apl. Prof. Dr. Angelika Köhler

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    1. Curriculum Vitae
    2. Areas of Specialization
    3. Publications  
      1. Monographs
      2. Articles
      3. Reviews
    4. Presentations and Conference Papers  
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Apl. Prof. Dr. Angelika Köhler

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Institute of English and American Studies, Room 3.18 Wiener Straße 48

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Prof. Koehler is o leave until 28/02/21. For questions concering your studies please contact Mr. Eichhorn from 01/03/21: martin.eichhorn@tu-dresden.de

Curriculum Vitae

1973-77 M.A. in British Studies, American Studies and German Studies at  Humboldt University Berlin
1984 PhD at the University of Rostock, with a dissertation on the poetry of Robert Lowell
1993 Fulbright scholarship, participant of the Summer Institute on American Society and Culture at New York University
1995-96 research scholarship of the American Council of Learned  Societies; research stay at the University of California Los Angeles
SS 1997 teaching appointment at Belmont University Nashville
2001 Habilitation at Dresden University of Technology
2011 Adjunct Professor at Dresden University of Technology


Areas of Specialization

  • American Literature from the beginnings to the present
  • Turn-of-the-Century Literature (1880-1920)
  • Gender Studies
  • Migration and Postcolonialism
  • Latino American Literature
  • Literature of the American Southwest
  • Autobiographical Writing

Publications
 

Monographs

  • Ambivalent Desires:The New Woman Between Social Modernization and Modern Writing. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004. 
  • "Im Spannungsfeld der Tradition: Die lyrische Auseinandersetzung Robert Lowells mit Geschichte und Gegenwart Neuenglands." Dissertation Universität Rostock, 1983

Articles

  • "Resonances of a "Vanished” Past: Kathleen Alcalá’s Fictional Reconstruction of Ópata Culture in The Flower in the Skull" Ethnic Resonances: New Perspectives on Performance, Literature, and Identity. Eds. Yiorgos Kalogeras and Cathy Waegner [submitted].
  • "Performing Butterfly – Medial Constructions of Ethnic Identity" (accepted).
  • "'Presence-in-Absence': Reconfigurations of the Concept of 'Homeland' in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King and Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salomé." The Space of U.S. Latino/a Culture Revisited: Essays in Memory of Juan Bruce-Novoa. Eds. Astrid M. Fellner und Horst Tonn (accepted).
  • "Constructions of Masculinity in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman, and Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada." Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature: Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies. Eds. Stefan Horlacher and Kevin Floyd. Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington, 2013, 143-158.
  • "Religious Syncretism, Iconography, and Transethnic Subjectivity Construction: The Role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in María Cristina Meena’s and Cherríe Moraga’s Literary Work." Mobile Narratives: Traval, Migration, and Transculturation. Eds. E. Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, and Jopi Nyman. Routledge: New York and London, 2013,124-135.
  • "The Body as Borderland: Reconceptualization of the Body in Recent Chicana Literature."Astrid Fellner, Hg.: Body Signs: The Latino/a Body in Cultural Production. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2011, 189-200.
  • "Referential Ambiguities and Ambiguous Referentialities: The Interactions of History, Language and Image in Victor Villaseñor's and Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor's Family Autobiographies." Ethnic Life Writing and Histories: Genres, Performance and Culture. Hrsg. Rocío G. Davis, Jaume Aurell, and Ana Beatriz Delago. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007. 186-203.
  • "Determined to Indeterminacy: Pan-American and European Dimensions of the mestizaje concept in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia."Borderline Identities in Chicano Culture. Hrsg. Michele Bottalico und Saleh el Moncef bin Khalifa. Venezia: Mazzanti Editori srl, 2006. 101-114.
  • "Dialogues Between Times: Reconstructions of the Medea Myth by Toni Morrison and Christa Wolf." Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe. Essays in Honor of Uwe Böker. Hrsg. Christoph Houswitschka et al.  Trier: WVT, 2005. 171-189.
  • "Sites of Encounter: Medea and La Llorona." Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas. Hrsg. William Boelhower, Rocío Davis und Carmen Birkle. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004. 317-331.
  • "Charged With Ambiguity: The Image of the New Woman in American Cartoons." New Woman Hybridities: Gender, Culture and Ethnicity in Europe, North America and Japan, 1880-1930. Hrsg. Ann Heilmann and Margaret Beetham. London: Routledge, 2003. 158-178.
  • "'Our human nature, our human spirit wants no boundaries': Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and the Concept of Global Fiction."Amerikastudien/American Studies 47.2 (2002):  237-244.
  • "Constructing the Ethnic: Gender, Myth and Genre in the Writing of Paula Gunn Allen and Ana Castillo." Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Hrsg. Dominique Marcais. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002. 15-24.
  • "Calling for Agency: Re-conceptualizations of Nature and Chicana Identity in Ana Castillo's So Far From God." A New Curriculum for English Studies. Hrsg. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk und Irena Czwenar. Piotrków Trybunalski: Piotrków College Press, 2001. 205-215.
  • "The New World Man: Magical Realism in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima." U.S. Latino Literatures and Culture: Transnational Perspectives. Hrsg. Francisco A. Lomelí und Karin Ikas. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000. 201-213.
  • "La Gritona: Vision and Memory in Contemporary Chicana Fiction." Anglistentag 1996 Dresden. Proceedings. Hrsg. Uwe Böker und Hans Sauer. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1997. 333-339.
  • "Die Kompromisse und die Vermittlungen der Popular Culture: Das Gibson Girl und die New Woman."anglistik & englischunterricht  58 (1996): 211-223.
  • "Individueller Anspruch und gesellschaftliche Aussage in der amerikanischen Dichtung der sechziger Jahre am Beispiel Robert Lowells." Englische und Amerikanische Lyrik im 20. Jahrhundert. Rostock, 1989.  
  • "Robert Lowell: Poetry as a Way to Social Activity." Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Gesellschaftswiss. Reihe, 4(1984): 427-429.

