PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer

Job title: Gastprofessur
Organization: Department of English and American Studies
Working group: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
Phone number: +49 9131 85-23341
Email: stefanie.ste.schaefer@fau.de
Address:

Bismarckstraße 1
91054 Erlangen

Room C407
Office hours:
Office Hours during the term break
Aug 7, 9.30am-12pm
Sept 18, 12-2pm

Office Hours (winter term)
Mon 2-4pm

Research Interests

Transnational and Comparative North American Studies
Gender in popular culture and film
Storytelling, self-narration, autobiography theory and narrative theory
19^th century literature and the writings of John Neal
Black femininities
North American Western myths
Teaching literature in the university classroom

Research Projects

Women Performers in North American Western Cultures, research project (awarded funding: 30 000,- Euros, Pro Chance Programm A1, FSU Jena, 2017-2019)
Black Womanhood in Popular Culture (with Katharina Gerund), forthcoming special issue of Open Cultural Studies

Recent and Upcoming Activities

“Cowgirldom on the Move: The Transnational Performances of Annie Oakley”, EBAAS meeting of the European Association of American Studies, London, April 4-7. 2018.
“Von Michelle zu Melania. Mode, Feminismen, und First Ladies in den USA.” DAI Nürnberg, April 18, 2018. Listen to the lecture on Deutschlandfunk Nova on July 8, 2018!
“(Trans)National Counter/Publics and the Politics of Humor in US Culture”, Panel chair, DGfA/GAAS annual meeting, FU Berlin, May 24-27, 2018.

Education and Employment

April 2018: visiting professor of American Studies, Chair of American Studies: Culture and Literature, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg
June 2017: venia legendi “North American Literature and Culture”, FSU Jena
Since 2010: assistant professor for American Studies, department of English and American Studies, University of Jena (chair Prof. Dr. C. Rosenthal)
December 2009: Dr. phil. University of Heidelberg, doctorate thesis: “Just the Two of Us:’ Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel” (magna cum laude)
2007-2009: research assistant, English Department, University of Heidelberg (chair Prof. Dr. Vera Nünning)
2005-2006: teacher of English and French, Helmholtzgymnasium Heidelberg
2005: M.A. and 1. Staatsexamen (Gym)/ state teacher’s degree (English and French Philologies), University Trier
1999-2005: Studies of English and French philologies, University Trier and University of Minnesota

Fellowships and Grants

12/2017: FSU research grant for young female postdocs, (Pro Chance Program)
06/2016 : short listed (2^nd) for Lectureship North American literature and Culture, English Department, University of Berne, Switzerland
10/2015 : good practice– award (teaching), FSU Jena
07/2013: Excursion funding from Ernst-Abbe Projektstiftung, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), FSU Alumni association
09/2012-02/2013: Postdoctoral research grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); German Research Fellowship, Library of Congress, Kluge Center, for postdoctoral research
06/2012: Publication grant, American Consulate Leipzig and Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)
04/2012: Conference funding, Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)
04/2012: “Library Support Program” for Canadiana at the Jena University Library ThULB (with Caroline Rosenthal)
08/2011: Research Grant for postdoctoral research at Harvard University, FSU of Jena
06/2010: Publication grant for dissertation, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften
2008/2009: Conference and publication funding, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg,
06/2009: “Best practice” award, higher education certificate, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg
2008/2009: Conference and publication funding, Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung

Publications

Authored Books

Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19^th Century American Culture. (habilitation manuscript, publication in preparation)
‘Just the Two of Us’: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel. Trier: WVT, 2011.

Edited Books

Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Co-edited with Caroline Rosenthal. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2014.
Learning 9/11: Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Irina Bauder-Begerow. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
‘Hello, I say, It’s Me:’ (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, 2009.

Articles

[coming soon]

Grants and Awards