Jun.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen

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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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Moritz Ingwersen holds a joint Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and English from Trent University, Canada, and the University of Cologne, Germany. His research and teaching are informed by his M.A. in English and Physics. He has previously held positions in the Department for American Studies at the University of Konstanz, the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University, the Department of Art and Design at the University of Arts Bremen, and the Institute for American Studies at the University of Cologne.

Research Interests

Literaturen

  • North American Literatures and Cultures (18. – 21. century)

  • Speculative Fiction | Science Fiction, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Climate Fiction, Post-Apocalypse, Ecotopia

  • North American Indigenous Literatures and Criticism

Theorien und Kontexte

  • Critical Posthumanisms

  • Critical Futurisms (Indigenous Futurism, Afrofuturism, Crip Futures, Queer Futures)

  • Energy Humanities and Petrocultures

  • Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene, Ecocriticism, Elemental Turn

  • Ecology, Technology, and Modernity

  • Literature and Science

  • Science and Technology Studies | History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

  • Material & Environmental Media Theory | Critical Infrastructure Studies

  • Critical Disability Studies

  • Modernism and Postmodernism

  • Dialogues with Design, Architecture, Art, Film

Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions  
February 2025 Positive Interim Evaluation Junior-Professor of North American Literature with a focus on Future Studies. TU Dresden
March 2021 Appointment as Junior-Professor of North American Literature with a focus on Future Studies. TU Dresden
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 Teaching Assistant DLR_School_Lab. German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), Cologne.
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. (Dissertation Committee: Veronica Hollinger, Hanjo Berressem, Colin Milburn).
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.
Publications

Monograph

  • Neal Stephenson's Archaeology of Cyberculture: Science Fiction as Science Studies. Forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. Science Fiction Texts and Studies Series.

Edited Book Series

  • Critical Futures. Book Series (2023-). Co-edited with Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober, and Jens Temmen. Transcript.

Edited Volumes

  • Critical Futures. Co-edited with Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober, and Jens Temmen. Transcript. Inaugural Volume of Critical Futures Book Series. (In Preparation). 
  • Implications: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. Co-edited with Beate Ochsner and Stephanie Posthumus. Submitted to Bloomsbury Press (Michel Serres and Material Futures Series). [In Process].
  • Revisiting Style: Interdisciplinary Articulations. Co-edited with Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank, Jasmin Hermann, and Olga Tarapata. Peter Lang, 2020. With essays by Tom Conley, James Williams, Henning Schmidgen, Sascha Pöhlmann, Heinz Ickstadt, Sabine Sielke, Ronald Bogue, Bernd Herzogenrath, Patricia MacCormack, Karin Harrasser, et al.
  • Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Hanjo Berressem and Anne Waldschmidt. Transcript 2017. With essays by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Tobin Siebers, Lennard Davis, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer, Margrit Shildrick, et al.

