Chiona Hufnagel, M.A.

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Room B7A1
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen

by appointment

Research Interests

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

Doctoral fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft since May 2021)
Master of Arts in Ethik der Textkulturen, elite study program (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg/Universität Augsburg, 09/2020)
Master of Arts in North American Studies: Literature and Culture (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 06/2020)
Community work/research stay at the Native American Women’s Health and Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota (09/2018-12/2018)
Bachelor of Arts in Germanistik & English and American Studies (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 08/2016)
Student assistant for ELINAS (Center for Literature and Natural Science) at the chair of German Studies/Theoretical Physics (01/2016-12/2016)
Fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, 2014-2019)

“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.

“Lektüreseminar: English and American Literature since the 19^th Century” (WS 2021/22, SS 2022)
Tutor for “Grundlagen der Neueren deutschen Literatur 2“ (SS 2017)