Andrew Wildermuth, M.A.

Andrew Wildermuth, M.A.

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

Room: Room 03.108
Bismarckstr. 8
91054 Erlangen

Office hours


Mon, 11am-12noon

Research Interests

Aesthetics and Politics of “Malleability”
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Race and Nation in North America
Critical Theory, Affect, Sentimentality
Harlem Renaissance Literature
Contemporary Poetry

Current Research Projects

  • American Malleability: The Aesthetics and Politics of Change in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature (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,” FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg
  • 2021–22: Doctoral researcher in Graduiertenkolleg “Modell Romantik,” Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

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 2023: Doctoral Representative, Library Commission, FAU
  • 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

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)

Conference Papers

  • “Foraging, Forging, Forgoing: Thoreau as Disaster,” Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, Germany, July 2023
  • “Reading the Body Politic: Phrenology and Ideology in Moby Dick and Woman in the Nineteenth Century,” Annual Conference of the British Association of American Studies, Keele University, England, April 2023
  • “Reading, Liberatory Violence, and Malleability in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance: An International Conference, University of Torino, Italy, March 2023

Teaching

  • Rethinking the American Renaissance (PS)
  • Speaking Skills
  • Integrated Academic Language Skills