Special Issues/Sections

  • Environmental Humanities Teaching. Special issue of Lagoonscapes: Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities. Co-edited with Lucio di Capitano and Christina Brito. Forthcoming, Winter 2025. 
  • Elemental Agencies: American Culture and the Politics of Matter. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Timo Müller. vol. 70 no. 1 (Spring 2022). 
  • Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne und das Anthropozän. Special Issue of Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Co-edited with Sina Steglich. vol. 7 no. 1 (July 2022).  
  • The Energy Dispatch. Special Online Section of Against Catastrophe Research Project. Co-edited with Johanna Mehl (Fall 2023). 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Ingwersen, Moritz and Anja H. Lind. “Worldendings and Worldmaking: Ecoterrorism in American Speculative Fiction.” Amerikastudien/American Studies. Currently under review. Forthcoming Winter 2025.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz, Nicole Raschke and Pauline Mai. "Critical Worldbuilding | Kritische Weltbildung: Überlegungen zu einem interdisziplinären Seminarkonzept als Möglichkeit des (Auf-)Bruchs." GW-Unterricht vol. 174 (2/2024), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht174s15.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. "The Steam Politics of Nanotech: Energy Entanglements in The Diamond Age." Extrapolation. vol. 60. no. 1 (Spring 2023). Special Section "Beyond Petromodernity?." 53-73. 
  • Ingwersen, Moritz and Timo Müller. "The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol. 70 no. 1 (Spring 2022). 3-22.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz and Sina Steglich. "Moderne Zeitlichkeiten und das Anthropozän." Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne und das Anthropozän. Special Issue of Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. vol. 7 no. 1 (July 2022).  1-11.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. "Manhattan Heat Transfer: Energy and the Climate Unconscious in Modernist Visions of the American Metropolis." American Studies vol. 60 no. 3/4 (Spring 2022). 89-108.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. "Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash." Configurations vol. 29 no. 4 (Fall 2021). 417-433.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. "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." SFRA Review vol. 51 no.1 (Winter 2021). Special Issue "Us in Flux." 93-99.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. "Reclaiming Fossil Ghosts: Indigenous Resistance to Resource Extraction in Works by Cherie Dimaline, Warren Cariou, and Nathan Adler." Canadian Literature 240 (August 2020). Special Issue "Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror." 59-76. 
  • Ingwersen, Moritz.Environmental Catastrophe as Morphogenesis: Inhuman Transformations in Ballard’s Climate Novels. Humanities vol 8 no. 52 (2019). Special Issue: "J.G. Ballard and the Sciences."
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Towards a Trickster Science/Fiction: Complexifying Boundaries with Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 42. no. 3, 2017. 255-268.

Book Chapters

  • Ingwersen, Moritz and Nicole Raschke. "Critical Worldbuilding: From Energy Literacy to Solar Education." Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky. MLA Teaching Series. Forthcoming 2025. 
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Mundane Futurisms.” Critical Futures: Concepts and Narratives for Worlds in Crisis. eds. Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober, Jens Temmen. Transcript. Forthcoming, Spring 2026.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Michel Serres and Elemental Cultures of Energy.” Implications: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities, eds. Moritz Ingwersen, Beate Ochsner, Stephanie Posthumus. Bloomsbury. Peer Reviewed. Forthcoming, Spring 2026.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Mieville to N. K. Jemisin.” Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, Palgrave. 2019, 73-92. 
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “CybernEthics: Thinking Bodies and Boundaries Through Complexity Theory - A Response to Margrit Shildrick.” Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, edited by Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, Anne Waldschmidt, Transcript, 2017. 160-169.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life.” Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art, edited by Elisabeth Friis and Stefan Herbrechter, Brill/Rodopi, 2016. 71-91. 

Handbook Entries

  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Extractivism.” Literatur und Ökologie. Eds. Solvejg Nitzke and Frederike Middelhoff. De Gruyter Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie. Forthcoming, 2026.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Ecotopia.” Handbook Environmental Humanities. Eds. Evi Zemanek and Timo Müller. Metzler. Forthcoming, Spring 2026.
  • Ingwersen, Moritz. “Prothesen und Cyborgs.” Behinderung: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch. Ed. Susanne Hartwig. Metzler. 2020. 74-78.

Other | Media | Pedagogy

Reviews (Selection)

  • Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes, edited by Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace. Science Fiction Studies vol. 47 no. 2 (2020), pp. 298-301. 
  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman, edited by Bruce Clarke andManuela Rossini. Science Fiction Studies, vol 45, no. 2, 2018, pp. 361-364.
  • The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, by Ronald R. Kline, The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.
  • Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After, by Peter Middleton, The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.
Projects and Events

