Dorothee Schneider
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