Professor Dr. Katja Sarkowsky

Professorship of American Studies (Prof. Sarkowsky)

Johannisstraße 12-20, Room 228
48143 Münster
T: +49 251 83-24296
sarkowsky@wwu.de

  • Teaching

    • Seminar: Stimmen.Stemmen. Voices. Beziehungen (in) der Autobiographie. Relaties (in) de autobiografie. Relations in/of Autobiography [096330]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne, Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)
      [ - | | 14-täglich | Mo. | VSH 118 | Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf]
      [ - | VSH 17 | Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf]
      [ - | VSH 17 | Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf]
    • Seminar: Dutch prose in German translations [097034]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne, Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)
      [11.10.2021 | | wöchentlich | Mo. | Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf]
    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [092650]
    • Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [092769]
    • Seminar: Native American and First Nations Literatures (BEGINS April 12!) [092741]
    • Seminar: Dealing with the Crisis: 1930s Literature and Culture in the United States [092766]
    • Seminar: The Western (Raumänderung ab 9.5.!) [092751]
    • Tagung/Kongress: Gender in Popular Culture
      (in cooperation with Elisabeth Zimmermann)
    • Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I [090644]
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe IV)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe I)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe III)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe II)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe V)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe X)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VII)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VI)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VIII)
    • Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe IX)
    • Übung: Reading Nation/alism (Research Workshop to Seminar "Writing Nationhood") [090785]
    • Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [090781]
    • Seminar: Writing Nationhood: Literature, Nationalism and Transnationalism [090771]
    • Seminar: American Poetry [090719]
    • Doktorandenkolloquium: Oberseminar [096849]
    • Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar [096850]
    • Seminar: Contemporary Canadian Literature [096790]
    • Ringvorlesung: l) Additional classes/Varia [096560]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne, Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Dr. Kerstin Bettina Wilhelms)
    • Vorlesung: American Poetry [096729]
    • Workshop: Independent Study Group (Literary Studies) [094869]
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [094854]
    • Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [094880]
    • Seminar: Literary Citizenship [094853]
    • Seminar: Science Fiction [094792]
    • Seminar: Critical Issues in the Study of American Life Writing [094873]
    • Doktorandenkolloquium: Kolloquium Graduate School [092860]
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies and Book Studies) [092841]
    • Oberseminar: Intermediate Module China-Practice II [092857]
    • Seminar: The Beat Generation [092833]
    • Seminar: Master of Biotechnology [092797]
    • Ringvorlesung: Life Writing. New Perspectives in Autobiography research [092184]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne, Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)
    • Vorlesung: Native American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries [092855]
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [097446]
    • Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [097575]
    • Seminar: Literature and Human Rights [097427]
    • Seminar: Writing the American South West [096880]
    • Seminar: Autobiographical Narratives of Illness [096693]
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [096604]
    • Übung: Literatures of Encounter (Research Workshop zum Seminar "Indigenous Settler Contacts") [096991]
    • Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096767]
    • Seminar: American Realism and Neorealism [096107]
    • Seminar: Indigenous Settler Contact [096590]
    • Vorlesung: 20th-Century Canadian Literature [095627]
    • Sonderveranstaltung: Lesung - Henry Beissel
    • Sonderveranstaltung: Filmscreening
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [095661]
    • Oberseminar: Foundational Module [095786]
    • Seminar: Critical Issues in North American Studies [095480]
    • Seminar: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction [095475]
    • Vorlesung: Ethnic Literatures in the U.S [094741]
    • Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literature and Cultural Studies) [095109]
    • Oberseminar: American Studies and Postcolonial Theory [095333]
    • Seminar: Asian American Literature [094710]
    • Seminar: North American Autobiographies [094762]
    • Vorlesung: Conflict, Cultural Pluralism, and Urban Modernities: New York City 1840s to 1940s [094246]

  • Publications

    • Missinne L, Sarkowsky K, Wagner-Egelhaaf M. . ‘Beyond Endings. Introduction.’ In Beyond Endings: Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries, edited by Missinne L, Sarkowsky K, Wagner-Egelhaaf M, 1-8. 1st Ed. Amsterdam: EJLW. doi: https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.37320.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature.: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's "Soucouyant".’ In Contested Communities - Communication, Narration, Imagination, edited by Mühleisen Susanne, 149-170. Brill/Rodopi.
    • Buschendorf Christa, Mueller Stefanie, Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘"Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre" (Introduction).’ In Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre, edited by Mueller Stefanie, Buschendorf Christa, Sarkowsky Katja, 7-30. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „Joy Kogawa, "Obasan".“ In Große Werke der Literatur, herausgegeben von Butzer Günter, Zapf Hubert, 211-223. Narr, Francke, Attempto.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘Leslie Marmon Silko, "Ceremony" (1977).’ In Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, edited by Müller Timo, 337-351. De Gruyter.
    • Mueller Stefanie, Buschendorf Christa, Sarkowsky Katja (Eds.): . Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. 277th Ed. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘"The wounded psyche is not a broken leg": Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt's Works.’ In Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works, edited by Hartmann Johanna, Marks Christine, Zapf Hubert, 357-371.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja. . ‘"Out of the Belly of Christopher's Ship": Mapping the 'Red Atlantic' and Indigenous Modernity.’ In Comparative Indigenous Studies, edited by Banerjee, Mita, 353-381. 1st Ed. Heidelberg: Winter.
    • Sarkowsky, K. . „Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart: Eine Gesellschaft im Umbruch und die Notwendigkeit des geschichtenerzählens.“ In Große Werke der Literatur, herausgegeben von Butzer, G., Zapf, H., 243-259. Tübingen: Francke Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky, K. . „John Ford, The Searchers (1956).“ In Große Werke des Films, herausgegeben von Butzer, G., Zapf, H., 83-103. Tübingen: Francke Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky, K. . ‘Out of Egypt, Out of Place: Memory, Exile, and Diaspora in André Aciman's and Edward Said's Memoirs.’ In Censorship and Exile, edited by Hartmann, J., Zapf, H., 49-64. Göttingen: V&R.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja; Schultze, Rainer-Olaf; Schwarze, Sabine (Eds.): . Migration, Citizenship, Regionalization. Comparing Canada and Europe. : VS Springer.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja. . ‘Des champs de tension producitfs - Cosmopolitisme, théories postcoloniales et Cultural Citizenship.’ In Théories Intercontinentales. Voyages Du Comparatisme Postcolonial, edited by Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale, 131-146. DemopolisParis.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja. . ‘Comparing Indigenous Literatures in Canada and the United States.’ In The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, edited by Nischik, Reingard, 85-102. Palgrave.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja. . ‘The Spatial Politics of Urban Modernity: Henry James's Washington Square.’ Amerikastudien/American Studies 59.1 (2014): 7-25.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „„6.3.3 Kanada".“ In Kanon und Wertung. Theorien, Instanzen, Geschichte., herausgegeben von Rippl Gabriele, Winko Simone, 301-304. Stuttgart: Metzler.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „“’Is this my own?’ – Zugehörigkeit, Citizenship und Literatur”.“ In Theorien der Literatur VI. Grundlagen und Perspektiven., herausgegeben von Butzer Günter, Zapf Hubert, 217-231. Tübingen/Basel: Francke.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „„Urbane Modernen: New Yorks Immigrantenviertel in Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890) und Anzia Yezierskas Salome of the Tenements (1923)”.“ In Stadt der Moderne, herausgegeben von Fassbender Christoph, Sandten Cecile, 93-106. Trier: WVT.
    • Sarkowsky, K. . ‘Transcultural Autobiography and the Staging of (Mis)Recognition: Edward Said's Out of Place and Gerald Vizenor's Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors.’ Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.4 (2012): 627-642.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Gaps, Immediacy, and the Deconstruction of Epistemological Categories: The Impact of Gerald Vizenor’s Poetry on his Prose”.’ In The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor., edited by Madsen Deborah, 98-112. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
    • Sarkowsky Katja, Schulze-Engler Frank. . ‘“New English Literatures”.’ In English and American Studies. Theory and Practice., edited by Middeke Martin, Müller Timo, Wald Christina, Zapf Hubert, 163-177. Stuttgart: Metzler.
