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 and Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)- Seminar: Stemmen. Stimmen. Voices. [097034]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne and Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)- Seminar: Dealing with the Crisis: 1930s Literature and Culture in the United States [092766]
- Seminar: The Western (Raumänderung ab 9.5.!) [092751]
- Seminar: Native American and First Nations Literatures (BEGINS April 12!) [092741]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [092769]
- Basic course: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [092650]
- Seminar: American Poetry [090719]
- Seminar: Writing Nationhood: Literature, Nationalism and Transnationalism [090771]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [090781]
- Practice: Reading Nation/alism (Research Workshop to Seminar "Writing Nationhood") [090785]
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe IX)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe VII)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe X)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe VIII)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe I)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe II)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe III)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe IV)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe V)
- Tutorial: Tutorium (Gruppe VI)
- Basic course: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I [090644]
- Conference/Congress: Gender in Popular Culture
- Lecture: American Poetry [096729]
- Lecture series: Life Writing. Neue Ansätze in der Autobiographieforschung [096560]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne, Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf and Dr. Kerstin Wilhelms)- Seminar: Contemporary Canadian Literature [096790]
- Colloquium: Betreuungsseminar [096850]
- Colloquium for PhD students: Oberseminar [096849]
- Seminar: Critical Issues in the Study of American Life Writing [094873]
- Seminar: Literary Citizenship [094853]
- Seminar: Science Fiction [094792]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [094880]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [094854]
- Workshop: Independent Study Group (Literary Studies) [094869]
- Lecture: Native American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries [092855]
- Lecture series: Life Writing. Neue Ansätze in der Autobiographieforschung [092184]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne and Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf)- Seminar: American Literature and Culture in the 1950s [092797]
- Seminar: The Beat Generation [092833]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [092857]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies and Book Studies) [092841]
- Colloquium for PhD students: Kolloquium Graduate School [092860]
- Seminar: Writing the American South West [096880]
- Seminar: Literature and Human Rights [097427]
- Seminar: Autobiographical Narratives of Illness [096693]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [097575]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [097446]
- Lecture: 20th-Century Canadian Literature [095627]
- Seminar: American Realism and Neorealism [096107]
- Seminar: Indigenous Settler Contact [096590]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096767]
- Practice: Literatures of Encounter (Research Workshop zum Seminar "Indigenous Settler Contacts") [096991]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [096604]
- Lecture: Ethnic Literatures in the U.S [094741]
- Seminar: Critical Issues in North American Studies [095480]
- Seminar: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction [095475]
- Advanced seminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [095786]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [095661]
- Special lecture/Special seminar: Filmscreening
- Special lecture/Special seminar: Lesung - Henry Beissel
- Lecture: Conflict, Cultural Pluralism, and Urban Modernities: New York City 1840s to 1940s [094246]
- Seminar: Asian American Literature [094710]
- Seminar: North American Autobiographies [094762]
- Advanced seminar: American Studies and Postcolonial Theory [095333]
- Colloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literature and Cultural Studies) [095109]
- Seminar: Stemmen. Stimmen. Voices. [097034]
- Seminar: Stimmen. Stemmen. Voices. Beziehungen (in) der Autobiographie. Relaties (in) de autobiografie. Relations in/of Autobiography [096330]
Project
- GAPS-conference 2015 - Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts – GAPS2015 ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: SA 2270/1-1
- GAPS-conference 2015 - Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts – GAPS2015 ()
Publications
- Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina, Missine, Lut, and Sarkowsky, Katja, eds. . “Beyond Endings: Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries.” Special Issue European Journal of Life Writing, № 9. doi: 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, Vol. ASNEL Papers 21 of Cross/Cultures 190, edited by Mühleisen Susanne. Brill.
- Buschendorf, Christa, Mueller, Stefanie, and 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, Vol. 277 of American Studies, A Monograph Series, edited by Stefanie Mueller, Christa Buschendorf and Katja Sarkowsky. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Mueller, Stefanie, Buschendorf, Christa, and Sarkowsky, Katja, eds. . American Studies, A Monograph Series, Vol. 277, Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre 277. edt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “Joy Kogawa, "Obasan".” in Große Werke der Literatur, edited by Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “Leslie Marmon Silko, "Ceremony" (1977).” in Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries , Vol. 4 of Handbooks of English and American Studies: Text and Theory, edited by Müller Timo. De Gruyter.
