Sabine Sielke

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Sabine Sielke (born February 9, 1959 ) is a German cultural scientist and has held the chair for the literature and culture of North America at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn since 2001 . There she heads the North American Studies Program and the German-Canadian Center and is co-founder of the Center for Cultural Studies. She has been a multiple fellow or associate at the WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard University , is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Modernist Studies, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, China and an associate member of the graduate school "Life Sciences - Life Writing "at the University of Mainz . She has also been a Liaison Lecturer at the German Business Foundation since 2016 .

biography

Sabine Sielke studied North American Studies and Biology at Freie Universität Berlin and Duke University , researched at Brandeis University and Harvard University, and at the John F. Kennedy Institute and the Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin as well as the universities of Hamburg , Lodz and Freiburg taught. Her dissertation was published under the title Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore and Rich (University of Michigan Press, 1997), her habilitation thesis under the title Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790– 1990 (Princeton University Press, 2002).

Research areas

Focus of work and expertise Sielkes are the areas Poetry and Poetics , literature and culture of modernity and postmodernism , literary and cultural theory , gender studies , African American Studies , Cultural Studies , 20th and 21st centuries , popular culture and the interfaces of Cultural and natural sciences , especially biology and neurosciences .

Publications (selection)

Monographs and edited volumes

  • Nostalgia: Imagined Time-Spaces in Global Media Cultures / Nostalgia: Imagined Time-Spaces in Global Media Cultures . In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff. Transcription 9. Frankfurt: Lang, 2017.
  • Knowledge Landscapes North America . Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.
  • New York, New York! Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories . Ed. Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff. Transcription 8. Frankfurt: Lang, 2015.
  • American Studies Today: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives . Ed. Winfried Fluck, Erik Redling, Sabine Sielke, and Hubert Zapf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014.
  • Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century US American Culture . Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff. Transcription 6. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013.
  • Disguise tactics: strategies of limited visibility, camouflage and deception in nature and culture . Ed. Anne-Rose Meyer and Sabine Sielke. Transcription 5. Frankfurt: Lang, 2011.
  • Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics . Ed. Sabine Sielke and Christian Klöckner. Transcription 4. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009.
  • The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines . Ed. Sabine Sielke and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.
  • Gender Talks: Gender research at the University of Bonn . Ed. Sabine Sielke and Anke Ortlepp. In collaboration with Theresa Huber. Transcription 1. Frankfurt: Lang, 2006.
  • Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
  • September 11, 2001: questions, consequences, background . Ed. Sabine Sielke. Frankfurt: Lang, 2002.
  • Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature . Ed. Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck, and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000.
  • Engendering manhood . Ed. Ulfried Reichardt and Sabine Sielke. Amerikastudien / American Studies 43.4 (1998).
  • Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore and Rich . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Articles (selection)

  • "Ecotoning Inter- and Transdisciplinarity." Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 207-22
  • "Gender Discourses." Language - Culture - Communication / Language - Culture - Communication: An International Handbook of Linguistics as a Cultural Studies / An International Handbook of Linguistics as a Cultural Discipline. Ed. Ludwig Jäger, et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. 600-07.
  • "Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)." race & sex: a history of the modern age. 49 key texts from four centuries reread. Ed. Jürgen Martschukat and Olaf Stieglitz. Berlin: Neofelis, 2016. 64-71
  • "Science Studies and Literature." Literature and Science . Ed. Hubert Zapf. Spec. issue of Anglia 133.1 (2015): 9-21.
  • "Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada." The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature . Ed. Reingard M. Nischik. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 49-64.
  • "'Joy in Repetition': The Significance of Seriality for Memory and (Re-) Mediation." The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film . Ed. Russell Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier P, 2013. 37-50.
  • "The Poetics of Presidency and the Promises of Change: Reading Barack Obama." Obama and the Paradigm Shift: Measuring Change in the US and Germany . Ed. Birte Christ and Greta Olson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 267-86.
  • "Between adaptation, deception and irritation, or: The concept of mimicry in cultural studies - and how it is challenged by biology." Disguise tactics: phenomena of deception and limited visibility in nature and culture . Ed. Anne-Rose Meyer and Sabine Sielke. Transcription 5. Frankfurt: Lang, 2011. 225-62.
  • "Why '9/11 is [not] unique,' or: Troping Trauma." Trauma's Continuum: September 11th Re-Considered . Ed. Andrew Gross and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Amerikastudien / American Studies (2011). 385-408.
  • "Biology." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science . Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. London: Routledge, 2010. 29-40.
  • "Recognizing American Studies, Remembering the Subject." American Studies / Shifting Gears: a Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies. Ed. Michael Butter , Birte Christ, Christian Klöckner, and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 249-64.
  • "Troping the Holocaust, Globalizing Trauma." The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation . Ed. Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 227-47.
  • “Different But Equal? On the politics of multiculturalism in the USA and Canada. " The multicultural society in a dead end? European, American and Asian perspectives . Ed. Stefan Conermann. Hamburg: EB-Verlag, 2009. 139-58.
  • "Science into Narrative, or: Novelties of a Cultural Nature." Literature, science, knowledge since the 1800's . Ed. Thomas Klinkert and Monika Neuhofer. Spectrum literary studies. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008.
  • "Memory, Intermediality, and the (Cognitive) Sciences: Re-Cognizing Cultural Studies." American Studies as Media Studies . Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 157-67.
  • "'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -' or: Re-Cognizing Emily Dickinson." Emily Dickinson Journal 17.1 (2008): 68-85.
  • “'Looking at the suffering of others': democratization processes, torture, photography.” The Integrity of the Body: Theory and History of an Elementary Human Right . Ed. Sibylle Kalupner and Christoph Menke. Frankfurt: Campus Science, 2007. 150-65.
  • " Theorizing American Studies: German Contributions to an Ongoing Debate ." Amerikastudien / American Studies 50.1 / 2 (2005): 53-98.
  • “How German Is It? Projections of German in American Culture. " Images of Germany in the mirror of other nations . Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2003. 155-91. (co-authored with Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche)
  • “The end of the irony? On the relationship between the real and representation at the beginning of the 21st century. " September 11, 2001: consequences, questions, background . Ed. Sabine Sielke. Frankfurt: Lang, 2002. 255-73.
  • "Reading Cultural Practices, Re-Reading Race: History, Identity, and the Aesthetics of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism . Ed. Sonja Bahn and Mario Klarer. ZAA Studies 11 (2000): 81-102.

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personal data
SURNAME Sielke, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1959