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Bulletin 2018

Lehrveranstaltungen Sommersemester 2018

PS Paths Towards Reconciliation: Indigenous Issues in Canada (Heuser)

VL Canadian Literature: After the Sesquicentennial (Kuester)

Lehrveranstaltungen Wintersemester 2018/19

HS "O Canada": The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Trump (Birkle)

HS The Canadian Prairies: Poems, Plays, and Novels (Kuester)

 

In Arbeit befindliche Dissertationen und Habilitationsverfahren

Bleiber, Frederik: Towards a Canadian 'Littérature Engagée'? Cultural, Ecological and Political Commitment in Contemporary Canadian Literature (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

Said, Walaa' AbdelAziz: Empowering a Dystopian Subaltern: A Comparative Study (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

 

Abgeschlossene Bachelor-, Master-, Magister- und Zulassungsarbeiten

Altmann, Johannes: Mental Disorder in Margaret Atwood's Early Work (Masterarbeit, Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

Erdmann, Sophie: Hag-Seed: Margaret Atwood’s Rewriting of Shakespeare from a Feminist and Canadian Point of View (Staatsexamen, Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

Fleischhauer, Tessa: Das Phänomen der Indianertümelei in nordamerikanischer und deutscher Literatur (Bachelorarbeit, Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

 Schäfers, Saskia Maria: Women against Violence: Healing and Empowerment in Plays by Female First Nations Authors from Canada (Staatsexamen, Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester)

Gastvorträge deutschsprachiger Wissenschaftler/innen

Birkle, Carmen (Marburg): Canada and the "Underground Railroad": Then and Now, Univerza v Ljubljana, 09.01.2018

Lutz, Hartmut (Universität Greifswald): "Stephen Scobie's The Griffin in the Griffin's Wood", Literary Views of Europe from a Canadian Perspective, 31.01.2018

Pletsch, Alfred (Marburg): "Von 'Wikingern', 'Walfängern', 'Waldläufern' und 'Wegener': Historisch-geographische Spurensuche in Nordost-Kanada und Grönland, GeoComPass-Universität Passau, 12.11.2018

Publikationen

Boller, Alessandra and Walaa' Said, Moving (Across) Borders: Dystopian Bodies and Possibilities of Transgression in Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia (2008) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985). – In: Border Stories. Narratives of Peace, Conflict and Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Eds. Beate Greisel, Tanja Konrad, Senta A. Sanders, Heike Schwarz. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 163-184

Boller, Alessandra. Rethinking 'the Human' in Dystopian Times. Modified Bodies and the Re-/Deconstruction of Human Exceptionalism in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Trier: WVT, 2018.

Dickert, Matthias, Canadian Muslim Writing: An Introduction. Norderstedt: Grin, 2017.

Dickert, Matthias, 9/11 and the Muslim Presentation as the Other in American and Canadian Fiction, Norderstedt, Grin: 2017.

Kuester, Martin and Julia Michael, From Plain People to Plains People: Mennonite Literature from the Canadian Prairies. – In: American Studies Journal. 63 2017. DOI 10.18422/63-05.

Kuester, Martin, Mennomental Issues: Depression and Trauma in Mennonite(s) Writing. – In: Wor(l)ds of Trauma. Canadian and German Perspectives.  Münster: Waxmann, 2017. 71-82.

 

Verschiedenes

Frederik Bleiber hat ein Promotionsstipendium der Stiftung für Kanada-Studien zur Durchführung eines Forschungsaufenthaltes (27.09. – 30.10.2018) in Kanada im Zuge seiner Dissertation zum Thema Towards a Canadian „Littérature Engagée“? – Cultural, Ecological and Political Commitment in Contemporary Canadian Literature erhalten.