Faculty and Staff

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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.

During term break: tba.

Prof. Fellner's office hours will take place online or in person, depending on preferences and availability.
You need to register in advance via amerikanistik [at] mx.uni-saarland.de.

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

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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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Dr. Tobias Schank, M.Ed.

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

 

Niki Stammwitz, M.A.

Transform4Europe

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

 

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. 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

 

Dr. Kateryna Haidarzhyi

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

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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

Email: mist00005(at)stud.uni-saarland.de 
 

Susanne Vogel

Research Assistant

Studies: Lehramt (LS 1+2) English, Mathematics and Spanish (Saarland University)

Current Project: Studybridge Project

Email: suvo00001(at)stud.uni-saarland.de

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

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Mag. Payman Rezwan

Lecturer

Research and Teaching Interests

American Cultural Studies

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Dr. Arlette Warken

Senior Lecturer

Research and Teaching Interests

Canadian Literature, Introduction to Literature

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Mag. Klaus Heissenberger

Lecturer

Research and Teaching Interests

American Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies

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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

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