Johannes Fehrle CV 03-2013 online version

Johannes Fehrle
Englisches Seminar / Nord Amerika Studien
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Room 4007, KG IV
Rempartstraße 15
79085 Freiburg
Germany
Office phone: (+49)761-203-3323
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English Department, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg,
Germany; Thesis: “Postmodern Gunslingers in a Transnational West:
Revisions of the Western in Canadian and American Literature.”
Grade: summa cum laude (A).
Committee: Prof. W. Hochbruck; Prof. B. Korte; Prof. W. Oberkrome.
October 2008 –
March 2012
Magister Artium (M.A.) in English Literature / Linguistics and Modern
History; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Grade: sehr gut (A).
Thesis: “The Postmodern Canadian Western.”
October 2001 –
June 2007
Exchange Year at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
September 2003 –
July 2004
Abitur (High School Diploma), Wentzinger Gymnasium, Freiburg,
Germany.
June 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AT UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor (Wiss. Mitarbeiter), English Department / North
American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
Since April 2012
Erasmus Teaching Exchange, Helsinki University, Finland.
September 2012
Visiting Scholar, English Department, University of British Columbia
(UBC), Vancouver, Canada.
March 2010 –
December 2012
4 Semesters as Adjunct Professor (Lehrbeauftragter) at English, Ethics
(EPG) and Gender Studies Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Germany.
November 2007 –
February 2012
Graduate and Postgraduate (Teaching) assistant, English Department,
North American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg,
Germany.
September 2005 –
July 2008
Johannes Fehrle
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Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Part time work at bookstore:
Buchhandlung Schwarz, Freiburg, Germany.
August 2001 –
December 2009
Photographic Project “National Park Service – The People behind the
Grand Vistas” (Exhibition: February 2008, Carl-Schurz-Haus, GermanAmerican Institute, Freiburg, Germany).
July 2007 –
September 2007
Internship in Publishing, Orange-Press, Freiburg, Germany.
June – July 2007
Student Assistant, Registratory Affairs, Alcon Pharma, Freiburg,
Germany.
September 2004 –
August 2005
Civilian Service (Zivildienst) St. Josefs Hospital, Freiburg, Germany.
September 2000 –
August 2001
GRANTS, AWARDS AND THIRD-PARTY FUNDING
Travel Grant to WLA Conference; Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft,
Freiburg.
November 2012
Ph.D. Grant; German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung
des deutschen Volkes).
November 2008 –
October 2011
Louis Owens Award; Western Literature Association (WLA).
October 2011
Travel Grant to Attend PCA Conference; German National Academic
Foundation (Studienstiftung).
April 2011
Travel Grant to Attend WLA Conference; German National Academic
Foundation (Studienstiftung).
October 2010
Grant for printing costs for Herausforderung Biologie; Andrea von
Braun Stiftung, foundation for interdisciplinary cooperation (with
Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller).
July 2010
Travel Grant for Research at University of British Columbia; German
National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung).
March 2010 –
June 2010
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) competition for
young academics “Junior Research Groups 2009” – Funding for workshop “Shifting Horizons: The Western Frontier in the Americas” with
Neil Campbell (Derby U, England) [with Ridvan Askin, Basel].
September 2009
Ph.D. Grant; State of Baden-Württemberg
(Landesgraduiertenförderung), declined in favor of Studienstiftung
Ph.D. grant in November 2008.
October 2008 –
November 2008
Stephen Crane Award for Research in North American Literary and
Cultural Studies for M.A. Thesis.
November 2007
Research Grant for work on M.A. thesis; John F. Kennedy Institute and
Library, Free University Berlin.
August 2006 –
September 2006
Johannes Fehrle
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Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
FIELDS OF RESEARCH / TEACHING INTERESTS
US and Canadian 20th and 21st Century Literature
Postmodernism
Westerns in Literature and Film
Popular Culture, particularly Comics and Graphic Novels
Adaptation / Convergence Culture
Film Studies
Gender / Masculinity Studies
Critical Theory
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL
Summer 2013 (planned)
Proseminar Literary Studies “19th Century American Short Fiction”
Cultural Studies “Transnational Hollywood”
Winter 2012-13:
Cultural Studies “The Culture of Adaptation– Fiction, Comics, Film, Video Games”
Proseminar Literary Studies “The English Canadian Novel of the 20th Century.”
Proseminar II Literary Studies [3rd and 4th year] “Contemporary American Fiction”
English Department, Freiburg University.
Summer 2012:
Proseminar II Literary Studies [3rd and 4th year] “American Cinema: New Hollywood and
Beyond”
English Department, Freiburg University.
Master’s Seminars “Eng 320: American Literature” & “Eng 320: Contemporary Literatures”
(guest teaching & mentoring; Professor of record: Dr. Mark Shackleton)
English Department, Helsinki University, Finland.
Winter 2011/12:
Guest Lecture “American Literature Survey IV/IV: Postmodernism and Contemporary”
(Professor of Record: Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser)
English Department Basel Univesity, Switzerland.
Proseminar Literary / Cultural Studies “The Crisis of Masculinity in American Culture”
English / Gender Studies Department, Freiburg University.
Winter 2009/10:
Proseminar II Literary Studies [3rd and 4th year] “Graphic Novels”
English Department, Freiburg University.
Winter 2008/09:
Proseminar Literary Studies “Westerns: Fiction and Films”
English Department, Freiburg University,
EPG II [Ethics Course for Teachers] “Herausforderung Biologie” [Biology as a Challenge]:
(Guest Lecture; Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Günther Neuhaus)
Ethics Center / Department of Biology, Freiburg University.
Summer 2008:
Proseminar / EPG (Ethics) II “Censorship: The (Im)Moral Text as a Challenge to Society”
Ethics Center / English Department, Freiburg University.
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Johannes Fehrle
[email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
TUTORING
Summer 2008:
“Introduction to Literary Studies” (Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke)
English Department, Freiburg University. 2 Sections
Winter 2007/08:
“Introduction to Literary Studies” (Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke)
English Department, Freiburg University. 3 Sections
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien /
German Association for American Studies (DGfA / GAAS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Alumni der Studienstiftung [Alumni of the German National Academic Foundation]
Popular Culture / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
Western Literature Association (WLA)
Inter-American Studies Association (IASA)
Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS) [Canadian Studies Association in German-Speaking
Countries]
OTHER SKILLS & LANGUAGES
Very good computer skills in Microsoft Windows, Office, Citavi, Photoshop CS 5 and other
programs
Semi Professional Photographer (areas of specialization: wildlife, nature, and travel)
German: Native
English: Excellent
French: Good to Satisfactory
Latin: Großes Latinum (Latin proficiency certificate)
Japanese and Russian: Basic
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Travelling
Hiking / Backpacking
Wildlife & Landscape Photography
Music / Guitar
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Johannes Fehrle
[email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Postmodern Gunslingers in a Transnational West: Revisions of the Western in Canadian and
American Literature (in preparation).
Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie – Fragen an die Biologie [Biology as a
Challenge: Questions Posed by Biology – Questions Posed to Biology]. Münster: LIT Verlag,
2010 (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller).
Editorial Work
Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIV (2008). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2009 (with Claudia
Glunz et. al.).
Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIII (2007). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2008 (with Claudia
Glunz et. al.).
Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XI (2005). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2006 (with Claudia
Glunz and Jan Kolja Paulus).
Articles
“‘What’s happened to the American Dream?’ Transnationalism and Intertexts in Alan Moore and
Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen.” International Journal of Comic Art (with Philipp Fiedler)
(forthcoming)
“(Re)Making Men in the ‘50s and 2000s: Daves’ and Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma.” Play it Again Sam:
Remakes in Film, Literature and Art. Ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Lucia Krämer. (forthcoming)
“‘We Have No Leaders Holy Men or Gurus’: The Carnivalesque as an Egalitarian Alternative in
Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.” On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed:
Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig and Paul Tayyar. Huntington Beach, CA:
World Parade Books, 2012. 26 – 55 (forthcoming).
“Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Graphic Novels? A Critical Examination.” Unnatural Narratives – Unnatural Narratology. Ed. Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 210 – 245.
“Wissenschaftliche Möglichkeiten und ethische Grenzen: Die Biologie in der gesellschaftlichen
Diskussion.” [Scientific Possibilities and Ethical Limits: Biology in Public Discourse.]