- 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 Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks and Hubert Zapf.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “"Out of the Belly of Christopher's Ship": Mapping the 'Red Atlantic' and Indigenous Modernity.” in Comparative Indigenous Studies, edited by Mita Banerjee. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, K. . “Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart: Eine Gesellschaft im Umbruch und die Notwendigkeit des geschichtenerzählens.” in Große Werke der Literatur, Vol. XIII of Große Werke der Literatur, edited by G. Butzer and H. Zapf. Tübingen: A. 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 J. Hartmann and H. Zapf. Göttingen: V&R unipress.
- Sarkowsky, K. . “John Ford, The Searchers (1956).” in Große Werke des Films, Vol. 1 of Große Werke des Films, edited by G. Butzer and H. Zapf. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “Comparing Indigenous Literatures in Canada and the United States.” in The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, edited by Reingard Nischik. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “Des champs de tension producitfs - Cosmopolitisme, théories postcoloniales et Cultural Citizenship.” in Théories Intercontinentales. Voyages Du Comparatisme Postcolonial, edited by Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn. DemopolisParis.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “The Spatial Politics of Urban Modernity: Henry James's Washington Square.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 59.1 (2014): 7–25.
- Sarkowsky, Katja, Schultze, Rainer-Olaf, and Schwarze, Sabine, eds. . Migration, Citizenship, Regionalization. Comparing Canada and Europe. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‚6.3.3 Kanada".” in Kanon und Wertung. Theorien, Instanzen, Geschichte., edited by Gabriele Rippl and Simone Winko. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘’Is this my own?’ – Zugehörigkeit, Citizenship und Literatur’.” in Theorien der Literatur VI. Grundlagen und Perspektiven., Vol. VI of Große Werke der Literatur, edited by Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen/Basel: A. Francke Verlag.
- 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, edited by Christoph Fassbender and Cecile Sandten. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- 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. . “‘Ambivalente Einschreibungen: ‘Citizenship’, ‘Kultur’ und ‘Nation’ in japanisch-kanadischer Literatur’.” in Politik in Nordamerika und Europa. Analysen, Theorien und literarische Rezeption., edited by Jan Grasnik and Katja Walter. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘Cartographic Subversions: Thomas King’s Transcultural Mapping Strategies’.” in Thomas King: Works and Impact., edited by Gruber Eva. Rochester NY: Camden House.
- Sarkowsky, Katja Schulze-Engler Frank. . “‘Postcolonial Studies’.” in English and American Studies. Theory and Practice., edited by Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald and Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja Schulze-Engler Frank. . “‘New English Literatures’.” in English and American Studies. Theory and Practice. , edited by Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald and Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
- 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. Albuquerque: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘A Century of Strangers: Postkolonialismus und Transkulturalität’.” in Theorien der Literatur V. Grundlagen und Perspektiven., Vol. VI of Theorien der Literatur, edited by Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen/Basel: A. Francke Verlag.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘Questions of Recognition? Critical Investigations of Citizenship and Culture in Multicultural Canadian Writing’.” Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien 30 (1): 47–63.
- Lammert, Christian, and Sarkowsky, Katja, eds. . Travelling Concepts: Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- 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., Cross/Cultures, edited by Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘Democratic Iterations: Articulations of ‘Citizenship’ in Contemporary Canadian and American Literatures’.” in Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. , edited by Banerjee Mita. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- 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 Christine Matzke and Susanne Mühleisen. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
- Sarkowsky, Katja. . “‘AlterNative Transitions: Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit in zeitgenössischen indigenen Texten Kanadas’.” in Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Erfahrungen, Strategien, Subjekte. , edited by Susanne Lettow, Ulrike Manz and Katja Sarkowsky. 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 Mark Shakleton and Veera Supinen. Helsinki: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
- Lettow, Susanne, Manz, Ulrike, and Sarkowsky, Katja, eds. . Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Erfahrungen, Strategien, Subjekte. 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. 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 Bruce Bennett and al. et. 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 Frank Schulze-Engler and Gordon Collier. 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 (3): 233–243.
Supervised Theses
Doctoral Studies
Wayah, Ismahan Muslim Narrative and Drama in the Diaspora: Performing American and British Muslim Cultural Identities with and through Unity, Difference, and Dissidence Batzke, Ina Life Narratives of Undocumented Migrants in the United States Heß, L. „No Place for Sissies“? Queer Aging in North American Fiction Lenhardt, Corinna Savage Horrors: Reiterating the American Gothic for the 21st Century. Postdoctoral Studies
Quabeck, Franziska Oddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration Schmitz, Markus Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
Professor Dr. Katja Sarkowsky
Professorship of American Studies (Prof. Sarkowsky)
