Prof. Dr. Markus Heide

ORCID#      https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2359-4484

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:

https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/vernetzen/recherche-im-humboldt-netzwerk/einzelansicht/1124556/dr-markus-heide

Venia legendi: American Literature and Culture / Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur

Research and teaching:

• General literary and cultural studies
• Literary and cultural history of the Anglophone world, in particular North America (USA, Canada, Caribbean)
• North American Studies (Anglo-, Hispano-, Francophone), Inter-American Studies, Latinx Studies

Literary studies:

Ethnicity and Literature (18th-21st centuries) / Diaspora and Literature / Early American Literature / Travel Writing (16th-19th centuries) / Postmodernism / Postcolonial Theory / Literary Theory

Cultural Studies:

Transnationalism / Migration / Film History (USA, Canada, Mexico) / Popular Culture / Cultural Theory / Border Studies / Critical Race and Gender Studies / Political History

 

Forschung und Lehre:

• Allg. Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
• Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der anglophonen Welt, insb. Nordamerikas (USA, Kanada, Karibik)
• Nordamerikaforschung (anglo-, hispano-, frankophon), Interamerikanistik, Latinx Studies

Literaturwissenschaft:

Ethnizität und Literatur (18.-21. Jh.) / Diaspora und Literatur / Frühe amerikanische Literatur / Travel Writing (16.-19. Jh.) / Postmodernismus / Postcolonial Theory / Literaturtheorie

Kulturwissenschaft:

Transnationalismus / Migration / Filmgeschichte (USA, Kanada, Mexiko) / Populärkultur / Kulturtheorie / Border Studies / Critical Race and Gender Studies / politische Geschichte

 

Professional Career / Beruflicher Werdegang

Since / Seit 10/2022	Universität Hildesheim, Prof. apl. für amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Institut für englische Sprache und Literatur Professor of American literary and cultural studies
7/2020	Universität Hildesheim, Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, Institut für englische Sprache und Literatur und Institut für Übersetzungs-wissenschaft und Fachkommunikation
2015-2016	Universität Erfurt, Vertretung Lehrstuhl Amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft Freistellung an der Universität Uppsala
2014-2020	Uppsala Universitet (Schweden), Associate Professor (tenured) Department of English, Swedish Institute for North-American Studies (SINAS)
2003-2014	Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
2001-2003	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amerika Institut, Kulturgeschichte Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
1997-2000	Freie Universität Berlin, J. F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikaforschung Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs Demokratie in den U.S.A., Stipendium DFG
1997-2000	Lehraufträge Humboldt Universität und Universität Leipzig
1994-2000	Freier Journalist in Frankfurt und Köln

Education and Academic Career / Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

2022	Universität Hildesheim, Ernennung zum außerplanmäßigen Professor für amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2020	Universität Hildesheim, Fakultät 3, Internationale Umhabilitierung, Venia legendi: Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
2019	Universität Tübingen, research fellow, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Matariki fellowship der Universität Uppsala (1/20-5/20)
2018	UC San Diego, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) research fellow, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Sabbatical, 1/18-6/18 https://www.rj.se/en/grants/2017/the-us-mexico-border-as-contested-space-film-and-popular-culture-1990-to-the-present/
2018	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Border Studies Archive Hilda Kumlin Foundation grant, 1/18
2017	UC San Diego, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS), research fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, alumni grant, 6/17-8/17 https://cilas.ucsd.edu/people/visiting-scholars.html#-FY-2017-2018
2016-2017	Dartmouth College, Matariki research fellow, 9/16-2/17
2015	Uppsala Universitet, Schweden: Docentship (Habilitation) Docent lecture (abschließender Vortrag): Februar 2016 Venia legendi: English, specialized in American literary and cultural studies (docent i engelska, ssk. Amerikansk litteratur och kultur)
2013	University of Toronto, Film Studies, visiting research scholar, 9-10/13 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, TransCoop
2011	University of Toronto, Film Studies, visiting research scholar, 8-10/11 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, TransCoop
2010	McMaster University, Hamilton (Ontario), Kanada Visiting scholar, Feodor Lynen Stipendium, A. v. Humboldt Stiftung, 3-8/10
2007-2008	McMaster University, Hamilton (Ontario), Kanada Visiting scholar, Feodor Lynen Stipendium, A. v. Humboldt Stiftung
2007	Harvard University, 4-6/2007 Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/markus-heide

2007	American Antiquarian Society, Worcester (MA), 2-4/2007 Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/markus-heide
2003-2004	LMU München, Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies, Stipendiat (DFG)
2002	Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Promotion Gesamtprädikat: "Summa cum laude" Dissertation: Chicano/a-Erzählliteratur und die Inszenierung von Kulturkontakt
1998	University of California, Berkeley, Stipendium DFG, 8-11/98
1997-2000	Freie Universität Berlin, J. F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikaforschung Stipendiat des Graduiertenkollegs Demokratie in den U.S.A., Stipendium DFG
1997	Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Promotionsstipendium nach dem Nachwuchsförderungsgesetz (Nafög), 7-10/97
1996	Harvard University, Cambridge (USA), Stipendium des DAAD (11/96-12/96)
1995	J. W. Goethe-Universität, Magister Artium (Gesamtnote: sehr gut) Medienrealität und Vernunftkritik in White Noise und Libra von Don Delillo
1992-1993	Brandeis University, MA (USA), Stipendium des DAAD
1991-1995	J. W. Goethe-Universität, Studium Amerikanistik, Romanistik, Germanistik
1990	Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexiko (4/90-9/90)
1989-1991	J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Rechtswissenschaften und Anglistik
1987-1989	Zivildienst, Klinikum der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
1987	Hohe Landesschule Hanau, Allgemeine Hochschulreife
1985	Valley High School, Sacramento, CA (USA), High School Diploma

 

Markus Heide

As professor of North American literary and cultural studies I teach at the Institute for English language and literature and at the Institute for Translation Studies and Communication at Hildesheim University. Until 2020 I taught as an associate professor at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) at Uppsala University. In spring 2016, I was visiting professor at the University of Erfurt (Germany) and in the fall of 2016 I was Matariki visiting research scholar at Dartmouth College (USA). 2018-19 I was visiting research fellow at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) at UC San Diego, funded by a Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) Sabbatical.

Prior to the appointments at University of Hildesheim and Uppsala University, I was Assistant Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and lecturer at America Institute at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. I was post-doctoral research fellow of the graduate school Postcolonial Literatures (dir. Graham Huggan) at L. M. University Munich, Fulbright scholar at Harvard University and the American Antiquarian Society, Humboldt fellow at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and the University of Toronto. I was Phd fellow of the graduate school Democracy in the U.S.A. at J. F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Free University Berlin. I received my doctoral degree at Humboldt University Berlin for a thesis on Mexican-American Literature, 1940s to 1990s. I received my MA degree in American Literary and Cultural Studies from J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt (thesis: Media Reality in Don Delillo’s White Noise and Libra). My undergraduate studies were in American Studies, Latin American Studies and German Literature at the University of Frankfurt and Brandeis University (USA).

