Mapping the War on Terror - Exploring Spatial Configurations in Post-Post-9/11 Television

Weitere Informationen zu Lea Espinoza Garrido sind auf den Seiten des John-F. -Kennedy -Instituts an der FU Berlin zu finden.
Weitere Informationen zu Lea Espinoza Garrido sind auf den Seiten des John-F. -Kennedy -Instituts an der FU Berlin zu finden.
02/2025 | Disputation, Promotion, Englische Philologie, Universität Wuppertal |
10/2013 bis 01/2017 | Master of Arts: British, American and Postcolonial Studies / Master of Education: Germanistik und Anglistik an der Uni Münster |
Projekte
2023 | Forschungsgruppe „Doing Trust in the Age of Crises and Catastrophes“ |
07/2022 | Workshop „Vertrauen, Krise/Katastrophe, Erzählen“ |
04/2022 – 06/2022 | Forschungsgruppe “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 | Konferenzorganisation „Migrant State of Exceptions“, Universität Wuppertal (zusammen mit Bettina Hofmann, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, Mekonnen Tesfahuney und Julia Wewior) |
09/2019 | Konferenzorganisation „Current Trajectories in Narrative Research“, Universität Wuppertal |
06/2019 | Workshop „Insult and Injury: Comedy as a Platform for Social Critique“, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (GAAS/DGfA), Hamburg |
10/2018 – 01/2019 | Vortragsreihe „Why Literary Studies Matter Now: Academic Practices in an Anti-Intellectual Climate“, Universität Münster |
09/2018 | Symposium „Beyond Endings: Past Tenses and Future Imaginaries“, Universität Münster |
01/2017 – 01/2018 | Konferenzorganisation „Pop Hero and Action Princess? Negotiating Gender in Popular Culture“, Universität Münster |
06/2014 – 06/2015 | Konferenzorganisation „Self in the Making – Narrative and Performative Constructions of Identity”, Uni Münster |
Berufliche Tätigkeiten
seit 03/2025 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc), Abteilung Literatur, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin |
10/2018 - 02/2025 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Universität Wuppertal |
seit 10/2017 | Redakteurin bei Textpraxis: Digitales Journal für Philologie |
seit 10/2017 | Dozentin, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Englisches Seminar, Uni Münster |
10/2016 – 09/2017 | Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Englisches Seminar, Uni Münster |
03/2017 – 07/2017 | Englisch- und Deutschlehrerin, Städtischen Gymnasium Ahlen |
08/2015 – 06/2016 | Sprachassistentin am Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
04/2015 – 09/2015 | Studentische Hilfskraft, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Englisches Seminar, Uni Münster |
10/2013 – 01/2017 | Tutorin für „Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies“, Englisches Seminar, Uni Münster |
04/2014 – 01/2015 | Studentische Hilfskraft, Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, Englisches Seminar, Uni Münster |
Publikationen
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). Hg. von Beate Flath, Christoph Jacke und Manuel Troike. IASPM D-A-CH, 2022 . 179-204.
Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski und 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 und Linda M. Hess (Hg.). 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. Hg. von 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. Hg. von 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).
Konferenzvorträge
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", Konferenz "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. |
bis heute | Co-Vorsitzende AG „Erzählforschung“, Zentrum für Erzählforschung (ZEF), Universität Wuppertal |
04/2019 | Sprecherin der AG „Erzählforschung“, Zentrum für Erzählforschung (ZEF), Universität Wuppertal |
04/2018 – 09/2018 | Promovierendensprecherin der Graduate School Practices of Literature |