Dr. Stefanie Weymann-Teschke

room: PT 3.2.83
phone:+49(0) 941 / 943 - 3507

American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany

email: Stefanie.Weymann-Teschke@ur.de

Office hours spring semester break 2025:

Wednesday, Feb 26, 2-3pm (Zoom)
Wednesday, March 19, 2-3pm
Wednesday, April 9, 2-3pm (Zoom)
 

In person and via Zoom. To register, please send an email to stefanie.weymann-teschke@ur.de at least 24 hours in advance.

Dr. phil., Amerikanische/Englische Philologie, Heidelberg University: The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

M.A. in English, King's College London

B.A. in English and American Studies / Neuere deutsche Literatur, University of Freiburg

Academic Appointments

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, University of Regensburg, current

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, University of Jena, 2022-2024

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Kiel University, 2016-2021

Research Interests

18th to 21st Century American Literature

The City in Literature, Spatial Theory

Spectrality, Gothic Literature

Literature and Material Culture, Thing Theory

Journey Narratives

Weymann-Teschke, Stefanie. The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses. American Studies - A Monograph Series. Vol. 288. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018. 

Weymann-Teschke, Stefanie: "Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo." The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics. Eds. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov and Estelle Murail. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 83-99.

Weymann, Stefanie. "Performing New York, Narrating Urban Complexity: E.L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley." Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature and Film. Eds. Jens Martin Gurr and Wilfried Raussert. Trier and Tempe Arizona State U: WVT and Bilingual P, 2011. 77-84.

"Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo." Persisting Souls in Literature, Art, History, Politics, Institut Catholique de Paris, April 11-12, 2019.

"The City as Performance: The Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses." University of Notre Dame, Sept. 28-29, 2015.

"Walking New York." Cities of Translation, Trinity College Dublin, May 9, 2014.

"Performing Space: The City in Contemporary American Literature." Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature, Film and Media, University of Bielefeld, June 25-26, 2010.

"Performing Space: The City in Contemporary American Literature." Spring Academy, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 22-26, 2010. 

University of Regensburg

Introductions

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies

Undergraduate Seminars

American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the 19th Century

Graduate Seminars

Object Worlds in American Literature

University of Jena

Undergraduate Seminars

• Literature of the Early American Republic
• Road Stories
• New York in Literature
• London in Literature
• American Postmodernism
• American Gothic Fiction
• Introduction to Literary Studies II (multiple times)

Graduate Seminars

• The Stories That Objects Tell: Readings Things in Literature
• American Realism and Naturalism
• British Gothic Fiction
• Samuel Beckett

Kiel University

Undergraduate Seminars

• Journey Narratives
• New York in Literature
• “No Ideas But in Things”: American Literature and the World of Objects
• The Art of Satire in British Literature
• Travelers and Vagabonds: American Tales from the Road
• Literary London
• Concepts and Methodologies: Introduction to Reading Literary Texts (multiple times)

Graduate Seminars

• The Otherness of Things: Encounters with the Object World in Literature
• American Realism and Naturalism
• Narrating the City
• “I Shall Say I No More”: The (De)Construction of Identity in the Works of Samuel Beckett
• The City in Literature and Film