Stefan L. Brandt

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Stefan L. Brandt (* 1964 in Berlin ) is a German Americanist and professor at the Karl Franzens University in Graz .

biography

Stefan L. Brandt studied from 1985 at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin . There he obtained an MA in 1992 with a thesis on Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck . In 1996 he received his doctorate with 'summa cum laude' at the Faculty of Modern Foreign Language Philologies at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the literature and culture of the American turn of the century (1890–1914). As a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , he went to the University of California, Irvine for one year in 1998 and carried out research from 1999 to 2001 with a grant from the German Research Foundation for his habilitation thesis on the aesthetics of the body in the literature and culture of the American post-war era (1945 -1960). He has researched at several universities and educational institutions in the USA and Canada, including a. Cornell University , UC Berkeley , UCLA , UC Riverside (Center for Ideas and Society), Huntington Library , University of Toronto , York University and Harvard University (Department of English).

After his habilitation in 2003, Stefan L. Brandt received visiting professorships at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (Chair for North American Culture, April 2004 to February 2005 and October 2008 to March 2009), at the University of Siegen (Chair for North American Cultural Studies, April 2006 to September 2008 and April 2010 to September 2011, as well as Chair of English and General Literature Studies, April 2007 to September 2008) and at the University of Vienna (Chair of American Literature and Cultural Studies, October 2011 to January 2012). He has also taught at the Technical University of Chemnitz (winter semester 2005/06) and the Ruhr University Bochum (April 2009 - March 2010). From February 2012 to January 2013 he was university professor for English and American Studies at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.

Since February 2013, Stefan L. Brandt has been Professor at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Graz, which he also headed from November 2013 to June 2016. From November 2013 to November 2014 he was President of the Austrian Association for American Studies .

Research areas

His main research interests are urban studies , spatial research , gender studies , early American educational literature and the transnational networking of processes of cultural self-modeling in the USA.

Publications

Monographs

Editorships

  • Film as Symbolic Action: Douglas Sirk's 'Imitation of Life' (1959) as a paradigm of cultural self-understanding in America in the 1950s. Ed. Berlin: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Working Paper No. 119, 1999.
  • with Winfried Fluck and Ingrid Thaler: Transnational American Studies. Special issue of REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 23. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8233-4177-2 .
  • with Winfried Fluck and Frank Mehring : Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium. Special issue of REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 26. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8233-4181-9 .
  • with Astrid M. Fellner : Making National Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-) Revolutionary America. WVT, Trier 2010, ISBN 978-3-86821-222-8 .

Articles (selection)

  • "Polysemantics and Entropy: On the Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Henry James and Thomas Pynchon ." Literary Studies Yearbook 46 (2005): 303-29.
  • " Hawthorne 's Negative Romanticism: Aesthetic Self-Reflection and the Discursivity of Storytelling in 'Rappaccini's Daughter'." Aesthetic transgressions . Eds. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein & Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2006, 195–220.
  • "White Bo (d) y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Where East Is East ." The Films of Tod Browning . Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. New York: Black Dog Publications, 2006, 129-49.
  • "Performance and Self-Empowerment: On the Aesthetics of the Physical in James Dean ." James Dean is alive! Youth culture and star cult in film and music, 1950-2000 . Edited by Werner Kremp, with the collaboration of Charlotte Gerken and Peter Sommerlad. Trier: WVT, 2006, 11-52.
  • "Astronautic Subjects: Postmodern Identity and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction [1] ." Gender Forum Issue “Gender Roomours II: Gender and Space” (Winter 2006/07).
  • “The Literary Text as a 'Living Event': Visceral Language and the Aesthetics of Rebellion in JD Salinger ’s The Catcher in the Rye .” Rebels without a cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s . Edited by Gerd Hurm & Ann-Marie Fallon. Oxford, Bern, et al: Peter Lang, 2007, 31-56.
  • "Cinema as the carnival of masculinity: (self-) irony and intertextuality in the early James Bond films." The Little Bond Book: From Cultural Studies with Love . Eds. Ellen Grünkemeyer, Martina Iske, Jürgen Kramer, Anette Pankratz & Claus-Ulrich Viol. Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2007, 121-37.
  • "'The Finest Type of Existing Marriage': Family and Nationhood in Theodore Roosevelt 's Speeches and Writings." Papers from English and American Studies 34.2 (2009): 269–291.
  • "The City as Liminal Space: Urban Visuality and Aesthetic Experience in Postmodern US Literature and Cinema." Amerikastudien - American Studies 54.4 (2009): 553-581.
  • “TransAmerica? Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity. " Trans / American, Trans / Oceanic, Translation: Issues in International American Studies . Eds. João Ferreira Duarte, Marta Pacheco Pinto, & Susana Araújo. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 247-261.
  • "Exploring the 'Heart of the Wilderness': Cultural Self-Fashioning and the Aesthetics of the Body in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker ." Making National Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-) Revolutionary America . Eds. Stefan L. Brandt & Astrid M. Fellner. Trier: WVT, 2010, 121–140.
  • “American Cultural ImagiNation: The New Americanists and the Bush Revolution” (with Alexander Vazansky). American Studies / Shifting Gears . Edited by Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, Michael Butter . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2010, 65–88.
  • "Open City, Closed Space: Metropolitan Aesthetics in American Literature from Brown to DeLillo." Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium . Edited by Stefan L. Brandt, Winfried Fluck and Frank Mehring. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature , Vol. 26. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2010, 121–144.
  • "Sex, Lies, and Video Clips: Scenarios of Crisis Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Culture." The crisis as a narrative: transdisciplinary perspectives on a narrative of modernity . Edited by Walburga Hülk, Uta Fenske and Gregor shoes. Berlin and Bielefeld: transcript, 2013, 189–204.
  • "Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg (2007)." Film: Part II . Eds. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke, Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: WVT, 2013, 481–505.
  • “Trafficking in Blackness? The Coolness of 'Black' and the Politics of Ethnic Marketing. " Is It Cause It's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture . Eds. Astrid M. Fellner, Susanne Hamscha, Klaus Heissenberger, and Jennifer J * Moos. Vienna & Münster: LIT Verlag, 2013, 201–224.
  • "Scale, Media Transfer, and Bodily Space in 'Giant Movies' of the Fifties." Transmediality and Transculturality . Eds. Nadja Gernalzick & Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2013, 349–367.

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personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Stefan L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandt, Stefan Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin