Prof. Dr. Christa Buschendorf

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Education

Study of English and American Literature, German Literature and Philosophy at the Universities of Mainz and Düsseldorf
Ph.D. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 1983
Hablitation Düsseldorf 1995

Work

Grants/Fellowships

Professional Activities

• Director of the Center for North American Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (1998/99; 2001/02; 2005/06; 2006/07; 2008/09; 2010-)

• Chairperson of the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (April 2000 – September 2001 and October 2009 - )

• Member of the Senate, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2000-2007)

• Board Member of the German Association for American Studies (1999-2002; 2005-2009)

• Vice-President of the German Association for American Studies (2002-2005)

• Fulbright Liaison Professor Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

• Co-Editor Amerikastudien/American Studies (2002-)

Publications

Books

• Mit Kinderaugen: Zur Perspektivtechnik bei William Faulkner, Carson McCullers und Flannery O'Connor. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1988

• 'The High Priest of Pessimism'. Zur Rezeption Schopenhauers in den USA, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008

Translations

• Edgar Wind, Heidnische Mysterien in der Renaissance, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981 (Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, London, 1968)

• Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy. Studien zur Geschichte der Naturphilosophie und Medizin, der Religion und der Kunst, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1990 (Saturn and Melancholy, London, 1964)

Editions

• East-West American Studies Conference October 1998, Frankfurt: ZENAF Conference Proceedings 1/2000

• New European Approaches to American Studies? Proceedings of the East-West American Studies Conference at the Center for North American Studies, May 2001, Frankfurt: ZENAF Conference Proceedings 2/2002

• Proceedings of the East-West American Studies Conference at the Center for North American Studies, June 2002, Frankfurt: ZENAF Conference Proceedings 3/2003

• Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture: Proceedings of the East-West American Studies Conference at the Center for North American Studies, June 2003, Frankfurt: ZENAF Conference Proceedings 4/2004

• Artists and Intellectuals and the Challenges of Political Commitment: Proceedings of the East-West American Studies Conference at the Center for North American Studies, June 2004, Frankfurt: ZENAF Conference Proceedings 5/2005

• Transatlantic Negotiations, eds. Christa Buschendorf und Astrid Franke, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007

• Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture. Eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Articles (selection)

• "Gods and Heroes Revised: Mythological Concepts of Masculinity in Contemporary Women's Poetry," in: Engendering Manhood, edd. Ulf Reichardt, Sabine Sielke, Amerikastudien 43 (1998): 599-617.

• "Kunst und Kritik. Edgar Wind und das Symposium 'Art and Morals'," in: Edgar Wind. Kunsthistoriker und Philosoph, edd. Horst Bredekamp, et. al., Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999,  117-133.

• "Turn-of-the-Century Self-Doubt: From Pessimism to the 'Will to Believe'," in: Negotiations of America's National Identity, Vol. II, edd. Roland Hagenbüchle, Josef Raab, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000, 158-183.

• "Ekphrasis und die Abkehr vom Mimesis-Prinzip: Bildgedichte Frank O'Haras auf Werke des Abstrakten Exressionismus," in: Behext von Bildern? Ursachen, Funktionen und Perspektiven der textuellen Faszination durch Bilder, edd. Heinz Drügh, Maria Moog-Grünewald, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2001, 249-270.

• Artikel USA, I. Kolonialzeit bis zur Neuen Republik (1607-1820); II. 19. Jh. (1820-1900); III. 20. Jh. (1900-1945): in: Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike; Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (Hrsg.) Hubert Cancik/Helmut Schneider/Manfred Landfester. Band 15/3 Sco-Z. Nachträge. Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler,  833-875.

• "Circe's Realm and the Virgin of Chartres: Henry Adams's Visions of the Power of Sex," in: Sexualities in American Culture, ed. Alfred Hornung, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2004, 33-49.

• "Medusa als Muse: Spielerische Anverwandlungen des Schreckens in der amerikanischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts," in: Dialoge zwischen Amerika und Europa: Transatlantische Perspektiven in Philosophie, Literatur, Kunst und Musik, eds. Astrid Böger, Georg Schiller, Nicole Schröder, Tübingen und Basel: A. Francke Verlag: 2007, 181-199.

• Introduction to "Casting America's Outcasts: A Dialogue between Russell Banks and Loïc Wacquant", Amerikastudien 53 (2008): 209-212.

• "Melville's Clarel: Irreconcilable Contradictions, or, A Pilgrimage to Piranesi's Carceri", in: Orient and Orientalism in US-American Poetry and Poetics, eds. Sabine Sielke und Christian Klöckner, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Verlagsgruppe Peter Lang, 2009, 81-101.

