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Chair of North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies

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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen

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Academic Positions

March 2021
Appointment as Junior-Professor of North American Literature with a focus on Future Studies. Dresden University of Technology

2019-2021
Assistant Professor of North American Studies, University of Konstanz (Chair of Timo Müller)

2019-2020
Lecturer in Media Theory. Department of Art and Design, University of Arts (HfK) Bremen

2018-2019 | 2015-2016
Lecturer in American Studies. University of Cologne (Chair of Hanjo Berressem)

2013-2015
Teaching Assistant in Cultural Studies. Trent University, ON, Canada

2012-2013
Lecturer & Research Associate in American Studies. University of Cologne (Chair of Hanjo Berressem)

2011-2012
Lecturer & Research Associate in American Studies. University of Cologne (Chair of Hanjo Berressem)

2008-2012
Teaching and Research Assistant in American Studies. University of Cologne (Chair of Hanjo Berressem)

2007-2008
Teaching and Research Assistant in Physics. University of New Brunswick (Prof. Li-Hong Xu)

Education

2013-2018
Ph.D. Cultural Studies & English. Trent University, Canada, cotutelle with English Department, University of Cologne. Awarded with Canadian Governor General's Gold Medal

2012-2013
Ph.D. Candidate at a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Cologne

2005-2012
B.A./M.A. English and Physics (Erstes Staatsexamen, Lehramt Gy/Ge). University of Cologne and University of New Brunswick. With distinction

Research Interests

Environmental Humanities, Culture and Climate Crisis, Science Fiction Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Posthumanism, Energy Humanities, Critical Future Studies, Literature and Science, North American Literature and Culture

• Host of Global Weirding Lectures (Winter 2021/22). Funded by IMPRESS Program, TU Dresden.https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/anglistik_amerikanistik/na-literatur/die-professur/global-weirding
• Host of Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. International Conference. November 2022, TU Dresden. Funded by DFG. 
• Host of Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF), July/August 2023, TU Dresden.

Publications (related to TUDiSC)

Monographs

Ingwersen, M. (Forthcoming): Neal Stephenson’s Archaeologies of Cyberculture: Science Fiction as Science Studies, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Editorships

Ingwersen, M.; Müller, T. (2022): Elemental Agencies: American Culture and the Politics of Matter, Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture 70:1.

Ingwersen, M.; Steglich, S. (2022): Moderne Zeitlichkeiten und das Anthropozän, Sonderheft der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift 4.

Articles

Ingwersen, M. (2022). Manhattan Heat Transfer: Energy and the Climate Unconscious in Modernist Visions of the American Metropolis, In: American Studies 60:3/4, S. 89-108.

Ingwersen, M.; Müller, T. (2022). The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency, In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture 70:1, S. 3-22.

Ingwersen, M. (2021). Media Exposures: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, In: Configurations 29:4, S. 417-433.

Ingwersen, M. (2021). From Self-Reliance to Exposure: Ethics of Connection and Flux in Sarah Pinsker’s Notice and Kij Johnson’s An Attempt at Exhausting my Deck, In: SFRA Review 51:1, S. 93-99.

Ingwersen, M. (2020). Reclaiming Fossil Ghosts: Indigenous Resistance to Resource Extraction in Works by Cherie Dimaline, Warren Cariou, and Nathan Adler, In: Canadian Literature 240, S. 59-76.

Ingwersen, M. (2020). Towards a Slow Science Fiction, In: Science Fiction Studies 47:3, S. 349-351.

Ingwersen, M. (2019). Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to N. K. Jemisin, In: [Greve, J.; Zappe, F.] Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities [London: Palgrave], S. 73-92.

Ingwersen, M. (2019). Environmental Catastrophe as Morphogenesis: Inhuman Transformations in Ballard’s Climate Novels. In: Humanities 8:52, https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010052.

Ingwersen, M. (2018). Pluralizing Climate Fiction: From Hybrids to Earth-Beings, In: Science Fiction Studies 45:3, S. 421-423.

Ingwersen, M. (2017). Towards a Trickster Science/Fiction: Complexifying Boundaries with Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres. In: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42:3, S. 255-268.

Lectures (related to TUDiSC)

Transformative Place-Making and the Ethics of Nishnaabeg Emergence in the Work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2022), Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS): Ecologies, Environments, Ethics.

The Ethics of Exposure: Transcorporeal Hybridity in Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (2021), Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF): Speculation and Ethics. University of Cologne.

Surreal und Gespenstisch?: Warum die Klimawende neue Erzählungen braucht (2021), Umundu Festival: Klima des Wandels. Technische Sammlungen Dresden.

Emergent Aesthetics: Mobilizing the Elemental Turn in Contemporary Ecocriticism (2021), together with Timo Müller, Biennial Conference of the Association for Literature and the Environment: Emergence/y.

Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils (2021), JFK Literature and Culture Colloquium, FU Berlin.

Reclaiming the Ghosts of Extinct Species: Resistance to Settler-Colonial Extractivism in Nathan Adler’s Wrist (2021), European Association of American Studies (EAAS). Annual Meeting.

Reclaiming the Popular Landscape: From the Paintings of Kent Monkman to the Music of Jeremy Dutcher and A Tribe Called Red (2019), 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, University of Hamburg.

Of Earth-Beings and New Estrangements: Contextualizing ’Sentient Landscapes’ in Indigenous (Science) Fiction (2018), Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 32ndAnnual Conference, Toronto.

Science Fiction as Science Studies: Epistemological and Material Confusions in the Work of Neal Stephenson (2018), Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), Marquette University, Milwaukee.

This is the Way the World Ends: Weird Geology in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (2018), The American Weird: Ecologies and Geographies, University of Göttingen.

Geological Insurrections: The Weird Return of Rust and Dust in Two Short Stories by China Mieville (2017), Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): 12th Biennial Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit.

Trickster Science: Creativity and Disruption in Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres (2016), Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 30th Annual Conference, Atlanta.