theses any more.
Consultation hour(s):
Wed 1–2 p.m.
Wed 1–2 p.m.
Regina Schober is ‚Akademische Rätin‘ (Senior Lecturer) at the Chair of American Literary and Cultural Studies. She recently submitted her second book (Habilitation) on network concepts in US American literature and culture. She received her PhD at Leibniz University Hannover in 2009 on musical references in Amy Lowell’s poetry. She was visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2017) and at Harvard University as well as the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2008). Her research interests include transformations of subjectivity in the information age, network concepts, the quantified self, theories of reading, and discourses of failure. She is part of the DFG research project Probing the Limits of the Quantified Self and of the DFG network Narrative Liminality. She teaches courses on the digital humanities, literary and cultural theory, 19th-21st century literature, as well as music and literature.
Publications
- Dorson, J. and Schober, R. (2017). Introduction. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 1–8.
- Schober, R. (2017). “A problem in small boat navigation”: Ocean metaphors and emerging data epistemology in Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” and Jack London's “The Heathen”. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 70–88.
- Schober, R. (2017). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : contemporary fiction on/
of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 61, 359–379. - Danter, S., Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (2016). Theorizing the quantified self : self-knowledge and posthumanist agency in contemporary US-American literature. Digital Culture & Society, 2, 53–70.
- Schober, R. (2016). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : Contemporary American fiction on/
of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 61, 359–357. - Reichardt, U., Schäfer, H. and Schober, R. (2015). Introduction: Network theory and American studies. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 11–15.
- Schober, R. (2015). America as network : Notions of interconnectedness in American transcendentalism and pragmatism. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 60, 97–119.
- Schober, R. (2014). The world wide sea : oceanic metaphors, concepts of knowledge, and transnational America in the Information Age. Review of international American studies : RIAS, 7, 9–34.
- Schober, R. (2014). Transcending boundaries : the network concept in nineteenth-century American philosophy and literature. American Literature, 86, 493–521.
- Schober, R. (2012). “It’s about being connected”: Reframing the network in Colum McCann’s post 9/
11 novel Let the Great World Spin. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA, 60, 391–402.
- Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (eds.) (2020). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. Bielefeld: transcript.
- Schober, R. and Motyl, K. (eds.) (2017). The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity. Frankfurt a. M. ; New York: Campus Verlag.
- Schober, R. (2011). Unexpected Chords : Musico-Poetic Intermediality in Amy Lowell’s Poetry and Poetics. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Reichardt, U. (2020). Reconsidering agency and choice: The office, the wall, and the tax code (Herman Melville, “Bartleby” and David Foster Wallace, The Pale King). In Laboring bodies and the quantified self (S. 41–59). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Schober, R. (2019). Adaptation as connection: A network theoretical approach to convergence, participation, and co-production. In Adaptation in the age of media convergence (S. 31–54). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Schober, R. (2019). The books that count: Big data versus narrative in Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers. In The printed book in contemporary American culture : medium, object, metaphor (S. 31–51). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Schober, R. (2018). Transcendentalism. In Walt Whitman in context (S. 189–197). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hamscha, S., Motyl, K. and Schober, R. (2017). Introduction: The failed individual. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 11–27). Berlin ; New York: Campus Verlag.
- Schober, R. (2017). Failure blogs and the confessional self. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 375–392). Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag.
- Schober, R. (2013). Adaptation as connection: Transmediality reconsidered. In Adaptation studies : new challenges, new directions (S. 89–112). London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury.
- Schober, R. (2012). Musik als Experiment : transmediale Verhandlungen in Amy Lowells imagistischer Lyrik. In Experimente in den Künsten : transmediale Erkundungen in Literatur, Theater, Film, Musik und bildender Kunst (S. 305–334). Bielefeld: transcript.
- Schober, R. (2010). Das Konzept der Groteske bei Amy Lowell und Igor Strawinsky – Möglichkeiten einer intermedialen Literaturdidaktik im Fremdsprachenunterricht. In Der Einsatz von Musik und die Entwicklung von audio literacy im Fremdsprachenunterricht (S. 191–201). Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Lang.
- Schober, R. (2010). Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces “Grotesques” for String Quartet'. In Media borders, multimodality and intermediality (S. 163–174). Basingstoke [u.a.]: Palgrave MacMillan.