Vorträge
Eingeladene Gastvorträge
Hot Take Klimajournalismus, Kick-Off-Panel, YouMeCon kompakt (Jugendpresse), Publix, Berlin, 11.04.2025.
"Decolonial Hydrohumanities, or, Reclaiming Aquatic Agency: Empire, Extraction, and the Anarchic Ecologies of Moby-Dick", Universität Rostock, 10. Februar 2025.
"Law and Legitimacy: Political Narratives of Migrant Crime", Universität Gießen, 9. Dezember 2024.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Linke Literaturmesse Nürnberg, 3. November 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Club Manufaktur, Schorndorf, 27. September 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, African Book Festival, Berlin, 26. August 2023.
Podiumsdiskussion, "Identity and Violence", mit C.A. Davids, Haji Jabir, Tete Loeper, African Book Festival, Berlin, 26. August 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Peter Weiss Haus, Rostock, 9. Juni 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Ria: Feministisches Kulturzentrum Hamburg, 7. Juni 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Linke Buchtage Berlin, 3. Juni 2023.
Phantombilder, Lesung und Gespräch, Frauenkultur Leipzig, 21. März 2023.
Keynote, "Decarbonizing the Americas: Towards a Hemispheric Energy Humanities after Oil", Inter-American Symposium, Climate Change as System Change: Inter-American Perspectives, Universität Graz, 2.-4. März 2023.
Online-Response und Diskussionsrunde, Crisis Lines: Coloniality, Modernity, Comics, City University of London, 9.-10. Juni 2021.
"Policing the Police", Vortrag zum Dokumentarfilm und Online-Diskussion, Amerikahaus München, 21. März 2021.
"The Road Ahead: Working Towards Racial Justice and Equality", Online-Diskussionsrunde, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum Stuttgart, 24. Februar 2021 (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson).
"Polizeigewalt in Trumps Amerika – und danach", American Election Night 2020: "Transatlantische Perspektiven auf die US-Präsidentschaftswahl", Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 3. November 2020.
"Make or Break? Causes and Consequences of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election", Online-Diskussionsrunde, Universität Marburg, 26. Oktober 2020 (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle).
"Rassismus – Wie die 'Black Lives Matter'-Bewegung die Debatte in Deutschland beeinflusst", Union-Stiftung Saarbrücken, 7. September 2020.
"Black Futures Matter: Critical Narratives of Race and Predictive Policing", First French-Australian Symposium on Surveillance and the Humanities, Centre for Law, Arts, and Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra, 28.-29. August 2020 (web conference).
"Composite Sketches: Policing the Minority Subject", Forum Originalitätsverdacht der VolkswagenStiftung, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, 9.-10. April 2019.
"Donald Trump and the Wall", Gastvortrag an der Universität Giessen, 20. Juni 2018.
"The Popular Logic of Exploitation: Achebe, Hosseini, Adichie, and the Postcolonial Bestseller", Gastvortrag an der Universität Graz, Institut für Amerikanistik, 16. Januar 2018.
"'Better Together' or 'Very Well, Alone?' Brexit and the Union", Universität Oslo, 17. August 2017.
"Alternatives to Sex: Gender, Mobility, and the Female Road Narrative", Ringvorlesung Movement in Literature, Universität Jena, 11. Mai 2015.
"Petrochemical Gothic: True Detective and the Energy Unconscious of American Studies," Rupture, Crisis, Transformation: New Directions in US Studies at the End of the American Century", Birkbeck College, University of London, 22. November 2014.
"Thermo-Thanatos: Energy, Photography, Thermodynamics", Cultures of Energy Symposium, Rice University, 24.-26. April 2014.
"Quality, Adaptation, and the American Dream: The Luck of Mildred Pierce", Auteur TV, Universität Salzburg, 12.-13. Dezember 2013.
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Drone: Secret War and the Ethics of Representation", Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 5. November 2013.
"'I'm Going to Tell You Something': American Writers on the Campaign Trail", Universität Giessen, 21. June 2012.
"American Petrofiction", United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 1. Juni 2011.
"'A Mysterious, Wasting Illness': Writing the Osage Oil Boom", Native American Literature Workshop, English Department, University of Sydney, 10. Mai 2011.
"A Possibility of Oil: Expenditure, Consumption, and the Gothic World of William Goyen", English Department, University of Sydney, 20. April 2011.
"American Petroleum History on Film", American History Day, University of Melbourne, 12. November 2010.
"Fiction, Racial Profiling, and the War on Terror", Gastvortrag, Universität Frankfurt, 9. Juli 2010.
Plenary roundtable, 57. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Humboldt Universität, 29. Mai 2010.
"Emerson's Planetary Ethics," Gastvortrag, Universität Oldenburg, 1. Juli 2008.
Konferenzbeiträge
"Von Zukunft befreit: Ethnizität und Futurologie im Spiegel der Literatur", Automatismen des Verdachts: Polizeikultur und Prognose in der Migrationsgesellschaft, Universität Bamberg, 15.-17. Juni 2018.
"Black Power, White Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal and America’s Uneasy Reckoning with Cop Killers", Black America and the Police, Universität Bamberg, 20.-23. Oktober 2016.
"Cargo Culture: Atlantic Offshore Resources from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy", 63. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Osnabrück, 19.-22. Mai 2016.
"Petro-Knowledge, Petro-Materialism: True Detective, Energy, and Humiliation", 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Bonn, 28.-31. Mai 2015.
"Öl, Schweiß und harte Männer: Sebastião Salgado und die Naturalisierung der Arbeiterfotografie", Arbeit als Naturverhältnis in medialer und literarischer Reflexion, Universität Bamberg, 29.-30. November 2013.
"Jenseits des Ölprinzips: Tod und Thermodynamik im amerikanischen Fotobuch des Energiezeitalters", Schwellenraum Fotobuch: Mediengeschichte, Druckkultur, Gesellschaftsanalyse, Universität Bamberg, 21.-23. November 2013.
"Hochprozentig weiblich: Flanerie und Alkohol", Drittes literatur- und medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium Eine Frau geht wo: Weibliches Flanieren in Literatur und Film, Universität Bamberg, 1.-2. Februar 2013.
"Faulkner’s Universal Oil: The Petro-Politics of ‘Black Music’ and ‘Carcassonne’," MLA Convention, Boston, 3.–6. Januar 2013.
"John Fords imaginärer Grund: Zur Ideologie der Verfilmung von John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath," Ringvorlesung "Kinotexte: Literatur im Film," Universität Bamberg, 14. November 2012.
"Drill Baby Drill! Elections, Oil, and American Culture", Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice, Amerika-Haus München, 1.–4. November 2012.
"Edmonton, Texas: On the Skeptical Globalism of Canadian Oil Culture", Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture, University of Alberta, 6.–9. September 2012.
"Antonionis Ölmalerei: Zum unbewussten Rohstoff einer materiellen Filmästhetik", Zweites literatur- und medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium Michelangelo Antonioni, Universität Bamberg, 14. Juni 2012.
"The Intimate Lives of National Security: The Rosenbergs, Julian Assange, Valerie Plame", 59. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Mainz, 31. Mai–03. Juni, 2012.
"Writing Global Energy Security after 9/11", 9/11—Ten Years after, Looking Ahead, Universität Bonn, 8.–11. September 2011.
"Drawing Boundaries: Journalism, Genocide, and the Graphic Novel: Joe Sacco, J.P. Stassen, Guy Delisle," Life Writing and the Graphic Novel: An International Conference, Universität Paderborn, 2.–3. Juli 2010.
"Genocide, Gender, and the Volatility of History: The Bosnian War in the Canadian Imagination", Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien, From Canada to Europe and Back, Grainau, 19.–21. Februar 2010.
"Trompe L'Oil: Politics, Deceit, and American Petrofiction", MLA Convention, "Oil Ontologies" Panel, Philadelphia, 27.–30. Dezember 2009.
"Retributive Fictions: Psychoanalysis and Psychosis in post-9/11 Literature and Film", 9/11 as Catalyst, Universität Bayreuth, 27.–29. November 2009.
"Unfolding the Plot of Terror: Andre Dubus III's The Garden of Last Days", Literature and Terrorism, Universität Konstanz, 31. Juli–1 August 2009.
"Michael Ondaatje and the World Novel", Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres, Universität Stuttgart, 16.–19. Juli 2009.
"Poetry and Collective Grief: The Popular Turn to Lyricism after 9/11", States of the Art: Considering Poetry Today, Universität des Saarlandes, 26.–28. Oktober 2008.
"On the Sacredness of Dust: Urban Memorialization and the Toxic Legacy of 9/11", Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the Millennium, JFK-Institut, FU Berlin, 30. Oktober–1. November 2008.
"Remembering Terror between Image and Text", Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse University, 4.–6. Oktober 2008.
"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dump: Bioethics and the Remains of the World Trade Center", The Aesthetics of Trash: Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective, University College Dublin, 4.–6. September 2008.
"Body Fragments: Philip Roth's Late Fiction", Jahrestagung der European Association for English Studies, Panel: Ageing Studies: Age, Illness, and the Question of Beauty in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures, Universität Aarhus, 22.–26. August 2008.
"Colonizing the Image, or the Abused Lolitas of Tehran", Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation, Universität Stuttgart, 17.–20. Juli 2008.
"Neil Bissoondath and the Ambivalent Novel of Terror", The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism, Universität Göttingen, 10.–12. Juli 2008.
"Postcolonial Ethics, or the Esperanto of Global Responsibility", Workshop Planetarity, Universität zu Köln, 8. Juli 2008.
"'This Is a New Country': Atom Egoyan's Ararat on Canadian Exile and Ethical Memory", Narratives of (In)depence and Partnership: Old Europe and New World, Canadian Studies Center, Universität Marburg, 20.–22. Juni 2008.
"Memorial Park: The Permanent Limbo", Figurations of Knowledge, European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Stream 7 Bodies of Evidence, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 2.–8. Juni 2008.
"Unbinding the Self: Recent American Fictions of Surveillance", Watching America: Visuality and Surveillance in US Literature and Culture, Tagung der Canadian Association for American Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 31. Mai–3. Juni 2008.
"The Bodies of Terrorism", Engaging Objects, International Workshop of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Bodily Interventions Panel, Universität Amsterdam, 26.–28. März 2008.
"9/11, YouTube, and the Visual Crisis of Affect", 9/11 als kulturelle Zäsur, Universität Mainz, 14.–15. Februar 2008.
"Narratives of Planetarity: Introducing the Global Narrator", Transmediality and Transculturality, Universität Mainz, 6.–9. Dezember 2007.
"Intervisuality: Toward an Ethics of Seeing", Ethics and/or Justice after Postmodernism, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 23.–25. November 2007.
"Open.Ended: Poetic Closure and the Digital Interface", The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium: Creative Process and Product, University of Oxford, 25.–28. Oktober 2007.
"An Aesthetics of Compassion: Writing Terrorism in 21st Century Britain", Literature for Our Times, 14. Triennale der Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 17.–22. August 2007.
"'Scissor Work': Clipping, Interleaf, and Illustration in Visual Poetry", Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the Present, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York, 5.–8. Juli 2007.
"'Pretending to Be Dead': Lyric Representations of Thomas Hardy, Hardy at Yale, Department of English, Yale University, 14.–17. Juni 2007.
"'Actual Visions' or 'Agreeable Possibilities'": Nativity Narratives in Eliot and Auden, 18. Jahrestagung der Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, 24.–27. Mai 2007.
"The Hybrid Iconicity of Literary Authorship: Writing Bodies and the Digital Media", Synthetics, 18. Jahrestagung, Southland Graduate Student Conference, UCLA Department of English, 4. Mai 2007.
"Re-Visioning the Western: Landscape and Gender in The Misfits", Arthur Miller and the American West, 11. Internationale Tagung der Arthur Miller Society, Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, 19.–21. October 2006.
"An All-American Sweetheart: Sylvia Plath as Media Icon", Media, Poetics, and the Public Sphere, 53. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Göttingen, 8.–11. Juni 2006.
"Die Ikonographie des Exils in Andrei Tarkowskijs Nostalghia", Ringvorlesung Auswanderung und Exil im internationalen Kino, LMU München, 9. Dezember 2005.