Johannes Fehrle - Englisches Seminar

Johannes Fehrle – Curriculum Vitae

Johannes Fehrle, M.A. Department of English / North American Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Room 4049, KG IV Rempartstraße 15 79085 Freiburg Germany phone: (+49)761-203-3347 [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. English Department, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg, Germany; Thesis: “Postmodern Gunslingers in a Transnational West: Revisions of the Western in Canadian and American Literature.” Grade: summa cum laude. Committee: Prof. W. Hochbruck; Prof. B. Korte; Prof. W. Oberkrome.

October 2008 – March 2012

Magister Artium (M.A.) in English Literature / Linguistics and Modern History; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Grade: sehr gut (A). Thesis: “The Postmodern Canadian Western.”

October 2001 – June 2007

Exchange Year at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

September 2003 – July 2004

Abitur (High School Diploma), Wentzinger Gymnasium, Freiburg, Germany.

June 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, English Department / North American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

Since April 2012

Adjunct Professor, English Department / Gender Studies Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

October 2011 – February 2012

Visiting Scholar, English Department, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.

March 2010 – December 2012

Adjunct Professor, English Department / Center for Ethics (EPG), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

November 2007 – February 2010

Teaching assistant, English Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

October 2007 – July 2008

Photographic Project “National Park Service – The People behind the Grand Vistas” (Exhibition: February 2008, Carl-Schurz-Haus, GermanAmerican Institute, Freiburg, Germany).

July 2007 – September 2007

Johannes Fehrle [email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany Internship in Publishing, Orange-Press, Freiburg, Germany.

June – July 2007

Editorial staff Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature. International Yearbook on War and Anti-War Literature. Erich Maria Remarque Archive (Vol. XI, XIII, XIV).

September 2005 – July 2008

Graduate assistant, English Department, North American Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.

September 2005 – June 2007

Student Assistant, Registratory Affairs, Alcon Pharma, Freiburg, Germany.

September 2004 – August 2005

Part time work at bookstore Buchhandlung Schwarz, Freiburg, Germany.

August 2001 – December 2009

Civilian Service (Zivildienst) St. Josefs hospital, Freiburg, Germany.

September 2000 – August 2001

GRANTS, AWARDS AND THIRD-PARTY FUNDING Ph.D. Grant from German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

November 2008 – October 2011

Louis Owens Award from Western Literature Association.

October 2011

Travel Grant to Attend PCA Conference from German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung).

April 2011

Travel Grant to Attend WLA Conference from German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung).

October 2010

Grant for printing costs for Herausforderung Biologie from Andrea von Braun Stiftung, foundation for interdisciplinary cooperation (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller).

July 2010

Travel Grant for Research at University of British Columbia from German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung).

March 2010 – June 2010

FRIAS competition for young academics “Junior Research Groups 2009” – Funding for workshop “Shifting Horizons: The Western Frontier in the Americas” (with Ridvan Askin, Basel).

September 2009

Ph.D. Grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung), declined in favor of Ph.D. grant from the Studienstiftung in November 2008.

October 2008 – November 2008

Stephen Crane Award for Research in North American Literary and Cultural Studies for M.A. Thesis.

November 2007

Research Grant for work on M.A. thesis by John F. Kennedy Institute and Library, Free University Berlin.

August 2006 – September 2006

Johannes Fehrle [email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany

FIELDS OF RESEARCH / TEACHING INTERESTS US and Canadian 20th and 21st Century Literature / Postmodernism Westerns in Literature and Film / Western American Literature Popular Culture, particularly Comics and Graphic Novels Film Studies Critical Theory Narratology Relation between Arts and Sciences Gender Studies

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Modern Language Association (MLA)

March 2011 – present

Alumni der Studienstiftung

February 2011 – present

Popular Culture Association (PCA/ASA)

January 2011 – present

Western Literature Association (WLA)

June 2010 – present

Inter-American Studies Association (IASA)

