School of Humanities

M.A. Lea Espinoza Garrido

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E-Mail:

espinoza[at]uni-wuppertal.de

Office:
L.12.32

Mailbox:

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

 

Office Hours Winter Term 2024-2025

Online via Zoom. Please register via Moodle or make an appointment via e-mail.

 

Current Activities:

 

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Special Issues

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

Reviews and Interviews

 

Editorial Work

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Postpost-9/11 Imaginaries: Narrative and Discursive Transformations Beyond the War on Terror
  • (Un)Doing Trust in U.S. American Literature: Crisis, Affect, Citizenship
  • Narrating the Climate Crisis: Children’s Literature and/in the Anthropocene

 

TALKS (Selection)

  • 05/2024: (Dis)Trust, Crisis, and Cruel Optimism in the American Literary Imagination. Joint American Studies Colloquium (Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Siegen), Wuppertal.
  • 12/2024: (Un)Dead Tissue of Quotation: (Genre) Memory and the Agency of Matter in Contemporary (Zombie) Fiction. Workshop “More-than-Human Studies,” Online.
  • 09/2023 Memory, Space, and the Agency of Matter in (Contemporary) Zombie Narratives. “Dead Or Alive: The Current State of Zombie Studies,” Frankfurt.
  • 06/2023: Transmedia Practices and Political Meaning-Making in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Freiburg.
  • 06/2023: Televisionary Club: The Marvel TV Universe (with Sarah Wagner, René Freudenthal, and Sabine Pawletta). Carl-Schurz-Haus / Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.V., Freiburg.
  • 06/2023: Unsettling Art, Land, and Property: (Post)Human Entanglements in Rita Indiana’s Tentacle. Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Rostock.
  • 05/2023: Transcending Conquistador Humanism: More-than-Human Entanglements inContemporary Caribbean Fiction. Symposium “More-than-Human Studies,” Karlstad.
  • 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 illness].
  • 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.

 

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION (Selection):

 

TEACHING (Selection)

  • Temporalities in/of Crisis (from the Early Republic to the Anthropocene) | University of Wuppertal
  • Representing 9/11: Literature, Media, Culture | Augsburg University (Blockseminar, WS 2024/25)
  • Critical Theory | University of Wuppertal
  • (Trans)Formations in North American Literature and Culture | University of Wuppertal
  • Narrating the Climate Crisis – Empathy, Responsibility, (Dis)Trust | University of Wuppertal
  • Introduction to Literary Studies | University of Wuppertal
  • Zombie Narratives | University of Münster
  • Complex TV | University of Münster
  • Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics | University of Münster
  • The African American Literary Tradition | University of Wuppertal
  • Madness in American Fiction | University of Münster
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies | University of Münster
  • Gender in/and Horror Movies | University of Münster
  • Communicating Texts and Theories: From Slavery to Black Lives Matter | University of Münster
  • Academic Skills | University of Münster
  • Communicating Texts and Theories: Slavery on Page and Screen | University of Münster
  • Race and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Fiction | University of Münster

 

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