At the University of Hildesheim, I teach classes in literary, cultural, and media studies. In literary studies, I am particularly specialized in 20th and 21st century US and Canadian ethnic fiction, early American literature, travel writing, and literary theory. I also teach media and film history and theory (Hollywood, documentary, ethnicity, and film), theories of culture and cultural translation.

Following my initial research interest in postmodern aesthetics in U.S. and Latin American Literature (MA thesis on Don Delillo’s fiction), I focused on Mexican-American literature in my doctoral studies. My first book concentrates on Chicanx literature, analyzing the emergence of political forms of ethnic identification in literature published between the 1940s and 1990s. In this study, I trace Mexican-American writing from Américo Paredes’ autoethnographic explorations of oral traditions in Southern Texas to the literature of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s/70s to questions of intersectionality of race, class, gender and sexuality in feminist and queer Chicano/a writing of the 1980s and 90s.

My second book on the History of Canadian Film (co-authored, in German) grew out of a post-doc project in Canadian Studies at Humboldt University, generously supported by the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. In my chapters I first discuss early Canadian film production (silent film) and its struggles with the dominant Hollywood film industry. The following chapters explore film genres that have been of particular significance for Canadian film history: Documentary, experimental film and animation.

In more recent years my research has been predominantly in Inter-American and hemispheric (the Western hemisphere as political and cultural entity) approaches to American literature and culture as well as Border Studies. This research has resulted in a monograph (2022) and two edited volumes (Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective and The Americas in the Nineteenth Century: Inter-American Perspectives on U.S. Literature) as well as articles on issues of inter-American relations in literature, film and popular culture (e.g. border science fiction, narcocorridos, and performance art). In the monograph, titled Home and the World: Trans-National Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770-1830), published with Stockholm University Press (open access), I explore boundary constructions and controversies in travel reports of the early national period of the United States. The critical focus is on different forms of boundary controversies that I read in the context of broader discursive negotiations of the relation between the nation and the globe, of the domestic and the foreign, of home and abroad, notions of the Self and the Other. The trans-national imagination of early American travel writing emerges as expression of the complex and contradictory relation between such concepts of collective identification as nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and imperialism.

My most recent research continues my interest in Border Studies with a focus on the US-Mexico border. I am interested in literature, film, and art that explore the borderlands as a contested space. For this project, I researched at UC San Diego and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, including fieldwork along the border in California, Arizona, Texas, Baja California, and Tamaulipas. As an exchange student, hosted by a Mexican-American family in California (many, many years ago), I crossed the border for the first time on a pickup truck, on a sunny Sunday, in 1985. I have since been fascinated by the borderlands. My experience of having grown up in West Germany with an intensely guarded border fence close to home and the wall in Berlin, has certainly contributed to my interest in comparative border studies – and, after all, in US, Canadian, and Mexican border politics.

I have published in international academic journals, such as Comparative American Studies, Wasafiri, American Studies/Amerikastudien, American Literary Scholarship (Duke University Press), FIAR, and Atlantis. I was project manager of the trans-Atlantic research project Cosmopolitan Film Cultures: Narrative, Theory, Production, where I cooperated with University of Alberta (Imre Szeman) and Université de Montréal (Heike Haerting). In 2018 an Erasmus+ application (cooperation with 7 European universities) for a 3-year research collaboration on Hostfilm: Hospitality in Film was successful. The group developed teaching material and published comparative perspectives on film, migration, and undocumented border crossing. Since 2024 I am the international coordinator or the EU-funded project Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting (https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/). I have supervised and evaluated Ph.D theses at universities in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Finland, and Greece. I welcome applications by students who plan to pursue a PhD in American literary and cultural studies. I am very much interested in cooperating in projects in my research fields, and beyond.

Monographs

(3) Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere: Transnational Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770-1830). Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2022.

            Open access: DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bca

(2) Kanadischer Film: Geschichte, Themen, Tendenzen. With C. Kotte. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz (UVK), 2006.

[Reviews: Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 20 (2009): 224-225; ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik LVII (2009): 103-104; Medienwissenschaft (2007/2); Publizistik (2007/2)]

(1) Grenzüberschreibungen: Chicano/a-Erzählliteratur und die Inszenierung von Kulturkontakt. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004.

[Reviews: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.2 (2007): 253-255; Iberoamericana 7.4 (2007): 177-199]

Edited volumes/journals (peer-reviewed)

(4) Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective. With Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016.

(3) The Americas in the Nineteenth Century: Inter-American Perspectives on U.S. Literature (with G. Pisarz-Ramírez), American Studies/Amerikastudien (Special Issue). 53.1 (2008).

[Reviews: American Literary Scholarship 2008 (2009): 480-481]

(2) Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food. With T. Döring and S. Mühleisen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003.

[Reviews: Journal of American Folkore 122 (2009): 108-110, Theresa A. Vaughan; Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 123 (2005): 561-566, by Karin Ikas; Amerikastudien / American Studies 50 (1/2): 303-307 by Kerstin Schmidt; Journal for the Study of British Cultures 11 (1) by Rachel Rich; Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 53 by Zbignew Bialas; American Literature 76 (1); Frankfurter Rundschau, 07.10.04.]

(1) Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Its Metaphors (with M. Banerjee and M. Stein), ZAA -Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik-A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, Special Issue 3 (2001).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

(15) Heide, Markus, and Panayiota Mini. “Migration Cinema in Higher Education: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) and Contemporary Student Perspectives”. International Journal of Comparative Literature (KARE), no. 19 (June 2025): 41-54. https://doi.org/10.38060/kare.1712561

(14) “Learning from Las Vegas”: Border Aesthetics, Disturbance, and Electronic Disobedience. An Interview with Performance Artist Ricardo Dominguez, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Routledge DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2018.1490197 . 2018.

(13) “The Poetry of Tino Villanueva: Texas, the Chicano Movement, Memory and Ekphrasis.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 15 (2017): 91-98.

(12) “Repossessing Border Space: Security Practice in North American Border Art.” Comparative American Studies 14 (2017): 191-213.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2016.1267310

(11) “Border Issues on Stage: Latino-Canadianness, the Americas, and the Representation of Arabs in the Theatre of the Canadian playwright Guillermo Verdecchia, an Interview.” forum for inter-american research 7.3 (Dec 2014): 183-191. Available at: <www.interamerica.de>

(10) “Cosmopolitics in Border Film: Amores Perros and Sleep Dealer.” Comparative American Studies. 11.1 (2013): 89-113.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000028

(9) “International Scholarship: German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship” [Review Essay], Chapter 20, American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2010. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. 449-466.

(8) “International Scholarship: German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship” [Review Essay], Chapter 21, American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2009. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. 478-491.

(7) "Ilan Stavans’s On Borrowed Words, Jewish-Latino/a Writing, and Transnational Autobiography," Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 32.1 (2010): 87-102. https://www.atlantisjournal.org/old/ARCHIVE/32.1/2010Heide.pdf

(6) "Herman Melville’s 'Benito Cereno', Inter-American Relations, and Literary Pan-Americanism," in Amerikastudien/American Studies 53.1 (2008): 37-56.

(5) "Introduction: Inter-American Studies and Nineteenth-Century Literature" (with G. Pisarz-Ramírez). Amerikastudien/American Studies 53.1 (2008): 5-11.

(4) "From Zorro to Jennifer Lopez: US-Latino History and Film for the EFL-Classroom," American Studies Journal 51.1 (Spring 2008) http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/107.html (26 pages).

(3) "Introduction.: Postcolonial Passages – Migration and Its Metaphors" (with M. Banerjee and M. Stein), ZAA – A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, Special Issue 3 (2001), p. 213-215.

(2) "’When Borders Migrate’: The Frontier, Chicano Performance Art, and the Postcolonial in the Americas," ZAA - A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture (1999), Issue 4 (Special Issue:Transculturations: Latin American Presences in US Culture since the late Nineteenth Century eds. H. Breinig and K. Lösch), p. 361-377.

(1) "Between Inside and Outside - Chicano/a Literary Discourse and the Search for the 'Subaltern'," Acolit, 1996 (Special Issue No. 2: Can 'The Subaltern' Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial Studies), p. 23-33.

Articles in edited volumes

(20) “Populism and the Politics of the Media Spectacle in the US: The Imagery of the US-Mexico Border”. Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Inquiries. Eds. Iulian Cananau and Peder Thalén. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 143-162.

(19) “Back to God's Country (1919)”. Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Ed. Paul, Heike und Sarah Marak, Katharina Gerund, Marius Henderson. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. 23-27. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839459737.pdf

(18) “Amor, esperanza y racism en Todos nos llamamos Alí” (trans. A. Manzanas Calvo and Paula Barba). Cine y hospitalidad: Narrativas visuals del Otro – Materiales de arte y estética. Ed. Ana Manzanas Calvo and Domingo Hernández Sánchez. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2021. 77-88.

(17) “La ambigua hospitalidad de El otro lado de la esperanza” (trans. A. Manzanas Calvo and Paula Barba). Cine y hospitalidad: Narrativas visuals del Otro – Materiales de arte y estética. Ed. Ana Manzanas Calvo and Domingo Hernández Sánchez. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2021. 163-172.

(16) “The Idea of the Western Hemisphere: Imperial Knowledge Production on the Americas in Travel Writing of the Early Nineteenth Century.” Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas. Eds. Volker Depkat and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019. 31-50.

(15) “The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective: Introduction.” Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective (Interamericana series). Eds. G. Pisarz-Ramírez and M. Heide. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. 9-31.

(14) “The Hemispheric Frame and ’American’ Travel Writing of the Early United States.” Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective. Eds. G. Pisarz-Ramírez and M. Heide. New York: Peter Lang (Interamericana series). 2016. 73-96.

(13) “Narcocorridos: Ethnic Tradition, Local Knowledge, and Commercialization.” Selling Ethnicity and Race: Consumerism and Representation in Twenty-First-Century America. Ed. G. Pisarz-Ramirez et al. Trier: Wissenschaftliche Verlag, 2015. 197-211.

(12) “José Martí, Cuban Cultural Theory, and Inter-American Studies.” Transmediality and Transculturality. Eds. N. Gernalzick and G. Pisarz-Ramirez. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 141-157.

            Review: https://dgfa.de/nadja-gernalzick-and-gabriele-pisarz-ramirez-eds-transmediality-and-transculturality-heidelberg-winter-2013-444-pp/

(11) "Body Languages/Body Politics: Performativity in John Rechy's City of Night and The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez." Body Signs: The Latino/a Body in Cultural Production. Ed. Astrid Fellner. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2011. 123-137.

(10) "José Martí in the United States: American Studies, Latin American Studies, Transnational Studies, and the Re-Reading of a Nineteenth Century Nationalist," Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts (Festschrift for Günter H. Lenz). Ed. R. Isensee und W. Raussert. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 215-230.

(9) "Contact Languages: Orality, Hybridity, and the corrido of the Texan-Mexican Border Region (1848 to 1958, and beyond)," Estrategias de la hibridez en América Latina: Del Descubrimiento hasta el siglo XXI. Ed. Alfonso de Toro et al. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. 133-146.

(8) "American Orientals/American Patriots: Jews, Judaism, and the Early Republic in the Writing of Royall Tyler and Mordecai M. Noah," America and the Orient. Ed. H. Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006. 53-72.

(7) "The History of Chicano Film: Hybridity and Intercultural Exchange as Representational Practices," in: J. Raab  and M. Butler (Eds.). Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. Tempe and Münster: Bilingual Press and Lit, 2008. 249-264.

(6) "Herman Melvilles 'Benito Cereno' und das pan-amerikanische Imaginäre," in: Leo Truchlar (Ed.). One America – Many Americas: Erkundungen und Verortungen aus historischer, kultureller und literarischer Sicht (Münster: Lit, 2004), 113-128.

(5) "Ambivalent Vistas: José Martí's 'Our America,' Nineteenth Century Pan-Americanism and Hemispheric American Studies," in: M. Draxlbauer, A. Fellner und T. Fröschl (Eds.). (Anti-)Americanisms (Münster: Lit, 2004). 89-105.

(4) "Introduction: Writing/Eating Culture" (with T. Döring und S. Mühleisen), in: Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2003), 1-16.

(3) "Transcultural Space in Luis Alberto Urrea's In Search of Snow," in: Benito, Jesús und Ana María Manzanas (Eds.). Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands (Amsterdam und New York: Rodopi, 2002) p.115-126.

(2) "Eine Kontaktzone beider Amerika: Américo Paredes und die Anfänge der Chicano-Literatur," in: U. Riese (Ed.). Kontaktzone Amerika. Literarische Verkehrsformen kultureller Übersetzung (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000) p. 199-232.

(1) "The Postmodern 'We': Academia and Community in Ana Castillo's So Far from God and Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel," in: Lomelí, Francisco und Karin Ikas (Eds.). Latino Literatures and Cultures:Transnational Perspectives (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000) p. 171-180.

 

Entries in Encyclopaedias

(5) “Tino Villanueva“. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. Eds. Christina Soto van der Plas and Lacie Rae Buckwalter Cunningham. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio. 2023.

(4) Kindlers Literaturlexikon: "Rudolfo Anaya, " Bret Harte," "John Trumbull,". "Booker T. Washington." Ed. Frank Kelleter. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.

(3) Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic-American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. "With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (Américo Paredes)," 372-373; "Urrea, Luis Alberto: Essayist, Novelist, Poet," 350-351.

(2) Lexikon der Weltliteratur I: Autoren (4. Auflage), Ed. Gero von Wilpert. New entries and revisions "American authors," Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag. 2004.

New entries: "Rita Dove, " "Joseph Rodman Drake, " "André Dubus," "Timothy Dwight," "Bob Dylan," "William Eastlake," "Margaret Edson," "Stanley Elkin," "Sumner Locke Elliott," "Bret Easton Ellis," "James Ellroy," "Raymond Federman," "Eugene Field," "Rachel Field," "Richard Ford," "Maria Irene Fornes," "Charles Fuller," "William Gaddis," "Charlotte Perkins Gilman," "Louise Glück," "Albert Goldbarth," "Mary Gordon," "John Grisham," "Davis Grubb," "John Guare," "Ha Jin," "Albert Hackett," "Edward Everett Hale," "Elizabeth Hardwick," "Anthony Hecht," "Frank Herbert," "Oscar Hijuelos," "Francis Hopkinson," "Richard Howard," "William Humphrey," "David Ignatow," "Charles Jackson," "Steve Katz," "William Kennedy," "Francis Scott Key," "Daniel Keyes."

