Heike Paul

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Heike Paul (* 1968 in Koblenz ) is a German cultural and literary scholar and has held the chair for American studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2004 . She is director of the Bavarian American Academy and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Career

Heike Paul completed a master's degree in American , English and political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Washington in Seattle . From 1995 to 1997 she was a scholarship holder of the DFG graduate college "Gender Difference & Literature" at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , from 1997 to 1998 she was a research assistant at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Leipzig , where she worked on literary studies in 1998 Processing of the outsider's perspective of immigrants (“summa cum laude”) received her doctorate ( Mapping Migration: Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s , 1999). After a one-year postdoctoral stay at Harvard University , she returned to Leipzig as a research assistant , where she completed her habilitation in 2004 with a thesis on issues of cultural contact in 19th century German American literature ( Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences: Afro- Americans and German America Literature, 1815-1914 , 2005). From 2003 to 2004 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , where she worked as part of a working group around Stephen Greenblatt on issues of cultural mobility. In 2004 she was appointed to the chair of American studies, in particular North American literary and cultural studies, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , and in the same year she declined an offer at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She was a member of the team of spokespersons for the DFG graduate school “Cultural Hermeneutics in the Sign of Difference and Transdifference” and spokesperson for the DFG graduate school “Presence and implicit knowledge” (2011–2016).

Since 2007, Heike Paul has been responsible as a board member for the transatlantic networking of American-related research at the Bavarian America Academy and organizes the BAA Summer School every year between the USA and Germany at different locations (including Munich , Detroit , Nuremberg , Washington, DC , Erlangen , Regensburg , Miami ). She has been the director of the BAA since 2017. In the same year she turned down an offer at the University of Leipzig. From 2014 to 2017 she was Vice President of the German Society for American Studies. In 2014, her monograph The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies was published , an introduction to American Studies that examines the founding and transformation myths of the United States and their ongoing influence on forms of identity and community building. Heike Paul has been to the USA regularly for teaching, lecturing and research ( Dartmouth College , University of Toronto , Florida International University , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , University of California at Berkeley ). In 2020 she was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades , Los Angeles.

Research priorities and projects

  • Forms and functions of the sentimental (Global Sentimentality Project)
  • Democratization and Reeducation ("Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany")
  • American myths
  • Presence and tacit knowledge
  • Popular Culture and Gender Studies
  • Cultural mobility
  • African American and Afro-Canadian Literature and History

Awards and offices (selection)

Publications

Monographs

  • Understanding Stewart O'Nan . University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 2020 (in press).
  • The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies. transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-1485-5 .
  • Cultural Contact and Racial Presences: Afro-Americans and German America-Literature, 1815-1914 . Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8253-5044-4 .
  • Mapping Migration: Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s . Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8253-0900-8 .

Editorships

  • Ed .: Critical Terms in Futures Studies . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-28986-7 .
  • Edited with Ursula Prutsch and Jürgen Gebhardt: The Comeback of Populism: Transatlantic Perspectives . Winter, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8253-7894-3 .
  • Ed. With Kay Kirchmann and Markus Gottwald: (Extra) Ordinary Presence Social Configurations and Cultural Repertoires . transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-2721-3 .
  • Edited with Klaus Lösch and Meike Zwingenberger: Critical Regionalism . Winter, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6679-7 .
  • Ed. With Christoph Ernst: American TV series of the present: Perspektiven der American Studies and Media Studies . transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-1989-8 .
  • Edited with Antje Kley: Rural America . Winter, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8253-6383-3 .
  • Edited with Katharina Gerund: The American re-education policy after 1945: Interdisciplinary perspectives on "America's Germany" . transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2632-2 .
  • Edited with Christoph Ernst: Presence and tacit knowledge: On the interdependence of two key terms in the cultural and social sciences . transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3503049295 .
  • Ed. With Alexandra Ganser and Katharina Gerund: Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in the US and Beyond . Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-6033-7 .
  • Edited with Kati Röttger: Differences in the gender difference. Differences within Gender Studies: Current Perspectives in Gender Studies . Schmidt, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-5030-4929-5 .

