| Forschungsgebiete |
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| Ausbildung |
- PhD in American Studies, Yale University, 2013
- BA in English, Santa Clara University, 2006
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| Berufserfahrung |
- Lecturer in American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, 2013-2015
- Research Associate and Web Editor, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich University, 2013 P
- Part-Time Acting Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Yale University, 2010-2012
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| Lehraktivitäten |
- Robots and the End of Work
- Social Media and US Society
- The Society of Surveillance
- Distraction: Attention, Intelligence, and Digital Media
- Futures of Science and Technology in American Science Fiction
- The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in the American Imagination
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| Projekte |
- Un-American Dreams: Apocalypse, Utopia, and Science Fiction in the American Century (revised dissertation manuscript)
- What is Automation? (book manuscript)
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| Mitgliedschaften |
- Swiss Association for North American Studies
- Swiss Association of University Teachers of English
- German American Studies Association
- Modern Language Association of America
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| Vorträge |
Recent and Upcoming: - Playing with the End of the World: The Last of Us and Post-Apocalyptic Gaming, Vienna, November 2017
- #NotYourMule: The 2016 Oscars in Black, White, and Brown, Swiss Association for North American Studies, Bern, November 4-5, 2016
- American Wars: HG Wells's War of the Worlds in American Translation, Anticipations: HG Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions, Woking, England, July 8-10, 2016
- An-Other Europe, the Other of Europe: Children of Men and the ‘Infinite Task’ of Hospitality, MLA International Symposium, Düsseldorf University, June 23-25, 2016
- (chair) New Italians or Criminal Aliens? The Contradictions of Latinos/as, Rights, and Race in the United States, German Association for American Studies, Osnabrück, May 19-22, 2016
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