    • Sarkowsky Katja, Schulze-Engler Frank. . ‘“Postcolonial Studies”.’ In English and American Studies. Theory and Practice., edited by Middeke Martin, Müller Timo, Wald Christina, Zapf Hubert, 301-313. Stuttgart: Metzler.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Cartographic Subversions: Thomas King’s Transcultural Mapping Strategies”.’ In Thomas King: Works and Impact., edited by Gruber Eva, 210-223. Rochester NY: Camden House.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „“Ambivalente Einschreibungen: ‘Citizenship’, ‘Kultur’ und ‘Nation’ in japanisch-kanadischer Literatur”.“ In Politik in Nordamerika und Europa. Analysen, Theorien und literarische Rezeption., herausgegeben von Grasnik Jan, Walter Katja, 109-129. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „“A Century of Strangers: Postkolonialismus und Transkulturalität”.“ In Theorien der Literatur V. Grundlagen und Perspektiven., herausgegeben von Butzer Günter, Zapf Hubert, 75-92. Tübingen/Basel: Francke.
    • Lammert, Christian, Sarkowsky, Katja (Eds.): . Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Questions of Recognition? Critical Investigations of Citizenship and Culture in Multicultural Canadian Writing”.’ Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien 30, No. 1: 47-63.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Democratic Iterations: Articulations of ‘Citizenship’ in Contemporary Canadian and American Literatures”.’ In Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies., edited by Banerjee Mita, 97-110. Heidelberg: Winter.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Beyond the Contact Zone? Mapping Transcultural Spaces in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach”.’ In Transcultural English Studies. Theories, Fictions, Realities., edited by Schulze-Engler Frank, Helff Sissy, 323-338. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Nisei Negotiations: Citizenship and the Nation in Japanese Canadian Writing”.’ West Coast Line 59: 28-41.
    • Sarkowsky, Katja. . AlterNative Spaces: Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations' Literatures..
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Manga, Zen, and Samurai: Negotiating Exoticism and Orientalist Images in Sujata Massey’s Rei Shimura Novels (including an interview with Sujata Massey)”.’ In Postcolonial Postmortems. Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective., edited by Matzke Christine, Mühleisen Susanne, 109-137. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
    • Lettow Susanne, Manz Ulrike, Sarkowsky Katja (Hrsg.): . Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Erfahrungen, Strategien, Subjekte. Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Churches, Museums, and the Return of the Buffalo: Spatial Art in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999)”.’ In First and Other Nations. Symbolic Representations., edited by Shakleton Mark, Supinen Veera, 53-69. Helsinki: Renvall Institute.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . „“AlterNative Transitions: Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit in zeitgenössischen indigenen Texten Kanadas”.“ In Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Erfahrungen, Strategien, Subjekte., herausgegeben von Lettow Susanne, Manz Ulrike, Sarkowsky Katja, 23-38. Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Mapping the Nineties”.’ In Postcolonial Theory. The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography., edited by Riemenschneider Dieter, 156-177. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Writing (and) Art: Native American/First Nations’ Art and Literature Beyond Resistance and Reconciliation”.’ In Resistance and Reconciliation. Writing in the Commonwealth., edited by Bennett Bruce, et al., 90-101. Canberra.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“Beyond Margins and Centres: First Nations Literature and the Challenge to Postcolonial Theory”.’ In Crab Tracks: Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English., edited by Schulze-Engler Frank, Collier Gordon, 85-109. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
    • Sarkowsky Katja. . ‘“A Decolonial (Rite of) Passage: Decolonization, Migration and Gender Construction in Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash”.’ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 49, No. 3: 233-243.

  • Supervised Theses

    Supervised Dissertations

    Wayah, IsmahanMuslim Narrative and Drama in the Diaspora: Performing American and British Muslim Cultural Identities with and through Unity, Difference, and Dissidence
    Batzke, InaLife Narratives of Undocumented Migrants in the United States
    Heß, L.„No Place for Sissies“? Queer Aging in North American Fiction
    Lenhardt, CorinnaSavage Horrors: Reiterating the American Gothic for the 21st Century.

    Supervised Habilitations

    Quabeck, FranziskaOddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration
    Schmitz, MarkusTransgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations