Caroline Rosenthal

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Caroline Rosenthal (* 1969) is a German Americanist , literary scholar and university lecturer . She has held the chair for American studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2009 .

Career

Rosenthal studied English and German at the University of Freiburg and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver . She passed her first state examination in 1995. In 2001 she received her doctorate from the University of Konstanz with a thesis on narratology, gender and identity constructions in novels by North American authors, which was supervised by Reingard M. Nischik (summa cum laude). In her habilitation (Konstanz, 2007), Rosenthal busy working comparatively with symbolic national areas and urban literature in the United States and Canada. After having represented professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg and Konstanz , she was appointed Professor of American Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2009. From 2016 to 2019 she was the university’s central equal opportunities officer and since 2015 she has been a member of the graduate school “Modell Romantik”.

Rosenthal has been actively involved in the Society for Canadian Studies for a long time, of which she was President from 2015 to 2017. She was a member of the Society's Advisory Board from 2007 to 2012 and editor of the Journal of Canada Studies from 2011 to 2013. She has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Canada Studies since 2019.

Research priorities

The connecting element of Rosenthal's projects and publications is the discussion of concepts of nature and space in the context of Canadian and American literature and culture, often in a comparative approach. This is evident in her interest in Romanticism as well as in her work on mobility and the interdisciplinary field of the Anthropocene .

Projects in research and teaching

In addition to numerous international conferences and workshops, Rosenthal regularly initiates international summer schools that are embedded in its teaching. In 2013, Jena students traveled to the Calgary Stampede to deal with the cultural and literary conceptions of the Canadian West. In 2017, Rosenthal and students followed in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau in Concord (Massachusetts) .

Publications (selection)

  • New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism: Explorations of the Urban. Camden House, Rochester, NY 2011.
  • Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich. Camden House, Rochester, NY 2003.
  • with Gina Comos (Ed.): Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene. Cambridge Scholars, Cambridge 2019.
  • with Eva Gruber (Ed.): Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies . Camden House 2018.
  • with Laurenz Volkmann and Uwe Zagratzki (eds.): Disrespected Neighbo (u) rs: Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film. Cambridge Scholars, Cambridge 2018.
  • with Dirk Vanderbeke (Ed.): Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2015.
  • with Stefanie Schäfer (Ed.): Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Campus, Berlin 2014.
  • with Doris Eibl (Ed.): Space and Gender. Spaces of Difference in Canadian Women's Writing / Espaces de différence dans l'écriture canadienne au feminin. Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2009.
  • with Therese Frey Steffen and Anke Väth (eds.): Gender Studies: Theories of Science and Social Criticism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • with Reingard Nischik (ed.): Threshold texts of world literature. UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2002.

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supervising of Doctoral Theses by Prof. Dr. Reingard M. Nischik. In: uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ with the title Factional identities: narrative (de-) constructions of gender in works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich DNB 14348995X
  3. ↑ usrn.de: Members. Retrieved April 27, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969