Englisches Seminar / Nord Amerika Studien Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Room 4007, KG IV Rempartstraße 15 79085 Freiburg Germany Office phone: (+49)761-203-3323 johannes.fehrle@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de EDUCATION Ph.D. English Department, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg, Germany; Thesis: Postmodern Gunslingers in a Transnational West: Revisions of the Western in Canadian and American Literature. Grade: summa cum laude (A). Committee: Prof. W. Hochbruck; Prof. B. Korte; Prof. W. Oberkrome. Magister Artium (M.A.) in English Literature / Linguistics and Modern History; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Grade: sehr gut (A). Thesis: The Postmodern Canadian Western. October 2008 March 2012 October 2001 June 2007 Exchange Year at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. September 2003 July 2004 Abitur (High School Diploma), Wentzinger Gymnasium, Freiburg, Germany. June 2000 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AT UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor (Wiss. Mitarbeiter), English Department / North American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Since April 2012 Erasmus Teaching Exchange, Helsinki University, Finland. September 2012 Visiting Scholar, English Department, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. 4 Semesters as Adjunct Professor (Lehrbeauftragter) at English, Ethics (EPG) and Gender Studies Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Graduate and Postgraduate (Teaching) assistant, English Department, North American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. March 2010 December 2012 November 2007 February 2012 September 2005 July 2008
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Part time work at bookstore: Buchhandlung Schwarz, Freiburg, Germany. Photographic Project National Park Service The People behind the Grand Vistas (Exhibition: February 2008, Carl-Schurz-Haus, German- American Institute, Freiburg, Germany). August 2001 December 2009 July 2007 September 2007 Internship in Publishing, Orange-Press, Freiburg, Germany. June July 2007 Student Assistant, Registratory Affairs, Alcon Pharma, Freiburg, Germany. September 2004 August 2005 Civilian Service (Zivildienst) St. Josefs Hospital, Freiburg, Germany. September 2000 August 2001 GRANTS, AWARDS AND THIRD-PARTY FUNDING Travel Grant to WLA Conference; Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Freiburg. November 2012 Ph.D. Grant; German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). November 2008 October 2011 Louis Owens Award; Western Literature Association (WLA). October 2011 Travel Grant to Attend PCA Conference; German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung). Travel Grant to Attend WLA Conference; German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung). Grant for printing costs for Herausforderung Biologie; Andrea von Braun Stiftung, foundation for interdisciplinary cooperation (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller). Travel Grant for Research at University of British Columbia; German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung). Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) competition for young academics Junior Research Groups 2009 Funding for workshop Shifting Horizons: The Western Frontier in the Americas with Neil Campbell (Derby U, England) [with Ridvan Askin, Basel]. Ph.D. Grant; State of Baden-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung), declined in favor of Studienstiftung Ph.D. grant in November 2008. Stephen Crane Award for Research in North American Literary and Cultural Studies for M.A. Thesis. Research Grant for work on M.A. thesis; John F. Kennedy Institute and Library, Free University Berlin. April 2011 October 2010 July 2010 March 2010 June 2010 September 2009 October 2008 November 2008 November 2007 August 2006 September 2006
FIELDS OF RESEARCH / TEACHING INTERESTS US and Canadian 20 th and 21 st Century Literature Postmodernism Westerns in Literature and Film Popular Culture, particularly Comics and Graphic Novels Adaptation / Convergence Culture Film Studies Gender / Masculinity Studies Critical Theory TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL Summer 2013 (planned) Proseminar Literary Studies 19 th Century American Short Fiction Cultural Studies Transnational Hollywood Winter 2012-13: Cultural Studies The Culture of Adaptation Fiction, Comics, Film, Video Games Proseminar Literary Studies The English Canadian Novel of the 20 th Century. Proseminar II Literary Studies [3 rd and 4 th year] Contemporary American Fiction English Department, Freiburg University. Summer 2012: Proseminar II Literary Studies [3 rd and 4 th year] American Cinema: New Hollywood and Beyond English Department, Freiburg University. Master s Seminars Eng 320: American Literature & Eng 320: Contemporary Literatures (guest teaching & mentoring; Professor of record: Dr. Mark Shackleton) English Department, Helsinki University, Finland. Winter 2011/12: Guest Lecture American Literature Survey IV/IV: Postmodernism and Contemporary (Professor of Record: Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser) English Department Basel Univesity, Switzerland. Proseminar Literary / Cultural Studies The Crisis of Masculinity in American Culture English / Gender Studies Department, Freiburg University. Winter 2009/10: Proseminar II Literary Studies [3 rd and 4 th year] Graphic Novels English Department, Freiburg University. Winter 2008/09: Proseminar Literary Studies Westerns: Fiction and Films English Department, Freiburg University, EPG II [Ethics Course for Teachers] Herausforderung Biologie [Biology as a Challenge]: (Guest Lecture; Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Günther Neuhaus) Ethics Center / Department of Biology, Freiburg University. Summer 2008: Proseminar / EPG (Ethics) II Censorship: The (Im)Moral Text as a Challenge to Society Ethics Center / English Department, Freiburg University. - 3 -