Revision: Truman Capote, Lewis John Carlino, William Bliss Carman, John Dickson Carr, Carlos Castaneda, Willa S. Cather, Raymond Chandler, William Ellery Channing, Mary Ellen Chase, Mary Chase, Paddy Chayefsky, John Cheever, Thomas Holley Chivers, Winston Churchill, John Ciardi, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Evan S. Connell, Marc Connelly, John Esten Cooke, Gregory Corso, Thomas Bertram Costain, Malcolm Cowley, James Gould Cozzens, Stephen Crane, Hart Crane, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert Creeley, Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, Michael Crichton, E. E. Cummings, George William Curtis, Edward Dahlberg, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Richard Henry Dana Sr., Donald Davidson.

(1) "Paul Bowles," in: Engler, Bernd und Kurt Müller (Eds.). Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000). 79-81.

Online Publications (webpages)

(4) "Border Art." MigraMedia, Erasmus+, 2024.

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BorderArt.pdf

(3) "Populism and Immigration." MigraMedia, Erasmus+, 2024.

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/home/unsere-medien/keywords/populism-and-immigration/

(2) "Aki Kaurismäki, The Other Side of Hope (2017)." Hospitality and European Film, Erasmus+, 2019.

https://hostfilm.usal.es/index.php/aki-kaurismaki-the-other-side-of-hope/

(1) "Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)." Hospitality and European Film, Erasmus+, 2019.

https://hostfilm.usal.es/index.php/fear-eats-the-soul-2/

Reviews (selection)

Fojas, Camilla. Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2005, in: Comparative American Studies 4.2: 2006, S. 237-240.

Schloss, Dietmar. Die Tugendhafte Republik: Politische Ideologie und Literatur in der amerikanischen Gründerzeit. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003, in: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA), 2006.1: 113-116.

Giles, Paul. Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002, in: Anglistik. 16.1:2005, S.184-186.

John Carlos Rowe. The New American Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), in: Philologie im Netz (PhiN) 29: 2004, S. 66-68.

Byrd, Ayana D. und Lori L. Tharps. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2001), in: Wasafiri 40.4: 2003, S. 71-72.

Bernhard Kettemann und Georg Marko (Eds.). Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary Intercultural Interaction (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999), in: Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft, 2000.

Hermann Herlinghaus und Utz Riese (Eds.). Heterotopien der Identität: Literatur in interamerikanischen Kontaktzonen (Heidelberg: Winter, 1999), in: Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft, 1999, S. 125-131.

Claudia Breger und Tobias Döring (Eds.). Figuren der/des Dritten. Erkundungen kultureller Zwischenräume (Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998), in: Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft, 1999, S. 749-752.

Winfried Siemerling und Katrin Schwenk (Eds.). Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996), in: Amerikastudien - American Studies, Vol. 44, 3 (1999), S. 442-445.

Misc:

"Erinnerung im Gringo-Grenzland," Zeitschrift für KulturAustausch, Vol. 49, 3/1999, 99-100.

"Mehr als Latin Lover: Latino Cinema aus USA," Humboldt: Die Zeitung der Alma Mater Berolinensis, 49.2/2004, 10.

Webpage (editor and coordinator):

Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting (MigraMedia), Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership (2023-2027), internationaler Projektleiter

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/

Weitere Medienpräsenz (selection)

• UHiversum Talks, Folge 42: Trumps Triumph und seine Folgen

Podcast, gestaltet von Sara Reinke

https://www.podcast.de/episode/650525018/42-trumps-triumph-und-seine-folgen-mit-prof-dr-markus-heide

• UHiversum Talks, Folge 34: Das Rennen um das Weiße Haus, Teil 1: USA

Podcast, gestaltet von Sara Reinke

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/podcast/details/uhiversum-talks-folge-34-the-winner-leaves-a-mess-doppelfolge-zum-us-wahlkampf-2024-prof-dr-markus-heide/

• UHiversum Talks, Folge 35: Das Rennen um das Weiße Haus, Teil 2: Europa/USA

Podcast, gestaltet von Sara Reinke

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/neuigkeiten/uhiversum-talks-folge-35-das-rennen-um-das-weisse-haus-teil-2-der-doppelfolge-zum-us-wahlkampf-2024-prof-dr-markus-heide/

• Deutschlandfunk: „Das Studium Amerikanistik“ (2014)

Laufende Forschungsprojekte

Migration Narratives in Visual Media (MigraMedia). Konferenzen und Publikationen, Förderung bis 2027

Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in higher education, 2024-27

• https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/
• Forschungskooperation mit 9 europäischen und amerikanischen Universitäten und NGOs
• International coordinator

 

Curriculum Reform to Promote Education for Peace in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova

https://projects.tuni.fi/peaceedu/
https://karazin.ua/en/news/u-nbsp-mezhakh-proiektu-erazmus-laquo-reforma-navchalnykh/

Kooperation mit 12 europäischen Universitäten in dem von der Universität Tampere (Finnland) koordinierten EU Projekt PeaceEdu (2024-2027)

 

DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe: Philosophieren in einer globalisierten Welt – historische und systematische Perspektiven (Laufzeit 2024-2032, Leitung: Prof. Dr. Rolf Elberfeld und Prof. Dr. Sool Park), Universität Hildesheim.

• Assoziierter Forscher

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/team/associate-members/

 

Kooperation mit Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca (UAEM)

• Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Lenin Martél und weiteren Lehrenden
• Konferenzorganisation 2021 (Mobile Archives),
• Lehr und Forschungsaufenthalt in Toluca, März 2023 Toluca, Mex.
• Konferenz November 2024, Veracruz, Mexiko

 

Grants / Stipendien

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Uppsala University und UC San Diego (6 Monate)

https://www.rj.se/en/grants/2017/the-us-mexico-border-as-contested-space-film-and-popular-culture-1990-to-the-present/

• Matariki Research Fellowship, Dartmouth College (6 Monate)
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, alumni Förderung, UC San Diego (3 Monate)
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung: Feodor Lynen Stipendium (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 18 Monate)
• Fulbright American Studies Fellowship (Harvard University und American Antiquarian Society, 6 Monate)

https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/markus-heide

• DFG: Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies (LMU München)
• DFG: Graduiertenkolleg Demokratie in den U.S.A. (FU Berlin)
• DFG: Forschungsaufenthalt im Rahmen des GraKo (UC Berkeley)
• Promotionsstipendium nach dem Nachwuchsförderungsgesetz des Landes Berlin (Nafög)
• DAAD: Stipendium zur Vorbereitung eines Dissertationsprojekts (Harvard)
• German Israeli Fund (GIF): Workshop Historical Consciousness, U. Beer Sheva, Israel
• Erasmus: Universidad de Valencia, Spanien
• DAAD: Stipendium für praxisbezogene Auslandsaufenthalte (New York)
• DAAD: Jahresstipendium zum Auslandsstudium (Brandeis University)

