Curriculum Vitae. Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal. Professor of American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena

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1 Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal Professor of American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Ernst-Abbe-Platz Jena Caroline.Rosenthal@uni-jena.de Employment: Since 2009: April-Sept. 2009: Okt. 08-March 09: 2001-July 2008: Professor of American Studies, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Constance Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Heidelberg Assistant Professor of American Literature, University of Constance : Junior Lecturer at the Department of American Literature, University of Constance Education: : Doctoral student at the University of Constance : Student of German and English Literature at Freiburg University : Special Audit Student at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Academic Degrees: 2007: Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) at the University of Constance 2001: Ph.D., University of Constance (summa cum laude) Scholarships and research stays: 2011: Research stay at the University of Virginia (one month) 2005: DAAD funded stay at the University of Iasi, Romania (Sokrates/Erasmus) 2002: ICCS Scholarship "Faculty Research Program" in Iqaluit (Canada) 1997: Fulbright scholarship; American Summer Institute at the New York University, New York/USA

2 1999: Research stay at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University 1997: ICCS Scholarship "Faculty Enrichment Program" at the University of British Columbia 1994: four-month stay at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University for research on MA thesis Administrative Responsibilities, national and international: 2013: Vice-president of the Association of Canadian Studies in German- Speaking Countries Member of the Board of the Association of Canadian Studies in German- Speaking Countries and Head of the Women and Gender Studies Section : Head of Postgraduate Forum of the Association of Canadian Studies in German- Speaking Countries Editor of the peer-reviewd journal Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Administrative Responsibilities, at the University: 2013: President of the Search Committee for the professorship "Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache" 2013: Chair of the Committee "Master Anglistik/Amerianistik" : Representative for Equal Opportunities in the Humanities Department at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena 2009: Board member of the Master North American Studies 2005: Member of the Administrative Teaching Committee for the M.A. "British and American Studies" 2004: Member of the Administrative Teaching Committee for the B.A. Curricula for "British and American Studies" (BAST) Student Advisor for the B.A. Curricula for "British and American Studies" : Member of the Council of the Humanities (Sektionsrat) 2002: Member of the Administrative Teaching Committee for the B.A./M.A. Curricla for "Literatur-Kunst-Medien" at the University of Constance Representative for Equal Opportunities in the Humanities Department 2000: Member of the Committee "BA Gender Studies," University of Constance

3 : Representative of the Women's Council at the University of Constance Conferences/Grants: 2013: International conference "Probing the Skin: Explorations of Our Cultural Contact Zone" at Friedrich-Schiller University, (with Prof. Dr. Dirk Vanderbeke) 10-day Excursion to the "Stampede" in Calgary with Stefanie Schäfer and 15 German Master Students, in ccoperation with Aritha van Herk and the University of Calgary Regional Postgraduate Forum with participants from the Universities of Leipzig, Dresden, Halle and Chemnitz : Canadian Writers Lecture Series: Canadian writer Aritha van Herk, April 30, 2013 Canadian First Nations playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, April 25, 2012 Canadian playwright Guillermo Verdecchia, June 21, : Chair of the annual conference "Landscapes of Difference," in Grainau International conference "Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabees" at Friedrich-Schiller University, (with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer) Imagine Canada: Introducing Canadian Studies at FSU Jena, June 21, in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy 2012 Field trip to Berlin, Oct 26, "Indianische Moderne. Kunst aus Nordamerika,"at Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem, Berlin Library Support Program, Canadian Embassy 2009: Chair of the Workshop "Education and the Multicultural Ideal: Literary and Cultural Perspectives," (mit Dr. Eva Gruber) at the annual conference of the Association of American Studies in Jena. 2007: International and bilingual conference "Space and Gender/Espace et Genre" at the center for Canadian Studies at the University of Innsbruck, in cooperation with Dr. Doris Eibel 2003: International conference "Gender Studies in Theorie und Praxis: Standortbestimmungen" at the University of Constance, in cooperation with the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Zürich and the Women's Council at the University of Constance

4 Graduate Student Supervision: Dissertations: Bauschke, Doreen. "Quilt(ed) Texts: The Patchwork Quilt in Contemporary North American Novels." (completed) Hollmach, Rico. "The Great American Game. Philanthropy in American Literature and Culture." Samardžiċ, Denise Maria. "Coming of Age in New York City - Spaces of Initiation in Works by J. D. Salinger, Scott Westerfeld, and Nick McDonell." Comos, Gina. "The Female Artist in Contemporary Fiction." Dolata, Mareike. "Mapping the Female Detective: Questions of Space in North American Crime Fiction after 1980." Zhao, Juan. "The Key to Understanding China: The Work of Pearl S. Buck." second supervisor: Giehmann, Barbara. "Writing the Northland: Jack London's and Robert W. Service's Imaginary Geography." Hinneburg, Kristina-Monika. "Nathan auf Reisen Amerikanische Adaptionen von Lessings Nathan der Weise." Schwanebeck, Wieland. "The Impostor in North American Literature and Film" Habilitations: Schäfer, Stefanie. "From Stage to Page and Beyond: The Yankee in 19th Century American Literature and Culture." Weitze, Almut. "Cartography of a Crisis 9/11 in Popular Culture." Teaching: Winter term 2013/2014 "Amerikanische und Deutsche Lyrik: Von der Beat Poetry zum neuen Pluralismus" "Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper" "North American Picaresque Novels" Lecture series: "The American Dream Revisited" Summer term 2013 "The West in the Canadian Literary and Cultural Imagination" (with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer) "The Flaneur"

