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Andrew Wildermuth, M. A.

Andrew Wildermuth, M.A.

Andrew Wildermuth

Department of English and American Studies
Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)

Room: Room 03.108
Bismarckstr. 8
91054 Erlangen
  • Email: andrew.wildermuth@fau.de

Office hours

Tue 11am-12noon

Research Interests

  • Aesthetics and Politics of Reform Literature
  • American Romanticism (esp. Margaret Fuller)
  • Settler Colonialism and Race in North America
  • Critical Theory, Affect, and Sentimentality
  • Harlem Renaissance Literature
  • Contemporary Poetry

Current Research Projects

  • “Malleable America: Power, Feeling, and Reform in the American and Harlem Renaissances” (PhD Dissertation, In-Progress)

Education

M.A., North American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2021)
B.A., English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (2017)

Employment

  • since 2022: doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2021-2022: doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “Modell Romantik” at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Wildermuth, Andrew. “’Water, Water Everywhere’: Flows, Fate, and Transcendental Settlerism in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.” Iperstoria 19 (2022): 49–65. https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1150
  • Wildermuth, Andrew. “Measured Life: Making Live, the ‘Modern System of Science,’ and the Animated Bodies of Frankenstein.”ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69, no. 4 (2021): 331–48.
  • Wildermuth, Andrew. “’A Thing Apart’: Sonnet Poetics and Radical Politics in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows.” aspeers 14 (2021): 15–31. http://www.aspeers.com/2021/wildermuth

Poems (Select) 

  • “2x,” Cola Literary Review (2023)
  •  “Containers,” Ninth Letter (2022)
  •  “Subdued Ochre,” Miracle Monocle (2021)
  • “Amerikanistik,” Columbia Journal (2020)
  • “Hide the Screens,” EcoTheo Review (2020)

Grants and Awards

  • June-July 2022: NEH Summer Institute, Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau, Concord, MA
  • 2020: Final Semester Scholarship, FAU

Service to the Profession

  • Since 2022: Speaker of the Doctoral Students of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, FAU
  • Since 2022: Doctoral Representative, Sustainability Commission, FAU
  • Since 2022: Associate Editor of Conversations, newsletter of Margaret Fuller Society
  • Since 2021: Graduate Student Liaison, Margaret Fuller Society

Teaching

  • Rethinking the American Renaissance (PS)
  • Speaking Skills
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