Introduction. Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie / Fragen an die Biologie.
Ed. Johannes Fehrle, Rüdiger Heinze, and Kerstin Müller. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010. xi –
xviii (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller).
“‘Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop’: Der 11. September in Comicbüchern.” [‘Waiting for that
Other Shoe to Drop’: September 11 in Comic Books.] Nine Eleven: Ästhetische
Verarbeitungen des 11. September 2001 [Nine Eleven: Artistic Responses to September 11
2001]. Ed. Ingo Irsigler and Christoph Jürgensen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2008. 219 – 249
(with Rüdiger Heinze).
Book Reviews
Rev. of Wie Comics erzählen: Grundriss einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie der grafischen Literatur, [How Comics Narrate: A Basis for an Intermedial Narratology of Graphic Literature]
by Martin Schüwer. Kritikon Litterarum 37:3/4 (2010): 290 – 298.
Rev. of Literaturgeschichte der USA: Ein sozialgeschichtlicher Überblick [Literary History of the
USA: A Socio-Historic Overview] by Wolfgang Karrer. ZAA 58.1 (2010): 80 – 81.
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Rev. of Camera Doesn’t Lie: Spielarten erzählerischer Unzuverlässigkeit im Film [Camera Doesn’t
Lie: Varieties of Narrative Unreliability in Film]. Ed. Jörg Helbig. Kritikon Litterarum 36:3/4
(2009): 222 – 229.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Denis Johnson: Das erzählerische Werk” [Denis Johnson: The Prose Work] (with Bernadette
Kalkert); Paul Auster: Das Romanwerk” [Paul Auster: The Novels] (with Christian Berkemeier);
“David Foster Wallace – The Pale King;” “David Foster Wallace: Das essayistische Werk”
[David Foster Wallace: The Essays]; “Nicholson Baker – The Anthologist.“ Kindlers Literatur
Lexikon (updated online edition). Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold.
“Electronic Developments and Entertainment;” “Virtual Worlds.” World History Encyclopedia: Era
9 Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present, Part I & II. Ed. Andrew J. Waskey and Fred Nadis.
Vol. 19 & 20. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
“Nicholson Baker: Das erzählerische Werk;” [Nicholson Baker: Fiction] “Nicholson Baker:
Biogramm” [Nicholson Baker: Short Biography]. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3. Ed. Vol. 1.
Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 812 – 813.
“McFarlane Toys;” “Common Adventure Concept.” Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society. Gen.
Ed. Rodney P. Carlisle. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2009. 145 – 146; 381 – 382.
I n v i t e d T a l k s , C o n f e r e nc e P a p e r s , a n d W o r k s h o p s
“‘A long way from home…’”: Der Western zwischen amerikanischem Original und (inter)nationaler
Revision.” [The Western Between American Original and (inter)national Revision] Workshop
Leader with Alexander Sancho-Rauschel. Carl-Schurz Haus / Centre Culturel Français. 28
January 2013. Freiburg, Germany.
“‘If the Indians Won it Probably Wouldn’t be a Western’: Writing against images of ‘the Indian’ in
Contemporary Native American and First Nations Texts.” 47th Annual Conference of the
Western Literature Association. 7 – 10 November 2012, Lubbock, TX, USA.
“(Re)Making Men in the ‘50s and 2000s: Daves’ and Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma.” Play It Again Sam:
Remakes in Film, Literature and Art. International Conference. 28 – 30 September 2012.
Braunschweig, Germany.
“Representing Poverty in Comic Books” Too Big to Ignore: Narratives of Inequality, International
Conference. 12 – 13 July 2012. Freiburg, Germany.
“Ode an die Öde: The Pale King.” [Ode to Bleakness: The Pale King] Panel Discussion with Ulrich
Blumenbach. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 5 May 2012. Freiburg, Germany.
“Remembering David Foster Wallace.” Workshop Leader. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 5 May 2012.
Freiburg, Germany.
“Looking at ‘The Erosion of the Older Distinction between High Culture and so-called Mass or
Popular Culture’: Postmodernism’s Use of Popular Genres.” Guest Lecture. Basel University.