 

Publication funding / Publikationsförderung

• Riksbanken Jubileumsfonds (Schweden): Publication funding Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere (2022)
• DFG: Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective (Reihe: Interamericana). Mit Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
• Kulturabteilung der Botschaft von Kanada: Kanadischer Film
• VG Wort: Grenzüberschreibungen

 

Further funding / Sonstige Fördermittel

• Hilda Kumlin Foundation, University of Texas
• Hilda Kumlin Foundation, Universität Leipzig
• Embassy of Canada, Berlin: film series Canadian Cinema
• Embassy of the United States, Berlin: film series U.S. Latino Cinema
• DFG Reisestipendium zur Teilnahme an der ASA Tagung in Oakland (CA, USA)
• Siggener Kolloquium zur Amerikanistik, Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung

Konferenzen: Planung und Organisation

Internationale Konferenz. Border Politics. Erasmus+ Projekt: Migration Narratives in European Media:Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting (MigraMedia), Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkei, 9.-13. 10. 2024

Internationale Konferenz. Migration, Media, and Mediterranean Studies. Erasmus+ Projekt: Migration Narratives in European Media:Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting (MigraMedia), Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Griechenland, 14.-20. 5. 2024

Internationale Konferenz mobile archives, 10. November 2021, Universität Siegen; gefördert durch Society of Early Americanists (USA) und Universität Siegen (mit Prof. Thomas Hallock, University of Southern Florida, und Dr. Marcel Hartwig (U Siegen)

The U.S.-Mexico Border in Comparative Perspective, Uppsala Universitet, internationale Konferenz, Sept. 2019.

Hospitality and Film: Erasmus+Research Group, training activity and workshop (Uppsala Universitet), May 27-29, 2019.

Enlightenment, Nation-Building, and the Practices of Natural History: The Bartrams and Linné, internationaler workshop (Uppsala, März 2019)

American Studies Network meeting 2017, Uppsala Universitet

The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), Annual Conference, Humboldt Universität Berlin, local organizer, 2016. epcablog.wordpress.com/conferences/

Ethnicity and American Film: Current Research in Sweden, Uppsala University, June 2015

American Law and Affirmative Action. Swedish Institute of American Studies (SINAS),Uppsala University, Jan. 2015.

U.S.-Mexico Border Violence: Contemporary Representations, Border Studies workshop, Uppsala Universitet, Swedish Institute of American Studies (SINAS), Dec. 10, 2014.

Border Studies: Europas Grenzen im transnationalen Vergleich. Ringvorlesung des Basisprojekts Gender und Gestaltung des Exzellenzclusters Bild Wissen Gestaltung (mit Prof. Dr. Claudia Bruns). Wintersemester 2013/14 und Sommersemester 2014.

Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and Biopolitics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 11.-13. Oktober 2012. Abschlusskonferenz TransCoop Projekt Cosmopolitan Film Cultures, mit Prof. Imre Szeman und Prof. Heike Härting (Gefördert A. v. Humboldt Stiftung)

Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective, International Conference, mit Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Universität Leipzig, April 26-27, 2012. (Gefördert durch DFG)

Cosmopolitanism and Film: Historical Perspectives, International Conference in Cooperation with Université de Montréal and University of Alberta, Funded by Trans-Coop (A. v. Humboldt Foundation), Berlin, October 29-31, 2010.

Chicano Theatre Workshop, mit Jorge Huerta und Carlos Morton. Gefördert durch die Kulturabteilung der Botschaft der USA, Berlin. 26. Juni 2006.

Filmreihe Geschichte des kanadischen Films, April 2005 bis Februar 2006, Botschaft von Kanada, Berlin. Mit Dr. Claudia Kotte und Noami Buck. Gefördert durch Kulturabteilung der Botschaft von Kanada.

workshops In and Out of Hollywood: Ethics, Aesthetics, Ethnicity and Gender in American Film. Botschaft der USA, Berlin, Kulturabteilung. Mit Dr. Barbara von Bechtholdsheim und Dr. Martina Kohl. 15. November 2004.

Film- und Vortragsreihe Latino Cinema aus den USA, Kino Arsenal, Berlin. Mit Dr. Birgit Köhler. November 2004. Gefördert durch Botschaft der USA, Kulturabteilung, und Humboldt Universität Berlin.

Co-Organisation: Symposium: One America - Many Americas: Erkundungen und Verortungen aus historischer, kultureller und literarischer Sicht, Salzburg, 8.-9. Mai 2003. Mit PD Dr. Thomas Fröschl und Prof. Dr. Leo Truchlar.

Co-Organisation: Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food Today, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Internationale Konferenz, keynote: Sidney Mintz, April 29 – May 1, 2000, (Unterstützt durch DGfA). Mit Tobias Döring und Susanne Mühleisen.

Co-Organisation: Paradigms of the Postcolonial: Migration, Minority, Modernity, Postgraduate Workshop, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, April 18 –19, 1997.

Workshop- und panel Organisation

Workshop, Diversität in Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Mit Prof. Dr. Viola Georgi. Goethe-Institut Zagreb, Kroatien, September 2024. www.goethe.de/ins/cs/de/bib/ser.html

Leitung des panels Images of Migration in Film, Internationale Konferenz Images of Migration – Bilder von und über Migration, Zentrum für Bildungsintegration (SUH) und Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, gefördert durch die Integrationsbeauftragte des Bundes (31. 5.-1. 6. 22)

Leitung panel “Landscapes/Space,” 34^th European Association for American Studies Conference, Madrid, 6.-8. April 2022

Panel „Mobile Archives“, internationale Konferenz der American Studies Association (ASA), New Orleans (USA), November 2022

Workshop: “Postcolonial Film Cultures”, Postcolonial Translocations, GNEL/ASNEL conference, University of Münster, May 21-24, 2009.

"Making National Bodies: (Non-)Conformism and the Early Republic,” Konferenz der European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Nicosia, Zypern, 7.-10. April 2006.

"Transculturation and ‘the Americas’," Konferenz der Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen (GNEL), Frankfurt/M, (19.-23.5.04).

Vortragstätigkeit (Auswahl)

“Metodologías para abordar el estudio de las diversidades: Migracíon e integracíon en Alemania y México. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.” 31. März 2023.

“Borderlands and Contested Space,” University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Center for Migration Studies, 19. 2. 2023

“Border Paradigms in American Cultural Studies,” Universität Erlangen, 19. 1. 2022

“U.S.-Mexico Border Film,” keynote lecture, Konferenz: Border Close-ups: Film and Everyday Lives in the Borderlands, Universität Saarbrücken, 4. 12. 2021.

“Der Klang der Grenze: Textur in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive,” UniGR-Center for Border Studies, Universität des Saarlandes, Université de Luxembourg, Université de Lorraine. Konferenz: Literaturen und Repräsentationen der Grenze, 20.-21. Mai 2021, Université de Lorraine.

“Political Art at the U.S.‐Mexico Border,” Universität Regensburg, CITAS, 15. 1. 2021.

