Lea Espinoza Garrido (Associate Member)
Mapping the War on Terror - Exploring Spatial Configurations in Post-Post-9/11 Television
Further information on Lea Espinoza Garrido can be found on the pages of the John F. Kennedy Institute at FU Berlin.
Education
02/2025 PhD Defense, English Studies, University of Wuppertal 10/2013 until 01/2017 Master of Arts: British, American and Postcolonial Studies / Master of Education: German and English Studies at University of Münster Projects and Professional Experience
Projects
2023 Research Group “Doing Trust in the Age of Crises and Catastrophes“ 07/2022 Workshop “Vertrauen, Krise/Katastrophe, Erzählen“ 04/2022 – 06/2022 Research Group “More-than-Human Studies“ 02/2022 Symposium “Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood“ 02/2022 Workshops “Trust – Catastrophe – Crisis“ 02/2020 Workshop “Ecocriticism“ 11/2019 Organizer of the conference “Migrant State of Exceptions“, University of Wuppertal (together with Bettina Hofmann, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, Mekonnen Tesfahuney, and Julia Wewior) 09/2019 Organizer of the conference “Current Trajectories in Narrative Research“, University of Wuppertal 06/2019 Workshop „Insult and Injury: Comedy as a Platform for Social Critique“, Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Hamburg 04/2018 – 09/2018 Doctoral Student Representative of the Graduate School Practices of Literature 10/2018 – 01/2019 Lecture Series “Why Literary Studies Matter Now: Academic Practices in an Anti-Intellectual Climate“, University of Münster 09/2018 Symposium “Beyond Endings: Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries“, University of Münster 01/2017 – 01/2018 Conference Organization “Pop Hero and Action Princess? Negotiating Gender in Popular Culture“, University of Münster 06/2014 – 06/2015 Conference Organization “Self in the Making - Narrative und performative Konstruktionen von Identität“, University of Münster Professional Experience
since 03/2025 Research Assistant, Department of Literature, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin 10/2018 - 02/2025 Research Assistant, Chair of American Studies, University of Wuppertal since 10/2017 Editor at Textpraxis: Digitales Journal für Philologie since 10/2017 Lecturer, Chair of American Studies, English Department, Münster 10/2016 – 09/2017 Research assistant, chair of American Studies, English Department, Münster 03/2017 – 07/2017 English and German teacher, Städtisches Gymnasium Ahlen 08/2015 – 06/2016 Speech Assistant at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 04/2015 – 09/2015 Student assistant, chair of American Studies, English Department, Münster 10/2013 – 01/2017 Tutor for “Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies“, English Department, Münster 04/2014 – 01/2015 Student assistant, chair of English Studies, English Department, Münster Publications and Conference Papers
Publications
Baßler, Moritz, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Christoph Jürgensen, Kerstin Wilhelms et al. Rammsteins "Deutschland": Pop – Politik – Provokation. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2022.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Jan Herbst, Christoph Jürgensen, Immanuel Nover. "Transformations of the National – Rammstein’s "Deutschland" as a Provocation of German History." In: Transformational POP: Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies). Eds. Beate Flath, Christoph Jacke und Manuel Troike. IASPM D-A-CH, 2022. 179-204.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski and Birgit Spengler. "Migrant States of Exception II". In: Parallax, 27/3 (2022).
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler und Julia Wewior. "Migrant Lives in a State of Exception: Sovereignty, Mobility and Agency in a Globalized World." In: Parallax, 27/3 (2022): 241–249.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler und Julia Wewior. "Documentary Filmmaking and the Representation of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim." In: Parallax, 27/3 (2022): 267–281.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea. "Porous Borders, Porous Bodies – Citizenship, Gender and States of Exception in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land." In: Parallax, 27/2 (2021): 176–197.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler und Julia Wewior. "Introduction: Migrant Lives in a State of Exception (Part I)." In: Parallax, 27/2 (2021): 115–158.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler und Julia Wewior. "Migration Emergencies in the European Postcolony: An Interview with Thomas Spijkerboer." In: Parallax, 27/2 (2021): 223–239.
Batzke, Ina, Lea Espinoza Garrido and Linda M. Hess (Eds.). Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Batzke, Ina, Lea Espinoza Garrido und Linda M. Hess. "Introduction: Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene." In Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene. Eds. Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, and Linda Hess. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 1–19.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea. "Review of Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks", by Chera Kee. In: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 22 (2021): 109–113.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea. "Beyoncé." In: These Girls: Ein Streifzug durch die feministische Musikgeschichte. Eds. Juliane Streich. Mainz: Ventil, 2019.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea. "Luke Cage as Postpost-9/11 TV: Spatial Negotiations of Race in Contemporary U.S. Television." In: COPAS 19/1 (2018).
Conference Papers
10/2022 "Coexistence, Cooperation, Composition: Reflections on More-than-Human Art", Workshop "More-than-Human Studies", Online/Karlstad/Göttingen/Wuppertal. 07/2022 "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 "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 illnesss]. 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. Committe Work and Civic Engagement
until today Co-chair “Narrative Research Group Center for Narrative Research“, University of Wuppertal since 04/2019 Spokesperson of the WG “Narrative Research“, University of Wuppertal 04/2018 – 09/2018 PhD Student Representative of the Graduate School Practices of Literature