Brückenprofessor mit der besonderen Aufgabe der Betreuung von Diplomstudierenden (A343), 2012-2013

Office hours during the semester: Thursday, 4-6 p.m., Room 3E 02 05

Hier finden Sie ab sofort auch eine Liste mit Themenvorschlägen als pdf.  Studierende sind jedoch auch herzlich eingeladen, eigene Ideen vorzuschlagen bzw. vorgeschlagene Titel abzuändern und zu ergänzen.

Research Interests

• English and American Cultural Studies (Film, Popular Culture)
• Anglo-Canadian Literature and Culture
• Gender & Ethnicity
• Urban Spaces (Modernist and Postmodernist Literature)
• Early American Writing
• Transnational Studies

Teaching

• U.S. American Fiction from the Revolution to Postmodernism
• Film Genres (Hollywood Cinema to Independent Film)
• Popular Culture
• Ethnicity, Class, Gender
• U.S. History and Socio-Cultural Developments

Selected Publications

• The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the  Embodiment of America (1945 - 1960). Heidelberg: Carl Winter  Verlag, 2007.
• Inszenierte Männlichkeit: Körperkult und >Krise der Maskulinität im spätviktorianischen Amerika [Staged Masculinity: Body Cult and Crisis of Masculinity in Late Victorian America]. Berlin: WVB, 2007.
• Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt, Winfried Fluck, and Frank Mehring. Special issue of REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 23, 2010.
• Making National Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-)Revolutionary America. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt, Astrid M. Fellner. Trier: WVT, 2010.
• Transnational American Studies. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Stefan L. Brandt, and Ingrid Thaler. Special issue of REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 23, 2007.
• Film as Symbolic Action: Douglas Sirks 'Imitation of Life' (1959) als Paradigma kultureller Selbstverständigung im Amerika der 1950er Jahre [Douglas Sirk's 'Imitation of Life' as a Paradigm of Cultural Self-Fashioning in 1950s America]. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt. Berlin:  John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin, Working-Paper 119, 1999.
• "Portable Blackness:Troubled Ethnicities in American Popular Music from Elvis Presley to Eminem." Proceedings of the 6th World Congress  of the International American Studies Association (IASA). Ed. Sonia Torres. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2011.<http://www.historia.uff.br/iasa2011/sites/default/files/panel/pdf/configurations-race-and-ethnicity-21st-century-cultural-imaginaries-representational-politics-and-c.pdf>.
• "American Cultural ImagiNation: The New Americanists and the Bush Revolution" (with Alexander Vazansky). In: American Studies / Shifting Gears. Eds. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche & Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag,  2010, 65-88.
• "The American Dream as a Tall Tale: Story Telling and Cultural Mythology in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Coen Brothers' Fargo." In: Almighty Dollar: Papers and Lectures from the Velden Conference. Eds. Heinz Tschachler, Eugen Banauch, Simone Puff.  Wien & Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010, 223-35.
• "TransAmerica? Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity." In: Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies. Eds. João Ferreira Duarte, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Susana Araújo. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 247-61.
• "The City as Liminal Space: Urban Visuality and Aesthetic Experience in Postmodern U.S. Literature and Cinema." Amerikastudien -- American Studies 54.4 (2009): 553-81.
• "'The Finest Type of Existing Marriage': Family and Nationhood in Theodore Roosevelt's Speeches and Writings." In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) 34:2 (2009): 269-91.
• "Kino als Karneval der Männlichkeit: (Selbst-)Ironie und Intertextualität in den frühen James-Bond-Filmen [Cinema as a Carnival of Masculinity: (Self-)Irony and Intertextuality in the Early James-Bond Movies]." In: Das kleine Bond-Buch: From Cultural Studies with Love. Eds. Ellen Grünkemeyer, Martina Iske, Jürgen Kramer, Anette Pankratz & Claus-Ulrich Viol. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2007, 121-37.
• »The Literary Text as a >Living Event<: Visceral Language and the Aesthetics of Rebellion in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye«. In: Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s. Eds. Gerd Hurm and Ann-Marie Fallon. New York, Oxford, et al: Peter Lang, 2007, 31-56.
• »Astronautic Subjects: Postmodern Identity and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction« In: Gender Forum 16 (Issue »Gender Roomours II: Gender and Space«) (Winter 2006/07) <http://www.genderforum.org/fileadmin/archiv/genderforum/space2/article_brandt.html>.
• »>Surface, Surface, Surface<: Image Creation, Commodity Fetishism, and the Fragmentation of the Postmodern Subject«. In:Worlds in the Making: Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge. Eds. Edyta Lorek-Jezinska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub, and Katarzyna Wiêckowska. Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2006. 315-23.
• »Performanz und Selbstermächtigung: Zur Ästhetik des Körperlichen bei James Dean [Performance and Self-Empowerment: On the Aesthetics of the Body in James Dean]«. In: James Dean lebt! Jugendkultur und Starkult in Film und Musik, 1950-2000. Ed. Werner Kremp, with Charlotte Gerken & Peter Sommerlad. Trier: WVT, 2006, 11-52.
• »White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Where East Is East«. In: The Films of Tod Browning. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. New York: Black Dog Publications, 2006. 129-49.  <http://www.eaas.eu/publications/book-reviews/bernd-herzogenrath-ed-the-films-of-tod-browning>
• »Hawthorne's Negative Romanticism: Aesthetic Self-Reflection and the Discursivity of Storytelling in >Rappaccini's Daughter<«. In: Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature. Ed. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein & Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2006. 195-220.
• »Polysemantik und Entropie: Zur Ästhetik der Ambiguität bei Henry James und Thomas Pynchon [Polysemantics and Entropy: On the Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Henry James and Thomas Pynchon]«. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 46 (2005): 303-29.
• »American Culture X: Identity, Homosexuality, and the Search for a New American Hero«. In: Subverting Masculinity: Hegemonic and Alternative Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Russell West & Frank Lay. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 67-93.

Relevant Professional Experience

• University Professor of English & American Studies, University of Vienna (Feb. 2012 - Jan. 2013).
• Guest Professor of American Studies (Literature and Culture), University of Vienna (Oct. 2011 - Jan. 2012).
• Visiting Professor of North American Culture and Literature, University of Siegen (Apr. 2010 - Sep. 2011).
• Lecturer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, English Seminar (Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2010).
  Visiting Professor of North American Culture, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Dept. of Culture (Oct. 2008 - Mar. 2009).
• Visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Siegen (Apr. 2007 - Sept. 2008).
• Visiting Professor of North American Culture and Literature, University of Siegen (Apr. 2006 - Sept. 2008).
• Guest Lecturer American Studies, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Oct. 2005 - Mar. 2006).
• Visiting Professor of North American Culture & Acting Chair, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Dept. of Culture (Spring term 2004/05).
• Guest Lecturer, UC Irvine, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature (Spring term 1998).
• Lecturer American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Dept. of Culture (Summer term 1996 - Summer term 2003).

Homepage (German):
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Homepage (English):
http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/culture/persons/brandt/index.html