Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
Research Interests
- History and Functions of the US-American novel
- Literature and Knowlege
- US-American Autobiography
- Transculturality and the Multiethnic Literatures of the US and the Anglophone Caribbean
- Literary and Cultural theory (esp. Ethics and Aesthetics, Media History and Theory, Poststructuralism, Feminist Theory/Gender Studies, Postcolonial Theory)
- Presence and Tacit Knowledge in American Literature and Culture
Current Research Projects
- Literature and Knowledge
- Death Becomes Us: Stories of the End of Life in Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Discourses of Enhancement in US-American Literature from the Early Republic to the 21st century
- Notions of Community in Contemporary American Literature
CV
- Studied at the University of Mannheim (English, American Studies and German Studies), Emory University in Atlanta, GA (Women’s Studies) and the School of Criticism and Theory in Hanover, NH
- Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation; research assistant in English and American Studies at the University of Bielefeld; Ph.D. at the University of Mannheim 2000
- Assistant professor at the English Department, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel; Habilitation 2006.
- Since January 2007 professor for North American Literary and Cultural Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; since Nov. 2009 chair of American Studies, in particular Literary Studies
- Visiting scholar at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), spring 2011
- Fellow of the Princeton University Library (Princeton, NJ), August 2012
Functions
- Member of the University Council of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Oct. 2019 – Sept. 2024
- Member of the University Council of the University of Koblenz-Landau Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2023
- Reviewer for the Ph.D. programs of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Reviewer for the Ph.D and university stipend programs of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA): advisory board member 2008 – 2016
- Review board member for Amerikastudien/American Studies 2006 – 2014
At Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuernberg
- Board Member of the Philosophical Faculty and Department of Theology Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2021, Oct. 2007 – Sep. 2009 https://www.phil.fau.de/fakultaet/organe-und-gremien/gremien/#collapse_1
- Speaker of the Department for English, American Studies, and Romance Languages Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2021
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Erlangen Center for Literature and the Natural Sciences (ELINAS)
- Member of the Center für Management, Technology and Society (CMTS)
- Board Member of the Central Institute for Applied Ethics since July 2012, member since Oct. 2009
- Member of the Central Institute for Area Studies (North-America division)
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Gender, Diversity and Difference
- Member of the DFG Research Training Group 1718 “Presence and Tacit Knowledge” Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2018
- University Vice President for Teaching and Student Affairs, Equal Opportunities and Teacher Training Oct. 2012 – Mar. 2018
- BA examination delegate of the Department of English, American, and Romance Studies Dec. 2007 – Oct. 2017
- Mentor, AriadnePhil Mentoring Program Mar. 2012 – Mai 2016
- Member of the interdisciplinary research group “Bio-Objects and Bio-Subjects” (FAU Emerging Fields Initiative) Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2013
- Member of the advisory committee to the Universitätsbund 2007 – 2013
- Member of the Commission for Internationalization 2007 – 2012
- Executive Director of the Institute for English and American Studies, Oct. 2009 – Mar. 2011
- Member of the task force ‘institutional strategy’ (initiative for excellence) of the university board Dec. 2008 – Sept. 2010
- Chair of the DFG research training group “Kulturhermeneutik im Zeichen von Differenz und Transdifferenz” Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009 (Deputy chair Apr. 2007 – Mar. 2009)
- Coordinator of the 3rd night of science in the metropolitan area Erlangen/Nuremberg/Fürth for the philosophical faculties (Feb. 2007 – Jan. 2008, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Phillip Balsiger)
Publications
Authored Books
- Kley, Antje. Ethik medialer Repräsentation im britischen und US-amerikanischen Roman, 1741 – 2000. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. Das erlesene Selbst: Zu Politik und Poetik der Selbstreflexion bei Roth, Delany, Lorde und Kingston. Tübingen: Narr, 2001.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. Will the Parts Hold?: Erinnerung und Identität in Toni Morrisons Romanen 'Beloved' und 'Jazz': Zwei Thesen/Two Theses. Tübingen: Narr, 1997.
