Bärbel Schlimbach, M.A.

• Literature and Film about/on/from the American West
• 20th and 21st century American literatures
• Border Studies
• Gender Studies
• processes of cultural appropriation
• cultural studies

Current Research Project: "(South-)Western Borderland Narratives"

• since Dec. 2014: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (doctoral researcher) North American Literary and Cultural Studies (Prof. Fellner) at Saarland University
• Nov. 2013 - Dec. 2014: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (doctoral researcher) department for British, North American and Anglophone Studies at Saarland University
• summer term 2012 - winter term 2014/15: external lecturer department for British, North American and Anglophone Studies at Saarland University
• Oct. 2009 - July 2013: student research assistant and tutor North American Literary and Cultural Studies (Prof. Fellner) at Saarland University
• Sep./Oct. 2006 and Nov. 2007: project-related short term contracts as student research assistant at DFKI Saarbrücken

• PS "Narrating the Nation: The 'Making of America' in 18th and 19th Century American Literature" (SoSe 2018)
• PS "Depicting Transgression: Representations of Violence in American Literature and Film" (WS 2017/18)
• PS "Imaginary Wests: Representations of the American West from the 19^th Century to the Present" (SoSe 2017)
• PS "Mysteries and Secrets: American Crime Fiction" (WS 2016/17)
• PS "From Tombstone to Deadwood: (Post-)Western Film and Fiction" (SoSe 2016)
• PS "Haunted by the Unknown: American Gothic Fiction from the 19th Century to the Present" (WS 2015/16)
• PS "No Country for Old Men: Identity Construction in Literature and Film about the American West" (SoSe 2015)
• UE "What Made America? (De-)Constructing American Myths and Symbols" (SoSe 2015)
• SoSe 2012 - WS 2014/15: "Written Expression" and "Written Expression Advanced"

• "Imaginary Wests: Transatlantic Appropriations of the Western Formula" (3 Nov. 2017, 44^th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Changing Nature of American Studies," 3-5 Nov. 2017, Salzburg)
• "Dystopic Visions and Imaginary Wests: Re-Negotiating Myths in HBO's Westworld" (28 Oct. 2017, 52^nd Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association "Sweet Land, Mighty Waters: Myth and Storytelling West of the Mississippi," 25-28 Oct. 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
• Together with Astrid M. Fellner and Tetyana Ostapchuk: Presentation of Book Project "(Pop-) Cultures on the Move: Transnational Identifications and Cultural Exchange between East and West" (10 Oct. 2017, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
• "The West Is the West Is the West? De-Constructing Myths in HBO's Westworld" (7 Oct. 2017, 2^nd UdS Graduate Forum "Reading American TV Series: An Interdisciplinary Conference," 5-7 Oct. 2017, Saarbrücken)
• Introduction to Deadwood (20 June 2017, Erfolg in Serie V, Camera Zwo, Saarbrücken)
• With Svetlana Seibel: "Understanding America: From Westward Movement to Standing Rock" (8 December 2016, Presentation, “24-Stunden-Vorlesung,” Saarland University)
• "Making the Nation: Annexations and Borders" (15 November 2016, Lecture "Transnational American Literatures," Saarbrücken)
• "Re-Framing the Western: HBO's Deadwood" (13 November 2016, 43^rd AAAS Conference, "America Through the Small Screen: Television and Its Transformations," 11 – 13 November 2016, Innsbruck)
• "Re-Negotiating National Myths in HBO's Deadwood" (21 October 2016, 1st UdS American Studies Graduate Forum, "The Religious Right: Republicans, Preachers and Presidents," Saarbrücken, 21 – 22 October 2016)
• "The Sisters Brothers: Re-Negotiating Western Narratives" (24 September 2016, "The Profane West," 51st WLA Conference (Western Literature Association), Big Sky, Montana, 21 – 24 September 2016)
• Introduction to Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, dir. Sergio Leone), part of the series "Meilensteine der Filmgeschichte II" (14 July 2016, Kino 8 1/2, Saarbrücken)
• "Transgressions and Genre Crossings in McCarthy's No Country for Old Men" (9 July 2016, "Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds," International Symposium, 7 – 9 July 2016, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin)
• "Frontier Gothic in Post-Western Film/Fiction," (28 June 2016, Research Colloquium Prof. Fellner)
• "'Here Was a Man': Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in HBO's Deadwood" (15 April 2016, Conference “Biopolitics,” Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolayiv, 15 April 2016)
• Introduction to Stagecoach (1939, dir. John Ford), part of the series "Meilensteine der Filmgeschichte II" (02 March 2016, Kino 8 1/2, Saarbrücken)
• "Marlboro Men: Masculinities in Western Movies" (19 January 2016, Lecture "Engendering North American Literature", Saarland University)
• "'Big Hats, Horses and Dust'? Representations of the West in Recent American Film and Fiction" (02 October 2015, Guest Lecture at Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Mykolayiv/Ukraine)
• "'No Country for Old Men': Borders and Identity Constructions in Cormac McCarthy's Novel" (07 August 2015, Workshop "Border Cultures: Theorizing and (Con-)Textualizing Borders", Saarland University, 6/7 August 2015)
• "Cowboys and Desperados: Identity Construction and Imaginary Wests in Borderland Narratives" (08 July 2015, Lecture "Border Cultures: Theorizing and (Con-)Textualizing North American Borders")
• "'The Diggings' by Claire Vaye Watkins as Western Borderland Narrative" (30 June 2015, Research Colloquium Prof. Fellner)
• "Negotiating Identity Constructions from a Cross-Cultural Perspective" (16 May 2015; Conference "Theorising the Canada-US Border", University of Kent in Paris, 15-16 May 2015)

Books:

(Pop) Cultures on the Move: Transnational Identifications and Cultural Exchange Between East and West. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner, Tetiana Ostapchuk and Bärbel Schlimbach. Saarbrücken: Universaar, 2018.

Download (Pop) Cultures on the Move here.

Articles:

• "'Once Upon a Time in the West': Cross-Cultural Appropriations of Western Films." (Pop) Cultures on the Move: Transnational Identifications and Cultural Exchange Between East and West. Ed. Astrid. M. Fellner, Tetiana Ostapchuk and Bärbel Schlimbach. Saarbrücken: Universaar, 2018. 107-122.
• "Introduction: (Pop) Cultures on the Move." Together with Astrid M. Fellner and Tetiana Ostapchuk. (Pop) Cultures on the Move: Transnational Identifications and Cultural Exchange Between East and West. Ed. Astrid. M. Fellner, Tetiana Ostapchuk and Bärbel Schlimbach. Saarbrücken: Universaar, 2018. 7-13.
• "'Here Was a Man': Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in HBO's Deadwood." Naukovi pratsi: naukovo-metodychny zhurnal (The Scholarly Papers: scholarly and methodical journal), vol. 271, issue 259, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2016. 46-51.

• DGfA (German Association for American Studies)
• WLA (Western Literature Association)
• Working Group "Bordertextures" (bordertextures.org)
• German American Institute Saarland

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