“Visibility and Invisibility in US-Mexico Border Art: Guillermo Galindo and Alejandro González Iñárritu,” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kulturwissenschaften, Frankfurt/Oder, Oktober 2020.

“William Bartram’s Travels: Domestic Imagination and Creole Knowledge Production.” Intern. Conference Enlightenment, Nation Building, and the Practices of Natural History: The Bartrams and Linné, Uppsala University, March 2019.

“Hospitality and Refugee Film: Teaching Practice.” International School on Mind, Brain, and Education, Erice (Italien), Oktober 2018.

www.mbe-erice.org/2018-program.php

“Border Art.” Conference of the Swedish Association of American Studies, University of Stockholm, September 2018

“Border and Spaces of Privilege.” Border Studies Group, University of Stockholm.

“The Presidential Election 2018 in Mexico: Cultural Dimensions,” Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Stockholm.

“Minor Mobility: Child Migration and the US-Mexico Divide,” Universität Potsdam, Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 10. 6. 2018

“Mobility Welcome?: Art and Recreation Zones at the US-Mexico Border.” Workshop: Minor Mobilities in American Literature and Culture. University of Vienna. May 2018.

“Borders: Comparative Perspectives, Germany, USA, Mexico.” University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. January 2018.

“Hemispheric American Studies: A Paradigm and Method.” American Network Meeting (ASN), Uppsala University, 2017.

“The ‘Hemispheric Frame’ and Travel Writing of the Early United States.” Bayerische Amerika Akademie (BAA), Jahreskonferenz Cultural Mobilty and Knowledge Formation in the Americas, Juli 2016

“Social Banditry and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Mexican-American Popular Culture,“ DGfA-Jahrestagung, Osnabrück, Mai 2016.

“Border Art and Security Practices: Ricardo Dominguez and the Electronic Disturbance Theater,” Conference North American In/Securities: A Local-Global Nexus. University of Turku, Oct. 2015.

“The Inter-American Imaginary: Border and the Western Hemisphere in U.S. Culture,” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, September 2015.

“Border Studies”, Universität Würzburg, July 2015.

“Narcocorridos: Violence and Popular Culture in Mexico and the US,” University of Leipzig, July 2015.

“Ramona and The Pilgrim: Mexico and Mexicans in American Silent Film,“ Uppsala University, June 2015.

“Lines in the Sand: The Materiality of Borders in North American Performance Art,” University of Munich, May 2015.

“Narcocorridos and the Culture of the Borderlands,” Uppsala University, Dec. 2014.

“Border Film and the US-Canada Divide,” University of Turku, November 2014.

“The Hemispheric Frame and ’American’ Travel Writing of the Early United States.” Conference of the Swedish Association of American Studies, University of Örebro, September 2014

“Border Studies: The Borders of Europe in Transnational Perspective,” Berlin, May 2014.

“Comparative Border Studies.” University of Groningen, Niederlande, 26. 2. 2014.

“Postcolonialism and American Studies,” Universidad de Valencia, Spanien, Mai 2013.

“Narcocorridos: Ethnic Tradition, Local Knowledge, and Commercialization,” Konferenz Selling Ethnicity and Race, Leipzig 8. 11. 2013

“Comparative Border Studies,” Uppsala University, November 2013

“Zur Interrelation von Raum, “Rasse,” Geschlecht und Grenze,” Vorlesungsreihe Karten Körper Kollektive, HU Berlin (30. 10. 2013)

“Alte und Neue Welt: Grenziehungen im frühen Amerika-Diskurs,” HU Berlin (4. 12. 2013)

“Cosmopolitanism and Film: Babel as Border Narrative,” Universität Kreta, Griechenland, April 2013.

“The Hemispheric Frame and ‘American’ Travel Writing of the Early United States,“ Universität Leipzig, April 2012.

“Protecting Borders, Imagining Frontiers: Canadian Film in Hemispheric Perspective,” Internationale Konferenz The Art of Cinema - Canada versus the United States, Universität Innsbruck (29.-30. 3. 2012).

“Cosmopolitics in Amores Perros (2000) and Sleep Dealer (2008),” Université de Montréal, October 2011

“José Martí, Postcolonialism, and American Cultural Studies,” Universität Leipzig, Juni 2011.

„Transnationaler Film und die Grenze USA-Mexiko,” Zentrum Lateinamerika, Universität Köln, Mai 2011

“American Studies and/as Border Studies,” Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Januar 2011.

“Thomas Jefferson, the Transnational Imagination, and American Travel Writing,” Symposium Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson, John. F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin, December 3, 2010.

“The U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canadian Borders in the Silent Era,” Bi-Annual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, November 11-13, 2010.

“Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism: Travel Writing in the18th century.” Universidad de Alicante, April 2009

“’I know how to curse’: Language and Colonialism in Black British Literature.” Universidad de Alicante, April 2009

“Die Geschichte des kanadischen Films: Darstellungen des nationalen Raums vom Stummfilm bis zur Sitcom.“ Amerikahaus München, 13. November 2008.

“Ethnicity and Transnationalism in U.S.-Latino Filmmaking.” Universität Bielefeld, Oktober 2008.

“Latinos: Geschichte, Kultur, Gegenwart.“ Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum Stuttgart, 9. September 2008.

“Cultural Contact, Border Theory, and U.S.-Latino Film.” Konferenz: Cultural Contact: Historical Models and Contemporary Challenges, Universität Rostock.

"Travel Writing in Colonial America and the Early USA." (Vorlesung), Universität Osnabrück, 2008.

"Multilingualism and Language Politics in Latino/a Writing: Sandra Cisneros and Ilan Stavans," VI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana, Universidad de Alicante, Spanien, 22. Mai 2008.

"Cultural Contact and the History of Canadian Film: From Back to God’s Country (1919) to Little Mosque on the Prairie" (2007), Universität Bayreuth, 15. 1. 2008.

"Dimensions of Crossover: Cultural Globalization and Recent U.S. Latino Cinema," Konferenz: Latina/o Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and the Politics of Representation in the United States, Universität Bielefeld, 10.-12. 1. 2008.

"From Zorro to Jennifer Lopez: The History of Latino Hollywood," U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2007, Paderborn.

"Latinos: Aussenseiter, Illegaler, mainstream," Amerikahaus München, Dezember 2006

"Cosmopolitanism and the Literature of the Early National Period," Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), Oakland, CA, USA, 15. 10. 2006

"Multilingualism and Mediation: Ilan Stavans’ On Borrowed Words and the Jewish-Latino Autobiography," 5^th International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Conference, Mainz, 27. – 31. Juli 2006.

"The History of Pan-Americanism," University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Zypern. 6. 4. 2006.

"Universalism in the Slave Narrative of the Enlightenment," Jahrestagung der DGfA, "Transatlantic American Studies," Frankfurt, Mai 2005.

