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American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg, Germany
email: Tamara.Heger@ur.de
Office hours during the winter semester 2024:
Tuesday, 10-11am
and by appointment. Please send an email to tamara.heger@ur.de at least one day beforehand.
CV
Research Interests
- Holocaust Studies, History of World War II
- Public History
- Memory and Life Writing Studies
- German-American and European-American Relations
- Cultural History of the United States
- German and European History of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Current Position
Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin TZ) Department of American Studies, UR (since 10/2018)
Academic Service
Administrative Manager of the Regensburg European American Forum (REAF)
Member of the Editorial Board of “Frictions”, Blogjournal of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World”
Education
Doctoral Candidate in American Studies, UR. Project: “The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Liberation in US Soldiers’ Life Narratives” (WT). Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat, Prof. Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit. (Since 04/2019)
State Exam in English, History and Social Studies, UR, 2018.
Grants
Travel Grants for the Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Portland, OR, from the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World, Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg, and Finanzielles Anreizsystem zur Förderung der Gleichstellung (Philosophische Fakultät III), October 2023.
Travel Grant 'Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg' for participating in the Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association of American Studies, 2020.
Travel Grant for a conference participation and research stay in New Orleans, LA, and Washington, D.C from the "Finanzielles Anreizsystem zur Förderung der Gleichstellung, Universität Regensburg"/Fund for Gender Equality, University of Regensburg, 2019.
Preis der Dr. Katharina Sailer-Stiftung für die Abschlussarbeit zum Thema „Deutsch-Amerikanischer Kontakt in Grafenwöhr“, 2017.
Travel Grant for the “Summer School in Modern Jewish History” (UR Depmartment of European History, Penn State University Jewish Studies Program), in New York, NY, State College, PA, USA, 2016.
PUBLICATIONS
Baier, Verena, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Efthalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu. 2023. "Remembering Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies: The 2022 Postgraduate Forum". Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 24 (1): 1-8, https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.384.
Baier, Verena, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Efthalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu (eds.): Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 24/1 (2023).
Baier, Verena and Tamara Heger. “Workshop Report | Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves: Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies.” Frictions (02.09.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0013.
“Deutschland-Analysen: seeing Germany from inside and outside. An interview with Marcus Hahn and Frederic Ponten by Tamara Heger.” Frictions (28.07.2021), doi: 10.15457/frictions/0009.
Heger, Tamara. "Die biografische Relevanz des deutsch-amerikanischen Kontakts in Grafenwöhr." ForAp 1.1 (2018), 83-98.
PRESENTATIONS
Organization
"Remembering - Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies" 32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Regensburg Nov 10-12, 2022. (Co-organized with Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Efthalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu). For further information see go.ur.de/pgf-2022.
(with Verena Baier, UR) International Workshop “Narrated Lives – Remembered Selves. Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies” with keynotes by Prof. Dr. Sidonie Smith (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Prof. Dr. Julia Watson (Columbus, Ohio) and Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (Mainz), May 2021. For further information see https://lifewriting.wixsite.com/workshop
(with Dr. Paul Vickers) CITAS Dialog, Panel discussion with European Press Prize 2019 winner Madeleine Schwartz titled “Germany’s Role in US-European Relations: Politics and Culture”.
Papers Presented
“US-American Soldiers' Perspectives on the Liberation of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp”, “Shifting Perspectives”120th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, OR, 25-29 October 2023.
Response to Annette Wieviorka’s “1945: Als die Amerikaner die Lager entdeckten“, Reading at Regensburg European American Forum, 04 July 2023.
“(How) Was America Discovered?”, Special Lecture at Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum Nabburg, 30 June 2023.
“Letters from Liberation: Major Samuel S. Gray, Jr.’s Dearest Martha”, Workshop “Unfree Spaces in the Modern World: Resistant Responses—Empowering Acts”, Regensburg/Flossenbürg 19 – 21 January 2023.
““To make sure all are informed correctly” – US Soldiers’ Life Narratives of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Liberation between Narrative Construction and Truthfulness”, International Workshop Narrated Lives – Remembered Selves. Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies, Regensburg, 13 and 14 May 2021.
“The Absence of US-American Soldiers’ Memories in Collective Memories of Concentration Camp Liberations (with special focus on the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp)”, 67th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Heidelberg, June 17-19, 2021.
“Liberators: US Soldiers' Memories of Flossenbürg”, North American History Research Colloquium, John F. Kennedy Institute Berlin, 3 May 2021.
"Challenges (and Opportunities) of Working with a Diverse Sample: US-Soldiers’ Life Writings about the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Liberation", Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, University of Regensburg, 13 Nov 2020
"Experience and Memory of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Liberation from the Perspective of U.S. Soldiers", Young Scholar Forum at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Historians in the GAAS, Bad Bevensen, 14-16 Feb 2020
"Experience and Memory of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Liberation from the Perspective of US Soldiers" Postgraduate Forum, Passau, 5-7 Dec 2019
"US-Soldiers' Memories of the Liberation of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp", 101st Annual Reunion of the 90th Division Association, New Orleans, LA, 25-28 July 2019
"Remembering the Liberation of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp – The Perspective of the U.S. Soldiers",New Pathways in North American Studies: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments, Masaryk University Brno, CZ, 12-13 Oct 2018
TEACHING
Proseminar “US-American Memories of World War II” (Summer 2023)
American Cultural History, multiple times
Introduction to English and American Literature, multiple times
Proseminar American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the 19th Century
Proseminar American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries, multiple times
