Members’ Activities in 2005
(limited to reports received):
Jürgen grandt published
Ø Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.
and gave the following presentations:
Ø "To Mellow Trouble to a Golden Note: The Poetics of Langston Hughes and the (A-)Historicity of Southern Rock." Invited lecture. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 27 May 2005.
Ø "Bust a Rhyme: Charles Chesnutt and the Roots of Hip-Hop--A Prolegomenon." Invited lecture. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. 26 May 2005.
Ø "'A Story That Wasn't in the Words': Thelonius Monk's Clock and Ann Petry's Jazz." Sixty-fifth Annual Convention of the College Language Association (CLA), University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 8 April 2005.
Ø "All They Need Is One Mic: How Eleanora Fagan Taught Nas the Game." Beyond Hip-Hop Roundtable: Teaching and Publishing during the Hip-Hop Generation. Sixty-fifth Annual Convention of the College Language Association (CLA), University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 8 April 2005.
Ø "'Gone With "What" Wind?' The Post-Soul Territory of Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta." Sixty-fifth Annual Convention of the College Language Association (CLA), University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 7 April 2005.
Fritz Gysin co-edited
Ø Fritz Gysin and Cynthia Hamilton, eds. Complexions of Race. The African Atlantic. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005.
Otto Heim co-edited
Ø Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History, ed. Otto Heim and Caroline Wiedmer (ICSELL 9), Basel: Schwabe, 2005. It’s full of interesting essays by Annette Kuhn, Dana Craciun, Peter Burleigh, Diane Elam, Mara Cambiaghi, Barbara Straumann, Catherine Sprecher, Sarah Clift, Aleida Assmann, Caroline Wiedmer and Cathy Caruth.
Ø The volume includes Otto Heim’s essay: “Allegories of awakening: Melancholy, repetition, and ‘race’ in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars.”
Hartwig Isernhagen published
Ø “The ‘Great War’ as the hollow center of (American) History: John Dos Passos, From Three Soldiers to U.S.A.”. Letterature d’America. 23.98/99 (2003 [2005]): 119-133.
Ø “Die ‘Stadtmaschine’ und der neue Mensch: Ein Schnittpunkt im Schaffen von Léger und Dos Passos”. NZZ 94 (23./24.4.2005): 69.
and reviewed
Ø Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman, eds. The Futures of American Studies. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Comparative American Studies 2.4 (2004): 505-07.
Sämi Ludwig gave the following papers
Ø “Hawthorne’s Man of Science as a Faustian Scholar.” L’homme livre. (CREL conference). Mulhouse, October 2005.
Ø “Volunteers for America: From Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to the Coalition of the Willing.” Annual Conference of the French Association for American Studies. Lille, May, 2005.
Ø “How Exactly Is Black Culture an American Culture? Reassessing African American Studies after the Iraq War” The Black World: INNERSpace:INNERCity:INTERAction:INTERNation. (Collegium for African American Research). Tours, April 2005.
Ø “Neo-HooDoo, ou La Détection Métaphysique de Ishmael Reed.” L’année du polar à la FLSH. Mulhouse, February 2005.
Ø “American Multiculturalism” Introductory presentation, EARS symposium (English and American Rheinish scholars) on Anglo Multiculturalism and English Monoglossia. Mulhouse, January 2005.
Deborah Madsen has edited
Ø Asian American Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 312 (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005).
She also published
Ø “Transcendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts Motif in Recent American Fiction and Film,” Essays and Studies, ed. David Seed (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005), pp. 163-80.
and reviewed
Ø Tessa McWatt, This Body: A Novel. Canadian Ethnic Studies vol. 37 no.2, 2005:
http://www.ss.ucalgary.ca/ces/JournalDatabase/CESDataFiles/CESJ_Bookreviews/CESv37no02McWatt.htm
She gave the following papers
Ø MLA annual conference, Washington D.C., Asian American Literature Section, “Nora Okja Keller: Telling Trauma in the Military (S)industrial Complex”
and was an invited speaker on the following occasions
Ø National Launch, University of Zurich, Network Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies, “Performing Community Through the Feminine Body: The Beauty Pageant in Transnational Contexts”
Ø Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Chinese Diasporic and Exile Experience conference, "Diaspora, Sojourn, Migration: The Transnational Dynamics of Chineseness."
Ø Center for the Study of World Chinese Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai, Querying the Genealogy conference, "Artefact, Commodity, Fetish: The Aesthetic Turn in Chinese American Literary Study"
Ø San Antonio College, 11th Annual Multiculturalism conference, Beyond Multiculturalism, "From Boutique to Mall: Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Ethnicity"
Links to the conference papers are on
http://home.etu.unige.ch/~madsen/Unpublished%20Papers.htm
Manuela Rossini published
Ø "The Gendered Spatiology of Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613)". In: The Space of English. Eds. David Spurr and Cornelia Tschichold. SPELL 17. Tübingen: Narr, 2005. 85-97.
Ø "Figurations of Posthumanity in Contemporary Science/Fiction – all too Human(ist)?" Special issue on "Literature and Science" of Revista canaria de estudios ingleses 50 (April 2005): 21-36.