"’Writing from within the monster’s entrails’: José Martí, Nationalist Transnationalism, and Inter-American Studies," Zentralinstitut für Regionalforschung, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (27.4.05)

"José Martí in the United States: Past and Prospects of Hemispheric American Studies," Transatlantic American Studies: Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Texts, Humboldt Universität Berlin (18.2.05)

"Jewish-Canadian Writing and the History of Jews in the Americas: Mordecai Richler and Anne Michaels," Humboldt Universität, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (3. 2. 05)

"Rising Glory?: Poetry in the Early Republic," Universität Münster, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (20.1.05)

"’... but westward I go free’: Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative and Atlantic Modernity," Universität Mainz, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (17.1.05)

"Lone Star: Texanische Geschichte im Film," Identitäten Mexikos, Instituto Cervantes und Amerikahausverein, München (7.6.04)

"American Captives/American Orientals: From Royall Tyler to Mordecai M. Noah," Jahrestagung der DGfA, Mannheim (4.6.04)

"Jews and Judaism in Canada," Vorlesung, John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien Berlin, (3.6.04)

"Mordecai M. Noah and Jewish Identity in the Early Republic," Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Prag (3.4.04)

"Kino der Grenze: Von Luis Valdez zu Robert Rodriguez," Universität Potsdam (30.1.04)

"Die Geschichte des U.S.-Latino Cinema: Von The Mark of Zorro (1920) zu From Dusk Till Dawn"(1996), Amerika Haus München (22.7.03)

"Howl, Breath, Prayer: Allen Ginsberg's Poetics", Vorlesung, Universität Salzburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (20.5.03)

"Herman Melvilles 'Benito Cereno' und das pan-amerikanische Imaginäre", Symposium: One America - Many Americas: Erkundungen und Verortungen aus historischer, kultureller und literarischer Sicht, Salzburg (8.-9. Mai 2003)

"Begegnungssprachen: Oralität, Schriftkultur und Hybridität im texanisch-mexikanischen Grenzgebiet", 14. Hispanistentag des Deutschen Hispanistenverbandes, Sektion 6: Discursos sobre la hibridez en Latinoamérica: del Descubrimiento hasta el siglo XXI/Hybriditätsdiskurse in Lateinamerika: Von der Eroberung bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Regensburg (6.-9.3.03)

"Ambivalent Vistas: José Martí's 'Our America' (1891) and Contemporary Hemispheric American Studies", 29. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (AAAS), Wien (8.-10. November 2002)

"Visual Encounters: Cultural Exchange in U.S.-Latino Cinema", Konferenz: Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures, Universität Bielefeld (23.-26. Oktober 2002)

"Postkolonialismus und Konzepte des Hybriden", Kolloquium: Postkolonialismus und Multikulturalismus: Debatten in der jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung, Historisches Seminar, Abt. Jüdische Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (22. Oktober 2002)

"Ethnography, Postcolonialism and Chicano/a Literature", Repräsentationen von Chicana/o Kultur(en): Bilder, Texte, Produkte, Internationale Konferenz, Universität Potsdam, Institute für Romanistik und Anglistik/Amerikanistik (19.-20. Juli 2002)

"Re-Membering: The Body and Memory in Américo Paredes' Poetics", Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production, International Conference on Latino/a Cultures in the United States, Universität Wien (28.-30. Juni 2002)

"Narrative Sabotage: Postmodernism, Performativity and Identity in John Rechy's City of Night and The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez", III. Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana, Universidad de Málaga (21.-23. Mai 2002)

"Angst in the Contact Zone: Local Knowledge, Cultural Translation, and the Reading of Chicano/a Literature", Writers at the Border: International Conference, The Latin American Studies Program (RULAS), Rutgers University, USA (April 1999)

"Spatial Poetics in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and 'Never Marry a Mexican'", Seminar Chicana/o Literature (Dr. Maria Moss), J. F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin (Januar 1999)

"Transgression in Chicano/a Erzählliteratur", Symposium: Cultural Difference, Universität Leipzig (Juli 1998)

"´When Borders Migrate´: Giant, Chicano/a Hybridity and the Postcolonial in America" Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Leipzig (Juni 1998)

"The Postmodern 'We': Academia and Community in Ana Castillo's So Far from God and Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel", MELUS Europe, Founding Conference, Heidelberg (Juni 1998)

"Transcultural Space in Luis Alberto Urrea´s In Search of Snow", Shifting Boundaries: Place and Space in the Romance Cultures of North America, International Conference, Groningen, Niederlande (Mai 1998)

"The U.S. as Third World? Minority Discourse and the Postcolonial", Paradigms of the Postcolonial: Migration, Minority, Modernity, Postgraduate Workshop, Institut für England- und Amerikaforschung, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (April 1997)

"Decentered Identity and Discursive Resistance: Chicano/a and Latin American Perspectives", Annual Conference of the German Society for New English Literatures (GNEL), Universität  Konstanz (September 1996)

Responses

Walter Mignolo, "The Logic of Coloniality and the Limits of Postcoloniality: From Transnationalism to Transmodernity," Symposium: "Transnational Encounters: Global/Local Synergies in the (Post)Colonial World," Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies und Institut für Romanistik, LMU München (21.7.03)

"Demetriou Papademetriou on Border Communities", workshop des Postgraduiertenforums, 50. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), München 2003)

Moderation

Panel Canadian Documentary, Konferenz: Capturing the … Truth? Changing Strategies in Documentary Cinema, Humboldt Universität Berlin (8.-10.2. 05)

"Transculturation and ‘the Americas’," Konferenz der Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen (GNEL), Frankfurt/M, (19.-23.5.04).

Workshp mit Gayatri Spivak, "How Does Literature Advocate?", Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies, München (28.11.2002)

Alejandro Morales, "From Barrio to Ivy League: A Reading, Commentary and Other Future Visions of the Borderlands", Lesung, Veranstaltung des Amerika Haus Verein, Amerika Haus München (14.11.2002)

Francisco Lomelí, "Latino Cultures in the USA - a Tropicalization?", Veranstaltung des Amerika Haus Verein, Amerika Haus München (9.7.2002)

Panel Moderation: "Media and Mediatization", Konferenz: Violence, Difference, Representation. Konferenz des Graduiertenkollegs Postcolonial Studies, München (14.-15. Juni 2002) 

Workshop mit Homi K. Bhabha, Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies, München (2002)

Postgraduate Forum der DGfA, workshop-Moderation, München (9.-11. November 2001)

Panel Moderation: Workshop Ethnic Traditions and Visual Stimulations. Konferenz: Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food Today, Frankfurt (29. April bis 1. Mai 2000)

Wissenschaftskommunikation (Auswahl)

Präsentation Kooperationen mit ukrainischen Universitäten, Konferenz Days of Ukraine in Lower Saxony, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30. 9.-1. 10. 2022

Stockholm Gewerkschaftshaus, 2018: “The election in Mexico 2018”

Forum in Museum Gustavianum Museum, Uppsala, 2016, 2017, 2018, öffentliche Vorträge zu Forschung und Lehre

Fulbright Boston, 2007, “American Studies in Germany”

Filmreihe Geschichte des kanadischen Films, April 2005 bis Februar 2006, Botschaft von Kanada, Berlin. Mit Dr. Claudia Kotte und Noami Buck. Gefördert durch Kulturabteilung der Botschaft von Kanada.

"Latinos: Außenseiter, Illegaler, mainstream," Amerikahaus München, Dezember 2006

Film- und Vortragsreihe Latino Cinema aus den USA, Kino Arsenal, Berlin. Mit Dr. Birgit Köhler. November 2004. Gefördert durch Botschaft der USA, Kulturabteilung, und Humboldt Universität Berlin.

