Dr. habil. Johanna Hartmann
Übersicht
Education
| 2016 - 2023 | Habilitation project: "Picturing the Stage: Modernist American Short Plays in Photographs" |
| 06/2014 | Defense of the Dissertation “Literary Visuality in Siri Hustvedt’s Works” |
| 04/2010 | Magistra Artium (American Literature, English Linguistics, Contemporary History) |
| 12/2009 | State Examination (Lehramt Gymnasium) English and History |
Professional Positions
| Since 10/2019 | Assistant Professor of American Literature (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin) at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
| 01/2018 – 09/2019 | Research Scholar at the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin (Sponsor: Elizabeth Cullingford) |
| 08/2014 – 03/2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor at the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin (Sponsor: Elizabeth Cullingford) |
| 04/2010 – 12/2017 | Lecturer at the University of Augsburg |
Fellowships, Grants, and Professional Awards
| 08/2022 | Distinguished Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas in Austin). Project: „Don DeLillo’s Dramatic Imagination“ |
| 11/2017 – 09/2019 | Habilitation stipend, University of Augsburg (Büro für Chancengleichheit) |
| 2016 | Fulbright American Studies Award |
| 2015 | Best Dissertation Award (Wissenschaftspreis), University of Augsburg |
| 2015 | Best Dissertation Award, University of Augsburg, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Research Interests
- American drama and theatre since the 19th century
- Literary visuality and intermediality (literature and music, visual arts, sculpture, or photography)
- Literature in light of captivity and political restrictions (censorship, exile, captivity narratives, slave narratives, prison novels etc.)
- Literature and the environment
Publications
Monographs
- Literary Visuality in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Phenomenological Perspectives. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2016.
- Picturing the Stage: American Modernist Short Plays in Photographs (unpublished manuscript)
Edited Collections
- The Body in/of Don DeLillo's Plays. Ed. and “Introduction,” Special Issue in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, forthcoming 2025.
- Embodied Acts and American Photographs. Ed. and “Introduction,” forthcoming 2025.
- Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances. Ed. and “Introduction,” together with Ilka Saal, Special Issue in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, forthcoming 2024.
- Reflections on the Tragic in American Drama and Theatre.Ed. and “Introduction” together with Julia Rössler, Guest-edited Winter Issue in Journal of American Drama and Theater, 2019.
- Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays. Ed. and “Introduction” together with Christine Marks and Hubert Zapf. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
- Censorship and Exile. Ed. and “Introduction” together with Hubert Zapf. Internationale Schriften des Jakob-Fugger Zentrums. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.
Articles
- “Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard.” In: Große Werke des Films III. Eds. Günter Butzer and Katja Sarkowsky (forthcoming 2024).
- “Vogel, Paula.” KINDLERS LITERATUR LEXIKON (KLL), edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, J B METZLER, 2023.
- “Vogel, Paula.” KINDLERS LITERATUR LEXIKON (KLL), edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, J B METZLER, 2023.
- “DeLillo, Don: Das dramatische Werk.” KINDLERS LITERATUR LEXIKON (KLL), edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, J B METZLER, 2023.
- “Yiyun Li.” In: Handbook of the American Short Story, Eds. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding, De Gruyter, 2022, 643–660.
- “Die Wüste in der zeitgenössischen literarischen Imagination: Jennifer Egans A Visit from the Goon Squad.” In: Environmental Humanities. Eds. Matthias Schmidt, Jens Soentgen, and Hubert Zapf. V&R 2021, 111–123.
- “The Precariousness of Being in the Art Novel of the 21st Century: Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved (2004) and Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall (2010).” In The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Critical Analyses. Eds. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. WVT, 2019, 187-201.
- “Robert Wiene: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.” In Große Werke des Films II. Eds. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Francke, 2019, 9-31.
- “Drama als intermediales Genre.” In Theorien der Literatur VII. Eds. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Francke, 2018, 95-117.
- “Sound, Vision and Embodied Performativity in Beyoncé Knowles’ Visual Album Lemonade (2016).” In: EJAS. Special Issue „Sound and Vision,“ Eds. Erik Redling and Frank Mehring, 2017.
https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12415 - “Paratextualized Forms of Fictional Self-Narration: Footnotes, Headnotes and Endnotes in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.” In Symbolism 15 (2015): 101–119. Special Issue “Footnotes, Headnotes, Endnotes: Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text” Eds. Heide Ziegler and Patrick O’Donnell.
- “Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be.” In Grosse Werke des Films. Eds. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf, Francke, 2015, 61-82.
- “Intermedial Encounters in the Contemporary North American Novel.” In Handbook of Intermediality. Ed. Gabriele Rippl, De Gruyter, 2015, 401–419.
- “Ekphrasis in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” In Handbook of Intermediality. Ed. Gabriele Rippl, De Gruyter 2015, 113–127.
Reviews
- Schmidt, Kerstin, Faisst, Julia. Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Review in Kritikon Litterarum 2021, 419-424.
- Mayer, Ruth, Brasch, Ilka. Modernities and Modernization in North America. Würzburg: Winter, 2019. Review in Kritikon Litterarum 2021, 424-429.
- Mansbridge, Joanna. Paula Vogel. Ann Arbour: U of Michigan P, 2014. Review in JCDE 5.1 (2017): 212-216.
- Truchlar, Leo. Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit: Vergleichende Lektüren. Wien: LIT, 2010. Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft. 15. Review in Anglia. Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 132.2 (2014): 406–411.
Conferences and Workshops
- 2024 – The Body in/of Don DeLillo's Plays.
- 2023 – Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances (together with Ilka Saal; Annual Convention of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English) Link
- 2022 - Embodied Acts and American Photographs (an international conference, sponsored by the DFG and the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies at MLU). Link
- 2017 - Augsburg-Regensburg American Studies Symposium, with Florian Weinzierl; Regensburg.
- 2017 - Tragedy in American Drama and Theatre: Genre – Mediality – Ethics (international conference, together with Julia Rössler, sponsored by the DFG, BAA, and the Freunde of Augsburg University). Link
- 2015 - Augsburg-Regensburg American Studies Symposium, with Birgit Bauridl; Regensburg.
- 2013 - Augsburg-Regensburg American Studies Symposium, with Birgit Bauridl; Regensburg.
- 2013 - Censorship & Exile (a joint conference of the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Augsburg (together with Hubert Zapf, sponsored by the International Office at the University of Augsburg). Link
- 2012 - Crossing Borders – Ways of Constructing Identities (a joint conferenceof the University of Pittsburgh and Augsburg University (together withChristina Isensee, sponsored by EUCE/ESC at Pittsburgh University).
Invited Talks, Panel Talks, and Interviews
- July 2022: “Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard” (Lecture Series Große Werke des Films, University of Augsburg)
- Nov 2021: “Iconic Photographs in the EFL-Classroom” (Conference “Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom,” American Studies Seminar 2021, Leucorea Foundation, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Nov 25-27, 2021)
- Sept 2020: “American Modernist Drama: Expressionism and the Grotesque in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge” (Université Fribourg and Universität Bern, Sept 28/29, 2020).
- July 2019: “Picturing Performance: American Modernist Drama and Theater Photography – Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones” (Universität Augsburg, Juli 2, 2019).
- Nov 2017: “Verbotenes Lesen – Verbotenes Schreiben,” Paneldiskussion, Heinrich Böll- Stiftung RLP, 29.11.2017, Mainz.
- Nov 2017: “Early 20th Century Pageants as Embodied Forms of Political Dissent” (Jahrestagung der American Studies Association, Nov 9 – 12, 2017, Chicago)
- Oct 2017: “Die Wüste in der amerikanischen Imagination: Jennifer Egans A Visit from the Goon Squad” (Conference “Natur und Narration” Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt / Environmental Humanities, University of Augsburg; Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze)
- Sept 2017: “Pageantry as Embodied Form of Political Dissent and Ecological Awareness: W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Star of Ethiopia” (“Environment Meets Performance” (DFG-Netzwerk “Environmental Crisis and the Transnational Imagination” (Prof. Dr. Timo Müller) und DFG-Netzwerk “Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies” (Dr. Birgit Bauridl, Dr. Pia Wiegmink), Sept 28 – 30, 2017, Regensburg)
- May 2017: “From ‘The Indian Princess’ to Queen Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’: Sound, Vision, and Performativity in the Popular Arts” (Conference “Sound and Vision: Intermediality and American Music,” 26. – 27. Mai 2017, Muhlenberg Center, MLU Halle)
- Dec 2016: “Robert Wiene: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari” (Lecture Series Große Werke des Films II, University of Augsburg)
- Oct 2016: “Literatur und/als regenerative Energie: Anne Washburns Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play” (Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt/Environmental Humanities, Universität Augsburg; Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze)
- April 2016: “Dimensions of Intermediality in Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The Hairy Ape’” (Annual Convention of the EAAS 2016, Constanza, Romania)
- March 2016: “From Decoration to the ‘New Stagecraft’: Robert Edmund Jones’s and Norman Bel Geddes’s Stage Designs and the Development of the Modern American Drama” (Annual Convention of the PCA/ACA 2016, Seattle, WA)
- Feb 2016: “Textual Performance of Borders in the American Drama of the 19th and Early 20th Century” (ALA – „Frontiers and Borders in American Literature,” 2016, San Antonio, TX)
- Nov 2015: “Drama als intermediales Genre“ (Lecture Series “Theorien der Literatur: Literatur und die anderen Künste,” University of Augsburg)
- Oct 2015: “Literary Visuality in Siri Hustvedt’s Works” (“Living, Thinking, Looking – An International Conference on the Writing of Siri Hustvedt,” Birkbeck College, London, 2015)
- Oct 2015: Moderation of the event “Living Thinking, Looking – Siri Hustvedt in Conversation,” Bloomsbury Festival 2015, London)
- May 2015: “Overlapping Geographies in Siri Hustvedt’s The Enchantment of Lily Dahl and What I Loved” (15th International Cultural Studies Symposium “Culture and Space” at Ege Universität, Izmir, Türkei, May 6–8, 2015)
- Jan 2014: “Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be” (Lecture Series Große Werke des Films, University of Augsburg)
- Dec 2013: “Looking at Art and Literary Visuality in Siri Hustvedt’s Fiction” (Invited talk at Bern University, Switzerland)
- May 2013: “American Authors on the National-Socialist Index: Mechanisms of Literary Policies” (Talk at the conference “Censorship and Exile,” University of Augsburg)
- March 2011: “Intermedial References and Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man” (Talk at the conference “Beyond Trauma. Narratives of Im)possibility” at the University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Teaching
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
| WS 23/24 | Seminar: „Orpheus in American Literature“ Seminar: „Slave Narratives“ Seminar: „19th Century American Poetry“ Lecture: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 23 | Seminar: „Postmodernist African American Novels“ Seminar: „Colonial American Poetry“ Seminar: „American Realism(s)“ Seminar: „Presidents in/and Photographs“ |
| WS 22/23 | Seminar: „Modernist American Poetry“ Seminar: „19th Century American Short Stories“ Seminar: „Contemporary American Plays“ Lecture: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 22 | Seminar: „Korean American Literature“ Seminar: „The Beach in American Literature“ Seminar: „Contemporary American Poetry“ Seminar: „Mid-Twentieth Century American Photography“ |
| WS 21/22 | Seminar: „Hotels in/and American Literature“ Seminar: „Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry“ Seminar: „Prison Novels“ Lecture: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 2021 | Seminar: „Early American Poetry“ Seminar: „American Plays of the Present“ Seminar: „Of Escaped Nuns and Cult Survivors: Religious Liberty and Captivity Narratives“ Seminar: „American Photography (1880-1918)“ |
| WS 20/21 | Seminar: „19th Century American Poetry“ Seminar: „Captivity Narratives of the Colonial Period“ Seminar: „American Photography of the 19th Century“ Lecture: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 2020 | Seminar: „Slave Narratives/Neo-Slave Narratives“ Seminar: „American Modernist Poetry“ Seminar: „Dystopian Plays of the Present“ Seminar: „Cognitive Cultural Studies“ |
| WS 19/20 | Seminar: „Herman Melville and the Sea” Seminar: „American Short Plays of the 20th and 21st Century” Seminar: „The Opioid Crisis” Lecture: „Introduction to American Literature” |
Augsburg University
| WS 17/18: | Hauptseminar: „The American Drama of the Early 20th Century“ |
| SS 2017: | Hauptseminar: „Theories and Methods in Literary Studies“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literary Studies“ Hauptseminar: „Paula Vogel“ |
| WS 16/17: | Hauptseminar: „Theories and Methods“ Proseminar: „Transmedialität: Literatur, Film und Theater in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 2016: | Proseminar: „Short Literature“ Hauptseminar: „African American Drama until 1950“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| WS 15/16: | Proseminar: „American Drama of the Early 20th Century“ Proseminar: „The Roaring Twenties“ Begleitübung „Essentials of Literary Study: American Literature“ |
| SS 2015: | Proseminar: „Early American Drama (19th Century)“ Proseminar: „African American Novels“ Begleitübung: „Essentials of Literary Study: American Literature“ |
| WS 2014: (UT Austin) | Seminar: „American Realism“ (E 372M) Seminar: „The American Novel Since 1960“ (E 377M) |
| SS 2014: | Proseminar: „American Realism and Naturalism“ Proseminar: „American Drama since the 1960s“ Begleitübung „Essentials of Literary Study: American Literature“ |
| WS 13/14: | Proseminar: „Contemporary American Literature: Hustvedt/Auster“ Proseminar: „Ekphrasis in American Literature“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 2013: | Proseminar: „American Renaissance“ Proseminar: „Henry James“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| WS 12/13: | Proseminar: „Mid-20th Century American Drama“ Proseminar: „Modernist American Literature“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| SS 2012: | Proseminar: „The Little Theatre Movement“ Proseminar: „Contemporary American Novels“ Vorlesung: „Introduction to American Literature“ |
| WS 11/12: | Proseminar: „20th Century American Short Stories“ |
| SS 2011: | Proseminar: „Realism/Neorealism“ |
| WS 10/11: | Proseminar: „Siri Hustvedt“ |
| SS 2010: | Examenskolloquim Staatsexamen |
| 2009 – 2010: | Tutorium für StaatsexamenskandidatInnen |
| WS 08/09: | Tutorium: „The Literature of the American Renaissance“ |
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
- The German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theater in English (CDE)
- Photography Network (PN)
- Muhlenberg Center for American Studies am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der MLU Halle-Wittenberg
- Bayerische Amerika Akademie (BAA)
- Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt, Universität Augsburg (WZU)
- Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)