JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher

Akademische T?tigkeiten

• Seit 2020/11: Juniorprofessorin für Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur an der Universit?t zu K?ln
• 2018/11 – 2020/10: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (50%), Amerikanistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), Universit?t Bamberg
• 2019/10 – 2020/09: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (40%), Büro der Frauenbeauftragten (Referentin für Frauenf?rderung), Universit?t Bamberg
• 2019/10 – 2020/09: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (10%), Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft, Universit?t Bamberg
• 2016/05 – 2018/10: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt "The Environmental Imagination of Mobility: Umwelt und Migration in der Amerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik," Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt, Amerikanistik (Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft), Universit?t Bamberg
• 2013/10 – 2016/04: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Amerikanistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), Universit?t Bamberg
• 2012/04 – 2013/03: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Amerikanistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), Universit?t Bamberg
• 2010/10 – 2012/03: Lehrbeauftrage für Englisch als Fremdsprache, Sprachenzentrum (Englische Sprachpraxis), Universit?t Bamberg

Wissenschaftliche T?tigkeiten & Studium

• 2012/10 – 2018/09: Promotionsstudium Amerikanistik, Universit?t Bamberg
• 2012/04: M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universit?t Bamberg
• 2010/06: M.A. Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2009/09 – 2010/06: Studium Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Englisch - Franz?sisch), Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2008/09 – 2009/06: Studium Englische, Franz?sische und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2006/10 – 2008/08: Studium Lehramt Englisch, Franz?sisch und Spanisch, Universit?t Bamberg

Stipendien und Preise

• 2019/07: Dissertationspreis der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie 2019
• 2019/03: DAAD F?rderung für die Teilnahme an der ASLE Conference 2019, UC Davis (USA)
• 2018/11: Dissertationspreis des Universit?t Bamberg für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften; gestiftet durch den Rotary Club Bamberg-Schloss Geyersw?rth
• 2018/06: Stipendium der Bayerischen Amerika Akademie für die Teilnahme am Summer Institute "The Futures of American Studies"; Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2015/05 – 2017/03: Teilnahme am Mentoring-Programm feRNet der Universit?t Bamberg; Mentorin Prof. Dr. Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College)
• 2013/09 – 2013/10: 2013 Duke University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship der Bayerischen Amerika Akademie; Duke University (USA)
• 2013/07 – 2013/09: Step by Step Brückenstipendium der Frauenbeauftragten der Universit?t Bamberg
• 2013/04 – 2013/06: DAAD Kurzstipendium für Doktoranden für einen Rechercheaufenthalt am Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2009/09 – 2010/06: Vollstipendium für das Masterstudium in Vergleichender Literaturwissenschaft am Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2008/09 – 2009/06: Fulbright Reisestipendium
• 2008/09 – 2009/06: Vollstipendium des Verbands Deutsch-Amerikanischer Club für Studienaufenthalt Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2005/06: Stipendium des Coburger Convent für soziales Engagement und herausragende Leistung im Abitur

Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalte im Ausland

• 2016/09 – 2016/10: Forschungsaufenthalt am Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2016/06: Teilnahme an der internationalen BAA Sommerakademie Material Cultures, Florida International University, Miami (USA)
• 2014/06: Teilnahme an der internationalen BAA Sommerakademie Critical Regionalism in Politics & Culture, Texas State University, San Marcos (USA)
• 2013/09 – 2013/10: Forschungsaufenthalt an der Duke University (USA)
• 2013/06: Teilnahme an der 6th International Walt Whitman Week, Northwestern University, Chicago (USA)
• 2013/04 – 2013/06: Forschungsaufenthalt am Dartmouth College (USA) 
• 2009/09 – 2010/06: Masterstudium in Comparative Literature am Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2008/09 – 2009/06: Auslandsjahr und Studium am Dartmouth College (USA)
• 2005/09 – 2006/08: Auslandsjahr in Tours (Frankreich)

?mter in Fachverb?nden

• Seit 2018/06: Postgraduate Representative im Beirat der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
• Seit 2017/11: Sprecherin des Postgraduierten Forums (PGF) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
• 2017/06 - 2020/10: Koordiantorin des Social Media Teams der European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE)
• 2015/05 - 2016/11: Mitglied des Organisationsteams des Postgraduierten-Forums (PGF) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
• 2011/11 - 2014/11: Pr?sidentin des Alumni Clubs des Verbands Deutsch-Amerikanischer Clubs, e.V.

?mter an der Universit?t Bamberg

• 2019/10 - 2020/10:Mittelbauvertreterin der Fakult?t GuK
• 2017/10 - 2019/09: Frauenbeauftragte der Fakult?t GuK
• 2015/10 - 2017/09: Stellvertretende Frauenbeauftragte der Fakult?t GuK
• 2015/10 - 2017/09: Wahlberechtigtes Mitglied im Mittelbaukonvent der Universit?t
• 2015/10 - 2017/09: Stellvertretende Mittelbauvertreterin in der st?ndigen Kommission für Lehre und Studierende (LuSt) und dem Ausschuss für Qualit?t in Studium und Lehre (AQSL)

Manuskript

• Poetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry (in Vorbereitung)

This study analyses the works of contemporary American poets of migration who combine a concern for different kinds of geographical movement and a concern for concrete physical environments. It focuses on American poetry that deals with human mobility, both voluntary and forced, while also being invested in thinking and working through mobile subjects’ relationships to the natural world as it has been brought into focus by ecocriticism. In five thematic chapters, I focus on poetry published between 1990 and 2017 by Caribbean Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, Lebanese American writer and painter Etel Adnan, Anglo-American poet Juliana Spahr, and Chamorro poet and educator Craig Santos Perez. The relationships of migrants of various ethnic backgrounds to nonhuman environments, the analysis of my primary texts reveals, are complex and fraught with histories of gendered, class-based, racial, colonial, and indeed environmental violence, raising questions about place-based notions of belonging, identity, and community. My study starts with the observation that many poets who write about nature and mobility in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century do not contend themselves with evoking urban spaces or broaching issues of displacement as movement through abstract cultural spaces, as scholarship on literatures of migration tends to emphasize. Instead, their texts engage with very concrete American locales, featuring mobile speakers who are struggling to maintain, regain, or develop meaningful relationships to the natural world. By actively and creatively reimagining such relationships in their poetry, a process I refer to as “poetic place-making,” these texts testify to the potential as well as to the limits of literature when it comes to producing non-parochial environmental imaginaries for our contemporary age of mass mobility as well as global environmental crisis.

Herausgeberschaften

• Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design. Spec. Issue of Ecozon@ 10.1 (2019). Hg. mit einer Einleitung mit Franca Bellarsi.
• Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) 17.1 (2016). Hg. mit einer Einleitung mit Laura Oehme, Theresa Roth und Mareike Spychala.

Aufs?tze

• "Poetry as Feminist Critique" (AT). Handbook of American Poetry. Hrsg. Sabine Sielke. De Gruyter. [2021] De Gruyter Handbooks in English and American Studies. (in Vorbereitung)
• "Border-Crossing and Imperiali(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery." Context is for Kings: An Edited Collection on Star Trek: Discovery. Edited by Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020. pp. 243-264.
• “'She Moves Through Deep Corridors': Mobility and Settler Colonialism in Sharon Doubiago’s Proletarian Eco-Epic Hard Country."Ecozon@ 11.1 (2020): 115-133.
• "Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design: An Introduction." Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design. Eds. Franca Bellarsi and Judith Rauscher. Spec. Issue of Ecozon@ 10.1 (2019): 1-23. (with Franca Bellarsi)
• "From Planar Perspectives to a Planetary Poetics: Aeromobility, Technology and the Environmental Imaginary in Contemporary American Poetry." Environmental Imagination on the Move: Nature and Mobility in American Literature and Culture. Eds. Christine Gerhardt and Christa Grewe-Volpp. Spec. Issue of American Studies/Amerikastudien 61.4 (2016): 445-467.
• "Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry." Geocriticism and Ecocriticism. Eds. Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 189-206.
• "Canadian Petro-Poetics: Masculinity, Labor, and Environment in Mathew Henderson's The Lease." Energy in Literature: Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Texts. Ed. Paula A. Farca. Oxford: TrueHeart P, 2015. 99-112.
• "On Common Ground: Translocal Attachments and Transethnic Affiliations in Agha Shahid Ali's and Arthur Sze's Poetry of the American Southwest."Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism. Spec. issue of the European Journal of American Studies 9.3 (2014): N. pag.

Review-T?tigkeit

• College Literature
• Atlantic Studies
• Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
• WiN: The EAAS Women's Network Journal

Konferenzorganisation

• 2016/11: Konferenz "The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry" (mit Christine Gerhardt)
• 2015/11: Konferenz "Postgraduate Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien" (mit Laura Oehme, Theresa Roth & Mareike Spychala)
• 2014/07: Symposium "Whitman Across Genres" (mit Christine Gerhardt)
• 2014/07: Summer School "7th International Walt Whitman Week" der Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (mit Christine Gerhardt)
• 2014/01: Symposium "Nature – Mobility – Literature: The Environmental Imagination of Migration" (mit Christine Gerhardt)

Vortr?ge (Auswahl)

• 2019/06: "Post-Mobility and Queer Ecological Empathy in the Poetry of Etel Adnan," ASLE Konferenz 2019, UC Davis (USA)
• 2019/03: "'deutschland im herbst / mir graut vor dem winter‘: Teaching Comparative Cultural Studies Courses on Race in Germany.“ Tagung "Herausforderung ‘Kulturelle Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung’: Perspektiven für das Studium der Geisteswissenschaften,“ Universit?t Bamberg (Deutschland)
• 2019/01: "Poetic Place-Making: Natur und Mobilit?t in deutscher Gegenwartsdichtung." Lunch-Meeting des Rotary-Clubs Schloss Geyersw?rth, Bamberg (Deutschland)
• 2018/11: "'In a Mirror Darkly': Bordercrossing and Imperial Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery." 2018 AAAS Konferenz "American Im/Mobilities," Universit?t Wien (?sterreich)
• 2018/09: "Groundwork, Fieldwork, Topopoetics: Reading Lorna Goodison's 'The Garden of St. Michael in the Seven-Hilled City of Bamberg.'" EASCLE Konferenz 2018, Universit?t Würzburg (Deutschland)
• 2018/01: "'Entfernung gilt nichts': Walt Whitmans Dichtung und poetisches Erbe." Vortragsreihe "Amerika," Studium Generale, VHS Coburg (Deutschland).
• 2017/06: "Mobility and/as Recovery in the Materialist Ecofeminist Poetry of Sharon Doubiago." ASLE Konferenz 2017, Wayne State University, Detroit (USA)
• 2017/03: “Teaching Intersectional Feminism in Transatlantic Contexts: Developing a Comparative Seminar on Issues of Gender and Race in German and American Feminism.” Second Biennial EAAS Women’s Network Symposium 'Transnational Feminism and/in American Studies,' University of Lausanne (Schweiz)
• 2016/11: “Conflicted Territorialities and Archipelagic Environments in the Poetry of Craig Santos Perez.” Internationale Konferenz 'The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry,' Universit?t Bamberg (Deutschland)
• 2016/06: "Paying the Price for an Impossible Love: Etel Adnan's Defiant Ecopoetics of Hope." Ecopoetics Konferenz 'Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth,' Université de Perpignan, Perpignan (Frankreich)
• 2016/06: "Bodily Perspectives without Lyric Subjects: Materiality and Mobility in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr." BAA Summer Academy 'Material Culture,' Florida International University, Miami (USA)
• 2016/02: "Of Spaceships and Ocean Planets: The Ethics of Mobility in Joan Slonczewski’s Pragmatic Utopias." Konferenz Maritime Mobilities: Critical Perspectives from the Humanities, Universit?t Wien, Wien (?sterreich)
• 2015/10: "From Identity Politics to a 'Postmodern Poetics of Witness' in American Poetry of Migration," Konferenz 'Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre,' Universit?t Augsburg (Deutschland)
• 2014/06: "Dwelling in Diaspora? The Environmental Politics of Displacement in Arthur Sze's The Gingko Light," Jahrestagung der DGfA 2014, Universit?t Würzburg (Deutschland)
• 2014/03: "Beyond Nature Poetry: Arthur Sze's Intimate Translocal 188bet亚洲体育备用_188体育平台-投注*官网s," ACLA Konferenz 2014, New York University (USA)
• 2013/06: "From Ecocriticism to Geocriticism and Back - Place and Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry," ASLE Konferenz 2013, University of Kansas (USA)
• 2013/04: “Nature as a Reluctant Muse – Place and Displacement in two Poems by Derek Walcott and Agha Shahid Ali,” ACLA Conference 2013, University of Toronto (Kanada)
• 2012/11: (Posterpr?sentation) "Planetary Perspectives: Technology and the Natural World in Ed Roberson's poem 'Topoi'," Konferenz 'Risks - Effect & Affect: Technology and Narratives of the 21st century,' Universit?t Bayreuth (Deutschland)

Seminare im Basismodul

• Introduction to American and English Literary Studies
• Introduction to American and British Cultural Studies

Seminare im Aufbaumodul

• Terrible Laughter: The Grotesque in French & American Literature
• Motherhood and Fatherhood in African American Culture
• Race and Gender in German and American Literature and Culture (als Blockseminar an der Universit?t Bayreuth)
• Indian Nation: The Native American Struggle for Representation
• Queer/Denker_innen: LGBTQ Issues in German and American Literature and Culture
• One-Gender Worlds. Gender and Sexuality in American Science Fiction
• 20th Century American Poetry and the City
• American Modernism in Paris (mit Exkursion nach Paris)

Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul

• Toward “a more perfect Union”: Violence and the Utopian Imagination in U.S. American Culture
• Green Popular Culture and American Film (mit Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• "Surveiller et Punir: Race and Biopolitics in French and American Culture" (mit Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis)
• The Challenges of Intersectionality: Race and Gender in German and American Literature and Culture (mit Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• The Politics of American Poetry (mit Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)
• Theories of Nature, Theories of Mobility: New Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies (mit Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)

?bung im Erg?nzungsmodul

• Key Texts in Literary Studies

Sprachunterricht

• English Language Practice for Erasmus Students (Advanced, B1-B2)
• English Language Practice for Erasmus Students (Intermediate, A2-B1)