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(Foto Prof. Dr. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay)
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
1997 Ernennung zur Professorin für Nordamerikastudien an der TU Dresden
(Aktualisierung in Arbeit)
Gegenwärtige Forschungsschwerpunkte/CuRRENT research interests
- Contemporary U.S. Television Series (especially Western Series), Western Film
- Laufendes Forschungsprojekt zum Thema “Geschichts- und Gesellschaftsentwürfe in Westernfilm und Western-Fernsehserien“/Current Research Project on „Constructions of History and Society in Western Films and Television Series“
Forschung und Publikationen zu folgenden Themen/Research and Publications on:
- American and Canadian cultural history (especially of the West, including ethnic diversity, women, urban cultures)
- urban history
- minority history and culture (especially Native American and First Nations)
- gender studies
- travel writing and colonial discourse
- technology and nature
- transatlantic relations
- photography
- popular culture
Publikationen/Publications
Monographien/Monographs:
Der Indianer in der amerikanischen Literatur. Das weiße Rassenverständnis in der Literatur bis 1900 und die indianische Selbstdarstellung ab 1833. Versuch einer Gegenüberstellung. Köln: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1982, 159p.
Tradition und Moderne in der zeitgenössischen indianischen Literatur der USA. N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn. Köln: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1986, 352p.
The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996, 350p.
Herausgegebene Sammelwerke/Co-edited Monographs:
With Heinz Ickstadt, America Seen from the Outside: Topics, Models and Achievements of American Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Berlin: John F. Kennedy-Institut, 1990, 168p.
With Hans-Ulrich Mohr, Millennial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003.
With Klára Kolinská. Contemporary Aboriginal Literature in North America. Litteraria Pragensia 30, 15 (2005): 3-109.
Artikel/Articles:
"Concepts of History in Contemporary Native American Fiction," Minority Literatures in North America. Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Wolfgang Karrer and Hartmut Lutz. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1990, 159-74.
"Native American Literature," Perspectives on Multiculturalism in North America. Ed. Carol W. Pfaff. Berlin: John F. Kennedy-Institut, 1992, 37-55.
"The Frontiers of Native American Women's Writing: Sara Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes," New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. Ed. Arnold Krupat. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, 222-52.
"Indianische Literatur," Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996, 376-402.
"Crossing the U.S. Border: American Travel Writing and the Representation of the 'Rest of the World'," Crossing Borders: Inner- and Intercultural Exchanges in a Multicultural Society. Ed. Heinz Ickstadt. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1997, 23-39.
"'Like a Child Brought Up By His Father': Weibliche Erziehung in der amerikanischen Literatur," Erziehungsideale in englischsprachigen Literaturen. Heidelberger Symposion zum 70. Geburtstag von Kurt Otten. Ed. Dieter Schulz and Thomas Kullmann. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1998, 251-61.
"Louise Erdrich," Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon. Ed. Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof et al. Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 1998, 164-65.
"'Gender and Colonial Discourse': Frauenliteratur und die Rhetorik der amerikanischen Westexpansion im 19. Jh.," Geschlechterdifferenz und Amerikastudien in Deutschland. Analysen und Interpretationen. Ed. Anne Koenen and Catrin Gersdorf. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag, 1999, 73-81.
"Nordamerikastudien," Einführung in das Studium der Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Ed. Uwe Böker and Christoph Houswitschka. München: C.H. Beck, 2000, 48-88.
"Man-Made Nature: The Role of Technology in American Culture," Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature. Ed. Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000, 125-40.
"Michael Dorris" and "Louis Owens," Metzler-Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Ed. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler, 2000, 188-189, 514-515.
"Women in the Canadian-American West," Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 41, 1-2 (2002): 26-42.
"Amerikanische Westexpansion und 'wilder' Westen – ein Fall für die Geschlechterstudien?" Gender in Wissenschaft und Alltag. 1. Ringvorlesung der Koordinierungsstelle Gender Studies an der Ev. Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit Dresden. Ed. KoGenS. Dresden: Christoph Hille, 2002, 198-210.
With Anne Koenen, "Reactions to September 11: Political Rhetorics and Intellectual Reactions," Amerikastudien/American Studies 47, 1 (2002): 135-36.
"Americanization and Globalization," International Perspectives on Business Communication. From Past Approaches to Future Trends. Ed. Axel Satzger und Gina Poncini. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 2002, 3-16.
