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Vorheriges Semester
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.
5. Internet Contributions:
- "The 'Deep Story' of the White American South, or Strangers in Their Own Land (2016) by Arlie Russell Hoschild. asjournal.org. 23 May 2018. Web. http://blog.asjournal.org/the-deep-story-of-the-white-american-south-or-strangers-in-their-own-land-2016-by-arlie-russell-hochschild-part-i/.
- "Hiking in the Anthropocene." asjournal.org, 17 May 2017. Web. http://blog.asjournal.org/hiking-in-the-anthropocene/.
- "Walking on Cape Cod." asjournal.org, 12 October 2016. Web. http://blog.asjournal.org/walking-cape-cod/.
- "Under Dark Skies." asjournal.org , 27 January 2016. Web. http://blog.asjournal.org/under-dark-skies-a-review-essay/#more-3131.
- “Three Decades of Nature and Culture: Barbara Novak’s Cultural (Art) History in Retrospect.” Bulletin of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences 2.3 (2008). Web. https://www.academia.edu/25382762/Three_Decades_of_Nature_and_Culture_Barbara_Novaks_Cultural_Art_History_in_Retrospect
- “Exploration and Yearning in German Romanticism.” Bulletin of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences 1.1 (2007), https://www.academia.edu/34792174/Exploration_and_Yearning_in_German_Romanticism.