Dr. Julia Faisst

• Dr. Julia Faisst
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
• Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
• 35394 Giessen
• Germany

• Phone: +49.641.99 300 54
• Fax: +49.641.99 300 49
• E-Mail: julia.faisst@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 2010-2012

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University, Department of English, 2009-2010

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
PhD, Comparative Literature, June 2009
AM, Comparative Literature, June 2005

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Visiting Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, American and African American Literature, 2001-2002

Free University, Berlin, Germany
BA (equiv.), Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: American Literature, Theatre Studies, June 2001

Capturing Character: Photography, Race, and Identity in Modern American Literature
Advisers: Werner Sollors, John Stauffer, Philip Fisher

Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature (Completed Book Manuscript)

American Projects: Architectures of Inequality and the Construction of Urban Ethnicity (Postdoc Project)

19th to 21st century American literature and culture; African American, multi-ethnic, and interracial literatures; race studies; visual, material, and technological studies (esp. photography, architecture, film); theories of space; transnational American studies; cultural studies; literary and critical theory; Modernism; contemporary literature; the novel

Selection Committee Member, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Admissions, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen University, 2011-2012
Reader, eTransfers Journal for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2011-
Guest Reader, Journal of Literary Theory (JLT), 2011-
PhD Student Lecturers Mentor, "Key Topics in English and American Studies" lecture series, Department of English, Giessen University, Summer 2011
Reader, PhD Scholarship Applications, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen University, Summer 2011
Moderator, Annual Career Congress "Future - Planning the Unplannable," International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen University
PhD Students Mentor, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture and Graduate School of the Humanities, Giessen University, 2010-
Organizer, Postdoctoral Research Colloquium, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen University, 2010-
Spokesperson, Visual/Material Culture Research Area, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Giessen University, 2010-
Freshman Academic Adviser, Board of Freshman Advisers, Harvard University, Fall 2007
Organizer, American Literature with a Focus on African American, Ethnic, and International Studies Colloquium, Harvard University, 2007-2009
Co-Organizer, Word and Image Workshop, Harvard University, 2005-2007
Member, Teaching Colloquium, Department of English and American Literature, Harvard University, Fall 2005
Committee Member, Liaison Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 2004-2006
Research Assistant, Professor Heinz Ickstadt, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Department of American Literature, Free University Berlin, 2002-2003

Postdoctoral Research Colloquium, GCSC, Giessen University, 2010-
Visual/Material Culture Research Area, GCSC, Giessen University, 2010-
Memory Cultures Research Area, GCSC, Giessen University, 2010-
Nagoya American Summer Studies Seminar (NASSS), "Toward a Common Memory of Our Past," Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, 2010
The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University, 2008
American Literature with a Focus on African American, Ethnic, and International Studies Colloquium, Harvard University, 2005-2009
Word and Image Workshop, Harvard University, 2004-2007
American Literature Colloquium, Dept. of English and American Literature, Harvard Univ., 2004-2009
International Americanist-Germanist Colloquium: Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard (BTWH), 2003-2005

Modern Language Association (MLA), American Studies Association (ASA), American Literature Association (ALA), German Association for American Studies (DGfA)

English (near-native), Latin (excellent), French (excellent reading, good speaking), Spanish (good reading, intermediate speaking), Italian (basic reading and speaking)

Editorial Intern, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York City, NY, Summer 2002
Editorial Assistant, Alexander Publishing Company Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2000-2001
Contributor and Editorial Intern, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, Spring 2000
Contributor and Editorial Assistant, Radio Station M 94,5, Munich, Germany, 1998-1999

2010-2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
German Research Foundation, Excellence Initiative in Higher Education
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

2010: Japan-U.S. Educational Commission Scholarship
to attend the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar (NASSS), Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

2010: Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence Research Grant (declined)
Wake Forest University, NC

2008-2009: Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation

2004-2009: Conference Travel Grant
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

2008: Scholarship
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
to attend The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University

Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006: Certificate Of Distinction in Teaching
Harvard University

2008, 2007: Summer Travel and Research Fellowship
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

2006: Graduate Society Summer Fellowship
Harvard University

2006: Graduate Student Council Summer Research Grant
Harvard University

2005, 2004: Summer Research Grant
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

2003-2008: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
Harvard University

2001-2002 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship
Yale University

BOOKS

Cultures of Emancipation: Photography, Race, and Modern American Literature. American Studies: A Monograph Series. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, Spring 2012. Forthcoming

David P. Boder. Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt. Co-edited with Alan Rosen and Werner Sollors. First German Edition of I Did Not Interview the Dead (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011

Reviewed in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nov. 30, 2011: Frank Kelleter, "Als Begriffe für das Grauen noch fehlten," http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/sachbuch/david-p-boder-die-toten-habe-ich-nicht-befragt-als-begriffe-fuer-das-grauen-noch-fehlten-11546727.html,
tachles, Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"Sites of Slavery: Imperial Narratives, Plantation Architecture, and the Ideology of the Romance of the South." Imagining Spaces/Places. Eds. Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Kirsi Saarikangas, and Renja Suominen-Kokkonen. Accepted

"The Spatial Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies: Space, Place, and the Urban Imagination of Los Angeles." Key Topics in English and American Studies II. Eds. Wolfgang Hallet and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2012. Forthcoming

"Turning a Slave Into a Freeman: Frederick Douglass, Photography, and the Formation of African American Fiction." Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media. Eds. Ansgar Nünning and Kai Sicks. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012. Forthcoming

"Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and Representations of Freedom."PhiN. Philologie im Netz. Beiheft/Supplement 5/2012. Eds. Peter Schneck and Antje Kley. Forthcoming

"'Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between?' Fictions of Race in Philip Roth's The Human Stain." Philip Roth Studies, Special Issue: Roth and Race 2.2 (Fall 2006): 121-137

REVIEWS

Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature. William Gleason. New York: New York University Press, 2011. African American Review (2012). Review. Forthcoming.

Visuelle Kulturen der USA: Zur Geschichte von Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Fernsehen und Neuen Medien in Amerika. Ed. Christof Decker. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2010. KULT_online 29 (2011). Review

The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Eds. Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010. KULT_online 28 (2011). Review

JOURNALISTIC PUBLICATIONS

Thirty Articles and Interviews on Cultural Affairs and Local Politics, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, 2000

Rebuilding the Neighborhood: Race, Property, and Urban Renewal in Tremé
German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Mainz, Germany, June 2012 (upcoming)

Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction: The Instability of Language and the Play of Meanings
Invited Guest Lecture, "Literary Theory" Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, Netherlands, December 12, 2011

Film and Art Histories
Panel Chair, Post Graduate Forum 2011 of the German Association for American Studies, Giessen, Germany, November 5, 2011

David P. Boder, Die Toten habe ich nicht befragt
Book Presentation and Panel Discussion, Bavarian American Academy, Munich, Germany, October 26, 2011

Sites of (Neo-)Slavery
"Imagining Spaces/Places" Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 25, 2011

Reconstruction in East Berlin: Black Transnationalism, Architecture, and Leitkultur in Paul Beatty's Slumberland
German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Regensburg, Germany, June 18, 2011

Democratizing Images: LIFE Pictures Douglass in 1968
Modern Language Association (MLA), Los Angeles, January 7, 2011

"Teach Germans Disobedience:" Gertrude Stein, Popular Media, and Post-Sovereignty
Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS), Innsbruck, Austria, November 14, 2010

Racial Aesthetics and Representation
Panel Chair, Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS), Innsbruck, Austria, November 13, 2010

Ralph Ellison, Photographer
Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar (NASSS), Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, July 27, 2010

Uncovering the Dead: On the Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Photography in Early Twentieth Century African American Literature
Invited Talk, Americanist Speaker Series, Duke University, April 19, 2010

Shadow Archive: Lynching Photography, Afro-Modernist Literature, and Black Citizenship
American Studies Association (ASA), Washington, D.C., November 6, 2009

Literature and Design in Twentieth-Century America
Panel Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston, MA, February 27, 2009

Changing Faces: The Visual Archive of Lynching and Modernist Literary Productions of African American Citizenship
American Literature with a Focus on African American, Ethnic, and International Studies Colloquium, Harvard University, February 4, 2009

Show Business: The Labor of Photography and Henry James's Changing Image
American Studies Association (ASA), Albuquerque, NM, October 17, 2008

"Yet Words Are Not The Thing:" Photography and Showing Off in Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts
The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University, June 20, 2008

On Becoming a Quasi-Photographer: Harold Frederic's Marsena and Henry James's New York Edition
American Literature Association (ALA), San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2008

A Writer's Camera Work: The Literary Portraits of Gertrude Stein
American Literature Association (ALA), Boston, MA, May 27, 2007

Capturing Character: Photo-Narrative Portraits, Serialization, and Motion in Modern American Literature
American Literature with a Focus on African American, Ethnic, and International Studies Colloquium, Harvard University, April 10, 2007

Shooting the War
Chair and Respondent to Tony Vaccaro, A Foreign Affair: Witnessing, Photographing, Remembering, and Assessing the American Occupation of Germany, 1945-1955, Harvard University, November 9, 2006

Degrees of Exposure: Frederick Douglass, Daguerreotypes, and Representations of Freedom
German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Göttingen, Germany, June 10, 2006

Infinite Regress
Panel Respondent, Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Mirrorings: Reflections on Reflection, Harvard University, April 7, 2006

"Delusionary Thinking, Whether White or Black or In Between" Fictions of Race in Philip Roth's The Human Stain
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Houston, TX, October 28, 2005

Representation and the "Representative Man:" Frederick Douglass's Rhetoric of Possibility
Respondent to Allyson Field, Word and Image Workshop, Harvard University, October 21, 2005

