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American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany
email: Stefanie.Weymann-Teschke@ur.de
Office hours during the winter semester 2024/2025:
Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm
and by appointment. To register, please send an email to stefanie.weymann-teschke@ur.de at least 24 hours in advance.
CV
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
Publications
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.
Presentations
"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.
Teaching
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
