Julia Gatermann, M.A.
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
NameJulia Gatermann M.A.
Lehre und Forschung
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Professur für Literatur Nordamerikas mit dem Schwerpunkt Future Studies
Professur für Literatur Nordamerikas mit dem Schwerpunkt Future Studies
Visiting address:
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Raum 3.18 Wiener Str. 48
01219 Dresden
Office hours:
nach Vereinbarung
| since 2020 | Research associate at the TU Dresden at the Chair of North American Literature with a focus on Critical Future Studies |
| since 2019 |
Research associate at the University of Bremen (Socium) in the interdisciplinary third-party funded research project "Fiction Meets Science II" in the subproject "Science in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction: Nature/Politics/Economies Reimagined" |
| since 2019 |
PhD candidature in American Literature and Culture: "The Future is Female: Non-Normative Embodiment as a Site of Resistance in Contemporary North-American Cultural Production" (working title) |
| 2018 |
M.A. from the University of Hamburg (American Literature and Culture, British Literature and Culture, German Literature) |
- Critical Future Studies
- Speculative Fiction
- Critical Posthumanism
- Disability Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Feminism and Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
- Critical Race Studies
- Critical Whiteness Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Science and Literature
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| 2023 | "Bodies of Knowledge – Discredited Sciences and Technologies of Resistance in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu." Science Fiction Studies, 50.1 (2023). |
| „Fantastikforschung Then and Now – eine sehr subjektive Standortbestimmung.“ Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 10.1 (2023): 18-23. | |
| 2022 | "Groomed for Survival - Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu". Technologies of Feminist SF, edited by Sherryl Vint and Sümeyra Buran. London: Palgrave, 2022. |
| 2020 | "Die burtonesque Charakterzeichnung in Rick Yanceys Coming-of-Age-Roman The Monstrumologist"; Co-autorship with Lars Schmeink; In: "Bring me that Horizon!" Neue Perspektiven auf Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Literaturen und Medien. Ed. Brigitte Frizzoni and Christine Lötscher. Zurich: Chronos, 2020. |
| "'Nostalgia for the Future': Projecting a Post-Disability Image through Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics in Viktoria Modesta's 'Prototype'". The Polyphony. Conversations Across the Medical Humanities, University of Durham, https://t.co/5zcuv3scNV?amp=1. Accessed on Dec 20, 2020. | |
| "Meet the Future: An Interview with Julia Gatermann". SFRA Review 50.2-3 (2020): https://sfrareview.org/2020/09/04/meet-the-future-an-interview-with-julia-gatermann/. Accessed on Dec 20, 2020. |
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in preparation |
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| 2023 |
"'Model for the Future': Post-Disability and Non-Normative Female Embodiment in Viktoria Modesta's 'Prototype'". The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. Ed. Gavin Miller und Anna McFarlane. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. |
| Upcoming: 2023 | Co-organization of the joint annual conference of the international Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GfF) |
| Upcoming: 2022 | Co-organization of the DGfA workshop “” at the 67thannual conference of the German Assocation for American Studies |
| since 2021 | Country Representative for Germany in the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) |
| 2020 | Co-Organization of the international and interdiscplinary FMS Workshops "Science and its Applications: Negotiating Human Enhancement across Media"; 28/29 January 2021 |
| 2010-2020 |
Executive Board Member of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung; treasurer |
| 2010 | Collaboration in planning, organizing and hosting of the inaugural conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GfF) "Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert" at the University of Hamburg |
| 2022 | “Of Volatile Bodies and an Angry Planet: Material Agency and Non-Human Entanglements in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth”; 13th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung: “Fantastic Geographies”, TU Dortmund, 22-25 Sep. 2022. |
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“The Matter of Resistance: Transcorporeality in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth”; SFRA 2022: “Futures From the Margins”, University of Oslo, 27 Jun. -1 Jul. 2022. |
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| “Future When: Reimagining the ‘Human’ through Transversal Reproduction and Non-Human Entanglements in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu”; Conference “Reproductive Futures: Emergent Injustices, Hopes and Paradoxes,” Tampere University, Finland, 15-17 Jun. 2022. | |
