Dr. Birgit Spengler

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin   

 Von April 2011 bis September 2012 ist Frau Dr. Spengler aufgrund eines DFG-Stipendiums von Lehrverpflichtungen freigestellt.

Sprechstunde im Semester: nach Vereinbarung

Sprechstunde in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit: nach Vereinbarung

Employment

since September 2001: Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for English and American Studies (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) 

Research Interests

19^th- and 20^th-Century American Literature and Culture

19^th-Century American Women Writers

Visual Culture

Gender Studies

Intertextuality 

Current Research Project

"Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon, Revisiting the Nineteenth Century" 

Scholarships and Awards

Research Grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project "Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon, Revisiting the Nineteenth Century" (April 2011- Sept. 2012) 

DAAD travel stipend to participate in the 2009 conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 

DAAD travel stipend for an internship with The Feminist Press, New York City, June-July 2001  

Cornelia Goethe Prize 2007 for the doctoral dissertation Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, 1860-1900. The Cornelia Goethe Prize is awarded annually for an excellent research project in the area of women and gender studies. 

Graduate Student Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in 2003 

Publications 

Monograph:

Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, 1860-1900. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008.

Rev. in Legacy 27.2 (2010): 292-294. 

Edited:

Appropriating Visions. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 54.1 (2009). 

Articles:

"American Jane Eyres: Transatlantic Dialogues in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing." Transatlantic Women: Essays on 19^th-Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Hg. Beth L. Lueck, Lucinda Damon-Bach und Brigitte Bailey. University of New Hampshire Press. 417-453. Forthcoming July 2012. 

"Geiselnahme, Schwarzfahren oder einfach nur Trampen? Literary Spinoffs, Originalität und geistiges Eigentum." Plagiate. Beiträge zur Rechts-, Gesellschafts- und Kulturkritik. Bd. 10. Hg. Malte Gruber et al. Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, 2011. 139-156. 

"Introduction." Themenheft Appropriating Vision(s). Amerikastudien 54.1 (2009): 5-11. 

"Visual Negotiations and Medical Discourses in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing." Themenheft Appropriating Vision(s). Amerikastudien 54.1 (2009): 35-58. 

"Gendered Vision(s) in the Short Fiction of Harriet Prescott Spofford." Legacy 21.1 (2004): 68-73. 

"Michael Cunningham Rewriting Virginia Woolf: Pragmatist vs. Modernist Aesthetics." Woolf Studies Annual 10 (2004): 53-81. 

Conference Papers

• "Rewriting the Canon, Reconsidering Intertextual Theory: Literary Spinoffs and the Cultural Implications of Intertextual Engagements," Rewriting, Remixing, and Reloading: Adaptations Across the Globe, Berlin, October 1, 2010. 
• "Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon, Revisiting the Nineteenth Century," American Studies Colloquium, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 29, 2010. 
• "Rewriting the Genre: Detection in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing," Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, October 22-24, 2009. 
• "Dis-membering and Re-membering: Violence and Storytelling in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference (RMMLA), Snowbird, Utah, October 8-10, 2009. 
• "Geiselnahme, Schwarzfahren oder einfach Trampen? Literary Spinoffs, Originalität und geistiges Eigentum," Plagiate, Goethe-Universität, July 17-18, 2009. 
• "Medical Gazes, Gender, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing," Visual Cultures – Transatlantic Perspectives, 11^th Academy Conference, Bavarian American Academy, Munich, July 2-4, 2009. 
• "American Jane Eyres: Transatlantic Dialogues in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing," Transatlantic Women: 19th-Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, Oxford, July 16-19, 2008. 
• "If Looks Could Kill: The Politics of Vision in Nineteenth-Century American Literature," Lecture Series Gender-Science-Literature, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, June 11, 2008. 
• "Female Scopic Desire at the Interstices of Race and Class: Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott and L. E. Lee," American Literature Association Conference (ALA), San Francisco, May 25-28, 2006. 
• "Art, Vision, and Gender in Harriet Prescott Spofford's Early Fiction," American Literature Association Conference (ALA), San Francisco, May 27-30, 2004. 
• "Gendered Vision(s) in the Short Fiction of Harriet Prescott Spofford," Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, September 24-27, 2003. 
• "Intertextual Interrogations: Michael Cunningham's Dialogue with Woolf," Conversation in Woolf's Works, Montpellier, June 13-14, 2003. 

Teaching:

Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main:

"Introduction to American Literature and Literary Theory," Summer 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, Winter 2003/04, 2007/08

"Introduction to American Cultural Studies," Summer 2005, 2010, Winter 2009/10

"The Return of the Repressed? The Nineteenth Century in Contemporary American Literature," Winter 2010/11

"Trauma and Violence in Contemporary American Literature," Summer 2010

"Arab Americans Before and After 9/11," Winter 2009/10

"American Photography", 1839-1920," Summer 2009

"Women and the Civil War," Winter 2008/09

"Intertextuality in Contemporary Fiction," Summer 2008

"American Detective Fiction," Winter 2007/08, 2008/09

"American Short Stories," Summer 2008

"U.S. Orientalisms: The 'Orient' in American Literature and Culture," Summer 2007

"Recent Ethnic Fiction," Winter 2006/07

"Edith Wharton," Winter 2006/07

"Contemporary Fiction," Summer 2006, Team-Teaching with Prof. Dr. Susanne Opfermann

"Imag(in)ed Landscapes and People: Visual Representation and Nineteenth-Century Narrative,"  Winter 2005/06

"Transcultural Interrogations: Intertextual Relations Across the Atlantic," Winter 2004/05, Team-Teaching with Christine Vogt-William

"Secret Glances, Public View: Looking and Story-Telling in 19^th-Century Fiction," Summer 2003 

Birkbeck College, University of London (Erasmus Teaching Exchange):

Workshop "Gendered Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction," March 2010 

University Offices and Administration

Board of Directors, Institute for English and American Studies Goethe-University (student member, 1996-2000; faculty member 2002-2011) 

Deputy Women's Representative, Institute for English and American Studies (2003-2005) 

Board of Directors, Faculty of Modern Languages (2005-2007) 

Member of Hiring Committees in American Studies, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, German Literature  

Memberships:

German Association for American Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, DGfA) 

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) 

Associated Member of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (CGC) 

Member of the Center for North American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Zenaf) 

Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 

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