Chiona Hufnagel

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Room B7A1
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen

• Phone number: +49 9131 85-22032
• Email: chiona.hufnagel@fau.de
• Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/amst/literature/staff/chiona-hufnagel/

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Research Interests

• Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory
• Gender Studies (esp. Critical Masculinity Studies, Feminist/2SLGBTQ+ Literature)
• Indigenous Literature
• Materialist Criticism/Critical Theory
• Postcritique/Reparative Readings

Research Projects

Dissertation: Decolonial Constructions of Masculinities in North American Indigenous Literature Since the Late 1960’s

Education & Employment

• April 2023-March 2024: Research Assistant/Program Coordinator of the MA program “North American Studies: Culture and Literature”, substituting for the assistant professor at the Chair of North American Literary Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Since October 2022: Associated member of the DFG research training group  “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
• Since May 2021: Doctoral fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft)
• 09/2020: Master of Arts in Ethik der Textkulturen, elite study program (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg/University Augsburg)
• 06/2020: Master of Arts in North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• September-December 2018: Community work/research stay at the “Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center” and women’s shelter in in Lake Andes, South Dakota
• August 2016: Bachelor of Arts in Germanistik & English and American Studies (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• January-December 2016: Student assistant for ELINAS (Center for Literature and Natural Science) at the chair of German Studies/Theoretical Physics
• October 2014-April 2019: Fellowship by the Foundation of German Business for outstanding students (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft)

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

• “(Counter)-Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinities in Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature: Reparative Self- and Worldmaking in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Joshua Whitehead”, “Current Research in British and North American Studies”, University of Flensburg, 11/07/2025
• Guest editor for COPAS (“Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies”) for the conference proceedings of the PGF Annual Conference 2024
• Co-organizer of the annual conference for early career scholars of American Studies (“Postgraduate Forum”) 11/21-11/23/2024, Erlangen
• “Can the Other of Native Studies Speak?: Indigiqueerness in Billy-Ray Belcourt”, TU Dresden American Studies with a Focus on Diversity Studies, Diversity Research Lab 3: Indigenous Studies, 06/07/2024
• “‘Each Kiss Was an Act of Defiance / A Kind of Nation-Building Effort’: Affective Worldmaking and Gender Expansiveness in Billy-Ray Belcourt”. Conference: “Queering Postcolonial Worlds” (Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations), University Bremen, 10/06/2023.
• “Cultural Memory and Literature: Research in Dialogue”, research traing group (DFG) “Practicing Place – Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations”, KU Eichstätt, July/13.-14./2022.
• “‘But What about Love?’: Decolonial Love as a Radical Reparative Practice of Resurgence in Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love and This Accident of Being Lost”. Conference: “Walking the Walk? Fatigue and Hope in the Study of Canada”, Robarts Centre Graduate Conference/York University Canada, 04/08/2022.
• “We Don’t Have Time. Time Has Us”: Der Mythos des ‘Vanishing Indian’ und das Metanarrativ des Fortschritts“. Conference: “Von Zeit zu Zeit. Polyperspektivische Konzepte von Temporalität”, FAU, 04/02/2022.
• “Cultural Imperialism? Der europäisch/US amerikanische Gender- und Postkolonialismusdiskurs und die marginalisierten indigenen Frauen Nordamerikas”. Conference: “Was war Geschlecht? Geschlechterforschung kooperativ”, FAU/Brown University, 07/25/-07/26/2019.
• “’Boys are so fragile’–New men in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: (De)konstruktionen traditioneller Maskulinität im Kontext von ‘race’, ‘class’ und ‘sexuality”. Conference: “Ohne Leitbilder? Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Tradition für das Leben”, FAU/Brown University, 07/20-07/21/2018.

Teaching

• Zertifikat Hochschullehre Bayern (Grundstufe)/teaching certificate for higher education (basic level)
  
• “Lektüreseminar: English and American Literature since the 19^th Century” (WS 2021/22, SS 2022, SS 2023)
• “Kombiseminar: Lingustic Varienties and Cultural Difference” (WS 2022/23, WS 2023/24)
• “Aufbauseminar Literature” (SS 2023)
• Mittel/Proseminar “Negotiating Masculinities in North American Indigenous Literature” (SS 2023)
• “Grundseminar Literature” (2x WS 2023/24)
• Co-hosting the American Research Colloquium (Literary Studies) together with Prof. Dr. Antje Kley (WS 2023/24)
• Tutor for “Grundlagen der Neueren deutschen Literatur 2“ (SS 2017)

Memberships

• Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)

Tabea Knoll

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Room B7A1
Bismarckstr. 01
91054 Erlangen

• Phone number: +49 9131 85-22032
• Email: tabea.knoll@fau.de
• Website: https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/amst/literature/research/phd-candidates-and-postdocs/fields-amst-literature-research-phd-candidates-and-postdocs-https-www-angam-phil-fau-de-fields-amst-literature-research-phd-candidates-and-postdocs-tabea-knoll/

Vita:

• December 2022: 1. Staatsexamen Lehramt Gymnasium Englisch und Evangelische Religionslehre, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg
• Since April 2023: Certificate “Gymnasien Islamischer Unterricht”, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg
• Since February 2024: Associate, RTG “Literature and the Public Sphere”, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg
• Since August 2024: Doctoral Student, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst

Research Focus:

• US-American Literature (20-21 cent.)
• Religious History
• Literature and Religion
• Postsecular Fiction
• Life Writing

Dissertation:

I bet you think we’re a cult: Rethinking alternative religious movements in US literary production since the 1980s

Teaching:

• Lektüreseminar Literature (SoSe 2024)

Jonas Meurer

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft

Room U5/03.01
An der Universität 5
96047 Bamberg

• Phone number: +490951863-2250
• Email: jonas.meurer@uni-bamberg.de
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Vita

Jonas Meurer is a research associate at the Chair of Modern German Literary Studies at Otto Friedrich University Bamberg since 2019 and a member of the Bamberg Graduate School for Literature, Culture and Media since 2021. He has a general interest in German-language literature around 1800, between 1918 and 1968, and the present, the literary politics of the ‚New Right‘, and theories of literature and interpretation.

Dissertation

Friedrich Georg Jünger after 1945: Publicity – Networks – Reception

Wesley Moore

Email: wesley.moore@fau.de

Research Interests

• 21st Century US Literature
• Fictions of Attention
• Globalization and Neoliberalism
• Narratology

Research Projects

Dissertation: Blurring Boundaries: Virtual Structures and the Role of Art and Literature in the Work of Jennifer Egan, Ben Lerner, and Ruth Ozeki

MA Thesis: Exploring Expatriation: Character, Setting, and Cognitive Mapping in Leaving the Atocha Station and A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism

Education & Employment

• Oct 2022 – Sept 2025: Research associate in the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK2806)
• July 2021: MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Nov 2020 – July 2021: Student assistant for Department of American Literary Studies (PD Dr. Harald Zapf)
• July 2020 – July 2021: Department of Islamic Religious Studies (Prof. Dr. Abbas Poya)
• May 2015: M.A. Linguistics (University of South Carolina)
• May 2014 – June 2015: Student Services Assistant at English Programs for Internationals (University of South Carolina)
• Aug. 2013 – May 2014: German Teaching Assistant
• May 2008: B.A. German Studies, Minor in Art History (University of South Carolina)

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

• “Mediating Material Space: Art, Literature, and the Limits of Neoliberalism in Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04.” The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art, University of Strasbourg 21.-22. Mar. 2024.
• “Affective Boundaries: Death, Trauma, and Digital Space in the fiction of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan.” PGF Conference (DGfA)– Spaces of Affect in the Americas, Hannover University, 9.-11. Nov. 2023.
• “Blurring Boundaries: Late-Modern Structures, Authenticity, and the Role of Fiction in the Work of Jennifer Egan and Ben Lerner” Post Ben Lerner Conference Post Graduate Workshop, Université Paris Cité, 28. June 2023.

Miscellaneous

• Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)

Teaching

• Speaking Skills/Conversation Practice (WS 23/24, Sprachenzentrum der FAU)
• Writing/Grammar B1 (Summer Semester 2015, EPI at the University of South Carolina)
• German Level A2 (Spring Semester 2014, University of South Carolina)
• German Level A1 (Fall Semester 2013, University of South Carolina)