Dr. Johannes Völz

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Education

Magister Artium: American Studies, Philosophy, and Political Sciences; University of Munich, UC Berkeley, and Free University Berlin

Ph.D.: American Studies; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin, 2008; Dissertation: “Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson’s Challenge” (summa cum laude)

Employment

December 2008  -  Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute for English and American Studies, Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z.)

September 2003 - December 2008   -  Free University Berlin, John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Junior Faculty Member (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

March 2006 -  Università di Torino, Dip. di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Moderne e Comparate, ERASMUS Guest Professor

Research and teaching interests

19th-century and 20th-century U.S. literature and culture

Security studies and literature

Theories of American Studies

Popular music, African American music, particularly jazz

Visual culture

Classes taught

“Culture of Fear,” Summer 2012 (seminar)

“American Culture of the Cold War,” Summer 2012 (seminar)

“The American Modernist Novel of the 1920s,” Winter 2011/12 (seminar)

“Introduction to American Cultural Studies,” Winter 2011/12, Summer 2011 (seminar)

“American Gothic,” Summer 2011 (seminar)

“Jazz in American Culture,” Winter 2010/11 (seminar)

“The Historical Novel and the Nation,” Winter 2010/11 (seminar)

“Fictions of Security II: 20^th and 21^st Century,” Summer 2010 (seminar)

“Introduction to American Literary Studies,” Summer 2010 (seminar)

“Cultures of Eloquence: Public Speaking in Nineteenth-Century United States,” Winter 2009/10 (seminar)

“Fictions of Security I: 17^th to 19^th Century,” Winter 2009/10 (seminar)

“The Literature of Slavery and Abolition,” Summer 2009 (seminar)

“What happened to the American Dream? Pastoral in Contemporary Fiction and Film,” Summer 2009 (seminar)

 “The Literature of Slavery and Abolition,” Winter 2008/09 (seminar)

“Key Concepts of American Culture,” Winter 2008/09 (seminar)

“The Viewer in 20^th Century American Photography,” Summer 2008 (seminar)

“Understanding North America: Introductory Lecture Course on American Cultural History,” Summer 2008, Summer 2005, Winter 2004/05 (lecture course)

“Cultural History of the American Essay,” Winter 2007/08 (seminar)

“What happened to the American Dream? Pastoral in Contemporary Fiction and Film,” Winter 2007/08 (seminar)

“American Transcendentalism: Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau,” Summer 2006 (seminar)“Introduction to American Jazz History,” Winter 2005/06 (seminar)

“Individual, Individualism, Individualization: On A Core Problem of American Cultural Theory,” Summer 2004 (seminar)

“Introduction to Critical Theory,” Winter 2003/04 (seminar)

Current research project

Fictions of Security: American Literary Threat Management from the Early Republic to the War on Terror (Habilitation)

Publications

MONOGRAPH

Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson’s Challenge. Hanover: UP of New England, 2010.
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EDITED VOLUMES

The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn. Eds. Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, Johannes Voelz. Hanover: UP of New England, 2013.

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture. Eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
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Winfried Fluck: Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies. Eds. Laura Bieger and Johannes Voelz. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer-reviewed)

“A Nation of Fugitives: Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the Narrativization of (In)security.” e-transfers Journal. Special Issue: “The Aesthetics of Security.” Issue 2 (2012). (forthcoming). http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/research/anglogerman/etransfers/ 

“The Future’s Epic Now: The Time of Security and Risk in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Special Issue: “(In)securities.” 12.3. (December 2012). (forthcoming).

“Alienation Reconsidered.” (essay-review of Branka Arsic, On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson; Shannon Mariotti, Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity; Rochelle L. Johnson, Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation.) American Literary History 24.3 (Fall 2012). (solicited article, forthcoming).

“Emerson’s Dual Economy of Recognition.” Amerikastudien/American Studies (special issue on “recognition” in American culture, ed. Winfried Fluck). (forthcoming 2012)

 “A Matter of Style: Charlie Parker and Jack Kerouac between Coolness and Ecstasy.” International Journal of Motorcycle Studies (Special Issue: “Motorcycle — Beschleunigung und Rebellion?”), 6.1 (Spring 2010). http://ijms.nova.edu/Spring2010/IJMS_Artcl.Voelz.html

“Emerson and the Sociality of Inspiration.” Religion & Literature 41.1 (Spring 2009): 83-109.

“Emerson, Representation, and the New Americanists.” Comparative American Studies Vol. 6, No.1 (Spring 2008): 37-54. (download pdf)

 “The Index and Its Vicissitudes: Hyperrealism from Richard Estes to Andreas Gursky.” Amerikastudien/American Studies. Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 81-102.

“Transnationalism and the Realignment of State Power: Two Sides of One Coin.” RIAS Vol.2, No.3 (September 2007): 21-24.

“Improvisation, Correlation, and Vibration: An Interview with Steve Coleman.” CSI: Critical Studies in Improvisation. Vol. 2, No. 1 (December 2006). (http://www.criticalimprov.com/index.php/csieci/article/view/77/182).

“Ein Buch ist kein Händedruck: Nachbetrachtungen zu Bill Clintons Mein Leben.” Ästhetik und Kommunikation. Vol. 35 (Winter 2004): 107-117.

“Meaningful Freedom and the Freedom of Meaning: Free Jazz and the Political.”PhiN 20/2002: 34-39. (http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin20/p20t3.htm).

BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Market of Inspiration: Emerson on the Lyceum Stage.” American Economies. Eds. Eva Boesenberg, Reinhard Isensee, Martin Klepper. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 327–348.

“Utopias of Transnationalism and the Neoliberal State.” Transnational American Studies. Eds. Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Winfried Fluck. Hanover: UP of New England, 2011. 356-373.

“Regeneration and Barbarity: Dred and the Violence of the Civilizing Process.” Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture. Eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 123-148. (download pdf)

(with Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke): Introduction. Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture. Eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 1-16.

“‘Blues and the Abstract Truth’ or, Did Romare Bearden Really Paint Jazz?” The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African-American Visual Art. Eds. Graham Lock and David Murray. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. 194-215.

“‘The Most Indebted Man’: The Reconfiguration of Conformity and Non-Conformity in Emerson’s Representative Men.” Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in American Culture. Eds. Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, Dora Tsimpouki. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 101-117.

Stipends and Fellowships

2010 - DAAD Travel stipend (MLA convention, Los Angeles)

2010 - Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Travel stipend (ASA convention, San Antonio)

2006-07 - DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Stipend for Dissertation Research (12 months), Harvard University

1999-2000 - DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Stipend for Study Abroad (10 months), University of California at Berkeley

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