Dorothee Schneider, M.A.

Room: 204

Phone: 0431-880 3423

E-Mail: schneider(at)anglistik.uni-kiel.de

Office hours summer term 2018:  Monday 1-2 pm

PhD-Project

Discourses of dis/ability in American fiction (working title)

Curriculum vitae

Since 2016     Research Associate at the chair of North American Studies,

                          Prof. Dr. J. Zimmermann, Kiel University

                          PhD-candidate in American Literary Studies

                          Coordinator at the Center for North American Studies

2016                 Master of Arts in English and American Literatures, Cultures and Media,

                          Kiel University

                          Master thesis: 'When the dead come knocking': Post-9/11-conepts of

                          'home' and 'homeland' in AMC's The Walking Dead

2014                 Scottish Universities International Summer School,

                          Course in Scottish Literature, recipient of the SUISS scholarship

2014                 Holsteiner Studienpreis

2013-2015      Research Assistant at the chair of British and American Cultural Studies,

                          Prof. Dr. C. Huck

2013-2014      Project Assistant to Prof. Dr. C. Huck, curator of the special program

                          "Sports" at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg, 2014

2012                 Research Assistant at the chair of English Literature

                           from Shakespeare to the Present, Prof. Dr. A. Horatschek

2012 (ST)        Tutor for BA-students, lecture course "Introduction to Literary Studies"

                          (Dr. A. Schwarck)

2011 (WT)       Tutor for BA-students, lecture course "Introduction to Cultural Studies"

                          (Prof. Dr. C. Huck)

2009-2012      Bachelor of Arts in English/American Studies and Scandinavian Studies,

                          Kiel University

Research interests

• Dis/ability Studies
• American Literature from the 19th to the 21st century
• African American Literature
• Trauma narratives
• Chronic Illness in literature
• Home and home spaces
• Horror, especially the zombie in contemporary culture

Conference papers/Guest lectures

"'This dead stump I stand on now': Reading Moby Dick through a disability lens". Public Lecture series: Disability from the Inside Out: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Behinderung. Dresden University, April 24, 2018.

"'No Sanctuary': Post-9/11 Home Spaces in AMC's The Walking Dead". Mobilizing Home(s): New Approaches to the Study of Home in Contemporary Culture. AIAS. Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies. Sept. 14-15, 2017, Aarhus University.

Publications

„Kunterbunte Postapokalypse. GUNG HO Band 1/Schwarze Schafe“.Closure: Kieler E-Journal für Comicforschung. 2.5 (2016).

“‘Oh, but Grandmére, […] I wan’ fo’ to play’: Passing and identity construction in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s 'The Stones of the Village'”. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU), XLVII, 3 (2014), pp. 243-258.

Courses

ST 2018    History, Memory, Identity: African American Literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, Tues. 12-14h

WT 2017   Concepts and Methodologies: Introduction to Literary Studies, Weds. 8-10h

ST 2017    Discourses of Dis/ability in American Fiction, Tues. 14-16h

WT 2016   Concepts and Methodologies: Introduction to Literary Studies, Weds. 16-18h