Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
- E-Mail: heike.paul@fau.de
Home Institution: Department of English and American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Curriculum Vitae
| - | Studied American Studies, English and Political Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. and the University of Washington, Seattle |
| - | Fellow of the Doctoral Program "Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur", Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich; PhD Leipzig University 1998 |
| - | PhD research in the U.S. (DAAD grant, Harvard University and University of Massachusetts 1995; John E. Sawyer Fellow, Longfellow Institute, Harvard University, spring 1998; DFG grant, Harvard University, fall 1998) |
| - | Postdoctoral Research: Harvard University, Cambridge 1999 |
| - | Assistant Professor at the Department for American Studies, Leipzig University; Habilitation 2004 |
| - | Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin 2003/2004 |
| - | As of December 2004 professor for North American Literature and Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| - | Teaching and research at Keele University, GB (2006, Erasmus), Wayne State University, Detroit (2008, partner program; 2010, BAA Summer Academy), the University of Toronto and York University (2008, Faculty Enrichment Program; 2010, Faculty Research Program), and Washington, D.C. (2012, BAA Summer Academy), Dartmouth College (2014, Harris Professorship) as well as Miami (2016, BAA Summer Academy). |
Selected Publications
Books
| 2014 | The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014. |
| 2005 | Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences: Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2005. |
| 1999 | Mapping Migration: Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999. |
Books edited
| 2017 | (with Kay Kirchmann and Markus Gottwald) (Extra)Ordinary Presence Social Configurations and Cultural Repertoires. Bielefeld: Transcript. |
| 2016 | (with Klaus Lösch and Meike Zwingenberger) Critical Regionalism. Heidelberg: Winter. |
| 2015 | (with Christoph Ernst) Amerikanische Fernsehserien der Gegenwart: Perspektiven der American Studies und der Media Studies. Bielefeld: Transcript. |
| 2015 | (with Katharina Gerund) Die amerikanische Reeducation-Politik nach 1945: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf "America's Germany". Bielefeld: Transcript. |
| 2015 | (with Antje Kley) Rural America. Heidelberg: Winter. |
| 2014 | (with Tanja Roppelt) Levi Strauss Lecture No. 5: Ulrich Krüger, "Die Mafia ist schuld: Warum US-amerikanische Fernsehserien immer besser werden und sie trotzdem keiner schaut". |
| 2013 | (with Christoph Ernst) Präsenz und implizites Wissen: Zur Interdependenz zweier Schlüsselbegriffe der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Bielefeld: Transcript. |
| 2013 | (with Tanja Roppelt) Levi Strauss Lecture No.4: Andrei S. Markovits, "Sport as a Major Cultural Construct in the Advanced Industrial World at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Historical and Comparative Perspective". |
| 2012 | (with Alexandra Ganser and Katharina Gerund) Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in the US and Beyond. Heidelberg: Winter. |
| 2011 | (with Tanja Roppelt) Levi Strauss Lecture No. 2: Reinhold Wagnleitner, "Jazz: The Classical Music of Globalization". |
| 2010 | (with Tanja Roppelt) Levi Strauss Lecture No. 1: "Lynn Downey, Levi Strauss and the History and Global Culture of the Levi's Brand". |
| 2007 | (with Alexandra Ganser) Screening Gender: Geschlechterszenarien in der gegenwärtigen US-amerikanischen Populärkultur. Münster: Lit-Verlag. |
| 2006 | (with Werner Sollors) Multilingualism and American Studies. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter. |