Guest Lecture

Return of the Bison? Canadian Literature meets Indigenous Futurism in Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo is the New Buffalo (2022)

Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Time: 12.00-13.30

Place: HS 5 3/4, Geiwi-Turm, Innrain 52d

In cooperation with the Department of American Studies

Stefanie Schäfer is a scholar of North American Studies interested in the nexus between Literary, Feminist and Gender Studies, Visual and Popular Culture, and Mobility Studies. Schäfer holds a PhD in English (Heidelberg, 2009) and a venia legendi in North American Literature and Culture (Jena, 2017) and has worked as visiting professor of American Studies at Erlangen-Nürnberg (2018/19 and 2022) and Augsburg (2020), Germany.

Prof. Schäfer’s research clusters around figurations of the national. Next to Western performances, this also includes figures linked to the nation state and to politics, such as First Ladies or Uncle Sam. "Yankee Yarns", her second book (habilitation), was published in 2021 with Edinburgh University Press's Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures Series.