M.A. Lea Espinoza Garrido

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Mailbox:

No. 03, Level O.07 / Postfach Nr. 03, Ebene O.07

 

Office Hours Winter Term 2022

Online via Zoom, by appointment via e-mail.

 

Activities:

• Postgraduate Representative German Association for American Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien/ DGfA)

• Co-chair: Narrative Research Group (AG “Erzählforschung”) at the Center for Narrative Research (Zentrum für Erzählforschung/ZEF)

• Research Group: More-than-Human Studies

• Research Group: Doing Trust in the Age of Crises and Catastrophes

• Co-editor: Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology

 

 

Conference and Workshop Organization (Selection):

• Workshop: Vertrauen, Krise/Katastrophe, Erzählen (07/2022)

• Symposium: Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood (02/2022)

• Workshops: Trust – Catastrophe – Crisis (02/2022)

• Workshop: Ecocriticism (02/2020)

• Symposium: Migrant States of Exception (11/2019)

• Conference: Current Trajectories in Narrative Research (09/2019)

• Lecture Series: Why Literary Studies Matter Now: Academic Practices in an Anti-Intellectual Climate (2018/19)

• Symposium: Beyond Endings: Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries (2018)

• Conference: Pop Hero and Action Princess: Gender and Popular Culture (2018)

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Special Issues

• Rammsteins “Deutschland”: Pop – Politik – Provokation. Metzler, 2022 (with Moritz Baßler, Christoph Jürgensen, Kerstin Wilhelms et al.).
• Migrant States of Exception II, special issue of Parallax, vol. 27, no. 3 (edited with Sylvia Mieszkowski and Birgit Spengler).
• Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene. Palgrave, “Palgrave Studies in Life Writing” series 2021 (edited with Ina Batzke and Linda M. Hess).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

•  “Transformations of the National – Rammstein’s “Deutschland” as a Provocation of German History.” Transformational POP. Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies) (~Vibes – The IASPM D-A-CH Series 2), edited by Beate Flath, Christoph Jacke and Manuel Troike, 2022 (with Jan Herbst, Christoph Jürgensen, Immanuel Nover et al.).
•  “Migrant Lives in a State of Exception: Sovereignty, Mobility and Agency in a Globalized World.” Migrant States of Exception II, special issue of Parallax, vol. 27, no. 3, 2022, pp. 241–249 (with Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior).
• “Porous Borders, Porous Bodies – Citizenship, Gender and States of Exception in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land.” Parallax, vol. 27, no. 2, 2021, pp. 176–197.
•  “Introduction: Migrant Lives in a State of Exception (Part I).” Migrant States of Exception I, special issue of Parallax, vol. 27, no. 2, 2021, pp. 115–158 (with Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior).
•  “Introduction: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene.” In Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene, edited by Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, and Linda Hess. Palgrave, “Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series” 2021, pp. 1–19 (with Ina Batzke and Linda M. Hess).
• “Beyoncé.” These Girls: Ein Streifzug durch die feministische Musikgeschichte, edited by Juliane Streich. Ventil, 2019.
•  “Luke Cage as Postpost-9/11 TV: Spatial Negotiations of Race in Contemporary U.S. Television.” COPAS vol. 19, no. 1, 2018.

Reviews and Interviews

• “Documentary Filmmaking and the Representation of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim.” Migrant States of Exception II, special issue of Parallax, vol. 27, no. 3, 2022, pp. 267–281 (with Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior).
•  “Review of Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks, by Chera Kee.” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 22, 2021, pp. 109–113.
•  “Migration Emergencies in the European Postcolony: An Interview with Thomas Spijkerboer.” Migrant States of Exception I, special issue of Parallax, vol. 27, no. 2, 2021, pp. 223–239 (with Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior).

Editorial Work

• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology, vol. 20 (2.2022).
• Digital Methods in Literary Studies, Jan Horstman and Frank Fischer (eds.), special issue # 6, Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology, vol. 19 (1.2022).
• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology, vol. 18 (2.2020).
• Hybridität und Verfahrenstechnik in der Fantastik, Tobias Lambrecht and Ralph Müller (eds.), special issue # 4 of Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology (1.2020).
• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology vol. 17 (2.2019).
• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology vol. 16 (1.2019).
• Autor und Werk. Wechselwirkungen und Perspektiven, Svetlana Efimova (ed.), special issue # 3 of Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology (2.2018).
• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology vol. 15 (1.2018).
• Textpraxis: Digital Journal for Philology vol. 14 (3.2017).

Current Projects (Selection)

• Book chapter:  “Stadt, Raum, Erinnerung: Transnationale archivarische Praktiken in Babylon Berlin.” Babylon Berlin und die filmische (Re-)Modellierung der 1920-er Jahre, edited by Andreas Blöhdorn and Stephan Brössel. Rombach, forthcoming 2023 (with Felipe Espinoza Garrido). [accepted]
• Edited volume: Mobility, Agency, Kinship: Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood (edited with Carolin Gebauer and Julia Wewior). [in preparation]

TALKS (Selection)

• 10/2022: Coexistence, Cooperation, Composition: Reflections on More-than-Human Art. Workshop “More-than-Human Studies,” Online/Karlstad/Göttingen/Wuppertal.
• 07/ 2022: Keynote Lecture: Post-9/11 Politics of Memory and Politics of Forgetting in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One. Workshop “Cultural Memory and Literature: Research in Dialogue,” Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
• 07/2022: Through the Eyes of the White, Innocent Child – Communicating Risk, Vulnerability and (Environmental) Crisis in Lauren Tarshis’ I Survived Series. Conference “Natural Catastrophes in the United States: Making Sense of Risk and Vulnerabilities,” Heidelberg.

• 06/2022: Relational Responsibility/Responsible Relationality in a More-than-Human World. Symposium: “Articulations of the Nonhuman Turn in Theory, Literature, and the Arts,” Göttingen.
• 06/2022: Towards a Postpost-9/11 Mode? Narrative and Discursive (Trans)Formation Beyond the War on Terror. Düsseldorf.
• 05/2022: Negotiating Social and Environmental Justice in U.S. American Pop Music. Seminar “Environmental Justice,” Potsdam.
• 05/2022: More-than-Human Representations in Contemporary North American Film and Television. Lecture Series “Critical Futures: The Humanities in a More-than-Human World,” Wuppertal.
• 04/2022: Desert Power, Desert Thinking – New Epistemologies of the Wasteland in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021). European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Madrid.
• 03/2022: Posthuman Anxieties in Contemporary American Pop Culture: Re-Visiting Altered Carbon’s Gothic Mode(s). Workshop “More-than-Human Studies,” Göttingen/Wuppertal/Karlstad.
• 02/2022: Affect, (Non)Belonging, and Crisis: American Literature as a Literature of (Dis)Trust?. Workshop “Trust, Crisis, Catastrophe,” Wuppertal.
• 12/2021: Agency, Voice, and Silence in the Anthropocene – Navigating the Challenges of Posthumanism, Postcolonialism, and the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Life Writing. Symposium “Silence – Catastrophe – Crisis,” Münster.
• 11/2021: Roundtable: The Migrants That (Still) Don’t Matter. Lecture Series “Talks with Taste,” Wuppertal.
• 05/2021: Disruptions of/in Queer Life Writing – Fragmentation, Materiality, and the Body in Laura Jane Grace’s Work. Workshop, “Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves,” Regensburg.
• 03/2020: Race and Gender in Rammstein’s “Deutschland”. Workshop “The Sound of Germany II – Rammstein’s “Deutschland,” Münster.
• 11/2019: Porous Borders, Porous Bodies – Negotiating Citizenship, Gender and States of Exception in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land. Symposium “Migrant States of Exception,” Wuppertal.
• 09/2019: Deconstructing the American Risk Society –Unreliable Narration and Knowledge Production in Showtime’s Homeland. Conference “Current Trajectories in Narrative Research,” Wuppertal.
• 07/2019: The Gothic Imagination in 21st Century Sci-Fi TV. Seminar “The American Gothic,” Augsburg.
• 06/2019: Posthuman Dystopian Fictions. Narrative Research Group, Center for Narrative Research, Wuppertal.
• 06/2019: Transmediality, Commodification, and Diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lecture “North American Popular Cultures,” Wuppertal.
• 06/2019: Meditations on Authorship: Narrative Opacity in Sherley Anne Williams’ Neo-Slave Narrative. Annual Meeting Society for the Study of Narrative, Pamplona [cancelled due to illnesss].
• 03/2019: US American Pop Music and the Legacy of Slavery, Conference “The Sound of Germany – Wie politisch ist der Pop?,” Münster.
• 11/2018: (Post)Memory, Trauma, and the City in Contemporary Zombie Narratives. Hotspots Lecture Series, Münster.
• 06/2018: Beyond the War on Terror: Marvel’s Postpost-9/11 Television. Poster presentation, Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” Münster.
• 03/2018: Feminist Challenges to Post-9/11 Nationalism in Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Indianapolis.

TEACHING (Selection)

•          Narrating the Climate Crisis – Empathy, Responsibility, (Dis)Trust | Wuppertal

•          Introduction to Literary Studies | Wuppertal

•          Zombie Narratives | WWU Münster

•          Complex TV | WWU Münster

•          Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics | WWU Münster

•          The African American Literary Tradition | Wuppertal

•          Madness in American Fiction | WWU Münster

•          Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II | WWU Münster

•          Gender in Horror Movies | WWU Münster

•          Communicating Texts and Theories: From Slavery to Black Lives Matter | WWU Münster

•          Academic Skills | WWU Münster

•          Communicating Texts and Theories: Slavery on Page and Screen | WWU Münster

•          Race and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Fiction | WWU Münster