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

Room B7A1
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen

+49 9131 85-22032

chiona.hufnagel@fau.de

https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/amst/literature/staff/chiona-hufnagel/

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Research Interests:

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

Research Projects:

Dissertation: (Counter)hegemonic Masculinities in 21st-Century North American Indigenous Literature

Education & Employment:

• April 2023-March 2024: Deputizing for the assistant professor/program Coordinator of the MA program “North American Studies: Culture and Literature”, 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), (⌀ 1,1)
• 06/2020: Master of Arts in North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), (⌀ 1,2)
• 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 German Studies & 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)

Lectures:

• „(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”, Europa-Universität Flensburg, 11/07/2025.
• „Can the Other of Native Studies Speak?: Indigiqueerness in Billy-Ray Belcourt”. Diversity Research Lab 3: Indigenous Studies, TU Dresden, 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”. „Queering Postcolonial Worlds” (Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations Universität), Universität Bremen, 6-7/10/2023.
• „Cultural Memory and Literature: Research in Dialogue”. Research training group (DFG) “Practicing Place – Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations”, KU Eichstätt, 13.-14/07/2022.
• „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”. “Walking the Walk? Fatigue and Hope in the Study of Canada”, Robarts Graduate Center/York University Canada, 04/08/2022.
• „We Don’t Have Time. Time Has Us”: Der Mythos des ‘Vanishing Indian’ und das Metanarrativ des Fortschritts“. “Von Zeit zu Zeit. Polyperspektivische Konzepte von Temporalität“, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 04/02/2022.
• „Cultural Imperialism? Der europäisch/US-amerikanische Gender- und Postkolonialismusdiskurs und die marginalisierten indigenen Frauen Nordamerikas”. „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‘”. „Ohne Leitbilder? Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Tradition für das Leben”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg/Brown University, 07/20-07/21/2018.

Workshops:

• Co-Organizer of the conference „(Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions”. Jahreskonferenz des Postgraduiertenforums (PGF) der „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien” (DGfA), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,  21-23. 11/2024.

Papers:

• Handbook article „Identitäten“, Handbuch Literatur und Öffentlichkeit, Springer (in Vorbereitung).
• Together with Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, and Ruxandra Teodorescu: “Introduction”, (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postgraduate Forum, COPAS, vol. 26, no. 1, 2025, S. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.412.

Edited Journals:

• Together with Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, and Ruxandra Teodorescu: (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postgraduate Forum, COPAS, vol. 26, no. 1, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.412

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)

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

Room B7A1
Bismarckstr. 01
91054 Erlangen

+49 9131 85-22032

tabea.knoll@fau.de

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)

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Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft

Room U5/03.01
An der Universität 5
96047 Bamberg

+490951863-2250

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

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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

• Since April 2025: Associated member of the research training group  “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
• Oct 2022 – March 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)

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Research Interests

• US-American literature (20th – 21st cent.)
• Posthumanism
• Science and Technology Studies
• Philosophy of Mind
• Science Fiction
• Morality and Ethics

Research Projects

Dissertation: The AI Perspective: An Examination of Human and Artificial Co- Existence North American SF Discourse

Education & Employment

• since 05.2025: Associated member of the research training group  “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
• 10.2022 – 04.2026: Research associate in the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK2806), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 04.2025 – 11.2025: Doctoral student representative and member of the board of the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK2806), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 02.2024 – 08.2024: Lecturer, North American Literary and Cultural Studies Department (AIII), University of Mannheim
• 01.04.2024 – 16.06.2024: Visiting Researcher, Science and Technology Studies Department, University of California, Davis, USA
• Since 10.2022: Dissertation Project “The AI Perspective: An Examination of Human and Artificial Co-Existence in North American SF Discourse” (Prof. Dr. Kley, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• 09.2021 – 10.2022: Academic Staff – Postgraduate Researcher, North American Literary and Cultural Studies Department (AIII), University of Mannheim
• 09.2018 – 08.2021: Master of Arts, Literature, Media and Culture in the Modern Era, University of Mannheim and King’s College London (sehr gut)
• 02.2020 – 09.2021: Graduate Student Research Assistant, British Literary and Cultural Studies Department (AII), University of Mannheim
• 10.2020 – 07.2021: Tutor in International Cultural Studies (Graduate Teaching Assistant), School of Humanities Chair of Contemporary History and Dean’s Office, University of Mannheim
• 09.2015 – 08.2018: Bachelor of Arts, Major: English and American Studies & Minor: Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim and the University of Exeter (sehr gut)
• 08.2017 – 01.2018: Student Research Assistant, North American Literary and Cultural Studies Department (AIII), University of Mannheim
• 01.2017 – 01.2018: Student Research Assistant, British Literary and Cultural Studies Department (AII), University of Mannheim

Invited Talks and Conference Papers

• “Archival Resurrections and the Specter of De-Extinction: Nonhuman Archival Bodies in Lydia Millet’s Magnificence and Ray Nayler’s The Tusks of Extinction” at the annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS / DGfA), University of Siegen, Germany, June 12th-14th, 2025.
• “Beyond Human Privilege: Exploring Kinship in Literary Reflections on the Rights of Nature and AI Rights” at the “Environmental Ethics and Climate Justice Workshop”, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, March 25th-27th, 2025.
• “Reframing AI Rights: A Posthuman Lens on Legal Status in SF Novellas” at the “Northeast Modern Language Association Fifty-sixth annual convention”, Philadelphia, USA, March 6th-9th, 2025.
• “Artificial Friend or Foe? Exploring Moral AI in Cargill’s Day Zero and Wilson’s Robopocalypse” at the “121st Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference”, Palm Springs, USA, November 7th-10th, 2024.
• “Technological Bonds: Exploring Human-AI Interaction in Louisa Hall’s Speak”, invited talk for the Inaugural Seminar for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures, University of California, Davis, USA, November 4th, 2024.
• “Ann Leckie’s AI: The Posthuman Mind and Morality in Ancillary Justice” at the “Northeast Modern Language Association Fifty-fifth annual convention”, Boston, USA, March 7th-10th, 2024.
• “Learning from the Nonhuman: The Limits of Anthropocentric Knowledge and Posthuman Revisions of Knowledge Formation in Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea” invited talk at the Research Colloquium of the American Studies Department, University of Mannheim, Germany, November 15th, 2023.
• “Rethinking Morality in the Era of Apocalyptic AI: Exploring Moral Agency and Patiency in Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse” at the “AAAA! – AI, Algorithms, Automata, the Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA) on Art”, Online, November 5th-11th, 2023.
• “Posthuman Perspectives: Post-anthropocentric Minds in SF Narratives” at the “Posthuman Narration and Narratology Workshop”, University of Cologne, Germany, September 28th-30th, 2023. 
• “Imagining the Inner Spaceship: Ann Leckie’s AI and Post-Anthropocentric Cognition” at the conference “Disruptive Imaginations Joint Annual Conference of the SFRA & GFF”, TU Dresden, Germany, August 15th-19th, 2023. 
• “Beyond Binary – AI, SF, and the Moral Imagination” at the conference “Models, Metaphors and Simulations. Epistemic Transformations in Literature, Science and the Arts”, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 18th- 21st, 2023.
• “Ancillary Agency: AI Moral Participation in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice” at the conference “Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition”, University of Zaragoza, Spain, May 15th-17th, 2023.
• “AI in Mind and Body: Ancillary Justice and Spaceship Cognitive Ecologies” at the conference “Posthuman Bodies and Embodied Posthumanisms”, University of Warwick, UK and Online, October 12th-14th, 2022.

Workshops

• “Anthropomorphization? Narrative and Humanity,” PRANA Network: Posthuman Research and Narration 1st Working Meeting, Bielefeld University, May 15–16 2025.
• Co-organization of the conference “(Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions,” annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 21-23, 2024.

Publications

Book Chapters

• Teodorescu, Ruxandra (2026). “Nonhuman Encounters: Tentacular Narration and Weird Entanglements as Posthuman Revisions of Knowledge Frameworks in Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea.” In the Web – Theorien und Praktiken posthumanistischen Erzählens / Theories and Practices of Posthumanist Narration, edited by Charlotte Coch and Ronald Röttel, Franz Steiner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515138383
• Teodorescu, Ruxandra (2025). “Posthuman Cognitive Ecologies and AI Moral Agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice.” In Ferrández-Sanmiguel, M., Muñoz-González, E., Laguarta-Bueno, C. (eds) The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83701-2_3 

Edited Volumes

• Hufnagel, Chiona, Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, Ruxandra Teodorescu (2025). “(Re-) Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postgraduate Forum.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 26.1. https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/issue/view/49. 

Essays

• Teodorescu, Ruxandra (2023). “Science Fiction as Resource for the Moral Imagination.” The Junkyard A Scholarly Blog Devoted to the Study of Imagination, edited by Amy Kind and Eric Peterson. https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2023/11/25/science-fiction-as-resource-for-the-moral-imagination. 

Reviews

• Teodorescu, Ruxandra (2024). “Book Review: Inspiring Canonical Revolution with Ancillary Justice: Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice: A Critical Companion by David M. Higgins.” Extrapolation, vol. 65, no. 2, July 2024. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2024.15. 

Teaching

Seminars 

• “Coexistence: Multispecies Storytelling in Literature and Film” (University of Mannheim, Spring 2024)
• “Non-Human Perspectives in Contemporary US-American Literature and Film” (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Autumn 2023)
• “Surviving the Apocalypse” (University of Mannheim, Spring 2022)
• “Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination” (University of Mannheim, Spring 2022)
• “The Posthuman Future” (University of Mannheim, Autumn 2021)

Tutorials

• “International Cultural Studies” (University of Mannheim, Spring 2021 & Autumn 2020)

Miscellaneous

Memberships and Networks

• Since November 2024: Member of the DFG network “PRANA: Posthumanist Research and Narratology”
• Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)
• Member of the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA)