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American
Studies
Areas
of particular interest include the
overlap between class membership and weight in the States, confessionalism
in American culture and literature, and the criticism of current American
policy towards prisoners at home and abroad. (See publications for related
essays.)
Related activities have included:
• Performance
of Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo’s Guantánamo: 'Honor
Bound to Defend Freedom' (July 2007) Freiburg University.
• Lecture
on "Men Who We Love To Hate: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick
Cheney and the Use and Abuse of Masculinity" (Männer, die wir
zu hassen lieben – George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney
und ihre Darstellung von Männlichkeit) for the WS 2006 – 2007
Ringvorlesung über Männlichkeit (February 2007) Freiburg University
• Participation in "Amerikanische Autoren und Europäische
Leser: Lesung, Gespräch und Symposium zur Gegenwartsliteratur in
den USA"; Talk on "The Novel after 9/11: Politics & Paranoia"
and moderation of a discussion between Mark Costello, author of Big
If, and Philipp Schweighauser and the audience (26 – 27 January
2007) Literaturhaus: Basel
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Organization of the podium discussion “Machtmissbrauch im Gefängnis:
Das Stanford Prison Experiment, Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib”
(The Abuse of Power in the Prison: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Guantánamo
Bay and Abu Ghraib) (June 2004) Freiburg University
• Talk with students on: "Why Women Suffer More from Eating
Disorders and Cutting" (May 2004) Kreisgymnasium Hochschwarzwald
• Paper on "Divisions Within and Divisions Without: 9/11 and
E. Lynn Harris's A Love of My Own" at the conference "Die US-amerikanische
Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenössischen Literatur" (December
2003) Evangelische Akademie Loccum
• Paper
on "America's Two Bodies Society" at the AAAS conference: US
Icons and Iconicity (November 2003) Graz University
• Lecture on "American Visions, Values, and Contradictions"
(September 2003) Amerika Haus Köln
• Performance with students of "Gender Benders: Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and Gloria Steinem’s If Men Could
Menstruate" (3 June 2003) Bonn University and (17 und 18 July
2003) Freiburg University
• Moderation of the podium discussion "The Transatlantic Drift
of the Transatlantic Rift – The German-American Relationship Revisited”
for "Germany Today 2003: Bi- and Multilateral Patterns in an Enlarged
European Union” (June 2003) Bonn University
• Interview with Dom Radio on the introduction of fingerprinting
for European visitors to the United States (May 2003)
• Paper on "The In-your-faceness of Bodies in American Literature
and Culture Now" at the conference: The Flesh Made Text
(May 2003) Thessalonica University
• Talk on "Discursive Elements of Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism"
for the symposium "Anti-Americanism in Wartime"
(May 2003) Bonn University
• Organization and introduction of the symposium "Anti-Americanism
in Wartime" (May 2003) at Bonn University
• Paper on "Inarticulate, Violent White American Men"
at the AAAS conference: Anti-Americanisms (November 2002) Vienna University
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