TUTORING Summer 2008: Introduction to Literary Studies (Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke) English Department, Freiburg University. 2 Sections Winter 2007/08: Introduction to Literary Studies (Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke) English Department, Freiburg University. 3 Sections MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien / German Association for American Studies (DGfA / GAAS) Modern Language Association (MLA) Alumni der Studienstiftung [Alumni of the German National Academic Foundation] Popular Culture / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Western Literature Association (WLA) Inter-American Studies Association (IASA) Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS) [Canadian Studies Association in German-Speaking Countries] OTHER SKILLS & LANGUAGES Very good computer skills in Microsoft Windows, Office, Citavi, Photoshop CS 5 and other programs Semi Professional Photographer (areas of specialization: wildlife, nature, and travel) German: Native English: Excellent French: Good to Satisfactory Latin: Großes Latinum (Latin proficiency certificate) Japanese and Russian: Basic PERSONAL INTERESTS Travelling Hiking / Backpacking Wildlife & Landscape Photography Music / Guitar - 4 -
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Books Postmodern Gunslingers in a Transnational West: Revisions of the Western in Canadian and American Literature (in preparation). Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie Fragen an die Biologie [Biology as a Challenge: Questions Posed by Biology Questions Posed to Biology]. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010 (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller). Editorial Work Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIV (2008). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2009 (with Claudia Glunz et. al.). Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIII (2007). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2008 (with Claudia Glunz et. al.). Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XI (2005). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2006 (with Claudia Glunz and Jan Kolja Paulus). Articles What s happened to the American Dream? Transnationalism and Intertexts in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons s Watchmen. International Journal of Comic Art (with Philipp Fiedler) (forthcoming) (Re)Making Men in the 50s and 2000s: Daves and Mangold s 3:10 to Yuma. Play it Again Sam: Remakes in Film, Literature and Art. Ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Lucia Krämer. (forthcoming) We Have No Leaders Holy Men or Gurus : The Carnivalesque as an Egalitarian Alternative in Ishmael Reed s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down. On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig and Paul Tayyar. Huntington Beach, CA: World Parade Books, 2012. 26 55 (forthcoming). Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Graphic Novels? A Critical Examination. Unnatural Narratives Unnatural Narratology. Ed. Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 210 245. Wissenschaftliche Möglichkeiten und ethische Grenzen: Die Biologie in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion. [Scientific Possibilities and Ethical Limits: Biology in Public Discourse.] Introduction. Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie / Fragen an die Biologie. Ed. Johannes Fehrle, Rüdiger Heinze, and Kerstin Müller. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010. xi xviii (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller). Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop : Der 11. September in Comicbüchern. [ Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop : September 11 in Comic Books.] Nine Eleven: Ästhetische Verarbeitungen des 11. September 2001 [Nine Eleven: Artistic Responses to September 11 2001]. Ed. Ingo Irsigler and Christoph Jürgensen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2008. 219 249 (with Rüdiger Heinze). Book Reviews Rev. of Wie Comics erzählen: Grundriss einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie der grafischen Literatur, [How Comics Narrate: A Basis for an Intermedial Narratology of Graphic Literature] by Martin Schüwer. Kritikon Litterarum 37:3/4 (2010): 290 298. Rev. of Literaturgeschichte der USA: Ein sozialgeschichtlicher Überblick [Literary History of the USA: A Socio-Historic Overview] by Wolfgang Karrer. ZAA 58.1 (2010): 80 81. - 5 -
Rev. of Camera Doesn t Lie: Spielarten erzählerischer Unzuverlässigkeit im Film [Camera Doesn t Lie: Varieties of Narrative Unreliability in Film]. Ed. Jörg Helbig. Kritikon Litterarum 36:3/4 (2009): 222 229. Encyclopedia Entries Denis Johnson: Das erzählerische Werk [Denis Johnson: The Prose Work] (with Bernadette Kalkert); Paul Auster: Das Romanwerk [Paul Auster: The Novels] (with Christian Berkemeier); David Foster Wallace The Pale King; David Foster Wallace: Das essayistische Werk [David Foster Wallace: The Essays]; Nicholson Baker The Anthologist. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (updated online edition). Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Electronic Developments and Entertainment; Virtual Worlds. World History Encyclopedia: Era 9 Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present, Part I & II. Ed. Andrew J. Waskey and Fred Nadis. Vol. 19 & 20. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011. Nicholson Baker: Das erzählerische Werk; [Nicholson Baker: Fiction] Nicholson Baker: Biogramm [Nicholson Baker: Short Biography]. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3. Ed. Vol. 1. Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 812 813. McFarlane Toys; Common Adventure Concept. Encyclopedia of Play in Today s Society. Gen. Ed. Rodney P. Carlisle. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2009. 145 146; 381 382. Invited Talks, Conference Papers, and Workshops A long way from home : Der Western zwischen amerikanischem Original und (inter)nationaler Revision. [The Western Between American Original and (inter)national Revision] Workshop Leader with Alexander Sancho-Rauschel. Carl-Schurz Haus / Centre Culturel Français. 28 January 2013. Freiburg, Germany. If the Indians Won it Probably Wouldn t be a Western : Writing against images of the Indian in Contemporary Native American and First Nations Texts. 47 th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 7 10 November 2012, Lubbock, TX, USA. (Re)Making Men in the 50s and 2000s: Daves and Mangold s 3:10 to Yuma. Play It Again Sam: Remakes in Film, Literature and Art. International Conference. 28 30 September 2012. Braunschweig, Germany. Representing Poverty in Comic Books Too Big to Ignore: Narratives of Inequality, International Conference. 12 13 July 2012. Freiburg, Germany. Ode an die Öde: The Pale King. [Ode to Bleakness: The Pale King] Panel Discussion with Ulrich Blumenbach. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 5 May 2012. Freiburg, Germany. Remembering David Foster Wallace. Workshop Leader. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 5 May 2012. Freiburg, Germany. Looking at The Erosion of the Older Distinction between High Culture and so-called Mass or Popular Culture : Postmodernism s Use of Popular Genres. Guest Lecture. Basel University. 27 March, 2012. Basel, Switzerland. American Studies und dann? [American Studies then what?] Panel Discussion with Angeley Eckhardt and Steve Przybilla. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 7 February 2012. Freiburg, Germany. Manliness, Heroism and the Quick-Draw Duel in the Revisionist Western 46 th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 5 8 October 2011, Missoula, MT, USA. Bring Me the Black Wild Bill : Using the Western to Reintroduce African Americans into the 19th Century West. National Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference (PCA/ACA) 20 23 April 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA (panel chair). - 6 -
When the Legend Becomes Fact Deconstruct the Legend: Shooting at the Western in Contemporary Canadian and U.S. Novels. University of British Columbia, Department of English. Departmental Research Seminar. 4 February 2011, Vancouver, Canada. What s Happened to the American Dream? Alan Moore s Transnational Vision of the 80s. Bi- Annual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. 11 13 November 2010, Essen, Germany (with Philip Fiedler). Performing Western Masculinity in Three Versions of 3:10 to Yuma. 45 th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 20 23 October 2010, Prescott, AZ, USA. Revisionist Western Novels from Canada and the U.S. EUCOR Ph.D. Conference. 11 December 2009, Freiburg, Germany. Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans : Westernrevisionen aus den USA und Kanada. [ Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans : US and Canadian Western Revisions] Doktorandenforum der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [Ph.D. Forum of the German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)]. 13 16 November 2009, Koppelsberg, Germany. Questioning National Myths and National Identity in Guy Vanderhaeghe s The Englishman s Boy. Milestones 2009 Conference Transgression of Boundaries, 1 August 2009, Freiburg, Germany. Alaska Das andere Amerika. [Alaska The other America] 5 February 2009, Carl-Schurz- Haus, Freiburg, Germany. Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics. FRIAS Conference: Unnatürliches Erzählen Unnatural Narration, 13 15 November 2008, Freiburg, Germany. Stephen Crane s Westerns: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky und The Blue Hotel, Talk on receiving the Stephen-Crane-Award for North American Literary and Cultural Studies. 4 November 2007, Badenweiler, Germany. The Postmodern Canadian Western, 2 nd EUCOR English Trinational Masters Conference, 9 December 2006, Mulhouse, France. Other Publications Photographic Exhibition Alaska The Last Frontier German American Center / James-F.-Byrnes Institut e.v., Stuttgart. 15 June 21 September 2012. Photographic Exhibition Alaska Von den Grenzen der Zivilisation gesehen. [Alaska Seen from the Edges of Civilization] Carl-Schurz-Haus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, January 16 April 1, 2009. Photographic Exhibition National Park Service: The People behind the Great Vistas, Carl-Schurz- Haus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, February 1 25, 2008. Setzer, Heinz, Wolfgang Schwarzhaupt, and Hanna Hauck, ed. Visions of Water Colours Today Aquarellvisionen heute. Landau: Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2009 (translation into English). Setzer, Heinz, ed. Transfer: Anatomy of Artist s Prints from London and the Palatinate. Landau: Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2007 (translation into English). Responses to the Challenges to the USA after 9/11 and New Orleans: Racial Division, Religion, Civil Rights, and Literature. Freiburg: Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, Abteilung 7 Schule und Bildung, Carl-Schurz-Haus, 2006 (selected and edited with Rüdiger Heinze). - 7 -
REFERENCES Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck English Department, North American Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg KG IV, Rempartstr. 15 79085 Freiburg, Germany Phone: (+49)761-203-3344 wolfgang.hochbruck@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig Bienroder Weg 80 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Phone: (+49)531-3918714 r.heinze@tu-braunschweig.de Prof. Neil Campbell, Ph.D. School of Humanities University of Derby E706, East Tower Kedleston Road Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1GB, England Phone: (+44)01332-591481 N.Campbell@derby.ac.uk Friederike Schulte Direktorin Carl-Schurz-Haus / Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.v. Eisenbahnstr. 62 D-79098 Freiburg/Br., Germany Phone: (+49)761-556527-0 direktion@carl-schurz-haus.de - 8 -