Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder Department of English, Campus Koblenz PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES PAPERS 11/2012 Intersektionalität und Literatur: Race, Gender und Raum in Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl und Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, invited lecture for the lecture series Intersektional forschen aber wie? at the University of Kassel 06/2012 The Business of Gender and Class in Hawthorne s The House of the Seven Gables, international conference Buying America: Literature and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century, University of Paderborn 05/2012 Strikingly and Confessedly Ridiculous in the Wilderness : Consumption, Community, and Identity in Caroline Kirkland s A New Home, University of Koblenz-Landau 04/2012 I guess they ll do better for kindlin s than anything else : Japanned Tables, Circassian Dresses, and the Hand of Refined Taste in Caroline Kirkland s A New Home, guest lecture, Department of English, Illinois State University, Normal, Il., USA 02/2012 Risk, Sacrifice, and Disaster Narrative in American Film, invited talk for the conference The Shaping Power of Risk: Literature Culture Environment, University of Bayreuth 12/2011 The Business of Nature and the Nature of Business: The Portrayal of Consumption in Thoreau s Walden, international conference Reading Nature, University of Madrid, Spain 6/2011 The End is Just the Beginning : National Identity, (Trans-) Nationalism and Global Catastrophes in Recent Hollywood Movies, 58th annual meeting of the DGfA (German Association for American Studies) Transnational American Studies, University of Regensburg 5/2011 When Idleness was the Most Attractive and Productive Industry : Buying and Selling Culture in Thoreau s Walden, 2nd Paderborn-Siegen English and American Studies Colloquium
7/2009 Consumer Practices on the Frontier: Caroline Kirkland s A New Home, Who ll Follow?, international symposium Reading the Everyday: Literary and Cultural Perspectives, University of Paderborn 6/2009 Between Nature and Culture: The Transitional Space of Film Beaches, international conference Twixt Land and Sea: The Beach in Literature, Film and Cultural Theory, University of Bern, Switzerland 4/2009 Sentimental Consumption and the Perfect Home: Harriet Beecher Stowe s House and Home Papers, University of Oldenburg 1/2009 Portraying Consumption in 19th Century American Literature: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Caroline Kirkland, BOND: American Studies Workshop, University of Bochum & University of Dortmund 12/2008 Genderperspektiven auf den zeitgenössischen Hollywood-Film, invited lecture (with Christoph Ribbat) for a lecture series organized by the Zentrum für Gender Studies in Lehre und Forschung, University of Paderborn 5/2008 Commodifying Difference: Depictions of the Other in 19th Century American Trade Cards, 18th annual meeting of the ASNEL (Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English) Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism, University of Regensburg 5/2008 Narratives of American Identity: Hollywood Movies after 9/11, EAAS- Conference (European Association of American Studies) E Pluribus Unum or E Pluribus Plura?, University of Oslo, Norway 4/2008 Narrating (My) Self: Subjectivity in Recent American Novels, conference Hello, I Say, It s Me : (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, University of Düsseldorf 2/2008 True Womanhood: (Weiße) Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im Schnittfeld von Kultur, Nation und race in den USA des 19. Jahrhunderts, keynote for the conference Transkulturalität und Gender in bildungshistorischer Perspektive, University of Cologne 1/2008 Gendering Things: The Use of Objects in 19th Century American Short Stories, BOND American Studies Workshop, University of Bochum & University of Dortmund 11/2007 E Pluribus Unum: National Identity and the Representation of Crisis and Disaster in Recent Hollywood Movies, invited lecture, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/2007 Framing Disaster: Ecocriticism, Nature Images and Strategies of Representation in Hollywood Disaster Movies, University of Braunschweig
6/2007 Family Treasures: Objekte als Kommunikationsmedien in der amerikanischen Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, University of Düsseldorf 5/2007 Spectacular Destructions: Media and Catastrophe Movies, 17th annual meeting of the ASNEL Local Natures, Global Responsibilities, University of Jena 2/2007 A truly feminine tangle : Gender Transactions and the Consumption of Objects in 19th Century American Short Stories, University of Tübingen 11/2006 Objects on Display: The Use and Function of Objects in 19th Century American Media, University of Göttingen 11/2006 Borders and Transgressions: Grenze als imaginativer Raum im Hollywood- Film, workshop Das Fremde und das Eigene: Grenzüberschreitungen in Amerika, Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf 6/2006 Representing Natural Catastrophes: Nature and Technology in Hollywood Disaster Movies, 53rd annual meeting of the DGfA American Studies as Media Studies, University of Göttingen 5/2006 Words, Images, and Meaning: Negotiating Home in Ken Lum s There Is No Place Like Home, 16th annual meeting of the ASNEL Words and Images, University of Koblenz 5/2002 Locating the Other/Self: Memory and Place in Michelle Cliff s Works, 14th annual meeting of the ASNEL Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in New Literatures in English, University of Erfurt 4/2002 Einführung: Ort, Raum, Grenze und Gender in den Geisteswissenschaften und Webs of Motion : Joy Harjos dichterische Räume, both lectures for the interdisciplinary lecture series FrauenKulturStudien Der entgrenzte Raum, University of Düsseldorf 11/2001 Witwen, Alte Jungfern und andere ex-zentrische Frauen: Frauenbilder in Kurzgeschichten des 19. Jahrhunderts, workshop American Counter Culture, Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf 11/2000 Kultur und Hybridität in amerikanischer Literatur, workshop Ansichten Amerikas, Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf 7/2000 Concepts of Culture : Forms of Traveling as Metaphors for Emerging (Cultural) Identities, 6th conference of the American Studies Network NRW Migration and Multiculturalism, University of Paderborn
6/2000 Concluding Notes: Names, Borders, Definitions Questions and Issues in American Studies, 47the annual meeting of the DGfA Millenial Perspectives, University of Dresden 5/2000 (Trans-) Cultural Negotiations of the Self: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Native American Writing, 12th annual meeting of the ASNEL, Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a Post -Colonial World, University of Aachen, Germany, and University of Liège, Belgium CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURE SERIES ORGANIZATION 01/2015 help with the organization of the founding conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Association of Cultural Studies), University of Koblenz-Landau, 23-24 January 2015 (conference convenors: Michael Klemm, Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Thomas Metten) participation in founding meeting of the division Materielle Kulturen 05/2013 organization and chair of workshop Shifting Paradigms of the Machine in the Garden: The Economies of the Rural, the Pastoral, and the Technological (with Eric Erbacher, Florian Sedlmeier) 06/2012 organization of international conference Buying America: Literature and Consumption in the 19th Century (with Christoph Ribbat), University of Paderborn, 12-13 June 2012 12/2011 chair of panel II Fictions, international conference Reading Nature, University of Madrid, Spain 7/2009 organization of international symposium Reading the Everyday: Literary and Cultural Perspectives (with Miriam Strube), University of Paderborn, 3-4 July 2009 5/2008 organization and chair of workshop Popular Pluralisms: Negotiating American Identity in Recent Popular Culture (with Astrid Böger), EAAS conference E Pluribus Unum or E Pluribus Plura?, University of Oslo, Norway 5/2007 organization and chair of workshop Local Disasters, Global Representations: Ecocriticism, Natural Catastrophes and the Media (with Virginia Richter and Christa Grewe-Volpp), 15th annual meeting of the ASNEL Local Natures, Global Responsibilities, University of Jena 11/2006 organization of workshop Das Fremde und das Eigene: Grenzüberschreitungen in Amerika, Department of American Studies and Department of Romance Studies, Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf 5/2004 organization of conference Amerika und Europa im Dialog: Philosophieren über Literatur und Kunst (with Astrid Böger and Georg Schiller, University of
Düsseldorf); chair of the panel Historische Perspektiven, University of Düsseldorf, 21-22 May 2004 4-7/2002 organisation and chair of the interdisciplinary lecture series Düsseldorfer FrauenKulturStudien Der entgrenzte Raum: Frauenbewegungen aus der Perspektive der Geisteswissenschaften (with Herwig Friedl), University of Düsseldorf, summer term 2002 6/2002 organisation and chair of the workshop At the End of the American Century the End of American Studies? (with Herwig Friedl and Ilka Saal), 47th annual meeting of the DGfA Millenial Perspectives, University of Dresden