27 March, 2012. Basel, Switzerland.
“American Studies und dann?” [American Studies then what?] Panel Discussion with Angeley
Eckhardt and Steve Przybilla. Carl-Schurz-Haus. 7 February 2012. Freiburg, Germany.
“Manliness, Heroism and the Quick-Draw Duel in the Revisionist Western” 46th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 5 – 8 October 2011, Missoula, MT, USA.
“‘Bring Me the Black Wild Bill’: Using the Western to Reintroduce African Americans into the
19th Century West.” National Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference
(PCA/ACA) 20 – 23 April 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA (panel chair).
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Johannes Fehrle
[email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
“When the Legend Becomes Fact Deconstruct the Legend: Shooting at the Western in Contemporary
Canadian and U.S. Novels.” University of British Columbia, Department of English. Departmental Research Seminar. 4 February 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
“‘What’s Happened to the American Dream?’ Alan Moore’s Transnational Vision of the ’80s.” BiAnnual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. 11 – 13
November 2010, Essen, Germany (with Philip Fiedler).
“Performing Western Masculinity in Three Versions of 3:10 to Yuma.” 45th Annual Conference of
the Western Literature Association. 20 – 23 October 2010, Prescott, AZ, USA.
“Revisionist Western Novels from Canada and the U.S.” EUCOR Ph.D. Conference. 11 December
2009, Freiburg, Germany.
“‘Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans’: Westernrevisionen aus den USA und
Kanada.” [‘Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans’: US and Canadian
Western Revisions] Doktorandenforum der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [Ph.D.
Forum of the German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)]. 13 – 16 November 2009,
Koppelsberg, Germany.
“Questioning National Myths and National Identity in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy.”
Milestones 2009 Conference “Transgression of Boundaries,” 1 August 2009, Freiburg,
Germany.
“Alaska – Das andere Amerika. [Alaska – The other America]” 5 February 2009, Carl-SchurzHaus, Freiburg, Germany.
“Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics.” FRIAS Conference: Unnatürliches
Erzählen – Unnatural Narration, 13 – 15 November 2008, Freiburg, Germany.
“Stephen Crane’s Westerns: ‘The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky’ und ‘The Blue Hotel’,” Talk on
receiving the Stephen-Crane-Award for North American Literary and Cultural Studies. 4
November 2007, Badenweiler, Germany.
“The Postmodern Canadian Western,” 2nd “EUCOR English Trinational Masters Conference,” 9
December 2006, Mulhouse, France.
Other Publications
Photographic Exhibition “Alaska – The Last Frontier” German American Center / James-F.-Byrnes
Institut e.V., Stuttgart. 15 June – 21 September 2012.
Photographic Exhibition “Alaska – Von den Grenzen der Zivilisation gesehen. [Alaska – Seen from
the Edges of Civilization]” Carl-Schurz-Haus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, January
16 – April 1, 2009.
Photographic Exhibition “National Park Service: The People behind the Great Vistas,” Carl-SchurzHaus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, February 1 – 25, 2008.
Setzer, Heinz, Wolfgang Schwarzhaupt, and Hanna Hauck, ed. Visions of Water Colours Today –
Aquarellvisionen heute. Landau: Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2009 (translation into English).
Setzer, Heinz, ed. Transfer: Anatomy of Artist’s Prints from London and the Palatinate. Landau:
Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2007 (translation into English).
Responses to the Challenges to the USA after 9/11 and New Orleans: Racial Division, Religion,
Civil Rights, and Literature. Freiburg: Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, Abteilung 7 “Schule
und Bildung,” Carl-Schurz-Haus, 2006 (selected and edited with Rüdiger Heinze).
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Johannes Fehrle
[email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany
REFERENCES
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
English Department, North American Studies
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
KG IV, Rempartstr. 15
79085 Freiburg, Germany
Phone: (+49)761-203-3344
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig
Bienroder Weg 80
38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone: (+49)531-3918714
[email protected]
Prof. Neil Campbell, Ph.D.
School of Humanities
University of Derby
E706, East Tower
Kedleston Road
Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1GB, England
Phone: (+44)01332-591481
[email protected]
Friederike Schulte
Direktorin
Carl-Schurz-Haus / Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.V.
Eisenbahnstr. 62
D-79098 Freiburg/Br., Germany
Phone: (+49)761-556527-0
[email protected]
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