"Mixedblood Messages: Louis Owens' Fiction and Criticism," Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Tradition, Modernity, and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature and Culture. Ed. Helmbrecht Breinig. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2003, 149-66.
"A Common Ground? Urban Culture(s) and Cultural Diversity in the American West," Cultural Encounters in the New World. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu kulturellen Begegnungen in der Neuen Welt. Ed. Harald Zapf and Klaus Lösch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003, 205-224.
"Indianische Literatur," Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Hubert Zapf. 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004, 387-414.
"Urban Space in the 19th-Century American West," Taking Up Space. New Approaches to American History. Ed. Anke Ortlepp and Christoph Ribbat. Trier: WVT, 2004, 21-29.
"Sites of Community, Sites of Contest: The Formation of Urban Space in the American West," Space in America. Theory – History – Culture. Ed. Klaus Benesch and Kerstin Schmidt. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, 385-399.
"Transatlantic Relations after the End of the Cold War: Cooling Down or Heating Up?" Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe: Essays in Honour of Uwe Böker. Ed. Christoph Houswitschka et al., Trier: WVT, 2005, 319-336.
"Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel." Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literature. Ed. Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 89-107.
With Anne Koenen, "Reactions to 9/11 in the German Media." How the World's Media Reacted to 9/11. Essays from Around the Globe. Ed. Tomasz Pludowski. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books, 2007, 93-103.
"Indianische Literatur." Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Hubert Zapf. 3rd edition. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010.
"The Politics of Location in Native American Studies: Cultural Nationalism and Postnational American Studies.'" North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Festschrift für Hartmut Lutz. Ed. Kerstin Knopf. Trier, WVT, 2011, 93-108.
"Western History as (Post-)Colonial Studies?" ZUSAS Occasional Paper No. 7. 2011 (online).
"Does Region Matter? The West in American Women's Detective Novels." Detective Fiction and Popular Visual Culture. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Gunter Süß, and Melanie Graichen. Trier: WVT, 2013.17-28.
"Origin Stories: Rurality and Nation-Buliding in the Western." Rural America. Eds. Antje Kley and Heike Paul. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 53-72.
"'Stand It Like a Man': The Performance of Masculinities in Deadwood," to be published in Bodies – Systems – Structures: Masculinities in the UK and the US, 1945 to the Present. Eds. Stefan Horlacher and Kevin Floyd.
“Open Spaces, Towns, and Middle Grounds: Symbolic Maps in the Western,” to be published in Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. Eds. Christa Buschendorf, Stefanie Müller, and Katja Sarkowsky.
“Populärkultur als Verhandlungsinstanz: Gesellschaftsentwürfe im amerikanischen Westernfilm,“ to be published in Sammelband zu Populärkultur. Ed. Thomas Kühn.
Mit Stefanie Hellner. „Warum gerade Louisiana? Raum und Region in True Detective,“ to be published in Sammelband zu True Detective. Eds. Olaf Sanders/Anja Besand/Mark Arenhövel.
„Ben Cartwright und andere Väter,“ to be published in Väter Allerlei Geschlechts. Über das Spiel mit Ambivalenz zwischen Generationen in Fernsehserien. Eds. Anja Besand/Mark Arenhövel.
„Geschichts- und Gesellschaftsentwürfe in Hell on Wheels, “ to be published in Kultur in Serie. Eds. Timo Storck/Svenja Taubner.
More than 20 Reviews for ZAA, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Anglia, Great Plains Quarterly
Vorträge 2015
Vorträge 2015
Mit Stefanie Hellner. „Warum gerade Louisiana? Raum und Region in True Detective.“ Werkstatt-Tagung des Forschungsnetzwerks Weiter sehen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung zu True Detective, 2. Mai 2015.
„Women’s Western Journeys on Screen.” Ringvorlesung “Movement in Literature.” Universität Jena, 15. Juni 2015.
“Women’s Western Frontiers on Screen.” International Workshop “Borderlands/Edgelands”. TU Dresden, 25-26. Juni 2015.
“Ben Cartwright und andere Väter.“ Konferenz des Netzwerks Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung zu „Väter allerlei Geschlechts: Über das Spiel mit Ambivalenz zwischen Generationen in Fernsehserien.“ Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 11.-12. Dezember 2015.
Gastvorträge 2015
Gastvorträge 2015
Julia Leyda (FU Berlin), „Machine Cuteness and Sociability in Contemporary U.S. Culture”
26. Oktober 2015