Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in American Studies, Saarland University, Germany / IRTG “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” (funded by the DFG), 2019

Magistra Artium (M.A.) Saarland University, Germany: American Studies (major), British Studies (minor), Classical Archaeology (minor), 2012.

Academic Positions

Postdoctoral Research Associate 

Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Saarland University, Germany, 2019–present 

Adjunct Lecturer

Chair of American Studies, Institute for British and American Studies, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2021–2023 

Adjunct Lecturer

Institute de la Communication et des Médias, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Paris, France, 2019

Doctoral Research Associate

Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Saarland University, Germany, 2017–2019 

Doctoral Research Associate

DGF-funded International Research Training Group “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” (Trier, Saarbrücken, Montréal) / Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Saarland University, Germany, 2013–2016

Fellowships

Erasmus+ Fellow

Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, October 2023

Associated Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty member of the IRTG “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” (DFG), 2016–2022 

Postdoctoral Startup Grant

IRTG “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” (DFG), University of Trier, Germany, May-Sept. 2016

Publications

Dissertation

Personal Totems: The Poetics of the Popular in Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture in North America. Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2018. 

Edited volumes and special issues

IndigePop: A Companion, Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2024, co-edited volume with Kati Dlaske. DOI: 10.3726/b21220 

Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress. Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) 46.2 (2021), special issue, guest co-editor with Michelle Coupal and Allison Hargreaves. 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

“The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In the Heart of the Sea.” European Journal of American Studies, 19.1. (2024). Special issue Interspecies Harmony in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk and Jack Harrison. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21504.

“Shards of the Glass Ceiling: Women’s Leadership and Corporations in Science Fiction Television.” Humains, plus qu’humains, posthumains: Nouveaux questionnements du la Science-Fiction actuelle / Menschen, Übermenschen, Nachmenschen : Neue Themen der Aktuellen Science Fiction, special issue of Recherches Germaniques HS 17 (2022), edited by Anne-Sophie Hillard and Catherine Repussard. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rg.8245.

“‘Fleshy Stories’: Towards Restorative Narrative Practices in Salmon Literature.” Indigeneity and the Anthropocene II, a special issue of Transmotion 8.1 (2022), eds. Martin Premoli and David Carlson, pp. 39-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.984.

“‘Forget What Disney Tells You’: Redressing Popular Culture in Elle-Májiá Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress, special issue of Studies in Canadian          Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne, 46.2 (2022), eds. Michelle Coupal, Allison Hargreaves, and Svetlana Seibel, pp. 234-255.

(with Michelle Coupal and Allison Hargreaves) “Introduction: Literary Creative Practices as Sites of Redress.” Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress, special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne, 46.2 (2022), eds. Michelle Coupal, Allison Hargreaves, and Svetlana Seibel, pp. 5-20. (not peer reviewed)

“‘There Will Be Another Song for Me’: The Significance of the Orpheus Myth in Angel’s ‘Orpheus.’” Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of Angel, special issue of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ 17.2 (50), Summer/Fall 2019, eds. Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown, pp. 48-76.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

“Approaching IndigePop: Some Thoughts to Start.” IndigePop: A Companion, edited by Svetlana Seibel and Kati Dlaske. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 1-25. 

“Voices of the Indigenous Comic Con 2: Indigenous Popular Artists in Conversation with Kati Dlaske and Svetlana Seibel.” IndigePop: A Companion, edited by Svetlana Seibel and Kati Dlaske. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 253-269. 

“From Vancouver Island to the City of Troy: Prophecy, Heroism, and Indigenous Classical Reception in Catherine Knutsson’s Shadows Cast by Stars.” Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture, edited by Simon Bacon. Routledge, 2024, pp. 124-139.  

“Thinking in Connections: A. A. Carr’s Eye Killers and F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu.” The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead. Ed. Simon Bacon. Jefferson: McFarland, 2021, pp. 134-145. 

“Conflict and Complexity: Humanist and Spiritualist Discourses in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Armand.” All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts. Ed. Verena Bernardi and Frank Jacob. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2019, pp. 45-70. 

“Radical Relating: Vampirism as a Utopian State in Black Atlantic Women’s Vampire Fiction.” US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions. Ed. Saskia Fürst, Yvonne Kaisinger, Ralph Poole. Vienna: Lit, 2017, pp. 101-119. 

Book chapters

“Homer in Amerikanischer Literatur.“ Homer und Homer-Rezeption, hrsg. von Peter Riemer und Sikander Singh. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2023, S. 229-261. 

“What Do You Write?”: Science Fiction, Genre Expectations, and Indigenous Writing in Drew Hayden Taylor’s alterNatives.” Métissage au Canada /Transcultural Canada. Ed. Paul Morris. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019, pp. 127-145.

“‘Making Our Move’: Kanadische Indigene Pop Musik als Protestmedium.” Länderbericht Kanada. Ed. Ursula Lehmkuhl. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2018, pp. 188-189. 

Encyclopedia and handbook entries

(with Michael J. Hartwell) “Anne Rice.” Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 510, edited by Jennifer Stock. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2022, pp. 219-221. 

“Aaron A. Carr.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2019.

Service to Profession

Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA)

Early Career Scholar Representative, Executive Board, 2017–2019.

Preliminary Selection Committee for State Postgraduate Funding, Saarland University 

Committee member, Humanities division, 2023–