Teaching (selection) / Lehrverantsaltungen (Auswahl)

Universität Hildesheim, Institut für englische Sprache und Literatur

(79) Frontiers, Borders and Boundaries in American Literature and Culture (BA)

(78) Text Analysis (BA)

(77) Introduction to Cultural Studies (BA)

(76) “Race”, Ethnicity and Gender in American Literature (MA)

(75) Creative Writing (BA)

(74) Literature II: Children’s and Young Adult Literature (BA)

(73) Introduction to Literary Studies (BA)

(72) Vorlesung Cultural Studies: An Introduction (BA)

Universität Hildesheim, Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation

(71) Kulturkontrastive Studien: The anglo- und frankophone Americas (BA) (70) Auditive Formen der Übersetzung: Radio und Hörspieladaption (MA)

(69) Hollywood: History and Theory (MA)

(68) Vorlesung: Medienkulturgeschichte und Medieninstitutionen (MA)

Uppsala University, Department of English and Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS), Auswahl

(67) US Politics: An Introduction

(66) Literary Studies: Introduction

(65) American Media: Media Spectacles and US Presidents

(64) Hollywood: History and Theory (American Media)

(63) Supervision: C-essays, MA-thesis, didactic essays

(62) Early American Literature (MA): Paine to Melville

(61) American Media, A and B

(60) American Politics

(59) American Literature and Culture

(58) Literature A and B: Victorian Literature, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

(57) Lectures: The American Short Story, American Drama

(56) Social Studies, A and B

Universität Erfurt, Amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft

(55) Early American Literature (Vorlesung)

(54) Gender, Race and Disability in Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature

(53) Canadian Literature

(52) Presidents and Presidency in US Popular Culture

(51) The History of Hollywood (Vorlesung)

(50) Making the Americas: Trans-Atlantic Relations in Early America

(49) Latino/a Literatures in the US and Canada

(48) American Studies and Border Studies: Theory, Literature, Culture

McMaster University, Hamilton (Ontario), Kanada

(47) Postcolonial Studies: Black British and African-American Film (MA)

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

(46) Postcolonialism and American Literature (MA Education)

(45) Americans Abroad: History, Fiction, Travel Writing (BA)

(44) Karten, Körper, Kollektive: Europas Grenzdiskurse seit der Antike im transnationalen Vergleich (VL, mit Prof. Dr. Claudia Bruns, Institut für Kulturw.)

(43) Orientalism/Occidentalism: Transatlantic Relations in American and Canadian Literature

(42) Critical Border Studies (MA American Studies, Gender Studies, Kulturw.)

(41) Praxiskolloquium: Berufsfelder für Anglisten und Amerikanisten

(40) The Immigrant Experience in American and Canadian Literature

(39) Theories of American Studies: Place, Borders, Empire (MA, Gender Studies)

(38) Trans-Atlantic Travel Writing: Columbus to Bill Bryson

(37) Literary Regionalism

(36) Documentary Film in the US and Canada: History, Theory, Aesthetics (BA, Gender)

(35) Border Narratives/Border Aesthetics: The Nation in American and Canadian Fiction

(34) Concepts of American Literary and Cultural Studies

(33) The Serial Drama: History, Structure, Representation

(32) Hollywood and the World: Transnational Perspectives on American Film (BA Engl.)

(31) American Studies and/as Border Studies (MA Amerikanistik)

(30) The Early American Novel (BA Amerikanistik)

(29) Introduction to Literary Studies

(28) Latino/a Literatures (MA Amerikanistik, Gender Studies)

(27) American and Canadian Documentary Film: History and Theory

(26) American Travel Writing: Columbus to Henry James

(25) American Cultural Studies: Theories and Methods (MA Amerikanistik)

(24) American Literary History: Beginnings to World War I, Lektüreseminar

(23) American Studies: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations

(22) The American Western: History, Genre, Gender

(21) Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: History and Theory (BA Amerikanistik, Lehramt)

(20) Canadian Film: The Other American Cinema (mit Dr. Claudia Kotte)

(19) The Gothic Novel in Britain and the US

(18) Shakespeare and America/Shakespeare in America (mit Dr. Claudia Olk, BA Engl.)

(17) American Poetry, American Poetics

(16) Moby Dick: Melville in Historical Context

(15) Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft II

Venice International University

(14) The Hollywood Musical (HS für Studenten der LMU München)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Amerika Institut, Abt. Amerikanische Kulturgeschichte

(13) Methoden und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaft (Einführung)

(12) Grundkurs II: Introduction to American Cultural and Social History

(11) Jewish Life in North America: Religion, Culture, Society 1654-1900

(10) Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies

(9) Early American Cinema (1900-1930)

(8) Ethnicity and American Film: Latino Cinema and Black Cinema

(7) Cultural Contact in the Americas: History, Myth, Theory         

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Lehraufträge)

(6) The U.S.-Latino Novel (mit Prof. Alejandro Morales, UC Irvine)

(5) Cultures of the Americas: Chicano/a Literature

Universität Leipzig (Lehraufträge)

(4) Introduction to the Study of Minority Literatures          

(3) The Taste of America: Food in American Cultural History

(2) Ethnicity and American Film: Latino Cinema and Black Cinema

(1) Postmoderne: Don Delillo, Thomas Pynchon, Bret Easton Ellis, Cathy Acker

Weitere Lehraufträge, Lehrer*innenfortbildungen, summer schools

Bahçeşehir University Istanbul (campus Berlin), Gastdozent media studies                      12/13

Theories of Media and Communication

TV and Media Studies

Berlin Summer Program Ohio State University (Blockseminar)                             7/12

Berlin: History and Film

Berlin, Honors Program Washington University, Seattle (Blockseminar)               7/11

Migration in German and American Film: Comparative Perspectives

Universidad de Alicante, Spanien (Erasmus Faculty Exchange)                             10/09

“Eine Fremdsprache lehren,” Lehrerfortbildung Especialista universitario en Didáctica y Metodología del Alemán como lengua extranjera

U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2007, Paderborn                                                  2.-6. 10. 07

“Tino Villanueva’s Scene From the Movie GIANT: ‘Minority Perspectives’ on Screen, in Literature, and in the Classroom,” Ethnic Visions of the United States of America

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Zypern (Erasmus/Socrates Faculty Exchange)      4/06

Olaudah Equiano and the Slave Narrative of the Enlightenment

Hemispheric American Studies

Amerika Haus Berlin, Kulturabteilung der Botschaft der USA                              9/05

Chicano/a Literature in the Classroom

Erasmus Dozenturen

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México Toluca (UAEM), Mexiko (2023)

Universidad de Valencia, Spanien (2013 und 2014)

Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Griechenland (2013)

University of Athens, Griechenland (2013)

Universidad de La Laguna, Spanien (2012), “Cine de la Frontera/Border Cinema”

Universidad de Valencia, Spanien (2010)

Universidad de Alicante, Spanien (2008 und 2009)

University of Nicosia, Zypern (2006)