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Edited Volumes
- Kley, Antje, and Kai Merten, eds. What Literature Knows. Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH, 2018.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Heike Paul, eds. Rural America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Peter Schneck, eds. Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie, 2012.
URL: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5i.htm
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Jan D Kucharzewski, eds. Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm, Alexandra, Antje Kley, and Mark Schönleben, eds. Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, Literarische und Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Paderborn: Fink, 2011.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Martin Klepper, eds. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht: Medien. Kiel, 2009.
URL: http://lwu.uni-kiel.de/issues/2009_1-2.htm
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Journal Articles
- Kley, Antje. "Interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen auf die Verschränkung von Fachwissenschaft, Fachdidaktik und Bildungswissenschaft in Lehrerbildungscurricula." heiEDUCATION Journal Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung.1-2 (2018): 221-235.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Beyond the Laboratory: Biotechnology and Literary Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XLVIII, 3 (2015) (2017): 195-212.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Peter Schneck. "Looking Backward: Media History from the Perspective of Facebook." Philologie im Netz : Beiheft 5 (2012): 1-3.
URL: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5t0.htm
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Narratives of Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction: Edward P. Jones's 'The Known World' and Richard Powers's 'The Echo Maker'." Amerikastudien 57.4 (2012): 643-661.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Die Repräsentation des 'Black Atlantic' in Aphra Behns Erzählung 'Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. A True History' (1688)." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 40.1/2 (2007): 5–19.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "'keeping pace with the visual revolution': Intermediary Reference in Gertrude Stein’s Prose Poems 'Tender Buttons' and Wyndham Lewis' Novel 'Tarr'." Amerikastudien 49.4 (2004): 515–38.
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Book Contributions
- Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things – Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels." Under the Literary Microscope: New Perspectives on Science in Society from Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Sina Farzin, Roslynn Haynes, Susan M. Gaines, University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2020.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Public Humanities and Literary Knowledge: Four Theses on How Reading Matters for Public Debate." American Counter/Publics. Ed. Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege, Heidelberg, 2019. 397-408.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula’s VAS – An Opera in Flatland." Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture. Ed. Heike Schaefer and Alexander Starre, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 53-67.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "“What Literature Knows: An Introduction”." What Literature Knows: Forays into Literary Knowledge Production. Ed. Antje Kley, und Kai Merten, Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2018. 9 - 25.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)." Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Timo Müller, De Gruyter, 2017. 177-191.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the US." Knowledge Landscapes North America. Ed. Simone Knewitz, Christian Klöckner, Sabine Sielke, Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. 153-177.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Karin Höpker. "Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers' 'Das größere Glück'." Quarks and Letters: Naturwissenschaften in Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart. Hrg. Aura Heydenreich und Klaus Mecke, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015. 273-293.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Heike Paul. "Rural America: An Introduction." Rural America. Ed. Kley, Antje und Paul, Heike, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015. 1-11.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Robinson Crusoe." Metzler Lexikon Moderner Mythen. Figuren, Konzepte, Ereignisse. Hrg. Stephanie Wodianka, Juliane Ebert, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. 323–25.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Literatur als Präsentifikation impliziten Wissens: Kulturkontakt in Mary Rowlandsons 'captivity narrative' (1682) und Toni Morrisons Kurzgeschichte 'Recitativ' (1983)." Präsenz und implizites Wissen: Zur Interdependenz zweier Schlüsselbegriffe der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Hrg. Ernst Christoph und Heike Paul, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013. 211-237.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje, and Jan D Kucharzewski. "Introduction." Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Ed. Kley, Antje und Kucharzewski, Jan, Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 9–20.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm, Alexandra, Antje Kley, and Mark Schönleben. "Zur Einleitung: Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit." Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Hrg. Böhm Alexandra, Paderborn: Fink, 2011. 11-34.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Narrative der Anerkennung in der US-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart: Edward P. Jones' 'The Known World' und Richard Powers' 'The Echo Maker'." Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, Literarische und Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Hrg. Böhm Alexandra, Paderborn: Fink, 2011. 179-199.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "New Directions in the American Short Story of the 1990s: (Multi)Ethnic Identity in Sandra Cisneros's 'Never Marry a Mexican' and Bharati Mukherjee's 'The Middleman'." A History of the American Short Story : Genres - Developments - Model Interpretations. Ed. Michael Basseler und Ansgar Nünning, Trier: WVT, 2011. 395-411.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Ethics, Media, Representation: Aesthetic Experience and Identity Formation in Richard Powers' Novel 'Plowing the Dark'." "Ethical Turn"? Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung. Ed. Lubkoll, Christine und Wischmeyer, Oda, München: Fink, 2009. 181-201.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Ethik und Ästhetik in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Autobiographie: Philip Roths 'My Life as a Man' und 'The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography'." Inszenierte Erfahrung: Gender und Genre in Tagebuch, Autobiographie, Essay. Hrg. Renate Hof, Susanne Rohr, Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 2008. 111–130.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Die Postkoloniale Poetik von Derek Walcotts Revisionen des Robinson Crusoe in 'Crusoe’s Journal': Ein literaturwissenschaftlicher Beitrag zum kulturhermeneutischen Selbst- und Fremdverstehen." Kulturhermeneutik: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Umgang mit kultureller Differenz. Hrg. Christoph Ernst, Walter Sparn, Hedwig Wagner, München: Fink, 2008. 187–206.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Print Culture, Contingency and the Discourse of Femininity in 18th Century England." Anglistentag 2004 Aachen: Proceedings. Ed. Lilo Moessner; Christa M. Schmidt, Trier: WVT, 2005. 121–135.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Orangen, 'Unnatural Passions' und das Autobiographische in Jeanette Wintersons 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'." Erlesenes Essen: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Hunger, Sattheit und Genuß. Hrg. Christa Grewe-Volpp und Werner Reinhart, Tübingen: Narr, 2002. 240–260.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Winterson, Jeanette." Lexikon Englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Hrg. Eberhard Kreutzer, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002. 628–29.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "'Beyond control, but not beyond accommodation': Anmerkungen zu Homi K. Bhabha's Unterscheidung zwischen 'cultural diversity' und 'cultural difference'." Räume der Hybridität. Zur Aktualität Postkolonialer Konzepte. Hrg. Christof Hamann, Cornelia Sieber, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002. 53–66.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "'I would have been an outlaw knot-maker': Gender, Genre und Ethnizität in Maxine Hong Kingstons 'The Woman Warrior'." Grenzüberschreibungen: 'Feminismus' und 'Cultural Studies'. Ed. Hanjo Berressem, Dagmar Buchwald, Heide Volkening, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2001. 209–238.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "A post-Stonewall Account of a pre-Stonewall Life: Samuel Delany's 'The Motion of Light in Water'." The Sixties Revisited: Culture – Society – Politics. Ed. Jürgen Heideking, Jörg Helbig, Anke Ortlepp, Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 317–339.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "'There is no place/ that cannot be home/ nor is': Constructions of 'Home' in Audre Lorde's 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name'." Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Ed. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung und Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. 119–139.
BibTeX: Download - Kley, Antje. "Fanny Lewalds 'Meine Lebensgeschichte': Zwischen bürgerlicher Anpassung und emanzipatorischem Aufbruch." Geschlecht – Literatur – Geschichte. Ed. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999. 129–150.
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Reviews
- “Philip R. Yannella. American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.” Review 19, 6. Okt. 2011. 20. Okt. 2011.
- “Jeffrey Folks. From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative. New York: Lang, 2001.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 52.1 (2004): 95–6.
- “Heike Paul. Mapping Migration: Women’s Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.2 (2003): 265–66.
- “Stefan Horlacher: Visualität und Visualitätskritik im Werk von John Fowles. Tübingen: Narr, 1998.” Medienwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews 4 (2002): 464–66.