Ø "Von schwangeren Königen und lesbischen Klonmüttern: Science/Fictions oder materiell-semiotische Reproduktionstechniken und ihre monströsen Konzeptionen. In: Gender & Generation. Series: Gendered Subjects. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2005. 292-309.
and wrote the following column
Ø "Science/Fiction: Gendering the Posthuman". Raffia 17.3 (2005): 20.
She wrote the following review
Ø "Queering the Renaissance": Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England; Paul Hammond, Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester; and Richard Halpern, Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud and Lacan. In: Queering Gender - Queering Society, Freiburger FrauenStudien 17 (2005): 265-269. (reprint)
and gave the following papers/lectures
Ø FU Berlin, 14-15 January 2005: Conference: Das Geschlecht des (Post-)Humanen: Neudefinitionen des Menschlichen in der zeitgenössischen Kultur. Paper: “'Her Totipotent Tropicarnalia – Traum oder Albtraum? Met(r)amorphosen und Tier-Werden bei Paul di Filippo.“
Ø Vienna, 24 January 2005: "Von schwangeren Königen, Kentaurinnen und lesbischen Klonen. Materiell-semiotische Reproduktionspraktiken in zeitgenössischen Fabulationen". Contribution to the lecture series "Gendered Subjects III: Gender, Generation & Reproduktionstechnologien". (by invitation)
Ø Leeds, 30 June-3 July 2005: Conference: The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality. Session: Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Posthumanism: Encounters, Engagements, Evasions, Exclusions. Paper: "To the Dogs: Towards a Postmodern Ethics and Politics of Significant Otherness in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction". (by invitation)
Ø Berlin, 6-8 October 2005: Conference: Phantastisches Wissen – Kulturelle Imaginationen über die Grenzen des Menschlichen. Themenblock II: Das Wissen vom Menschen. Paper: “MenschenGestalten zwischen Realität und Fiktion: Liminale Existenzen in Greg Bears Darwin's Radio und Darwin's Children”. (by invitation)
Ø Nijmegen, Institute for Gender Studies, 14 October 2005: Conference: Fact and Fiction: Gender in the Interplay of Art and Science. Session: Posthumanist Science/Fiction I + II. Organiser and paper: “Enfleshing Information and the Image: Posthumanist Science/Fictions outside the Computational Regime and Abstracted Vision”. (by invitation)
Ø Chicago (IL, USA), 10-13 November 2005: SLSA Conference. Session: Posthumanist Metamorphosis. Organiser of session and paper: “Getting Ribofunky Symbiogenesis and Met(r)amorphosis in Paul di Filippo’s A Mouthful of Tongues.“
She spent a
Ø one-month research stay at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and was
Ø Coordinator and Programme Chair of Close Encounters, the 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, to take place in Amsterdam, 13-16 June, 2006. (http://www.slsa.nl)
Erika Scheidegger
was the
Ø Co-recipient of the SANAS travel grant 2005-2006
and also was awarded the
Ø Thomas Harvey prize (travel and research grant), 2005-2006
Philipp Schweighauser received the following grant
Ø 2005: Scholarship by the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies
and published
Ø "The Desire for Unity and Its Failure: Re-Reading Henry Adams Through Michel Serres." Mapping Michel Serres. Ed. Niran Abbas. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 136-52.
He gave the following talks
Ø March 2005: "Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? Gibson’s Neuromancer and Jameson’s Writing on Science Fiction." Exploring the Utopian Impulse. First Ralahine Conference on Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. 11-12 March 2005.
Ø April 2005: "Walt Whitman and the Poetic Constitution of America." University of Lausanne.
Ø June 2005: "E Pluribus Unum and 'United in Diversity': Some Reflections on Constitutional Debates in the United States and the European Union." Cultures in Contact. Conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English. 10-11 June 2005.
Ø September 2005: "From Publius to Habermas, or, How to Sell a Constitution to the People." Discussion Paper. Salzburg Seminar in American Studies Symposium on American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad. 1-4 September 2005.
Barbara Straumann published
Ø Revisiting Mnemosnye: (Un)canny Recollection in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory“. Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. International Cooper Series on English Language and Literature, 9. Edited by Otto Heim & Caroline Wiedmer. Basel: Schwabe, 2005, 95-115.
And gave the following papers and lectures:
Ø Oldenburg, February 12, 2005: “Culture and Its Abjects: Revisiting Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror in the Photography of Andres Serrano and Cindy Sherman”, English Department, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
Ø Zürich, June 3, 2005: “Diva Elizabeth I. Politik und Entertainment”, International Conference “Unterhaltung: Konzepte, Formen, Wirkungen”, Volkskundliches Seminar of the University of Zürich, invited by lic. phil. Brigitte Frizzoni and PD Dr. Ingrid Tomkowiak (together with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen).
Ø Bremen, November 4-6, 2005: “Aristokratie und Geschlecht: Inszenierungen bei Comtesse de Castiglione, Madame Yevonde und Vivienne Westwood”, “Mode-Körper-Kult”, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, invited by Prof. Dr. Elke Bippus.
