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. Tobias Schank North American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Dr. Svetlana Seibel North American Literary and Cultural Studies
UniGR-Center for Border Studies
- Dipl.-Üb. Eva Nossem UniGR-Center for Border Studies
DAAD DIES IDC Latin America
- Dipl.-Üb. Eva Nossem DIES IDC LA
- Natalia Villalba Lauer DIES IDC LA
- Myriam Rumler DIES IDC LA
Ukraine Saar Study Bridge
- Dr. Halyna Zaporozhets DAAD Ukraine Saar Studybridge
- Dr. Yuliya Stodolinska DAAD Ukraine Saar Studybridge
Research & Teaching Fellows
- Dr. Svitlana Kot NamLitCult DAAD
- Dr. Olha Polishchuk DAAD
- Prof. Dr. Tetiana Shestopalova NamLitCult
Research Assistants and Tutors
Also in the Field of American Studies
Dr. Tobias Schank
Building A5.3, room 2.15
E-Mail: tobias.schank[at]uni-saarland.de
Phone: +49 681 302 3323
Dr. Tobias Schank (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University. He has worked as a researcher in the joint project Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, and has co-edited the volume Linking Borderlands: Komplexität – Dynamik - Interdisziplinarität. He is a member of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies and part of the interregional Working Group Bordertextures. In his current research, Dr. Schank is working on seascape epistemologies, alternative forms of knowledge production, and the American Imaginary. His other research interests include Gender & Queer Studies, Film Studies, and Heavy Metal Studies.
Research and Teaching Interests
- North American Literatures and Cultures (in particular: North-American Western films, Classic Hollywood Cinema, frontier literatures, nerd cultures)
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Film Studies
- Border Studies
- Heavy Metal Studies
Current Research Project (PostDoc)
“Unwriting the Ocean: Seascape Epistemology and the American Imaginary.”
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
Schank, Tobias. “Hybrid Borderlands. Bordertexturing the filmic landscapes of the German-Polish borderlands and the SaarLorLux-region.” Ed. Christian Wille, Astrid Fellner, Astrid, and Eva Nossem, Eva. Bordertextures: A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies. Bielefeld: transcript, forthcoming.
Schank, Tobias, and Astrid Fellner. “Vergleichen, Verknüpfen, Verbinden: ‘Linking’ Borderlands.” Ed. Sara Bonin, Ludger Gailing, Kirsten Mangels, Tobias Schank, Tobias, and Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes. Linking Borderlands: Komplexität, Dynamik, Interdisziplinarität. Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 2024. 23-33.
Bonin, Sara, Kirsten Mangels, and Tobias Schank. “Linking Borderlands: Vom Mehrwert interdisziplinärer Border Studies.” Ed. Sara Bonin, Ludger Gailing, Kirsten Mangels, Tobias Schank, and Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes. Linking Borderlands: Komplexität, Dynamik, Interdisziplinarität. Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 2024. 167-175.
Schank, Tobias. “Heterosexual Obligations and Homosexual Attractions: Sexuality and Gen-der in THE WESTERNER and THE OUTLAW.” Ed. Tadeusz Lewandowski and Sławomir Kuźnicki. Sex in the States: Media, Literature, and Discourse. Opole: U of Opole P, 2022. 51-69.
Vigneulle, Nina Christine Dusartz de, and Tobias Schank. “Vom Buch zum Film: James Fenimore Coopers Lederstrumpf in intermedialer Sichtweise: Die Graphischen Illustrationen Max Slevogts und der Beginn der Verfilmten Abenteuergeschichte.” Ed. Stefan Brakensiek. Impressionismus ohne Farbe: Lovis Corinth – Max Slevogt. Trier and Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2016. 22-35.
Articles
Schank, Tobias, Astrid Fellner, Isis Luxenburger, and Eva Nossem. “Hybrid Borderlands.” Ed. Consortium of the Linking Borderlands Project. UniGR-CBS Working Paper Vol. 17.: Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries. Conceptual and empirical insights from an interdisciplinary perspective. UniGR-Center for Border Studies, 2023, 41-47. Open Access. <DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8032941>.
Weber, Florian, Alexandra Lampke, and Tobias Schank: “A linking analysis of borderlands in transition.” Ed. Consortium of the Linking Borderlands Project. UniGR-CBS Working Paper Vol. 17.: Linking Borderlands: Dynamics of Cross-Border Peripheries. Conceptual and em-pirical insights from an interdisciplinary perspective. UniGR-Center for Border Studies, 2023, 8-20. Open Access. <DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8032941>.
Reviews (selection)
Book review of The American Western in Canadian Literature, by Joel Deshaye. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 73 (2023): 138-139.
Book review of Moving Memories: Erinnerungsfilme in der Trans-Nationalisierung der Erinnerungskulturen in Deutschland und Polen, by Rebecca Großmann. MEDIENwissenschaft 3 (2022): 267-268.
Book review of The Gunslingers of ’69: Western Movies’ Greatest Year, by Brian Hannan. MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2020): 423-424.
Book review of Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre, by Stefanie Müller, Christa Buschendorf, and Katja Sarkowsky (Eds.). MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2017): 545-547.
Editorships
Bonin, Sara, Ludger Gailing, Kirsten Mangels, Tobias Schank, and Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes (ed.). Linking Borderlands: Komplexität, Dynamik, Interdisziplinarität. Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 2024. Open Access. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748919667
Dissertation
No Longer Printing the Legend: The Aporia of Heteronormativity in the American Western (1903-1969). Trier: OPUS, 2022. Open Access. <https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-3f1b-82a7>.
Awards and Grants
- Saarländischer Landespreis Hochschullehre (2023) for Virtual Media School: Borderland Stories
- Graduate Center of Trier University Publication Award (Faculty II; 2nd Place) (2021)
- Jesus College, Oxford, UK: Doctoral exchange scholarship (2018/19)