Exile Doubly Exposed: Photography, Text, and Genre in Frederick Douglass and W. G. Sebald
The New Comparativism Conference, Columbia University, October 8, 2005

History Stares Back: Oblique Gazes and the Eye of the Object in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA), Columbia, SC, October 2, 2004

Embroidered Blackness: The Discourse of the Other in Claire Goll's Der Neger Jupiter raubt Europa
International Americanist-Germanist Colloquium Conference, Harvard University, September 10, 2004

Ex-Post-Infancy in Walter Benjamin
Midwest Modern Literature Association (MMLA), St. Louis, MO, November 5, 2004 and Culture and the Unconscious Conference, University of East London, London, July 9, 2004

Text and Image
Chair and Respondent, Back to the Text? The 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, April 6, 2002

A Foreign Affair: Witnessing, Photographing, Remembering, and Assessing the American Occupation of Germany, 1945-1955, co-organized symposium, Harvard University, November 9, 2006

In Black and White: Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria, International Americanist-Germanist Colloquium Conference, co-organized conference, Harvard University, September 10-12, 2004

Narrating Frontiers: Confrontations, Transgressions and Exchanges Along North American Borders, assisted Director of conference, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany, July 3-6, 2003

Back to the Text? The 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference, co-organized conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, April 5-6, 2002

Multicultural Geographies: Space and Place in Contemporary US Literatures and Cultures, Winter 2011-2012
Graduate Seminar, Department of English

Dissertation Intermediate Course in Literary and Cultural Studies, Winter 2011-2012

"The Spatial Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies: Space, Place, and the Urban Imagination of Los Angeles," May 4, 2011
Lecture for "Key Topics in English and American Studies" lecture series, Summer 2011
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Academic Writing: Articles, Summer 2011
Workshop for PhD students on writing academic articles in English

Dissertation Core Course in Literary and Cultural Studies, Winter 2010-2011
Graduate Seminar for PhD students on methods of organizing, structuring, and writing a dissertation

On Productive Overlaps of Literary and Cultural Studies, Winter 2010-2011
Workshop for international PhD students on cultural studies approaches to literary studies

New York and Los Angeles: Modern Urban Writing and Seeing, Spring 2010 (2 sections), Fall 2009
Writing-intensive, interdisciplinary Freshman Seminar, materials include American and African American literature, film, photography, painting, urban theory, and philosophy

Literary Genres: Introduction to the Ethnic American Novel, Spring 2010
Division II Literature Course, with a focus on the African, Jewish, and Native American novel

Literary Genres: The Rise and Development of the American Novel, Fall 2009 (2 sections)
Division II Literature Course, survey from Mark Twain to Philip Roth

Putting Modernism Together, Head TF, Core Program, Professor Daniel Albright, Fall 2007
Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Interracial Literature, TA, Ca' Foscari Harvard Summer School, Professor Werner Sollors, Venice, Italy, 2007
Invited Guest Lecturer: "The Harlem Renaissance: Toomer, Frank, Latimer," July 16, 2007

Art and Thought of the Cold War, TF, Department of English and American Literature, Professor Louis Menand, Spring 2007

Literature of Migration and Ethnicity: The Case of the United States, TA, Division of Continuing Education, Professor Werner Sollors, Spring 2006

The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present, TF, Department of English and American Literature, Professor Philip Fisher, Fall 2006
Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

American Literature and the American Environment, TF, Core Program, Professor Lawrence Buell, Fall 2006

Lives Ruined By Literature: The Theme of Reading in the Novel, TF, Core Program, Professor Judith Ryan, Spring 2006
Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

The Reflection of Reality: 19th and 20th Century Novels, TF, Department of English and American Literature, Professor Leland de la Durantaye, Fall 2005
Invited Guest Lecturer: "'Hair Standing on End' or only 'Peepshow Peeps'" Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher," December 6, 2005

Abstract Expressionism and the Beat Movement, Senior Tutorial Leader and Thesis Adviser, Department of Comparative Literature, 2006-2007
Thesis: "Spaces and Uses of the Line: Reading Motion, Gesture, and Form in Pollock, Kerouac, and Ginsberg"

Graffiti and the Written Word, Senior Tutorial Leader and Thesis Adviser, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2005
Award-winning Honor's Thesis: "Writing: The Urban Calligraphy of NYC"

Adapting Death In Venice: Thomas Mann and Luchino Visconti, Junior Tutorial Leader, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2007

Autobiographies and Life Narratives in the United States and Germany, Junior Tutorial Leader, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2005

Tutor, Department of Comparative Literature, 2005-2007
Evaluated senior theses, junior essays, senior thesis and special field proposals, wrote and evaluated generals exams, conducted interviews with incoming majors

Graduate Writing Fellow, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2006
Participated in semester-long program on how to integrate the teaching of writing into the classroom and respond to student writing most effectively