Essays

  • "Africa in America? Colonial Constructions of African Americans in German Writings about the USA, 1870-1914." In: Claudia Bruns and M. Michaela Hampf (eds.): Knowledge - Transfer - Difference. Transnational and interdiscursive entanglements of racism from 1700 onwards . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-0885-5 , pp. 184-197.
  • "Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life among the Lowly (1852)." In: Christine Gerhardt (Ed.): Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-1104-8081-8 , pp. 281–297.
  • with Katharina Gerund: "Sentimentalism." In: Christine Gerhardt (Ed.): Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-1104-8081-8 , pp. 17–33.
  • "'Black slaves, white slaves': The German Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'." In: Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova (Eds.): Uncle Tom's Cabins - The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2018, ISBN 978-0-4720-3708-7 , pp. 192-22.
  • "Public Feeling, Tacit Knowledge, and Civil Sentimentalism in Contemporary US Culture." In: Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre (Eds.): Projecting American Studies. Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice . Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6847-0 , pp. 165-179.
  • with Juliane Engel: "Implicit knowledge in interdisciplinary discourse." In: Anja Kraus et al. (Ed.): Handbook of silent knowledge: upbringing, education, socialization and learning . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-4364-8 , pp. 107-119.
  • with Klaus Lösch: "Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art (s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt's Works." In: Christine Marks, Johanna Hartmann and Hubert Zapf (Eds.): Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works: Interdisciplinary Essays . DeGruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-1104-8081-8 , pp. 133–152.
  • "The gender of the series." In Elisabeth Bronfen (Ed.): Once again different: To a poetics of the serial . Diaphanes, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0373-4637-2 , pp. 151–162.
  • "Critical Regionalism and Post-Exceptionialist American Studies." In: Winfried Fluck and Don Pease (eds.): Towards a Post-Exceptionalist American Studies . Narr, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8233-4185-7 , pp. 397-424.
  • "'Race', Racism, and Tacit Knowing." In: Winfried Fluck et al. (Ed.): American Studies Today . Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6094-8 , pp. 263-287.
  • "The German Reception of Black Writing and Black Authorship in the 18th and 19th Century." In: Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke and Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (eds.): Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250 - 1914 . Berghahn, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-8574-5953-4 , pp. 115-133.
  • "Out of Chatham: Abolitionism on the Canadian Frontier." In: Martha Schoolman and Jared Hickman (Eds.): Abolitionist Places . Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-4158-1453-9 , pp. 32-55.
  • "Mobility between Boston and Berlin: How Germans Have Read and Reread Narratives of American Slavery." In: Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Županov and Heike Paul (eds.): Cultural Mobility . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-5218-6356-8 , pp. 122-171.
  • with Klaus Lösch: "Captive Women and Praying Indians: Colonial Hermeneutics and Transdifference in Texts of the Early American Colonial Era." In: Christian Ernst, Walter Sparn and Hedwig Wagner (eds.): Cultural hermeneutics: Interdisciplinary contributions to dealing with cultural difference . Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4716-6 , pp. 125-158.
  • "Not 'On the Backs of Blacks': US-American (Im) Migration and Jewish Diaspora in the German-Language Writings of Jeannette Lander". In: Werner Sollors (Ed.): Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages ​​of American Literature . New York University Press, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-8147-8092-3 , pp. 281-296.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Heike Paul , on angam.phil.fau.de
  2. ↑ a b The Bavarian America Academy , on amerikahaus.de
  3. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences - Members - Heike Paul
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Mann Fellows | 2020 , on vatmh.org
  5. ↑ Global Sentimentality , on sentimental.phil.fau
  6. ↑ Reeducation Revisited , on reeducation.phil.fau
  7. ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences_Mitglieder_Heike Paul
  8. ↑ Organization 2018/19 , on wunderbartogether.org
  9. ↑ Kantorowicz Lecture “Citizens' Sentimentalism, American Style”: Heike Paul on the presence of the sentimental in American society , on normativeorders.net
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Heike Paul - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner 2018 , on dfg.de.
  11. ↑ Current and Recent Fellows , on ifuss.illinois.edu
  12. ↑ Harris Visitors to dartmouth.edu
  13. ^ Evaluation group English and American Studies, on yumpu.com
  14. ↑ Heike Paul, Dr. phil. , on wiko-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz