Faculty and Staff
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Office Administration: Bärbel Schlimbach M.A. North American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Dr. Svetlana Seibel North American Literary and Cultural Studies
IRTG 1864/2 "Diversity"
- Atalie Gerhard M.A. DFG-funded IRTG researcher
- Isis Luxenburger M.A. DFG-funded IRTG researcher
UniGR-Center for Border Studies
- Dipl.-Üb. Eva Nossem UniGR-Center for Border Studies
- Tobias Schank Linking Borderlands / Hybrid Borderlands
- Dr. Svitlana Kot VW Borders in Crisis
- Dr. Alina Mozolevska VW Borders in Crisis
- Dr. Olha Polishchuk VW Borders in Crisis
- Prof. Dr. Tetiana Shestopalova VW Borders in Crisis
- Valeriia Biloshapko M.A. VW Borders in Crisis
- Dr. Elisabeth Venohr IK Grenzräume
Ukraine Saar Study Bridge
- Dr. Halyna Zaporozhets DAAD Ukraine Saar Studybridge
- Kateryna Haydarzhi DAAD Ukraine Saar Studybridge
Research Assistants and Tutors
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Faculty & Staff
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner
Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Building A 5.3, room 2.18
E-Mail: fellner[at]mx.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 2330
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Please direct all questions concerning general information, classes, and exams to: amerikanistik [at] mx.uni-saarland.de
Office hour during semester: Wednesday, 1-2 p.m.
Until further notice, Prof. Fellner's office hours will take place online.
You need to register in advance via amerikanistik [at] mx.uni-saarland.de. Please make sure you are available on Microsoft Teams for your assigned slot.
Office Adminstration Prof. Fellner: Bärbel Schlimbach, M.A.
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Office Adminstration Prof. Fellner
External Lecturer
Building A 5.3, room 2.17
E-mail: schlimbach[at]mx.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 2770
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Dr. Svetlana Seibel
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Building A 5.3, room 2.15
E-mail: svetlana.seibel[at]uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 3323
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Isis Luxenburger, M.A.
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
Building A 5.3, room 2.08
E-mail: isis.luxenburger[at]uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 2214
UniGR-Center for Border Studies
Dipl.-Üb.in Eva Nossem
UniGR-Center for Border Studies
Building A 5.3, room 2.16
E-mail: e.nossem[at]mx.uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 3573
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Tobias Schank, M.Ed.
Research Assistant
BMBF project Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries
Sub-project Hybrid Borderlands
Building A 5 3, room 2.01.1
E-Mail: tobias.schank[at]uni-saarland.de
Dr. Svitlana Kot
Researcher
VW Project: Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America
Work Package: Displaced Ukrainian and North American Children
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Dr. Alina Mozolevska
Researcher
VW Project: Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America
Work Package: Cultural Construction of Ukrainian Borders in Populist Discourses
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Dr. Olha Polishchuk
Researcher
VW Project: Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America
Work Package: Ukrainian Diasporic Literature: The Work of Emigrant Writer Oksana Lyaturynska
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Prof. Dr. Tetiana Shestopalova
Researcher
VW Project: Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America
Work Package: Cultural Border Policies in Ukrainian and Polish Literature
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Valeriia Biloshapko, M.A.
Researcher / Doctoral Student
VW Project: Borders in Crisis: Discursive, Narrative, and Mediatic Border Struggles in Ukraine, Europe, and North America
Work Package: Cultural Border Policies in Ukrainian and Polish Literature
Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Dr. Halyna Zaporozhets
Researcher
DAAD Ukraine Digital Program: Studybridge Ukraine-Saar
Funded by DAAD
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Kateryna Haydarzhi
Researcher
DAAD Ukraine Digital Program: Studybridge Ukraine-Saar
Funded by DAAD
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Aleksandra Filonenko
Researcher
DAAD Ukraine Digital Program: Studybridge Ukraine-Saar
Funded by DAAD
Building A 5 3, room 2.16
Elisabeth Venohr
Researcher
Kooperationsplattform Europa
Work Package: IK Grenzräume
Building A 2 2, room 3.06-3.07
Contact: e.venohr(at)mx.uni-saarland.de
Research Assistants and Tutors
Mohammad al Saqqa
Research assistant
North American Literary and Cultural Studies
and
UniGR-Center for Border Studies,
Linking Borderlands / Hybrid Borderlands
Studies:
Doctoral researcher
Current project: Cinematic Representation of Arabs and Muslims: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Contemporary American Films about the Middle East
Building A5 3, room 2.04
E-mail: mohammad.alsaqqa[at]uni-saarland.de
Kim J. Brück
Maximilian Molz
Daniel Riesco Camino
Studies:
B.A. International Studies, University of Washington
M.A. North American Literary and Cultural Studies, ongoing
Email:s8dlries(at)stud.uni-saarland.de
Marie-Anne Simmet
Research assistant
Studies:
B.A. British Literature and Culture and American Studies (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
M.A. North American Literary and Cultural Studies, ongoing
Current Project: Projekt Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Grenzräumen
Research Interests: Gender & Queer Studies, Pop Culture & Celebrity Studies
Michelle Stammwitz
Research assistant
Studies:
B.Sc. Psychology (Saarland University)
Master Translation Science and Technology, ongoing
Current Project: Projekt Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Grenzräumen (Intercultural communication & borderlands)
Research Interests: Gender & Queer Studies
Publications: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259102
Building A5 3, room 2.04
Niki Stammwitz
Research assistant
Studies:
B.A. English Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures (Saarland University)
Master North American Literary and Cultural Studies, ongoing
Current Project: Global Classroom project, Master thesis (Clawing at Borders, Leaving the Shadows – Negotiating Whiteness, Epistemic Disobedience, and US American Identity in Jurassic World)
Research Interests: Gender & Queer Studies, Decolonial Studies
Building A5 3, room 2.04
Email: s8nistam(at)stud.uni-saarland.de
Susanne Vogel
Research Assistant
Studies: Lehramt (LS 1+2) English, Mathematics and Spanish (Saarland University)
Current Project: Studybridge Project
Also in the field of American Studies
Dr. Lisa Johnson
B.A. University of Trier, Sociology & Political Science
M.A. University of Bayreuth, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Trier, Sociology/ Ethnology
Research interests: Migration, Mobility & Border Studies; Transculturality; Gender Studies; Music, Sound & Popular Culture; Qualitative Research Methods
Research regions: Jamaica, Anglophone Caribbean, East Africa, North America
Building A5 3, Room 2.08
E-mail: lisa.johnson[at]uni-saarland.de
Dr. Henry "Hank" Rademacher
Senior Lecturer
Research and Teaching Interests
American Cultural Studies
Mag. Payman Rezwan
Lecturer
Research and Teaching Interests
American Cultural Studies
Dr. Arlette Warken
Senior Lecturer
Research and Teaching Interests
Canadian Literature, Introduction to Literature
Mag. Klaus Heissenberger
Lecturer
Research and Teaching Interests
American Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies
Prof. Paul D. Morris
Visiting Professor (Université de St. Boniface / Canada)
Research and Teaching Interests
Canadian Literature, American Literature, Literature and Transculturality,
Translation Studies, Nabokov Studies