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Claudia Deetjen, M.A.
Contact data
E-Mail: [email protected]
Telefon: 0049+ 921/55-3583
Fax: 0049+921/55-3565
Building: GW I, Room: 1.27
Academic CV
2008-present Lecturer, American Studies and Intercultural Anglophone Studies, University
of Bayreuth
2009-2010
Bavarian Library of Congress Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress,
Washington D.C.
Visiting scholar, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
2007-2008
Lecturer, American Studies, University of Bamberg
2006-2007
Teaching Assistant, The College of William and Mary, Virginia
Education
2006
M.A. (Magistra Artium), English and American Studies, German Studies,
Political Science, University of Münster; M.A. Thesis "Memories, Histories,
Identities in Selected Plays by Dael Orlandersmith and Suzan-Lori Parks"
2005
Staatsexamen/ Teacher’s Degree, English, German, University of Münster
Current Project
“Process and Community: Contemporary Native American Literature”
Research Interests
Native American Literature and Culture
Ecologically Oriented Literary and Cultural Studies/Ecocriticism
Ethics and Literature
Literary and Cultural Theory
African American Literature and Culture
Publications
Book Reviews
“Vieldeutige Natur. Landschaft, Wildnis und Ökosystem als Kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene,
Hg. Thomas Kirchhoff und Ludwig Trepl“ (ecozon@, forthcoming)
Translations
Translation/transcription of various interviews conducted by David P. Boder with Holocaust
survivors for the digital project Voices of the Holocaust under supervision by the Illinois
Institute of Technology (http://voices.iit.ed) [German – English]
Co-Translator of David P. Boder’s I Did Not Interview the Dead (Forthcoming) [English –
German]
Conference Papers
2010 “Narratives of Empire: Kiana Davenport’s Native Hawaiian Chronicles,” EASLCE
Conference, University of Bath
“Shapeshifter Commodities: Brian Jungen’s Strange Comfort (NMAI 2009/2010),”
DGfA Conference, University of Berlin
“Process and Community,” ‘Incubation Talks’ series, Library of Congress, Washington
D.C.
2008 “Narrating (Post)-Colonial Landscapes: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes,”
EASLCE Conference, University of Alcalá (Spain)
2006 “Ecocritical Readings: Louise Erdrich and Linda Hogan,” Tag des Wissenschaftlichen
Nachwuchses, Universität Münster
Grants
2009-2010 Bavarian Library of Congress Fellowship, Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
Other
2010 Co-Organizer of “ReVisions of American Studies” at U of Bayreuth (network of younger
scholars of American Studies)
2009/2010 Co-Organizer of the ‘Incubation Talks’ series, Library of Congress, Washington
D.C.
2007 Bavarian American Academy Summer Institute “Ethnicity and Society in America”
(contributing participant)
Courses Taught
“One Nation, Underprivileged: Progress and Poverty in American Literature“
“Beyond Broadway: 20th Century American Drama“
“‘Nature’s Nation’: American Literature, Culture, and the Environment”
“The 19th Century American Novel: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Stephen Crane”
“20th Century Native American Literature and Film”
“African American Drama: Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks”
“Writing ‘Indian Country’ Today: Contemporary Native American Literature“
“Introduction to English and American Literature”
Professional Memberships
DGfA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German American Studies Association)
EASLCE European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment