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Priv. Doz. Dr. Michaela Keck

Fachbereich 7: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Neuer Graben 40
49074 Osnabrück

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E-Mail: mikeck@uni-osnabrueck.de
Homepage:http://www.staff.uni-oldenburg.de/michaela.keck/

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Education & Academic Qualifications:

    Habilitation, January 2016: "Deliberately Out of Bounds: Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction." University of Oldenburg.
    Dec. 2004: Defense of thesis: “magna cum laude” (with great honor)
    2000-2004: Postgraduate studies, dissertation project: "Landscape in the New World: The Adaptation and Transformation of the Peripatetic Tradition in the Walks of Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting, in Specific Consideration of Thoreau's Essay 'Walking' "
    1993–1998: M.A., Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main; American Studies, History of Art, Educational Studies: “with honors” (1.0)
    Awards: Prize at the History of Art-Institute for the presentation & term paper about the Roman bronze sculpture “Testa Carafa” (summer term '97)

Employment history:

    since Oct.2009: Lecturer at the Institute of English/American Studies at Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
    Sept. 2011-August 2012: Lecturer at the American Studies Deparment of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Holland
    Aug. 2007-Sept. 2009: Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
    Aug. 2006-July 2007: Assistant Professor, I-Shou University, Taiwan

Arbeitsschwerpunkte und Forschung

American Studies:

    ecocriticism
    visual culture
    nineteenth-century: women's fiction; American Renaissance & Transcendentalism
    reception of classical myth
    captivity narratives

Publikationen

1. Monographs:

Deliberately Out of Bounds: Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017.
Walking in the Wilderness. The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006.

2. Journal Articles:

Forthcoming: "Paradise Retold: Revisionist Mythmaking in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 9.2 (Autumn 2018).
"Marginocentricity and cosmopolitan interconnections of black radical thought in Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder." Atlantic Studies 14.1 (2017): 37-50. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FUabP9Aw38T5sA8CMT2Q/full
"Culture-Crossing in Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian Trilogy and Neo-Captivity Narrative." Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 12.1 (2015): 115-28.
"Complicating the Reading of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt’s Western Visions, Aesthetics, and Sociology." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 39.2 (September 2013): 139-161.
"Female Self-Possession and Material Feminism in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'A Study for a Heroine' (1885)." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 33 (July 2012): 133-150.
"Mythology and Mythography in Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard’s Two Men." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 30 (January 2011): 185-216.
“‘Murder in the Dark’: Lying Games, or Margaret Atwood’s Ioci.” Margaret Atwood Studies 2.2 (May 2009): 3-14.
“‘Kindred Spirits’ in Romantic Walks: Durand’s Kindred Spirits Compared to Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist.” Amerikastudien 52.1 (June 2007): 35-46.

3. Book Chapters & Essays:

Forthcoming: "Aquatic Insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog." Under Western Skies: Water. Eds. Robert Boschman, Connie Van Der Byl, Michael Quinn and Sonya Jakubec. University of Calgary Press.
"Lydia Maria Child: Hobomok (1824)." The Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Ed. Christine Gerhardt. De Gruyter Series Handbooks of English and American Studies: Text and Theory. (Eds. of the series Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf). 2018. 183-200.
"Teacher Bye Bye: Memories of Teaching Literature in Taiwan." Education and EFL in Taiwan: Policy and Practice. Ed. Paul W. Mathews. Warrior Publishers, Australia. 2017. 188-97.
"Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles." Translating Myth. Eds. Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo, and Leon Burnett. Oxford: Legenda, 2016. 120-36.
"'Maenad-in-Motion': Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Reconfiguration of the Dionysius Cult in A New-England Tale (1822)." Proceedings of the 2nd International Aksit Gögtürk Conference: Myths Revisited. Istanbul: Diltra, 2014. 53-66.
“Notions of Love in Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles.” Emotions in Literature. Eds. An, Sonjae and Francis So. Seoul: National Korean University Press, 2010. 191-215.
"Discourses in Antebellum American Art: Frederic Edwin Church’s Natural Bridge, Virginia in Dialogue with Robert Scott Duncanson’s Uncle Tom and Little Eva.” An Interpretive Turn: Art, Literature, and Culture in the 19th and 20th Century. Eds. Yuan, Heh-hsiang and Shu-fang Lai. Taipei: Bookman, 2010. 41-68.
“Changing Iconologies in Twentieth-Century Cinema: Three Versions of Alcott’s Little Women.” Reading Films: Proceedings of the 2009 Providence University English Festival. Ed. Haseltine, Patricia. Taipei: Providence University, 2009. 12-31.
“Thoreau’s Walden and the American Dream: Challenge or Myth?” Bloom’s Literary Themes: The American Dream. Eds. Bloom, Harold and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. 213-23.
“Der Spaziergang in der Neuen Welt: Henry David Thoreaus ‘Art of Walking.’” Kopflandschaften–Landschaftsgänge. Kulturgeschichte und Poetik des Spaziergangs. Eds. Gellhaus, Axel, Christian Moser and Helmut J. Schneider. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. 201-17.
“‘The Abbot’s Ghost’–Alcott’s Struggle for Virtuous Womanhood.” Ghosts, Stories, Histories: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 21-31.

4. Reviews:

Forthcoming: "Philipp Löffler (ed.). Reading the Canon: Literary History in the 21st Century. American Studies – A Monograph Series, vol. 281. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, 458 pp., € 58.00." Anglia 136.3 (2018).
"Christina Schäffer. The Brownies' Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children. Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 60 (Frankfurt et al: Peter Lang, 2012), 536 pp." and "Gary D. Schmidt: Making Americans: Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960. (Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2013), 318 pp. Amerikastudien 62.3 (2017). https://dgfa.de/category/reviews/volume-62-3/african-american-childhood-and-childrens-literature/
“Sabina Matter-Seibel. Contending Forces: Romantraditionen amerikanischer Schriftstellerinnen 1850-1900, Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 61 (Frankfurt et al: Peter Lang, 2013), 622 pp.” Amerikastudien 61.1 (2016). http://dgfa.de/sabina-matter-seibel-contending-forces-romantraditionen-amerikanischer-schriftstellerinnen-1850-1900-mainzer-studien-zur-amerikanistik-61-frankfurt-et-al-peter-land-2013-622-pp/
"Angelica’s Daughters: Filipina American Collaborative Writing, Art Form, and Collective Experience.” Asian Studies Journal 47 (2011): 109-116.

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