C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E Name: Dr. Gunter Süß Work Address: TU Chemnitz Anglistik/Amerikanistik 09107 Chemnitz Germany Work Telephone Number: ++49 (0) 3 71-5 31 49 20 or 42 77 Work Fax Number: ++49 (0) 3 71-531 40 53 Email Address: gunter.suess@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de Website: http://www.guntersuess.de Private Address: Stollberger Straße 19a 09380 Thalheim Germany Private Telephone and Fax: ++49 (0) 37 21-27 09 37 Born: Family Status: Nationality: 09 October 1974 in Stollberg married, one daughter German EDUCATION 2005 PhD in American and British Studies ( summa cum laude ), Chemnitz University of Technology 1995-2000 Master of Arts (American and British Studies, Media Studies), Dresden University of Technology 1997 Studies in American History, Literature and Media Theory, Belmont University Nashville (USA) 1994-1995 Studies in Mathematics, English and Teacher Training, Dresden University of Technology 1991-1993 Abitur : (general qualification for university entrance), Oelsnitz High School 1981-1991 Max-Helbig High School, Thalheim CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 1 of 7
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE since 12/2000 Assistant Professor Department of British and American Studies Chemnitz University of Technology 07-12/2000 Research Associate, Interaction with fictional hypertexts Project, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) American Studies Chemnitz University of Technology OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE (SELECTED) 2000 Freelance analysis of news websites for mdr Leipzig (regional broadcasting network) 1999-2000 Student Assistant; Department of British and American Studies, Dresden University of Technology 1998-2000 Freelance journalist for the internet magazine Dresden-Neustadt-Online Dresden 1997-2000 Freelance content manager for the music agency Manic Music Dresden 1995 Freelance journalist Freie Presse Stollberg COMPULSORY NATIONAL SERVICE 1993-1994 Carer in a sheltered workshop, Lebenshilfe Thalheim CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 2 of 7
COURSES TAUGHT Courses are part of the M.A. program British and American Studies and the B.A. program Media Communication Summer term 2006 Music Video Ambulance (Seminar) Realism, Naturalism (Seminar) Winter term 2005/2006 Music Video Ambulance (Seminar) Hip Hop, Part II (Seminar) Summer term 2005 Please Cry, My Dear : A History of Melodrama (Seminar) Hip Hop, Part I (Seminar) Winter term 2004/2005 Postmodernism (Seminar) Computer Games (Seminar) Summer term 2004 Introduction to Literary Studies: Introduction to Film Studies (Lecture course) Multimedia Revisited (Seminar) Winter term 2003/2004 Nothing As It Seems - Contemporary American Cinema II (Seminar) Summer term 2003 All Quiet in the West? Contemporary American Cinema (Seminar) Academic Research and Writing on- and offline (Seminar) Controversial Issues in American Studies (Pro-/Advanced seminar) Winter term 2002/2003 Introduction to Literary Studies: Introduction to Film Studies (Lecture course) More than Beep: Sound and Multimedia (Seminar) Summer term 2002 Between McJob and Lollapalooza 90s Youth Cultures (Seminar) Academic Research and Writing on- and offline (Seminar) Winter term 2001/2002 Evil Empires, Iron Ladies and Teflon Presidents: Eighties' Cinema and Ideology (Seminar) Academic Research and Writing on- and offline (Seminar) CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 3 of 7
Summer term 2001 Introduction to the Analysis of Film (Seminar) Popular Music (Seminar) Popular Culture in the Internet Age (Advanced seminar) together with Evelyne Keitel, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn Winter term 2000/2001 Internet and American Studies (Seminar) Contemporary American Literature (Seminar) PUBLICATIONS Books: Sound Subjects: Zur Rolle des Tons in Film und Computerspiel. Trier: WVT, 2006, 179 pp. As Editor: Literature and the Media (Conference Proceedings Literature and the Media ) Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT (forthcoming). Computerspiele - Eine Provokation für die Kulturwissenschaften? Eds. Evelyne Keitel, Gunter Süß, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2003, 126 pp. Essays: Intermedialität/Intermediality An Introduction. together with Werner Huber und Evelyne Keitel, Literature and the Media (Conference Proceedings Literature and the Media ) Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT (forthcoming). Did you ever meet a sexier male chauvinist pig? : Robbie Williams, Irony, and Englishness. Literature and the Media (Conference Proceedings Literature and the Media. Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT (forthcoming). I've never seen five niggers on Elvis Presley's album cover! Hybridity, Ethnicity, and Masculinity in Contemporary Crossover Productions together with Marcel Hartwig, American Music (Transatlantic and Transnational American Studies). Eds. Wilfried Raussert and John Miller Jones. Münstler: LIT (forthcoming). CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 4 of 7
