CURRICULUM VITAE DR. JULIA FAISST American Studies Department of German and Russian Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 317 O’Shaugnessy Hall, Notre Dame University Universitätsallee 1 Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA 85072 Eichstätt, Germany Phone: +1 (574) 631-7188 Phone: +49-8421-93 21359 [email protected]/[email protected] Fax: +49-8421-93 21797 http://www.ku.de/slf/anglistik/amerikanistik/team/julia-faisst ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Spring 2018 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 2013- Akademische Rätin a. Z./Assistant Professor, American Studies, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Habilitation: “Precarious Belongings: The Unmaking of the American Home, 1980-Now” 2012-2013 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Assistant Professor, American Studies (Literature, Culture, Media), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt, University of Siegen 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Excellence Initiative/International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen 2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Department of English, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA EDUCATION 2003-2009 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA PhD, Comparative Literature, June 2009 Dissertation Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012), Advisers: Werner Sollors, John Stauffer, Philip Fisher MA, Comparative Literature, June 2005 2002-2003, Free University, Berlin, Germany 2000-2001 BA (equiv.), Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: American Literature, Theater Studies, June 2001 2001-2002 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Visiting Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, American and African American Literature 1998-2000 Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: American Literature, Theater Studies DR. JULIA FAISST, page 2 RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture; Ethnic Literatures of the US; African American Studies; Race and Diaspora Studies; Visual Cultures (esp. Photography and Film); Architecture, Space, and Urban Studies; Poverty and Class Studies FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AWARDS 2017 Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Literatures and Languages, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 2014 Habilitation Research Travel Grant to the US (Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans), Faculty of Literatures and Languages, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 2014 Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Literatures and Languages, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 2013 Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Literatures and Languages, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 2012 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Conference Travel Grant, to attend the American Studies Association (ASA) Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA 2012 2 Publication Grants, Hyder E. Rollins Fund, Department of English, Harvard University and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, for Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature 2012 Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Siegen 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, German Excellence Initiative/International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen 2010-2011 5 Conference Travel Grants, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen 2010 Japan-U.S. Educational Commission Scholarship, to attend the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar (NASSS), Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan 2010 Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence Research Grant, Wake Forest University (declined) 2009-2011 Finalist for Assistant Professorships: Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles; American Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich; American Studies, Freiburg University 2009-2010 Finalist for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis; Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University in St. Louis; Innsbruck University, Austria 2008-2009 Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, New York City 2004-2009 6 Conference Travel Grants, Comparative Literature, Harvard University DR. JULIA FAISST, page 3 2008 Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Harvard University, to attend The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University Fall 2007, 2006 3 Certificates Of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2006 Harvard University 2008, 2007 2 Summer Travel and Research Fellowships, Comparative Literature, Harvard University 2006 Graduate Society Summer Fellowship, Harvard University 2006 Graduate Student Council Summer Research Grant, Harvard University 2005, 2004 2 Summer Research Grants, Comparative Literature, Harvard University 2003-2007 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Harvard University 2001-2002 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship, Yale University PUBLICATIONS Monograph Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature. American Studies: A Monograph Series. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. Reviewed in: Astrid Böger. Kritikon Litterarum 42.3/4 (2015): 285-288. Editions The Place of Photography. Co-edited with Kerstin Schmidt. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Forthcoming. David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors. Second Revised Edition. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. Reviewed in: Amerikastudien/American Studies Forum; Einsicht: Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Institus; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; tachles: Das Jüdische Wochenmagazin; Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies.” The Place of Photography. Eds. Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Forthcoming. With Kerstin Schmidt. “The Space of Photography: Introduction.” The Place of Photography. Eds. Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Forthcoming. DR. JULIA FAISST, page 4 “Moving In and Out, Up and Down: Real Estate in Twenty-First Century Drama.” Inequality in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Barbara Hahn and Kerstin Schmidt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 113-124. “Strolling the Biophilic City: Flâneurism, Urban Nature, and Eco-Fiction.” Transforming Cities. Eds. Eckart Voigts, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, and Nora Plesske. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. “Ghetto Aesthetics: Performing Spatial Inequality in The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.” Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Eds. Birgit M. Bauridl and Pia Wiegmink. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2017. “The Spatial Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies: Space, Place and the Urban Imagination of Los Angeles.” Key Topics in English and American Studies II. Eds. Ansgar Nünning and Elisabeth Kovach. Trier: WVT, 2014. 55-76. “Sites of Slavery: Imperial Narratives, Plantation Architecture, and the Ideology of the Romance of the South.” Imagining Spaces/Places. Eds. Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Kirsi Saarikangas, and Renja Suominen- Kokkonen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. “Rebuilding the Neighborhood: Race, Property, and Urban Renewal in Tremé.” American Lives. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 443-463. “Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography, and the Formation of African American Fiction.” Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media. Eds. Ansgar Nünning and Kai Sicks. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012. 213-227. “Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and Representations of Freedom.” PhiN. Philologie im Netz. Beiheft/Supplement 5/2012: Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History. Eds. Antje Kley and Peter Schneck. 71-100. “‘Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between?’ Fictions of Race in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.” Philip Roth Studies, Special Issue: Roth and Race 2.2 (Fall 2006): 121-137. Reviews Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s. Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing, eds. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. Kritikon Litterarum (2015). Review. Pornotopia: Architektur, Sexualität und Multimedia im Playboy. Beatriz Preciado. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2012. KULT_online 34 (2013). Review. Visuelle Kulturen der USA: Zur Geschichte von Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Fernsehen und Neuen Medien in Amerika. Ed. Christof Decker. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2010. KULT_online 29 (2011). Review. The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Eds. Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010. KULT_online 28 (2011). Review. TEACHING Department of German/American Studies, Notre Dame University Spring 2018 The Holocaust in German and American Cultural Memory (undergraduate seminar) DR. JULIA FAISST, page 5 Department of English and American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt WS 2017/18 Canadian Climate