Reviews

  • La Vinia Delois Jennings. Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. Anglistik. 
  • Eva Guber. Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature: Reimagining Nativeness. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 56.2(2010): 179-181.
  • Gabriele Hansen. Das reduzierte Leben: Leid und Leidbewältigung im Werk Sarah Orne Jewetts. Tübingen: Gunther Narr Verlag, 1998. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 48.2(2000): 189-191.
  • Ian Hamilton. Robert Lowell: A Biography. New York: Random House 1982, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik  33.2(1985): 182-183.
  • Ann Lilliedahl. Emily Dickinson in Europe: Her Literary Reputation in Selected Countries. Washington: University Press of America, 1981. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32.4(1984): 375-376.
  • Franz H. Link. Zwei Amerikanische Dichterinnen: Emily Dickinson und Hilda Doolittle.  Berlin und München: Duncjker & Humblot, 1979. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31.2(1983): 185-186.

Presentations and Conference Papers
 

  • "Serialisierte Allegorien: The Handmaid's Tale als ein Narrativer Palimpsest des 21. Jahrhunderts Angelika Köhler", 7th conference of the research network Weitersehen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung, Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Dresden, 3 November 2018.
  • "Rewriting Tribal Heritage: The Performative Construction of Kinship in Louise Erdrich’s  LaRose" 10. MESEA Conference, Graz, 30. 05. - 02. 06. 2018.
  • Chair of panel "Approaching Native American Family and Kinship" 10. MESEA Conference, Graz, 30. 05. - 02. 06. 2018. 
  • “‘[T]here were too many fragmented or unfinished stories around me’: Kathleen Alcalá’s Fictional Reconstruction of the ‘Vanished’ Lives of Opata Women”. 9. MESEA Conference. Warsaw, 22.6.2016.
  • "Between Apocalyptic Nightmare and Marvelous Vision: Shifting Landscapes and Populations in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange". Konferenz “Borderlands / Edgelands”, TU Dresden / Universität Wroclaw, 25.6.2015.
  • "'Riding' Across Boundaries: Post-Western Narrative in Hell on Wheels". 1. Werkstatttagung "Weiter sehen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung". TU Dresden, 30.10.2014.
  • "Writing Beyond Borders: Reconceptualizations of Boundaries and Borders in Christa Wolf’s City of Angels. Or the Overcoat of Dr. Freud". 8. MESEA Conference. Saarbrücken, May 2014.
  • "The Butterfly Myth – How Orientalism Works Across the Media". 7. MESEA Conference. Barcelona, June 2012.
  • "'... are we open-minded as a people?' - Ally McBeal and the Discourses of Individuality" Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "TV Seriality" an der TU Dresden, Wintersemester 2011/12.
  • "Religious Syncretism, Iconography, and Trans-Ethnic Subjectivity Construction: The Role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Maria Cristina Mena's and Cherrie Moraga’s Literary Work". 6. MESEA Conference. Pécs, June 2010. 
  • "Constructions of Masculinity in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Africa". International Workshop "Masculinities in British and American Literature between World War II and Thatcher/Reagan". TU Dresden, June 2010. 
  • "'Presence-in-Absence': Reconfigurations of the Concept of 'Homeland' in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King and Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salomé". 5. MESEA Conference. Leiden, June 2008.
  • "Referential Ambiguities and Ambiguous Referentialities: The Interactions of History, Language and Image in Victor Villaseñor's and Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor's Family Autobiographies". 4. MESEA Conference. Pamplona, May 2006.
  • "At the Crossroads of Past and Future: The Fort Mojave Tribe". 3. MESEA Conference. Thessaloniki, May 2004.
  • "Sites of Encounter: Medea and La Llorona" 2. MESEA Conference. Padua, June 2002.
  • "'Determined to Indeterminacy: Pan-American and European Dimensions of the mestizaje concept in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia". EAAS Conference. Bordeaux, March 2002.
  • "Constructions of America in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby". TU Dresden, Oktober 2001.
  • "Kulturelle Identität in der mexikanisch-amerikanischen Literatur der 90er Jahre". TU Dresden, June 2001.
  • "'Our human nature, our human spirit, wants no boundaries': Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and the Concept of Global Fiction". Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Bremen, 06 June 2001.
  • "Charged With Ambiguity: The Image of the New Woman in American Cartoons". Conference "Feminist Forerunners: The New Woman in the National and International Periodical Press, 1880-1920". Manchester, 25 July 2000.
  • "Constructing the Ethnic: Gender, Myth, and Genre in the Writing of Paula Gunn Allen and Ana Castillo". MELUS EUROPE Conference. Orléans, 23 June 2000.
  • "Calling For Agency: Re-conceptualizations of Nature and Chicana Identity in Ana Castillo's So Far From God". EAAS Conference. Graz, 17 April 2000.
  • "Female Talent and Modern Writing: Mary Austin's A Woman of Genius". Kielce Pedagogical University Affiliated College Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Polen, 26 October 1998.
  • "History and Myth in American Ethnic Literature". Belmont University Nashville, April 1997.

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