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Finished

  • Leakage: Inaugural Conference of Stsing 2024. Gründungstagung von stsing e.V. (https://stsing.org). Co-organisiert mit Mitgliedern der TU Dresden Lehrstühle für Mikrosoziologie und Techno-Soziale Interkation, Digital Cultures, Thermodynamik, und Humangeographie. TU Dresden, 19.-22. März, 2024. Konferenz Webseite.
  • Disruptive Imaginations: SFRA|GFF 2023. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Science Fiction Research Association und der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. TU Dresden. August 15-19, 2023. Conference Website.
  • Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. International Conference. TU Dresden: November 9-12, 2022. In collaboration with Beate Ochsner (Media Studies, University of Konstanz). Keynotes: Jeffrey J. Cohen (Arizona State University),  William Paulson (University of Michigan), Stephanie Posthumus (McGill University), Julian Yates (University of Delaware), Paul Carter (RMIT Melbourne).Call for Papers. 
  • Global Weirding Lectures. TU Dresden: Nov 2021 - Jan 2022. In collaboration with Alison Sperling. Keynotes: Stefanie K. Dunning (Miami University, Ohio), Rebekah Sheldon (University of Indiana), Larissa Lai (University of Calgary), Andrew Hageman (Luther College, Iowa), Gerry Canavan (Marquette University, Wisconsin). 
  • Hip Hop Ecologies. International Workshop co-organized with Timo Müller. Universität Konstanz. Feb 18-20, 2021. Online. Conference Website.
  • Wissenschaftliche Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne im Spiegel des Anthropozäns. Nachwuchsworkshop. University of Konstanz: September 21–24, 2020. In collaboration with Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London). Keynotes Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen), Henning Schmidgen (Bauhaus Universität Weimar), Patrick Stoffel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg). Funding by GWMT. Conference Website.
  • New Poetries/New Poetics. International Conference. University of Konstanz: February 15-17, 2020. In collaboration with Timo Müller, Sascha Pöhlmann, Eva Gruber (American Studies). Conference Website. 
  • Revisiting Style: Interdisciplinary Articulations. International Symposium. University of Cologne: January 31, 2020. In collaboration with Bjöern Sonnenberg-Schrank, Olga Tarapata, Jasmin Herrmann (American Studies, Cologne).
  • Contact Zones: Encounters Between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. International Conference co-organized with Anne Waldschmidt and Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne October 25-27, 2012. Keynote Speakers included Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Robert McRuer, Lennard Davis, Tobin Siebers, Margrit Shildrick, Ria Cheyne, Dan Goodley, Katerina Kolarova. Conference Website.
Academic Talks (Selection)

  • "Global Weirding as Pedagogy: A Critical Reflection." Together with Alison Sperling. SFRA 2022: Futures from the Margins. University of Oslo, June 27-July 1, 2022. 

  • "Transformative Place-Making and the Ethics of Nishnaabeg Emergence in the Work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson." GKS Conference 2022: Ecologies, Environments, Ethics. February 18-20, 2022. Online.

  • "The Ethics of Exposure: Transcorporeal Hybridity in Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower." GFF Conference 2021 - Speculation and Ethics. University of Cologne, Sept 23, 2021. Online.

