Carmen Birkle

Carmen Birkle (born July 22, 1963 in Hellenhahn ) is a German Americanist and professor of American studies at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

After graduating from high school at Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Westerburg in 1981, she studied English, French and Spanish at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1985/86 she was a teaching fellow at Bowdoin College in Brunswick (USA). In 1988 she passed her first state examination in English and French and in 1989 her additional examination in Spanish.

In 1994 she received her PhD in American Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a dissertation on "Women's Stories of the Looking Glass: Autobiographical Reflections and Self-Representations in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath , Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde ". In 2001 he completed his habilitation with the topic "Migration-Miscegenations-Transculturation: Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century".

On February 20, 2002, she gave her inaugural lecture at the University of Mainz on the subject of "Miss Marple - femme fatale - Barbie: Images of women in American crime literature". Birkle taught as a visiting professor from 2002–2004 and 2006–2007 at the University of Vienna. She was offered the professorship in Marburg in 2008. Carmen Birkle's research interests, on which she has also published, are primarily in the areas of American women's and minority literature and culture.

Works (selection)

• Backlash: Marilyn French and the Undeclared War against Women. In: President of the Johannes Gutenberg University and Interdisciplinary Working Group on Women's Studies (ed.): Backlash: Who is Afraid of Feminism? Documentation of the 5th Women's Day at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Mainz 1995, pp. 17-34.
• Women's Stories of the Looking Glass: Autobiographical Reflections and Self-Representations in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde . Fink Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-3083-7
• Why was the little girl crying ?: (Multi) Cultural and (Post) Colonial Identity in Alice Walker 's Possessing the Secret of Joy. In: William Boelhower and Alfred Hornung (Eds.): Multiculturalism and the American Self. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, pp. 243-57
• "We are an internally colonized people": Emancipatory Strategies in Dionne Brand's Short Stories. In: Danièle Pitavy (ed.): Femmes et écriture au Canada. Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, Dijon 2001, pp. 117-30
• Migration - Miscegenation - Transculturation: Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8253-1555-X
• Intercultural Interfaces in Visual Representations of Pocahontas . In: Alfred Hornung (Ed.): Intercultural America. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, pp. 239-56

Editorships

• The sea is history: exploring the Atlantic (together with Nicole Waller ) Winter, Heidelberg 2009, Series American studies Vol. 177, ISSN  0178-1987

Web links

• http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb10/iaa/institut/personal/birkle/index_html (homepage at the University of Marburg)