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Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger
Abteilung Kultur
Lansstraße 7-9
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Raum
301a
14195
Berlin
Tel.:
030 838-54292
Fax:
030 838-52850
E-Mail: laura.bieger@fu-berlin.de
Sprechstunde:
Während der Vorlesungszeit ist die Sprechstunde mittwochs von 12 - 13 Uhr, an der Tür (301 a) hängen Listen aus. Oder nach Vereinbarung unter laura.bieger@fu-berlin.de
Research and Teaching Interests
American literature and culture of the 19th, 20th and 21st century, theories of narrative and aesthetic experience, theories of culture and modernity, visual and media studies, American art and architecture, American popular culture.
Current Research Projects
- “Is Anybody Home? Belonging and its Place in American Literature and Culture”
- “Faces of Neoliberalism—American Contemporary Culture and the Marketable Self”
- “The Body in the Landscape: Land Art and its Politics of Space and Image”
Education
• Post-Doctorate, Aug. 06 - present
• Doctorate, Jan. 01 - July 06
• Masters and Undergraduate, Oct. 91 - April 00
American Studies, History and Philosophy, FU Berlin and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professional Experience
• Juniorprofessur for American Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin Oct. 07 - present
• Assistant Professor for American Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin Oct. 03 - Sept. 07
download complete Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Recent Papers and Lectures by Invitation
“‘It’s all in the game’—The Wire als naturalistische Krisenerzählung.” Lecture by Invitation, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, July 6, 2011.
“’…would it not enable me to reach my home before nightfall?’ Mobility and Belonging in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly.” Lecture by Invitation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, April 14, 2011.
“Gefangen in der Krise? Episches Erzählen und soziales Engagement in David Simons The Wire und Treme.” American Dream? Die amerikanische Gesellschaft in der Krise. Lecture by Invitation, Offener Hörsaal, FU Berlin, February 3, 2011.
“’The self is the ultimate reified story’ – Narrative Identity Between Continuity and Disorder in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker.” Paper of the International Conference Ideas of Order. Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. University of –Erlangen-Nürnberg, November 26-28, 2010.
“To be in scale is to be out of it” – Spatial Perception in Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Paper at the international Conference “Site/Space/Landscape,” John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin, December 10, 2010.
“Belonging and Transnational American Studies: Reflections on a Critical Approach and Reading of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker.” Lecture by Invitation, University of Salzburg, November 5, 2010.
for full list see PDF link at end of page
Forthcoming Publications
Books
Mode – Körper – Identität: Im Spannungsfeld des Begehrens (2012). Ed. with Annika Reich and Susanne Rohr. With contributions by Annette Geiger, Ulrich Lehmann, Hanne Loreck, Susanne Rohr, Kaja Silverman, and Barbara Vinken. München: Fink (forthcoming).
The Imaginary and Its Worlds. American Literature after the Transnational Turn. Edited with Ramón Saldívar and Johannes Voelz. With contributions by Lawrence Buell, Christa Buschendorf, Winfried Fluck, Herwig Friedl, Heinz Ickstadt, Ulla Haselstein, Walter Benn Michaels, Christopher Newfield, Donald Pease, Ramón Saldívar, and Mark Seltzer. The University of New England Press (forthcoming).
Journal Articles & Book Contributions
“The ‘Known Worlds’ of Property, Place, and Community: Economies of Belonging in Edward P. Jones” (2012). In: Eva Boesenberg, Reinhard Isensee, Martin Klepper, eds. American Ecomonies. Heidelberg: Winter (forthcoming).
“Belonging and Transnational American Studies: Reflections on a Critical Approach and Reading of Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker” (2012). In: Winfried Fluck, Donald Pease, John Carlos Rowe, eds. Transnational American Studies. The University Press of New England (forthcoming).
“Architectures of Immersion: The Material Fiction of the ‘new’ Las Vegas” (2012). Walter Bernhart, Andreas Mahler, Werner Wolf, eds., Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media. Amsterdam: Rodopi (forthcoming).
“Vertigo, oder: Film als Schule des Schauens” (2012). In: Elisabeth K. Paefken, Stefan Keppler-Tasaki, eds. Was lehrt das Kino? 24 Filme und Antworten. München: text und kritik (forthcoming).
“Freedom, Equality, Beauty for Everyone. Notes on Fantasizing the Modern Body“ (2012). In: American Studies/Amerikastudien. Special Issue ‘Recongition.’ Winfried Fluck, ed. Heidelberg: Winter (forthcoming).
“Travelers in Image_Space” (2011). In: Renate Brosch, Ronja Tripp, eds. Moving Images – Mobile Viewers: 20th Century Visuality. Stuttgart: LIT (forthcoming).
Complete List of Publications and Lectures [PDF]