5 "Native American and First Nations Canadian Literature" Lecture: "Survey of American Literature" Winter term 2012/13 "Romantik: Eine transatlantische Suchbewegung" "Banned Books" Lecture: "Introduction to Literary Studies" Summer term 2012 "Southern Gothic" "Eating Orders in North American Literature and Culture" "American Romanticism" Lecture: "Introduction to Literary Studies" Winter term 2011/12 "Toni Morrison" "Symbolic Spaces in North American Literature and Culture" Lecture series "Contested Spaces" "Recherche und Dokumentation" Summer term 2011 "American Narratives after Postmodernism" "Cicano and Latino Literature" Lecture: "Introduction to Literary Studies" Winter term 2010/11 "Toronto Fiction" "Magic Realism" "The American Short Story" Lecture: "Introduction to Literary Studies" Summer term 2010 "Historiographic Metafiction" "The Idea of Wilderness in American Literature and Culture" "North American Landscape Discourses" "Native American and Native Canadian Authors" Winter term 2009/10 Lecture: "Survey of North American Literature, Culture, and Theory" "Eating Cultures: Food Practices and Cultural Identity in North American Literature" "The Concept of the American Dream from the 17 th to the 21 st Century"

6 Summer term 2009 Lecture: "Einführung in die Gender Studies II" "The Space Difference Makes: Space and Gender" "Historiographic Metafictions in Literature and Film" "Caribbean Women Writers" Winter term 2008/09 Lecture: "North America: Literature, Culture, Theory" "Nature-Culture Paradigms in North American Literature" "Configurations of Blackness: African American and Black Canadian Writers" "Canon Formation and the American Renaissance" Summer term 2008 "The Concept of the American Dream from the 17 th to the 21 st Century" "American Literature and Culture II" Winter term 2007/08 "Contact Zone America: Colonial Encounters in the 17 th Century" Summer term 2007 "Canadian Literary Theory" Winter term 2005/06 "After Postmodernism" "Eating Disorders in North American Literature" Summer term 2005 Lecture: "Introduction to American Literary Studies" "Caribbean Writers" "The Nature-Culture Paradigm in Canadian Literature" Winter term 2004/05 "New York Fiction" Summer term 2004 "Introduction to American Literary Studies" Winter term 2003/04 "Pastoral Traditions in American Literature I" "'Scribbling Women': The Sentimental Novel and American Literary History" "(Re-)Writing Gender in Contemporary Native North American Literature" (with Eva Gruber) Summer term 2003 "Toronto Fiction: Women Writers and the City" "The Early Republic" Winter term 2002/03 "Urban Spaces and National Dreams" "Un/Covering the Canadian North"

7 Summer term 2002 "The American Renaissance: Framing Theories" "The American Renaissance: Close Reading Class" "Trickster Tales in American Literature" Winter term 2001/02 "America's Colonial Beginnings I" "America's Colonial Beginnings II" "The American Dream" Summer term 2001 "Margaret Laurence's Manawaka World" "Contemporary North American Poetry" Winter term 2000/01 "The American Renaissance" Summer term 2000 "Comparing Mythologies: The Canadian North versus the American West" (with Prof. Dr. Reingard M. Nischik) "The North American Short Story in the 20th Century" Winter term 1999/00 "Aspects of Race and Gender in Maxine Hong Kingston's Work" Summer term 1999 "Im Bannkreis des Nordens Aspekte der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft" (with Dr. Peter Braun) "The American Renaissance and Slave Narratives" (with Barbara Röckl) Winter term 1998/99 "Revisionist Mythmaking: Louise Erdrich" Summer term 1998 "Mapping Canada" Winter term 1997/98 "Introduction to Canadian Studies" "From Bradstreet to Dickinson: 17th to 19th Century American Poetry" Summer term 1997 "20th Century North American Short Stories I" "20th Century North American Short Stories II" "Contemporary Literary Theory" Winter term 1996/97 "Re-Writing Cultural History" "Ethnic American Women Writers" Summer term 1996

8 "Writing in the Feminine: Feminist Literary Theory" "Louise Erdrich" Winter term 1995/96 "Mark Twain and the Mississippi" "The Early American Short Story"