Juliane Strätz | Universität Mannheim

Academic Staff Member

University of Mannheim
Anglistik III
B 6, 30–32 – Room 412
68159 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181–3366
E-mail: jstraetzmail.uni-mannheim.de

Consultation hour(s):
By appointment

Research
Juliane Strätz is currently working as an academic assistant at the University of Mannheim and writing her dissertation thesis “Human Machines? Laboring Bodies in the Age of Informatics.”
Biographic Information
She holds a Master of Education from the University of Potsdam as well as a Master of Arts from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2015, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. In 2018, she has published the article “The Ordeal of Labor and the Birth of Robot Fiction” in Amerikastudien/American Studies.

Publications

Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2017). The ordeal of labor and the birth of robot fiction. Amerikastudien : AmST = American Studies, 62, 633-648.
Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2017). The struggle of being alive : laboring bodies in Paolo Bacigalupi's The windup girl. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 18, 1-21.

Gamböck-Strätz, J. (2020). Subverting late capitalist comfort : Affective connections in Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary People. In Comfort in contemporary culture : the challenges of a concept (S. 133-148). Bielefeld: transcript.