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“Surviving the Human Race – Radical New Becomings, Non-Human Entanglements, and Queer Reproduction and in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu”; 34th European Association for American Studies Conference: “Wastelands”, Madrid, Spain, 6-8 Apr. 2022. |
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| 2021 |
"Crossing Lines in the Sundown Town: Exploring Transsexual, Transracial, and Transhuman Embodiments in Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country"; 12. annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung: Spekulative Fiktion und Ethik; digitales Konferenzformat; 23-25 Sep. 2021 |
| "Of Lizard-Love and Starfish-Trees – Radical New Becomings, Posthuman Kinships, and Lateral Asexual Reproduction and in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu"; Annual conference of the Science Fiction Research Association: The Future of/as Inequality; digital conference format; 18-21 June 2021. | |
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"(Re-)Writing the History of the Future: Cultural Memory, Afrofuturism, and Resignification in Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer"; 67. annual conference of the DGfA: Participation in American Culture and Society; digital conference format; 17-19 June 2021. |
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| Input-statement on the concluding roundtable discussion panel at the annual conference of the GAPS ‘21: Science, Culture & Postcolonial Narratives; digital conference format; 15 May 2021. | |
| "Bodies of Knowledge – Discredited Sciences and Technologies of Resistance in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu"; GAPS ‘21: Science, Culture & Postcolonial Narratives; digital conference format; 13-15 May 2021. | |
| "Groomed for Survival - Queer Reproductive Technology in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu"; British Society for Literature and Science, digital conference format: https://www.bsls.ac.uk/sixteenth-annual-conference-april-2021-provisional-schedule-and-panels/; 8-10 April 2021. | |
| "'Assemble Me, Piece by Piece': Re-Signification of Disability through Fetishization of the Prosthesis"; International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, digital conference format: https://iaftfita.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/ICFA%2042%20-%20Current%20On-line.pdf; 18-21 March 2021. | |
| 2020 | "'Nostalgia for the Future': Projecting a Post-Disability Image through Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics in Viktoria Modesta's 'Prototype'"; Cyberpunk Culture Conference, http://cyberpunkculture.com/cpcc20/archive-cpcc20/program-thursday/%c2%a75-julia-gatermann/, 09-10 July 2020. |
| *"Janelle Monáe's Memories of the Future: Afrocyberpunk, Empowerment, and Intersectional Identity Politics in Dirty Computer", SFRA 2020, University of Bloomington, Indiana. Abstract accepted, conference cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
| *"Leather, Latex, and Lacerations – Deviant Bodies and Sexualities in American Mary and 'Prototype'"; 11. annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, University of Augsburg. Abstract accepted, conference cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
| 2019 | "'Robot Love is Queer!' Black Power, Sexual Fluidity, and Re-Individualization in Janelle Monáe"; lecture series "Gender – Culture – Feminism" (Organization Dr. Karin Esders) at the University of Bremen, 21 Nov 2019). |
| "The Art of Resistance: Afrocyberpunk, Empowerment and Re-Individualization in Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer"; 10. annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, FU Berlin, 20 Sep 2019. |
| 2022 | Seminar “Imagining Reproductive Futures: Negotiating Fears, Injustices, and Paradoxes in North American Literature”; Chair for North American Literature, TU Dresden |
| Seminar “Futures from the Margins: Diverse Perspectives in North American Speculative Fiction”; Chair for North American Literature, TU Dresden | |
| 2021 | Seminar “Crossing Lines in the Sundown Town: Afrofuturist SF as a Site of Resistance in Lovecraft Country”; Chair for North American Literature, TU Dresden |
| 2020 | Seminar "Key Topics in Cultural History: Intersectionality and Representation" in English Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen |
| 2019 | Lecture: "'Robot Love is Queer!' Black Power, Sexual Fluidity, and Re-Individualization in Janelle Monáe"; lecture series "Gender – Culture – Feminism" (Organization Dr. Karin Esders) at the University of Bremen, 21 Nov 2019) |
| 2017 |
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| 2009-10 |
York University, Toronto, ON, Kanada |
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
- Science Fiction Research Association (country representative for Germany) International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- British Society for Literature and Science
- Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien
- Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung