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Current Position
September 2005 to present Assistant Professor of American Studies, Department for English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany
   

Education
University Regensburg
2005 Ph.D.
Dissertation: From Sites of Memory to Cybersights: (Re)Framing Japanese American Experiences
Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
March 2000 First State Exam in English, History (majors), and Education (minor)
Nov. 1999 M.A. in American Studies (major), Ancient and Medieval / Modern History (minors)
Thesis: Kollektive Erinnerung als Katharsis? Das Vietnam Veterans Memorial in der öffentlichen Kontroverse. [Collective Memory as Catharsis? The Public Controversy on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.]
Advisor: Professor Dr. Winfried Herget
   

Academic Teaching Experience
May 2001 – August 2005 Instructor of American Studies, University of Regensburg
August 2000 – April 2001 Instructor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
April 2000 – July 2000 Instructor (Lehrauftrag), American Studies Department, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
   

Research and Current Projects
Cultural Memory Studies, Sports Cultures, Twenty-first Century American Fiction, American Wars in Literature and Culture, Visual Culture Studies, Asian American Literature and Culture, American Icons and Iconicity

Currently working on “Diseases in US American History and Culture”
 

Administration and Academic Service
September 2002 to present Assistant Editor, Amerikastudien / American Studies
October 2002 to 2004 Deputy Women’s representative, Fakultät IV (Language and Literature), University of Regensburg
May 2001 to present Co-editor and coordinator, Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies in Germany (COPAS), an e-journal
   

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien / German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
Anglistenverband, e.V.
Japanese American National Museum (JANM)

   

Awards and Grants

  
September 2008 Grant of the Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg to travel to and to present a paper at the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 2008 Luce Foundation Travel Grant, to attend the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico
June 2008 Travel Grant of the women's representative, School of Language and Literature, University of Regensburg, to attend the American Studies Association's Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 2008 DFG Grant, European Association for American Studies, Oslo, Norway
May 2006 First Book Award of the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie for the Doctoral Dissertation
December 2005 Dr. Katharina Sailer Dissertation Award, University of Regensburg
July 2005 Publication grant of the women’s representative, School of Language and Literature, University of Regensburg
September 2003 Grant of the Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg to visit and conduct research at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
August 2003 Postgraduate grant of the Bayerische Amerika Akademie to conduct research at UCLA, UC Berkeley, CSU Sacramento, and in San Jose, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. (National Archives, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution)
June 2003 Fulbright Scholar, American Studies Summer Institute "Visual Culture and History in America", Amherst, MA
August 2000 – April 2001 Graduate student scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
April – September 2000 Research grant for the doctoral thesis (State of Rhineland Palatinate)
January 1999 Research grant for the master’s thesis at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin (Free University Berlin; USIA)
August 1994 – May 1995 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) American Studies Program Scholarship; University of California, Davis, CA
   

Publications and Manuscripts
  (see list of publications)

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures

“Creations of a Triple-Conscious Mind: Tamiko Thiel's Transnational Virtual Reality Installations.” American Studies Association (ASA) Conference Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice. Albuquerque, New Mexico 18 Oct. 2008.

“Guarding the Nation’s Icons: The National Park Service as Steward of U.S. History?” European Association for American Studies, Biennial Conference 2008 ‘E Pluribus Unum’ or ‘E Pluribus Plura’? Workshop 24 – U.S. Icons. Oslo, Norway, 10 May 2008.

“Guarding and Presenting the Nation’s Icons: The National Park Service as Steward of American History.” Conference Iconic Britain – Iconic America. University of Regensburg, 12 Oct. 2007.

“Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory.” American Studies Association (ASA) Conference The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies. Oakland, California, 14 Oct. 2006.

“Amerikanische Geschichte und Erinnerungspolitik in den Denkmälern und Museen der National Mall in Washington, D.C.” 6. Kontaktstudium für Geschichts- / Sozialkundelehrer an der Universität Regensburg Geschichtsunterricht und Amerikastudien: Positionen, Perspektiven, Fallstudien. University of Regensburg, 6 July 2006.

“American Woman (2003) von Susan Choi.” Anglistisch-Amerikanistisches Literaturgespräch. University of Regensburg, 21 June 2006.

“‘Don’t be evil’: In Search of the Future of the Internet.” Annual Conference of the GAAS American Studies as Media Studies. University of Göttingen, 10 June 2006.

“Singlehood, Female Identity, and Urban Life Styles: From Ally McBeal to Sex and the City.” Conference British and American TV Series in the Classroom. University of Regensburg, May 2006.

“Gendering Urbanity in Contemporary American TV Series.” Conference British and American TV Series in the Classroom. University of Regensburg, May 2006.

“The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Politics of Remembering: The Wall, the Three Servicemen Statue and the Vietnam Women's Memorial.” University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Lecture Series “Der Vietnamkrieg: 30 Jahre Krieg, 30 Jahre Erinnern.” University of Erlangen, 11 Jan. 2006.

“Moving Beyond Manzanar: Transnationalizing Japanese American Internment Experiences.” International Conference Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. University of Siegen, 6 Oct. 2005.

“(Re)framing Memory: Japanese American Internment Experiences.” International Conference The Merits of Memory: Uses and Abuses of a Concept. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg / LEUCOREA Foundation, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, June 2005.

“Recovering Japanese American Experiences,” U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy History and Politics and Visual Culture. Akademie für politische Bildung Tutzing, Oct. 2003.

Conference Workshops Organized

“Dis/Enchanted? Religion and Ethnicity in American Culture” (with Bärbel Höttges). Annual Conference of the GAAS Religion in the USA, University of Bochum, 1 June 2007.

“Crossing Boundaries: Interpreting Transnational Modes of Memory.” American Studies Association (ASA) Conference The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies. Oakland, California, 14 Oct. 2006.

Talks/Lectures Organized

Tamiko Thiel, “From Beyond Manzanar to ReConstructing the Wall: Transnational Virtual Reality Installations.” REAF: Regensburg European American Forum, University of Regensburg, 30 June 2008.


Theme by Dr. Radut.