• "The Challenge of German Pessimism: The Reception of Schopenhauer in Transcendentalism and Pragmatism", Nineteenth-Century Prose 36/2 (Fall 2009): 166-184

Presentations (selection)

• "Against the Odds: Frederick Douglass' Struggle for Symbolic Capital", Conference Modernization and Intellectual Authority in US Literary Culture, 1750-1900, July 2-5, 2009, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

• "The shaping of we-group ideals: a sociological perspective on the imaginary", Conference Imagining Culture: Norms and Forms of Public Discourse in America , June 26-28, 2009, John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin

• "Race Relations as Established-Outsider Relations", Universität Augsburg, February 2009

• "'The Highpriest of Pessimism': Zur Rezeption Schopenhauers in der amerikanischen Philosophie um 1900", Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, December 2008

• "Race Relations as Established-Outsider Figurations: The Case of Jesse Hill Ford's The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones", John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, November 2008

• "The Maycomb Model: A Figurational Approach to American Fiction", Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, October 2008

• "Civilizing Process and Power: Race Relations as Established-Outsider Figurations: The Case of Jesse Hill Ford's The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones", ASA - American Studies Association, Albuquerque, N.M. (U.S.A.), October 2008

• "Figurational Sociology: The Critical Potential of a European Approach to American Studies", University of California at Santa Barbara, Ca. (U.S.A.), March 2008

• "Edward P. Jones' The Known World and the Tradition of the African American Historical Novel", Dietz-Memorial Lecture, Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, December 2004

• "Experiment and Experience: Emily Dickinson as a Pragmatist Poet," Symposium Düsseldorf, May 2004

• "'That Precarious Gait': Emily Dickinson's Poetics of Experiment," Emily Dickinson International Society, Trondheim (Norwegen), August 2001

Research Projects in Progress

• Figurational approach to American Studies

• Representations of symbolic power in American Literature (working title; bookproject)

• Reception of Antiquity in American Literature and Culture (in the tradition of the cultural studies approach of the Warburg School; bookproject)

Conferences Organized

• Series of five East-West American Studies Conferences, Frankfurt am Main, 1998-2004 (see proceedings under "editions")

• "Transatlantic Negotiations" – Convention of the German Association for American Studies, Frankfurt am Main, May 2005 (Transatlantic Negotiations, eds. Christa Buschendorf und Astrid Franke, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007)

• "Civilizing and De-Civilizing Processes in America: A Figurational Approach to American Studies", Frankfurt am Main, November 2007

International Workshops

• Co-Chair with Mario Klarer (Innsbruck): Workshop "Private Spectacles: Reflections of Gender Identities in Tableaux Vivants and Parlor Theatricals", EAAS - European Association for American Studies, Lisbon (Portugal), April 1998

• Co-Chair with Astrid Franke (Tübingen), Panel Discussion "European Approaches to American Studies", ASA - American Studies Association, Houston, Tx. (U.S.A.), November 2002

• Co-Chair with Joanna Durczak (Lublin): Workshop "Poetic/Artistic Groups, Schools, Movements: Between belonging and Non-Conformism", EAAS - European Association for American Studies, Nicosia (Cyprus), 2006

Courses Taught

• Lecture Courses: American Literature and Culture 1900-1950; American Literature and Culture 1950 to the present

• Undergraduate Courses on  various American poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries

• Graduate Courses: African American literature and culture; American art (Dada; Surrealism; Pop Art; New York City of Art; Documentary Photography), text and image (ekphrasis, political iconography); classical tradition in American literature and culture, classical myths in American literature; cultural theory: Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, application of figurational / relational sociology to American literature

MA-Theses / Wiss. Hausarbeiten Lehramt (based on concepts of figurational / relational sociology)

• "The Presence of the Past: Bourdieu's Habitus in Toni Morrison's Love" (Stefanie Müller, 2006)

• "Das künstlerische Feld des New Yorker Surrealismus" (Anna Dominika Pietras, 2006)

• "Fields of Power: a Sociological Approach to Quakerism and Politics in the US" (Nicole Hirschfelder, 2007)

• "Social Space and Symbolic Power in Toni Morrison's Paradise" (Nicola Holleber, 2008)

• "The Sexual Revolution in the Popular Songs of the Sixties – Documents of Informalization?" (Bariş Tekin, 2008)

• "Von der Minstrel Show zum Modernen Kino: Afroamerikanische Stereotypen im zeitgenössischen Film" (Luvena Kopp, 2009)

• "Toni Morrisons Roman The Bluest Eye: Eine Interpretation auf der Basis von Bourdieus Machttheorie" (Sandra Scheuermann, 2009)

• "Macht durch Sprache? Die 'rhetorische Präsidentschaft' Ronald Reagans" (Christoph Schmid, 2009)

• "Forms, functions and Change of the Trickster figure: Louise Erdrich's Tracks and The Plague of Doves" (Jenny Neubauer, 2010)

• "The Jewish Outsider in Philip Roth's American Pastoral: Settling at the Frontier" (Marie-Christin Sawires-Masseli, 2010)

• "The Power of White Culture - Symbolic Domination in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby" (Judith Wentzel, 2010)

   

PhD Theses (based on concepts of figurational / relational sociology)

• Luvena Kopp: "Symbolic Violence in the Films of Spike Lee" (AT)

• Stefanie Müller: "Bringing the Past back to Life - Bourdieu's Habitus in the Work of Toni Morrison" (AT)

• Marie-Christin Sawires-Masseli: "A Quest for Identity Against Stereotypes and Outsidership - Arab-American Literature after 9/11" (AT)

• Wibke Schniedermann: "Versuche der Auflehnung gegen androzentrische Strukturen in den Erzähltexten Henry James'" (AT)

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