- “Vera and Ansgar Nünning. Grundkurs anglistisch-amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Klett, 2001.” LWU 35.2 (2002): 176–77.
- “Roy Sommer. Fictions of Migration: Ein Beitrag zur Theorie und Gattungstypologie des zeitgenössischen interkulturellen Romans in Großbritannien. Trier: WVT, 2001.” LWU 35.2 (2002): 190–91.
- “John Pier, ed. Recent Trends in Narratological Research: Papers from the Narratology Round Table ESSE4-September 1997-Debrecen, Hungary and other contributions. GRAAT, 21. Tours: Université de Tours, 1999.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 49.3 (2001): 289–91.
- “Robert Cook. Sweet Land of Liberty: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. London: Longman, 1998.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 48.2 (2000): 188–89.
Workshops, Conferences, and Lecture Series
- Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) on “Rural America” (with Heike Paul). May 30, – June 2, 2013
- Panel Moderation, Spiel und Ernst: Formen – Poetiken – Zuschreibungen für Erika Greber (section VII), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 12 – 14, 2012
- International Conference “‘Ideas of Order’: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 26 – 28, 2010 (with Jan Kucharzewski, University of Hamburg)
- Panel moderation “Pragmatism and Scientific Theories”, International Conference “Revisioning Pragmatism: William James in the New Millennium”, University of Hamburg, Jun. 24 – 26, 2010
- Panel moderation “Determinierung der Geschlechtsidentität: biologische Programmierung oder soziale Konstruktion?”, Symposium “Let’s Talk About Sex – Geschlechtlichkeit, Geschlechtsidentität und Geschlechterdifferenz”, Faculties of Medicine and Philosophy/FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 24, 2009 (with Helmuth-Günther Dörr)
- International and interdisciplinary Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy “Visual Cultures – Transatlantic Perspectives”, BAA München, Jul. 2 – 4, 2009 (with Christof Decker, Volker Depkat, Karsten Fitz, Barbara Hahn, Petra Dorsch-Jungsberger, Meike Zwingenberger) and Panel “Gender and Sexuality in Post/Modern Image Culture”
- Panel moderation “Pirates”, International Conference “Imagining Alternative Mobilities: Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives in the U.S. and Beyond”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jun. 18 – 20, 2009
- International and interdisciplinary Conference of the Erlangen Graduate College 706 “Das Andere der Trans/Differenz”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 6 – 8, 2008 (with Cristian Alvarado and Philip Erchinger)
- Workshop “The Mediality of American Literature”, 53. Annual conferece of the German Association of American Studies, Göttingen, Jun. 8 – 11, 2006 (with Peter Schneck)
- Section “British/American Studies and Media Studies”, Anglistentag Bamberg, Sep. 18 – 21, 2005 (with Angela Krewani)
- Lecture Series “Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies”, University of Bielefeld, Summer 1999 and Winter 1999/2000 (with Sabine Kyora and Dagmar Buchwald)
Papers and Lectures
- “US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland.” Internationales Symposium Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture, Universität Konstanz, November 5 – 7, 2015.
- “Wissenschaftskommunikation und literarisches Erzählen,” ELINAS Lecture Series Narrating Science: Wissenschaft Erzählen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 22, 2015.
- “Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the US,” Knowledge Landscapes North America, Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Bonn, May 31, 2015.
- “‘This World is Not Conclusion‘: What does Literature Know?“ Amerikanistisches Forschungskolloquium, University of Mannheim, April 25, 2015.
- mit Karin Höpker, “Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things – Bio-Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Novels,” Fiction Meets Science: The World of Science under the Literary Microscope, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, November 20, 2014.
- “Response to Panel VI: Gendering TV Between Private and Public,” Television in Europe beyond the Iron Curtain – National and Transnational Perspectives since the 1950s, History and Media Studies Conference at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Dec. 7, 2013.
- with Karin Höpker. “Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers: Das Größere Glück“. Summer Academy of the German National Merit Foundation, La Colle sur Loup, France, Sept. 24, 2013.
