Dr. Leopold Lippert

Englisches Seminar
Assistant Professor
Chair of American Studies
Room ES 326 | Tel.: 0251- 83 25634
Johannisstr. 12-20 | 48143 Münster
Leopold.Lippert@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours: Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 am (Please email me to receive a slot)
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Leopold Lippert teaches American Studies at the University of Münster. He holds a PhD in American Studies (University of Vienna, 2015) and received the 2016 Fulbright Prize in American Studies for his dissertation, and was runner-up for the 2017 Obama Dissertation Prize. He is the author of Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism (2018). His second book project “Revolutionary Laughter” is concerned with the relationship of humor and the public sphere in late-eighteenth-century America. He has co-edited several volumes and journal special issues: Theater of Crisis, a special issue of JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2020, with Nassim W. Balestrini and Maria Löschnigg); The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater (transcript 2021, with Ralph J. Poole); American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces (Routledge 2021, with Katrin Horn, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink); and American Im/Mobilities, a special issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (2021, with Alexandra Ganser, Helena Oberzaucher, and Eva Schörgenhuber).

 

 

 

 

  • Information for Students

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  • Research Interests

    • Theater and Performance Studies
    • Transnationalism and Cultural Exchange
    • Early American Literature
    • Queer and Sexuality Studies
    • Affect and Public Feeling

  • Current Project

    “Revolutionary Laughter: Humor and the Public Sphere in Late-Eighteenth-Century America” (monograph)

  • Teaching

    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group VIII) [096722]
      [ - | | wöchentlich | Mi. | ES 131 | Dr. Leopold Lippert]
    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group IX) [096723]
      [ - | | wöchentlich | Mi. | ES 131 | Dr. Leopold Lippert]

    • Übung: Theory and Literature (Group II) - Reading Humor [094760]
    • Übung: Theory and Literature (Group I) - Diverseries [094759]

    • Übung: Theory and Literature (Group I) - Diverseries [090762]
    • Seminar: Queer Modernism [090845]
    • Seminar: American Literature after World War II [090759]
    • Vorlesung: Hotspots in Literary and Cultural Studies, Book Studies, and Linguistics [090814]

    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe VII [099003]
    • Seminar: American Theater around 1800 [099123]

    • Übung: Übung Theory and Literature (Gruppe I) - Performing America [096763]
    • Seminar: Contemporary Queer Literature [096864]

    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe X [094977]
    • Seminar: Contemporary American Theater [094982]

  • Publications

    Books

    Books (Monographs)
    • Lippert L. . Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Horn Katrin, Lippert Leopold, Saal Ilka, Wiegmink Pia (Eds.): . American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces. New York: Routledge.
    • Lippert Leopold, Poole Ralph J. (Eds.): . The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
    • Balestrini NW, Lippert L, Löschnigg M (Eds.): . Special Issue of JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English: Theater of Crisis: Contemporary Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition. Berlin: De Gruyter.

    Articles

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • Lippert L. . ‘The Gendered Soundscapes of Revolutionary American Theater.’ JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 1, No. 2: 247–264.
    • Lippert L, Balestrini NW, Löschnigg M. . ‘Theater of Crisis: Contemporary Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 8, No. 1: 2–15.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Introduction to Performing America Abroad.’ Journal of Transnational American Studies 10, No. 2.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Theatrical Aesthetics and Transnational Representation in Robert Hunter's Androboros.’ XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 74.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Performance Labor, Im/Mobility, and Exhaustion in Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 5, No. 1: 140–155. doi: 10.1515/jcde-2017-0011.
    • Lippert L. . ‘"Life in the Memory of One Who No Longer Lives": The Laramie Project and the Politics of Performance.’ ANQ 23, No. 2: 86–95.
    • Lippert L. . ‘"How Do You Think We Get to Pottery Barn?": Mainstream Gay Drama, Homonormativity, and the Culture of Neoliberalism.’ South Atlantic Review 75, No. 3: 41–59.
    Review (Journals)
    • Lippert L. . ‘Rev. of Juntunen, Jacob. Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable.’ Kritikon Litterarum 46, No. 3-4: 303–306.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Rev. of Carpenter, Faedra Chatard. Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance, and DeFrantz, Thomas F., and Anita Gonzalez, eds. Black Performance Theory.’ JCDE: Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 4, No. 1: 413–419.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Rev. of O’Connor, Jacqueline. Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater.’ Comparative Drama 49, No. 1: 98–101.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Rev. of Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism.’ Kritikon Litterarum 40, No. 1-2: 141–144.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • Lippert Leopold. . ‘Productive/Performative: The Skills of Transnational Capitalism in Annie Proulx's Barkskins.’ In American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces, edited by Horn Katrin, Lippert Leopold, Saal Ilka, Wiegmink Pia, 100–112.
    • Bauridl Birgit, Horn Katrin, Lippert Leopold, Saal Ilka, Wiegmink Pia. . ‘American Cultures as Transnational Performance: An Introduction.’ In American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces, edited by Horn Katrin, Lippert Leopold, Saal Ilka, Wiegmink Pia, 1–19. New York: Routledge.
    • Lippert Leopold, Poole Ralph J. . ‘Introduction: The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater.’ In The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices, edited by Lippert Leopold, Poole Ralph J., 7–26. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Fantasies of the Wild West in the Austrian 1990s: Harald Sicheritz' Wanted.’ In German-American Encounters in Bavaria and Beyond, 1945-2015, edited by Bauridl BM, Gessner I, Hebel UJ, 267–286. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
    • Lippert L. . ‘The Virtuosic Labor of Femininity in Mad Men.’ In Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century, edited by Fellner AM, Fernández-Morales M, Martausová M, 73–88. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Virtual Theatricality, Transatlantic Representation, and Mercy Otis Warren's Revolutionary Plays.’ In Approaching Transnational America in Performance, edited by Bauridl BM, Wiegmink P, 57–74. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Emotional Capitalism, Transnationalism, and the Survival of a Salesman.’ In Is It ‘Cause It’s Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture, edited by Fellner AM, Hamscha S, Heissenberger K, Moos JJ, 255–272. Wien: LIT Verlag.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Queering Cowboys, Queering Futurity: The Re/Construction of American Cowboy Masculinity.’ In ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity, edited by Rieser K, Fuchs M, Phillips M, 133–148. Bristol: Intellect Books.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Performing America Abroad:No Name City and the Haunted Spaces of Transnational America.’ In Placing America: American Culture and its Spaces, edited by Fuchs M, Holub M, 19–37. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Writing Transnational Queer Histories, or Stonewall in Wien.’ In Import-Export-Transport: Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion, edited by Mesquita S, Wiedlack MK, Lasthofer K, 247–260. Wien: Zaglossus.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Transnational Imagined Communities?: Retelling the Stonewall Myth in Vienna.’ In Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres: The Cultural Work of Contemporary American(ized) Narratives., edited by Herrmann SM, Hofmann CA, Kanzler K, Usbeck F, 115–130. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Playing Indian in Austria: Waterloo and the Transnational Performance of America.’ In Contact Spaces of American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena, edited by Eckhard P, Rieser K, Schultermandl S, 245–265. Wien: LIT Verlag.
    • Lippert L. . ‘Negotiating Postmodernity and Queer Utopianism in Shortbus.’ In Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory, edited by Eckhard P, Fuchs M, Hölbling W, 195–206. Wien: LIT Verlag.