Dr. Stefanie Weymann-Teschke
Raum/Room 210 Phone 0431-880-2256 |
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CV
2006: B.A. in English and American Studies / Neuere deutsche Literatur, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2008: M.A. in English, King’s College London
2016: Ph.D. Englische/Amerikanische Philologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
(Ph.D. in American Studies program, Heidelberg Center for American Studies)
since 2016: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Englisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Research Interests
- 19th and 20th Century English and American Literature
- Contemporary Literature
- The City in Literature
- Literature and Material Culture
- Realism, Naturalism, New Realism
- Spatial Theory
- Sensory Studies
- Memory Studies
Publications and Conference Papers
- Weymann-Teschke, Stefanie. The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses. American Studies – A Monograph Series. Vol. 288. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018.
- Weymann, Stefanie. “Performing New York, Narrating Urban Complexity: E.L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley.” Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature and Film. Ed. Jens Martin Gurr and Wilfried Raussert. Trier and Tempe Arizona State U: WVT and Bilingual P, 2011. 77-84.
- “Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo”
paper at “Persisting Souls in Literature, Art, History, Politics” conference, Institut Catholique de Paris, 11./12.4.2019
- “The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses”
paper at University of Notre Dame, IN, 28./29.9.2015 - “Walking New York”
paper at “Cities of Translation” conference, Trinity College Dublin, 9.5.2014 - “Performing Space: The City in Contemporary American Literature”
paper at “Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature, Film and Media” conference, University of Bielefeld, 25./26.6.2010
Teaching
- The Otherness of Things: Encounters with the Object World in Literature (WiSe 2019/20)
- Journey Narratives (SoSe 2019)
- Narrating the City (SoSe 2019)
- American Realism and Naturalism (WiSe 2018/19)
- “I Shall Say I No More: The (De)Construction of Identity in the Works of Samuel Beckett” (SoSe 2018)
- The Art of Satire in British Literature (SoSe 2018)
- “No Ideas But in Things”: American Literature and the World of Objects (SoSe 2018)
- Travellers and Vagabonds: American Tales from the Road (SoSe 2017)
- Literary London (SoSe 2017)
- Concepts and Methodologies (WiSe 16/17, 17/18, 18/19, 19/20)
- The City in Literature and Film (WiSe 16/17)