- with Karin Höpker. “Literatur und Wissen: Life Science und The Pursuit of Happiness in Richard Powers: Das Größere Glück“. Lecture series: Quarks and Letters: Naturwissenschaften in Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jan. 7, 2013.
- “Kulturkontakte lesen – Lesen als Kulturkontakt,” Graduate School Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs, Rostock University, Jan. 25, 2012.
- “Narrative der Anerkennung in der US-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart”, Forschungskolloquium der Abteilung Literatur und Kultur am Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin, Apr. 22, 2010.
- “Zur Ethik medialer Repräsentation: Richard Powers’ Roman Plowing the Dark (2000),” Ethik des Erzählens in der Gegenwartsliteratur, conference of the chair for New German Literary History at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Oct. 3 – 5, 2008.
- “Ethics – Media – Representation: Aesthetic Experience and Identity Formation in Richard Powers’ Novel Plowing the Dark (2000).” Keynote. 8th international graduate conference of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nov. 23 – 25, 2007.
- “Stranger than Paradise: Novelists, Immigrants, and Other Strangers: on Gary Steyngart’s Absurdistan.” USA: Amerikanische Autoren & Europäische Leser I, House of Literature Basel, Jan. 27, 2007.
- “Print Culture, Contingency and the Discourse of Femininity in 18th Century England,” Anglistentag, Aachen, Sep. 26 – 29, 2004.
- “Media History and the Beginnings of the Novel in 18th Century England and America,” Cultures. Literatures. Histories. The Bremen Lectures, Jul. 7, 2004.
- “John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer,” Lecture series: Novels of the 20th century, University of Kiel, Nov. 25, 2003.
- “Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe,” Lecture series: Novels of the 20th century, University of Kiel, Nov. 26, 2002.
- “Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary American Autobiography,” W.E.B DuBois Lectures at the Humboldt University Berlin, Jun. 11, 2002.
- Statement on the PGF-Workshop: “Colonial Reflections,” 49th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Halle-Wittenberg, May 21 – 24, 2002.
- “Ethics of media representation in the English and the American Novel,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, LMU Munich, Nov. 9, 2001.
- “‘keeping pace with the visual revolution’: Two Versions of Cubist Writing in the Anglo-American Modernism of Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis,” 48th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Bremen, Jun. 5 – 8, 2001.
- “Zwischen Relativismus und Universalismus: Das ‘”erlesene” Selbst’ im zeitgenössischen autobiographischen Schreiben in den USA,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, University of Regensburg, Nov. 12 – 14, 1999.
- “A post-Stonewall Account of a pre-Stonewall Life: Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” 46th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, University of Cologne, May 25 – 28, 1999.
- “Doubling Strategies and the Rhetorics of Sexuality in Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” 3rd international conference of the Collegium for African American Research, University of Münster, Mar. 18 – 21, 1999.
- “‘I would have been an outlaw knotmaker’: Gender, Genre und Ethnische Identität in Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior,” series of lectures on the topic Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies, Bielefeld University, Jan. 18, 1999.
- “‘I would have been an outlaw knotmaker’: Genre and Ethnicity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, University of Münster, Nov. 13 – 15, 1998.
- “‘There is no place/ that cannot be home/ nor is’: Constructions of ‘home’ in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” MELUS Europe Founding Conference, Heidelberg University, Jun. 25 – 28, 1998.
- “Doubling Strategies in Samuel Delany’s The Motion of Light in Water,” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1997.
- “Fanny Lewalds Meine Lebensgeschichte: Zwischen bürgerlicher Anpassung und emanzipatorischem Aufbruch,” 3rd Colloquium Genderstudies/Frauenforschung, University of Mannheim, Jan. 27, 1995.
- “‘A River Called Treason to Rely On’: Identitätskonstitution in Toni Morrisons Jazz,” 2nd Colloquium Genderstudies/Frauenforschung, University of Mannheim, Jan. 28, 1994.