Welcome to new members of the department
Winter Term 2024/2025
Greta Kaisen ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin im Fachbereich Amerikanistik. Sie war von 2020 bis 2024 Teil des DFG-geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Liminal Whiteness: Southern Rednecks, Hillbillies and Crackers in American Culture“. In ihrer Dissertation untersucht sie die Repräsentation liminaler weißer Charaktere in Southern Gothic Comics, Filmen und Videospielen. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Medienwissenschaften, Gothic Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies und Queer Studies. Im Jahr 2019 schloss sie ihr Masterstudium in Amerikanistik sowie Literatur- und Medienpraxis an der Universität Duisburg-Essen ab, in welchem sie ihre Masterarbeit über den Gothic Modus und Nostalgie in Videospielen verfasste. Seit 2020 lehrt sie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Seminare zu Literaturgeschichte, Videospielen und Textanalyse.
Greta Kaisen is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Department of American Studies. From 2020 to 2024, she contributed to the DFG-funded research project “Liminal Whiteness: Southern Rednecks, Hillbillies, and Crackers in American Culture.” Her dissertation explores representations of liminal white characters in Southern Gothic comics, film, and video games. Her research interests include media studies, gothic studies, critical whiteness studies, and queer studies. In 2019, she completed a combined M.A. in American Studies and Literature and Media Practice at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she focused her thesis on the Gothic mode and nostalgia in video games. Since 2020, she has been teaching seminars on literary history, video games, and text analysis at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Dr. Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier
Dr. Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier is a researcher and educator in the fields of American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Cultural History. Her work focuses on the history of urban planning in New York City, and she is currently writing a book on the Progressive Era urban reform movement and the influence of eugenics, euthenics, and Social Darwinism in the planning and design of the city's tenement housing, parks, and social and cultural infrastructure at the turn of the 20th century. Her research interests also include ecocriticism as well as ecological and environmental history, exploring their connections to European epistemologies and histories of colonialism. Selma is the founder of the Berlin Inter-Asia Anthology Project, a public history project that practices decolonial archiving and reconceptualizes the historiographies and geographies of Asian diasporic mobilities. Her research within the field of German Asian Studies spans from 19th-century colonial enterprises in North Borneo to the affective geographies of contemporary inter-Asian Berlin. Beyond academia, Selma is a novice gardener and scuba enthusiast, passions that inform and drive her work on decolonial histories of Southeast Asian environmental landscapes.
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PD Dr. Gerrit Kentner übernimmt eine Gastprofessor für English Linguistics. Er wurde im Jahr 2018 an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt für das Fach Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft habilitiert. In den letzten Jahren hat er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Linguistik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt gearbeitet. Sein aktuelles Forschungsinteresse liegt auf dem Gebiet der Prosodie mit ihren Schnittstellen zur Phonetik und den Kernbereichen der Linguistik wie Morphologie, Syntax und Pragmatik.
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I joined the Department of English and American Studies (English Language Education) this September as a research assistant for a comparative study of educational materials for teaching English at lower secondary level from a diversity-sensitive/race-critical and post- and decolonial perspective. I have recently completed my PhD at the University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany where I explored intercultural barriers and the reproduction of coloniality in international English textbooks at Savannakhet University, Laos. I am a trained primary teacher of English and Science. My current research interests are in English language education, critical course book analysis, decolonizing ELT materials and curricula, and cultural aspects of language learning.
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