Dr. Thomas Dikant
Abteilung Literatur
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Raum 303c
14195 Berlin
Sprechstunde
Sei dem Sommersemester bin ich nicht mehr an der FU tätig, allerdings noch per Mail zu erreichen.
Curriculum Vitae
4/2017-3/2020
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Abteilung Literatur des John F. Kennedy-Instituts für Nordamerikastudien an der Freien Universität Berlin
Vertretung einer Juniorprofessur für nordamerikanische Literatur
10/2015 - 3/2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Chicago
10/2013 - 9/2015
Postdoktorand an der Graduate School of North American Studies am John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien an der Freien Universität Berlin
10/2012 - 9/2013
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
5/2011
Dr. phil., summa cum laude, Amerikanistik, Freie Universität Berlin
Dissertation: Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784 - 1866
Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein, Prof. Dr. Anselm Haverkamp
4/2009 - 9/2011
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Abteilung Literatur des John F. Kennedy-Instituts für Nordamerikastudien an der Freien Universität Berlin
4/2008 - 7/2008
Lehrbeauftragter an der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
10/2005 - 9/2008
Doktorand am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen an der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) und der Universität Potsdam, Sprecher: Prof. Anselm Haverkamp. Prof. Christoph Menke
4/2003 - 9/2005
Promotionsstudium an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, Amerikanische Kulturgeschichte, Kommunikationswissenschaft)
2/2002
M.A. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, Amerikanische Kulturgeschichte, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stipendien und Drittmittel
10/2015 - 3/2017
DAAD Postdoktorandenstipendium am Department of English an der University of Chicago, Gastgeberin: Prof. Frances Ferguson
10/2015 - 9/2016
Postdoktorandenstipendium der VolkswagenStiftung für die Washington University in St. Louis (abgelehnt)
10/2013 - 9/2015
Postdoktorandenstipendium an der Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
10/2014
Peter Nicolaisen International Fellow am Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Virginia
8/2014
Druckkostenzuschuss der Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft
2/2014 - 5/2014
Visiting Scholar am English Department der University of California, Berkeley, gefördert durch die Graduate School of North American Studies, Gastgeber: Prof. Stephen M. Best
10/2005 - 9/2008
Doktorandenstipendium am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswissen,” Europa-Universität Frankfurt (Oder) und Universität Potsdam, Sprecher des Kollegs: Prof. Anselm Haverkamp und Prof. Christoph Menke
Freie Universität Berlin
MA-Hauptseminar "Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies" (mit Prof. Winfried Siemerling) (Wintersemester 2019/20)
BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2019/20)
MA-Hauptseminar "Narrative Theory" (Sommersemester 2019)
BA -Vertiefungsseminar "Life Writing: Exploring the Self" (Sommersemester 2019)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Nature Writing: Romanticism and Environmentalism" (Wintersemester 2018/19)
BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2018/19)
MA-Hauptseminar "Law and Literature" (Sommersemester 2018)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Race and American Literature" (Sommersemester 2018)
MA-Hauptseminar "Postwar American Poetry" (Wintersemester 2017-18)
BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction to Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2017-18)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Detective Fiction" (Sommersemester 2017)
MA-Seminar "Revisiting the American Renaissance" (Sommersemester 2017)
BA-Aufbauseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Wintersemester 2013/14)
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
MA-Hauptseminar "War and Literature" (Sommersemester 2013)
MA-Hauptseminar "The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era" (Sommersemester 2013)
BA-Qualifikationsseminar "Whitman and Dickinson" (Sommersemester 2013)
BA-Proseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Sommersemester 2013)
MA-Hauptseminar "U.S. Literary Geographies, 1780-1860" (Wintersemester 2012/13)
MA-Hauptseminar "American Environmental History" (Wintersemester 2012/13)
BA-Qualifikationsseminar "Writing the Nation: The Literature of Revolutionary America" (Wintersemester 2012/13)
BA-Qualifikationsseminar "20th Century Poetry: Modernism to Postmodernism" (Wintersemester 2012/13)
BA-Proseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Wintersemester 2012/13)
Freie Universität Berlin
BA-Aufbauseminar "Darwin’s Novel: Literature and Evolution" (Sommersemester 2012)
BA-Aufbauseminar "American Poetry: The Age of Whitman and Dickinson" (Sommersemester 2011)
BA-Colloquium der Abteilung Literatur und Kultur (Sommersemester 2011)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Modes of Modernism: American Writing, 1910-1950" (Wintersemester 2010/1)
BA-Aufbaukurs "Introduction to Literary Studies" (Wintersemester 2010/1)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Fictions of the Future: Utopias and Dystopias" (Sommersemester 2010)
MA-Hauptseminar "American Topographies: Space and Place in Literature, 1820-1900" (Sommersemester 2010)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "20th Century Poetry: Modernism to Postmodernism" (Wintersemester 2009/10)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Writing the Nation: The Literature of Revolutionary America" (Wintersemester 2009/10)
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "War and the American Novel" (Sommersemester 2009)
BA-Aufbauseminar "U.S. Literary Geographies: 1776-1865" (Sommersemester 2009)
Europa-Universität Viadrina
BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Krieg und amerikanische Literatur: Vom Bürgerkrieg bis zum ‚War on Terrorism’" (Sommersemester 2008)
"On Consequences: Law, Action, and the American Novel, 1870-1930" (gefördert durch den DAAD, 2015-17)
- Law and Literature
- Environmental Aesthetics
- Literature and Politics
- Critical Theory
Monographie:
Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784-1866. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2014.
Rezensiert in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 61:1 (2016), Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 64:2 (2016): 235-238.
Aufsätze in Zeitschriften:
"'Shedding a Little Ink': Melville's Victorian War Poetry." Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 21:3 (2019), 115-132.
“Settler Colonial Statistics: Jefferson, Biopolitics, and Notes on the State of Virginia.” Early American Literature 54:1 (2019): 69-96.
"'The Spectre of Uncertainty': Chance in Bellamy's Utopian Fictions." Amerikastudien/American Studies 60:4 (2015): 417-434.
"Melville’s Battle-Pieces and the Environments of War." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60:4 (2014): 495-532.
"Helen Levitt: 10 Photographs." PhiN: Philologie im Netz 25 (2003): 1-30. http://www.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin25/p25t1.htm
Aufsätze in Sammelbänden:
"Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane." In Handbook of American Poetry. Ed. Sabine Sielke. Berlin: De Gruyter, in Vorbereitung.
""Oracle of the Law': Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Legal Futurism" Law and Culture: Methods, Concepts, Approaches. Hg. Sabine N. Meyer und Peter Schneck. Berlin: DeGruyter, im Erscheinen.
"Die Politik des Perfektionismus," in Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell, hg. v. Kathrin Thiele and Katrin Trüstedt (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2009), 187-191.
Rezensionen:
Beyond the Civil War Hospital: The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861–1882, von Kirsten Twelbeck. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 138:1 (2020, im Erscheinen)
Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence, von Sonja Schilling, ZAA/Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 67:2 (2019)
Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis, von Joel Pfister. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63:1 (2018)
American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production 1500 - 1900, von Martin Brückner und Hsuan L. Hsu (Hg.). Amerikastudien/American Studies 55:1 (2010): 165-167.
Übersetzungen:
Martin Harries. "Das Ende einer Trope der Welt," in Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett, hg. v. Björn Quiring (Berlin: August Verlag, 2012), 61-87, aus dem Englischen.
Andreas Höfele. "Porträts der Hydra: Das Theater und die vielköpfige Menge," in Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett, hg. v. Björn Quiring (Berlin: August Verlag, 2012), 191-217, aus dem Englischen.
Vorträge:
“‘Law for man, and law for thing’: Emerson and the Right to Property.” Department for English and American Studies, Universität Osnabrück, 4.12.2019
“Secret Societies, Deception, and Detection: Allan Pinkerton’s The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives.” Secrets. Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies & 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, 13.9.2019
“Spies, Secret Societies, Agents Provocateurs: Allan Pinkerton’s True Crime.” Surveillance and Social Order – Visibility, Invisibility, and the Blurring of Boundaries, Lecture Series, Free University Berlin, 12.11.2018
“Allan Pinkerton’s The Mollie Maguires and the Thriller of Prevention.” The Genre of Genres: A Conference on Form, Format, and Cultural Formations, Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies, University of Lausanne, 2.11.2018
“Describing Murder: Anna Katharine Green’s Criminal Procedure.” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop, University of Chicago, 6.4.2017
“Foresight: O. W. Holmes Jr.’s Time Travels.” Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Stanford Law School, 1.4.2017
“Shot! Murdered!” Anna Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case and the Logic of Action.” Criminal America, American Literature Association Symposium, Chicago, 2.3.2017
“Settler Colonial Statistics: Jefferson, Biopolitics, and Notes on the State of Virginia.” American Cultures Working Group, University of Chicago, 7.12.2016
“Milly’s Last Will and Testament: The Wings of the Dove and the Logics of Inheritance.” Commemorating Henry James/Commemoration in Henry James, 2016 International Henry James Conference, Brandeis University, 9.6.2016
“Melville’s Victorian Style: Reading Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.” Why We Can’ Read Nineteenth Century Poetry Seminar, Unsettling, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Penn State University, 19.3.2016
“Utopian Calculations: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward.” Data Fictions: Naturalism, Narrative, and Numbers, Free University Berlin, 30.1.2015
“On Consequences: Temporalities of Law in American Literature.” Habilkreis (Postdoctoral Working Group), Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 1.12.2014
“Jefferson’s Statistics: The Method of Notes on the State of Virginia.” Invited lecture, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Charlottesville, 23.10.2014
“On Consequences.” Interdisciplinary Forum, Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, 18.6.2014
“Jefferson’s Statistics: Governmentality in the Notes on the State of Virginia.” Empires and Imagination in Early America and the Atlantic World, European Early American Studies Association Conference, University of Bayreuth, 13.12.2012
“Melville’s Victorian War Poetry.” Invited lecture, English Department, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 28.6.2012
“The Territorial Nature of War: Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War.” American Imagetexts, University of East Anglia, 20.6.2011
“Geography, Democracy, and the Aesthetics of Space in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia.” Time and Space, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39th Annual Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6.1.2010
“Emerson and the Politics of the Land.” “Divided We Stand/United We Fall” Perspectives on Inclusions and Exclusions in America, Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, 28.6.2008
“Sherman’s Campaign: Barnard, Melville, and the Movements of War.” Traveling in War Zones, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, 8.3.2008
“Emerson’s Territories: Landscape, Property, and the Politics of Antebellum America.” Formen des Lebens und Weisen des Wissens (Forms of Life and Ways of Knowing), Workshop of the Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswissen,” Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, 28.2.2008
“Landscape and Territory in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers.” Wide Open Spaces, English Student Association Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 30.3.2007
“Wastelands and Wilderness.” Respondent to Peter Galison, Life: The Saving Word, Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg “Lebensformen und Lebenswisen” and the Poetics and Theory Program, New York University, 29.3.2007
“The Poetics of Nation-Building: Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and the Ordinances.” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology, 13.11.2006