Filmstudien und Computerspielanalyse Computerspiele - Eine Provokation für die Kulturwissenschaften? Eds. Evelyne Keitel, Gunter Süß, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2003, 33-48. Fiktionale Texte und Hypertexte im Netz together with Evelyne Keitel, Randi Gunzenhäuser, Neue Medien im Alltag: Die Vielfalt individueller Nutzungsweisen. Eds. Nicola Döring und Klaus Boehnke. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2001 58-76. Von Technik zu Kultur und zurück: Berührungspunkte zweier Forschungsprojekte im Kontext der Chemnitzer Forschergruppe together with Randi Gunzenhäuser, Annette Henninger, and Andrea Sieber, Chemnitzer Informatik-Berichte Vol. 1 (2001) Eds. Werner Dilger und Evelyne Keitel, 5-20. Integrating the Internet into the English studies programme together with Udoka Ogbue, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English, 01 October 2001, <http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic21/kuehn2/ 8_2001.html> PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES Turn your Radio On : Intermediality in the Computer Game GTA San Andreas Multimedia presentation at the Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, planned 09 June 2006. Some Observations on HipHop for American Studies (DGfA). Dortmund University, 29/30 October 2005. You think that I m strong, you re wrong, you re wrong : Masculinity in Videos of Robbie Williams Multimedia presentation/guest lecture at the department of American Studies, Leipzig University, 28 June 2005. IKEA Boys and Dawgs: Aggressive Masculinities in Fight Club and 8 Mile Multimedia presentation at the conference Intermedialität Herausforderungen an die Philologien im Medienzeitalter. Chemnitz University of Technology, 04 February 2005. My Name is Payne: Sound, Genre und Subjektivität im Game-Noir Max Payne II CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 5 of 7
for American Studies (DGfA). Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, 06 November 2004. The Aural in Multimedia Culture Multimedia presentation at the Postgraduate Conference Beyond the Text? Re(Visiting) Hypertextual Phenomena. English Department. Ruprecht-Karls- University Heidelberg, 12 February 2004. Did you ever meet a sexier male chauvinist pig? : Robbie Williams, Irony, and Englishness Multimedia presentation at the conference Literature and the Media, Chemnitz University of Technology, 16 January 2004. More Than Beep: Zur Rolle des Sound in Computerspielen for American Studies (DGfA). Leipzig University, 09 November 2002. There's More to the Picture Than Meets the Eye: Filmstudien und Computerspielanalyse Guest Lecture in the seminar Die Aneignung von Computerspielen, Markus Wiemker, Department of Media Communication, Chemnitz University of Technology, 12 June 2002. What 'Clint Eastwood' Can Tell Us Grundlagen der Analyse Musikalischer Multimedien for American Studies (DGfA). Amerikahaus München, 05 November 2001. Musik digital: Multimedia unter auditiven Gesichtspunkten Hypertexte Symposium, University of Tübingen, 02 December 2000. Eine Methode zur Sichtung von Hypertexten DFG research group Neue Medien im Alltag: Von individueller Nutzung zu soziokulturellem Wandel, Chemnitz University of Technology, 15 November 2000. Integration des Internet in die Englischausbildung Humboldt University Berlin, 22 September 2000 (together with Udoka Ogbue). Merkmale kulturellen Wandels DFG research group Neue Medien im Alltag: Von individueller Nutzung zu soziokulturellem Wandel, Chemnitz University of Technology, 05 July 2000. (together with Randi Gunzenhäuser) CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 6 of 7
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION HipHop Meets Academia International Conference at the Chemnitz University of Technology, planned 03/04 August 2006. Intermedialität Herausforderungen an die Philologien im Medienzeitalter. International Conference at the Chemnitz University of Technology, 3/4 February 2005. Literature and the Media. Conference at the Chemnitz University of Technology, 15/16 January 2004. CV Gunter Süß last update: 2006-05-29 Page 7 of 7