  • "Surreal und Gespenstisch?: Warum die Klimawende neue Erzählungen braucht." [Surreal and Eerie?: Why the Climate Transition Needs New Narratives]. Invited Keynote Lecture. Umundu Festival für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Sept. 25, 2021.
  • "Emergent Aesthetics: Mobilizing the Elemental Turn in Contemporary Ecocritcism." Together with Timo Müller. ASLE Biennial Meeting 2021. July 2021. Online. 
  • "Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils." Invited Keynote Lecture at JFK Literature and Culture Colloquium, FU Berlin. May 12, 2021.
  • "Elemental America." Roundtable at BAAS 2021 Digital. April 6, 2021.
  • "Reclaiming the Ghosts of Extinct Species: Resistance to Settler-Colonial Extractivism in Nathan Adler’s Wrist." European Association of American Studies (EAAS). Annual Meeting 2021. May 1, 2021.
  • "’Why would the water want to straighten my spirit?:’ Fluid Relations in the Work of Joshua Whitehead." American Indian Workshop 2020. LMU München (Germany). Online. Nov 26, 2020. 
  • "Navigating Canada: Teaching Indigenous Literatures and Theory in (European) North American Studies." Invited Lecture and Workshop. Nachwuchsforum der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS). University of Freiburg (Germany). Online. Sep 4, 2020.
  • “Reclaiming the Popular Landscape: From the Paintings of Kent Monkman to the Music of Jeremy Dutcher and A Tribe Called Red.” 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Workshop: Indigenous Popular Culture in North America. University of Hamburg (Germany): June 13–15, 2019.
  • “How Do We Behave As Good Relatives: Decentering Ecology Through Canadian-Indigenous Literatures; Or, What it Means to Become Fossil.” Echoing Ecologies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies. University of Marburg (Germany): May 22–24, 2019.
  • “Of Earth-Beings and New Estrangements: Problematizing ’Sentient Landscapes’ in Indigenous (Science) Fiction.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 32ndAnnual Conference. Toronto (Canada): November 15–18, 2018.
  • “Science Fiction as Science Studies: Epistemological and Material Confusions in the Work of Neal Stephenson.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference 2018. Marquette University, Milwaukee (USA): July 1–4, 2018.
  • “‘This is the Way the World Ends:’ Weird Geology in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.” The American Weird: Ecologies and Geographies. University of Göttingen (Germany): April 12–14, 2018.
  • “‘Geological Insurrections:’ The Weird Return of Rust and Dust in Two Short Stories by China Mieville.” Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): 12th Biennial Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit (USA): June 20–24, 2017.
  • “‘all things fusible:’ Neal Stephenson, Science Studies, and the Baroque.” The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS): 12th Annual Conference. University of Bristol (UK): April 6–8, 2017.
  • “Trickster Science: Creativity and Disruption in Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 30th Annual Conference. Atlanta (USA): November 3–6, 2016.
  • “From Site Analysis to Analysis Situs: Mapping Architecture in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” International Conference on Critical Topography. Trent University, Peterborough, and Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada): May 20–22, 2015.
  • “Varieties of Posthumanism in Science Fiction: Reading Shariann Lewitt’s ’A Real Girl’ through Posthumanist Disability Studies.” Disability Studies | Science Fiction: An International Workshop. Invited Keynote Lecture. University of Cologne (Germany): November 28–29, 2014.
  • “Non-Euclidean Geometry in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” The Common Denominator: A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies. University of Leipzig (Germany):March 21–22, 2014.
  • “Monstrous Geometries in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” The Second Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity. Prague (Czech Republic): May15–17, 2013.
Memberships

DGfA/GAAS | German Association of American Studies

SLSA | Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

BSLS | British Society for Literature and Science

ASLE | Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

SFRA | Science Fiction Research Association

Grants & Awards

2022 | Diversity-Sensitive Teaching Award. Together with Alison Sperling. Awarded for Seminar and Lecture Series "Global Weirding: Human-Environment Estrangements in Literature, Art, and Theory" (Winter 2021/22). TU Dresden. 

2021 | DFG Grant (International Scientific Events). International Conference "Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. TU Dresden, November 2022. 

2021 | Internationalization Grant. Global Weirding Seminar and Lecture Series with Alison Sperling. Impress Program, TU Dresden.

2021 | TUDiSC Grant 2022-2025. Transformative Place-Making for Uncertain Futures: Integrative Perspectives on Narratives, Education, and Design. With Nicole Raschke and Melanie Humann. TU Dresden. 

2020 | International Co-Teaching Grant (American Petrocultures with Brent R. Bellamy), University of Konstanz.

2019 | Junge Perspektiven Grant (Workshop Wissenschaftliche Zeitlichkeiten), GWMT, with Sina Steglich. 

2018 | Governor General's Gold Medal, Trent University, Ontario.

2013-2017 | Ontario Trillium Scholarship, Trent University, Ontario.

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