Chiona Hufnagel, M.A., M.A.

Chair of American Studies: Literature

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Dissertation: „(Counter)hegemonic Masculinities in 21st-Century North American Indigenous Literature“

Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory
Gender Studies and Queer Studies (esp. Critical Masculinity Studies, Feminist/2SLGBTQ+ Literature)
Indigenous Literature
Materialist Criticism/Critical Theory
Postcritique/Reparative Reading

April 2023-March 2024: Deputizing for the assistant professor/program Coordinator of the MA program “North American Studies: Culture and Literature”, Chair of North American Literary Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Since October 2022: Associated member of the DFG research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
Since May 2021: Doctoral fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft)
09/2020: Master of Arts in Ethik der Textkulturen, elite study program (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg/University Augsburg), (⌀ 1,1)
06/2020: Master of Arts in North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), (⌀ 1,2)
September-December 2018: Community work/research stay at the “Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center” and women’s shelter in in Lake Andes, South Dakota
August 2016: Bachelor of Arts in German Studies & English and American Studies (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
January-December 2016: Student assistant for ELINAS (Center for Literature and Natural Science) at the chair of German Studies/Theoretical Physics
October 2014-April 2019: Fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft)Substituting for the Assistant Professor at the Chair of North American Literary Studies (April 2023-March 2024)

“(Counter)-Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinities in Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature: Reparative Self- and Worldmaking in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Joshua Whitehead”, “Current Research in British and North American Studies”, University of Flensburg, 11/07/2025
Guest editor for COPAS (“Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies”) for the conference proceedings of the PGF Annual Conference 2024
Co-organizer of the annual conference for early career scholars of American Studies (“Postgraduate Forum”) 11/21-11/23/2024, Erlangen

“But What about Love?’: Decolonial Love as a Radical Reparative Practice of Resurgence in Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love and This Accident of Being Lost”. Conference: “Walking the Walk? Fatigue and Hope in the Study of Canada”, Robarts Centre Graduate Conference/York University Canada, 04/08/2022.
“We Don’t Have Time. Time Has Us”: Der Mythos des ‘Vanishing Indian’ und das Metanarrativ des Fortschritts“. Conference: “Von Zeit zu Zeit. Polyperspektivische Konzepte von Temporalität”, FAU, 04/02/2022.
“Cultural Imperialism? Der europäisch/US amerikanische Gender- und Postkolonialismusdiskurs und die marginalisierten indigenen Frauen Nordamerikas”. Conference: “Was war Geschlecht? Geschlechterforschung kooperativ”, FAU/Brown University, 07/25/-07/26/2019.
“’Boys are so fragile’–New men in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: (De)konstruktionen traditioneller Maskulinität im Kontext von ‘race’, ‘class’ und ‘sexuality”. Conference: “Ohne Leitbilder? Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Tradition für das Leben”, FAU/Brown University, 07/20-07/21/2018.

Co-Organizer of the conference „(Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions”. Jahreskonferenz des Postgraduiertenforums (PGF) der „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien” (DGfA), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 21-23. 11/2024.

Handbook article „Identitäten“, Handbuch Literatur und Öffentlichkeit, Springer (in Vorbereitung).

Together with Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, and Ruxandra Teodorescu: “Introduction”, (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postgraduate Forum, COPAS, vol. 26, no. 1, 2025, S. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.412.

Together with Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, and Ruxandra Teodorescu: (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postgraduate Forum, COPAS, vol. 26, no. 1, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.412

“Lektüreseminar: English and American Literature since the 19^th Century” (WS 2021/22, SS 2022, SS 2023)
“Kombiseminar: Lingustic Varienties and Cultural Difference” (WS 2022/23, WS2023/24)
“Aufbauseminar Literature” (SS 2023)
Mittel/Proseminar “Negotiating Masculinities in North American Indigenous Literature” (SS 2023)
“Grundseminar Literature” (2x WS 2023/24)
Co-hosting the American Research Colloquium (Literary Studies) together with Prof. Dr. Antje Kley (WS 2023/24)
Tutor for “Grundlagen der Neueren deutschen Literatur 2“ (SS 2017)