July 2010 – present November 2008 – present

Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS) [Canadian Studies Association in German-Speaking Countries]

POST-SECONDARY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Proseminar “The Crisis of Masculinity in American Culture” English Department / Gender Studies, Freiburg University. Winter 2011/12. Designed and taught undergraduate seminar focusing on masculinity studies. We discussed classic examples of prose, drama, and film from the second half of the 20th century under the aspect of a continued redefinition and crisis of masculinity. The seminar was taught en bloc and included an online part which introduced students to key issues of gender studies, such as the performativity and fluidity of gender concepts. Texts discussed included Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, Henry David Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” as well as films such as American Beauty, First Blood (Rambo), and Boyz N the Hood. Proseminar II “Graphic Novels” English Department, Freiburg University. Winter 2009/10. Designed and taught advanced undergraduate seminar focusing on the emerging field of graphic novels. The seminar introduced students of English, who in the past had had no academic contact with comics or graphic novels, to evaluating comics as a distinctive medium in which an interrelation exists between texts and images, a medium which requires a special set of skills from the critical reader. The course provided an overview of the major texts in the genre and of their cultural impact outside the medium by discussing adaptations in film and literature. The graphic novels were treated as works combining art and narrative in a unique way, and as cultural objects, -3-

Johannes Fehrle [email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany reflecting and frequently commenting on larger issues in society, such as American politics. One of the classes was a joint session with young artists taking a course in comics creation at the University of Art and Graphic Design in Freiburg. Texts discussed included Maus, Watchmen, A Contract with God, as well as short stories by Jonatham Lethem. Proseminar “Westerns” English Department, Freiburg University, Winter 2008/09. Designed and taught undergraduate seminar on Western novels and films. Texts ranged from late 19th century popular dime novels to the 2007 James Mangold film 3:10 to Yuma. The course covered important traditional and revisionist Westerns, providing students with an overview of the genre and its major trends. Discussions of texts were split into two parts, the first dedicated to developing standard strategies for reading novels and film, such as the analysis of plot, character, and style in novels, and the use of lighting, camera, music, acting and so on in film. A second part re-examined the same texts through a cultural critic’s perspective as negotiating larger societal issues, such as gender, politics, race or national identity. Texts discussed included Owen Wister’s The Virginian, John Ford’s Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ishmael Reed’s Yellow-Back Radio Broke Down, and Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy. Seminar / EPG II “Herausforderung Biologie” [Biology as a Challenge]: (Professors of record: Prof. Dr. Günther Neuhaus; Kerstin Müller) Ethics Center / Department of Biology, Freiburg University. Winter 2008/09. Guest Lecture in an ethics seminar directed at future science teachers. I discussed approaches to writing a paper looking at intersections between arts and sciences or ethical problems in natural sciences from a social science perspective (a course requirement). My lecture gave an overview of how to find an adequate topic, formulate a thesis statement, where to look for secondary literature, as well as strategies on how to structure and write the paper. Proseminar / EPG II “Censorship: The (Im)Moral Text as a Challenge to Society” Ethics Center / English Dept, Freiburg University. Summer 2008. Designed and taught undergraduate / advanced ethics seminar on censorship. The focus of the class was on the ethics of opposing texts (drama, novel, film, music, computer games, the internet) that go against society’s prevailing sense of moral wrong, and weighing the potential benefits and dangers of censoring free speech. The course conveyed how ideas of morality are constructed in societies and how they change over time by discussing texts produced between the 17th and 21st century in different cultures. Texts of study included John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, essays by J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, and others. Much of the reading was made up of theoretical texts by thinkers such as Plato, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag. “Introduction to Literary Studies” (Professor of record: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke) English Department, Freiburg University, Winter 2007/08 and Summer 2008. Hired as postgraduate teaching assistant. Responsibilities included leading two tutorials of thirty students each week and marking the essay part of the final exams for around 150 students. The lecture and tutorials served as an introduction to all major genres of writing, poetry, prose and drama, as well as film and new media (literature on the internet). Texts covered included English and North American classics, including Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, short stories by writers like Poe, Hawthorne, Coover, Barthelme, and Atwood, and a wide selection of poetry. Theoretical approaches taught ranged from close reading to new historicism and narratology. -4-

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PUBLICATIONS Edited Books Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie – Fragen an die Biologie [Biology as a Challenge: Questions Posed by Biology – Questions Posed to Biology]. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010 (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller). Responses to the Challenges to the USA after 9/11 and New Orleans: Racial Division, Religion, Civil Rights, and Literature. Freiburg: Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, Abteilung 7 “Schule und Bildung,” Carl-Schurz-Haus, 2006 (with Rüdiger Heinze). Editing Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIV (2008). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2009 (with Claudia Glunz et. al.). Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XIII (2007). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2008 (with Claudia Glunz et. al.). Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature XI (2005). Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2006 (with Claudia Glunz and Jan Kolja Paulus). Refereed Articles “Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Graphic Novels? A Critical Examination.” Unnatural Narratives – Unnatural Narratology. Ed. Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 210 – 245. Non-Refereed Articles “‘We Have No Leaders Holy Men or Gurus’: The Carnivalesque as an Egalitarian Alternative in Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.” On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig and Paul Tayyar (forthcoming). “Wissenschaftliche Möglichkeiten und ethische Grenzen: Die Biologie in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion.” [Scientific Possibilities and Ethical Limits: Biology in Public Discourse.] Introduction. Herausforderung Biologie: Fragen aus der Biologie / Fragen an die Biologie. Ed. Johannes Fehrle, Rüdiger Heinze, and Kerstin Müller. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010. xi – xviii (with Rüdiger Heinze and Kerstin Müller). “‘Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop’: Der 11. September in Comicbüchern.” [‘Waiting for that Other Shoe to Drop’: September 11 in Comic Books.] Nine Eleven: Ästhetische Verarbeitungen des 11. September 2001 [Nine Eleven: Artistic Responses to September 11 2001]. Ed. Ingo Irsigler and Christoph Jürgensen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2008. 219 – 249 (with Rüdiger Heinze). Book Reviews Rev. of Wie Comics erzählen: Grundriss einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie der grafischen Literatur, [How Comics Narrate: A Basis for an Intermedial Narratology of Graphic Literature] by Martin Schüwer. Kritikon Litterarum 37:3/4 (2010): 290 – 298. Rev. of Literaturgeschichte der USA: Ein sozialgeschichtlicher Überblick [Literary History of the USA: A Socio-Historic Overview] by Wolfgang Karrer. ZAA 58.1 (2010): 80 – 81. Rev. of Camera Doesn’t Lie: Spielarten erzählerischer Unzuverlässigkeit im Film [Camera Doesn’t Lie: Varieties of Narrative Unreliability in Film]. Ed. Jörg Helbig. Kritikon Litterarum 36:3/4 (2009): 222 – 229. -5-

Johannes Fehrle [email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany Encyclopedia Entries “David Foster Wallace – The Pale King;” “David Foster Wallace: Das essayistische Werk” [David Foster Wallace: The Essays]; “Nicholson Baker – The Anthologist.“ Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (updated online edition). Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. “Electronic Developments and Entertainment;” “Virtual Worlds.” World History Encyclopedia: Era 9 Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present, Part I & II. Ed. Andrew J. Waskey and Fred Nadis. Vol. 19 & 20. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011. “Nicholson Baker: Das erzählerische Werk;” [Nicholson Baker: Fiction] “Nicholson Baker: Biogramm” [Nicholson Baker: Short Biography]. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3. Ed. Vol. 1. Gen. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. 812 – 813. “McFarlane Toys;” “Common Adventure Concept.” Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society. Gen. Ed. Rodney P. Carlisle. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2009. 145 – 146; 381 – 382. Talks and Conference Papers “Looking at ‘The Erosion of the Older Distinction between High Culture and so-called Mass or Popular Culture’: Postmodernism’s Use of Popular Genres.” Guest Lecture. Basel University. English Department. 27 March, 2012. Basel, Switzerland. “Manliness, Heroism and the Quick-Draw Duel in the Revisionist Western” 46th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 5 – 8 October 2011, Missoula, MT, USA. “‘Bring Me the Black Wild Bill’: Using the Western to Reintroduce African Americans into the 19th Century West.” National Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference (PCA/ACA) 20 – 23 April 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA. “When the Legend Becomes Fact Deconstruct the Legend: Shooting at the Western in Contemporary Canadian and U.S. Novels.” University of British Columbia, Department of English. Departmental Research Seminar. 4 February 2011, Vancouver, Canada. “‘What’s Happened to the American Dream?’ Alan Moore’s Transnational Vision of the ’80s.” BiAnnual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. 11 – 13 November 2010, Essen, Germany (with Philip Fiedler). “Performing Western Masculinity in Three Versions of 3:10 to Yuma.” 45th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association. 20 – 23 October 2010, Prescott, AZ, USA. “Revisionist Western Novels from Canada and the U.S.” EUCOR Ph.D. Conference. 11 December 2009, Freiburg, Germany. “‘Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans’: Westernrevisionen aus den USA und Kanada.” [‘Only Thing We Ever Use Guns on is Snakes and Germans’: US and Canadian Western Revisions] Doktorandenforum der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [Ph.D. Forum of the German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)]. 13 – 16 November 2009, Koppelsberg, Germany. “Questioning National Myths and National Identity in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy.” Milestones 2009 Conference “Transgression of Boundaries,” 1 August 2009, Freiburg, Germany. “Alaska – Das andere Amerika. [Alaska – The other America]” 5 February 2009, Carl-SchurzHaus, Freiburg, Germany. “Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics.” FRIAS Conference: Unnatürliches Erzählen – Unnatural Narration, 13 – 15 November 2008, Freiburg, Germany. “Stephen Crane’s Westerns: ‘The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky’ und ‘The Blue Hotel’,” Talk on receiving the Stephen-Crane-Award for North American Literary and Cultural Studies. 4 November 2007, Badenweiler, Germany. “The Postmodern Canadian Western,” 2nd “EUCOR English Trinational Masters Conference,” 9 December 2006, Mulhouse, France. -6-

Johannes Fehrle [email protected] · Englisches Seminar · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Rempartstraße 15 · 79085 Freiburg · Germany Other Publications Photographic Exhibition “Alaska – Von den Grenzen der Zivilisation gesehen. [Alaska – Seen from the Edges of Civilization]” Carl-Schurz-Haus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, January 16 – April 1, 2009. Photographic Exhibition “National Park Service: The People behind the Great Vistas,” Carl-SchurzHaus: German-American Institute, Freiburg, February 1 – 25, 2008. Setzer, Heinz, Wolfgang Schwarzhaupt, and Hanna Hauck, ed. Visions of Water Colours Today – Aquarellvisionen heute. Landau: Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2009 (translation into English). Setzer, Heinz, ed. Transfer: Anatomy of Artist’s Prints from London and the Palatinate. Landau: Kunstverein Villa Streccius, 2007 (translation into English).

REFERENCES Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck English Department, North American Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg KG IV, Rempartstr. 15 79085 Freiburg, Germany Phone: (+49)761-203-3344 [email protected] Jun. Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig Bienroder Weg 80 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Phone: (+49)531-3918714 [email protected] Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt Department of American Studies Otto-Friedrich-Universtität Bamberg An der Universität 9, Raum 002 D-96047 Bamberg, Germany Phone: (+49)-951-8632298 [email protected] Prof. Neil Campbell, Ph.D. School of Humanities University of Derby E706, East Tower Kedleston Road Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1GB, England Phone: (+44)01332-591481 [email protected]

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