Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke

EXAMINATION AUTHORIZATION:

 

ZP (as part of the PS II Literature), B.A., M.A., Magister, Staatsexamen, Promotion

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

ACADEMIC EDUCATION:

2008

Professor for American Studies at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2006

Habilitation Frankfurt University

January 2000-2006

Assistant Professor in American Studies, Frankfurt University

March 2003 – 2004    Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, with a scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG), on leave from Frankfurt University

Oct. 1997-Jan. 2000

Research Assistant in American Studies, Frankfurt University

1998

PhD, Free University Berlin: “Keys to Controversies: Stereotypes in Modern American Novels,” advisors: Heinz Ickstadt and Winfried Fluck

May-October 1995

Research Fellow at UCLA, with a scholarship by the German Research Foundation

October 1994

Scholar in the interdisciplinary postgraduate program “Democracy in the US” at the John-F.- Kennedy Institute, Berlin

1994

State Exam in English, Biology, and Philosophy Free University Berlin 
 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

BOOKS:

 

Keys to Controversies: Stereotypes in Modern American Novels. New York: St Martins, 1999, awarded American Studies Network First Book Award

Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010.

 

ARTICLES:

 

 “The Janus-faced Iconography of the Billy the Kid.” American Icons. Eds. Bernd Engler und Günther Leypoldt. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 361-382.

“John Ashbery”, Elizabeth Bishop”, “Wallace Stevens: Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009.

“Dismantling the Public Sphere: the poetics of apathy.“ American Studies as Media Studies. Eds. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 249-259.

“’We are all made up of many parts, other halves’: Hybridität in zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Romanen.” Amerikanisches Erzählen nach 2000: eine Bestandsaufnahme. Ed. Sebastian Domsch. München: Edition Text & Kritik, 2008. 358-368.

“The Powerless Power of Poets: Experimenting with the Self-in-Relation.” Another Language - Contemporary US-American Poetic Experiment in a Changing World. Ed. Kornelia Freitag. Münster: LIT-Verlag 2007. 65-73.

Mit Christa Buschendorf: „Preface.“ Transatlantic Negotiations. Eds. Christa Buschendorf und Astrid Franke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. ix – xiii.

“The Poet’s Burden.” Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature. Eds. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein und Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Winter 2006. 149-161.

“Phillis Wheatley, Melancholy Muse.” New England Quarterly June 2004. 224-251.

“The Poetic Promiscuity of Robert Lowell.” Sexualities in American Culture. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004. 95-108.

“William Carlos Williams and John Dewey on the Public, its Problems, and its Poetry.” Theories of American Culture, Theories of American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck and Thomas Claviez. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature Vol. 19. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. 269-292.

“Possibilities of Public Mourning in American Poetry of the 1960s.” Proceedings: Anglistentag Bayreuth. Eds. Ewald Mengel, Hans-Jörg Schmid, and Michael Steppat. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2003. 61-71.

“Imagining ‘Harlem’ in the 1920s.” Cultural Encounters. American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism. Eds. Mario Klarer and Sonja Bahn. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. 103-118.

 “Public Voices in American Poetry: Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan.” The Mechanics of the Mirage. Postwar American Poetry. Eds. Michel Delville, Christine Pagnoulle. Liège: Liège Language and Literature, 2000. 197-212.

“Individualism versus Integration? Art and Society in Dewey and Mukařovsky.” Pragmatism and Literary Studies. Ed. Winfried Fluck. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature Vol. 15. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999. 243-256.

“Struggling with Stereotypes: The Problems of Representing a Collective Identity.” The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke. A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education. Ed. Leonard Harris. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield, 1999. 21-38.

“‘The Broken Heart’ and ‘The Trouble with the Truth’: Understanding Clichés in Country Music.” Poetics Today 18.3 (1997). 67-77.

“Attempting to Reconcile the Irreconcilable: Whitman’s Construction of a Multi-Voiced and/but Universal Self.” Democracy and the Arts in the United States. Eds. Alfred Hornung, Reinhard R. Doerries und Gerhard Hoffmann. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1996. 327-336.

 

REVIEWS:

 

“Eagleton, Terry. Ideology. An Introduction.” Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 1 (Jan./Feb. 1992). 136-138.
“Greenblatt, Stephen. Verhandlungen mit Shakespeare.” Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften  4 (Juli/August 1991). 623-625. 

 

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:

 

2010 

Rob Kroes Prize of the European American Studies Association for the best European book manuscript in English on American Studies

2007

Invitation by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung to chair a panel on Literature at the Symposion “Frontiers of Humanities” 

2004 

Travelling Scholarship awarded by the Friends and Supporters of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt to participate in a conference of the National Poetry Foundation 

2003     

Research grant of the German Research Foundation for „Problems of Public Poetry in America“ 

2000    

American Studies Network First Book Award for Keys to Controversies: Stereotypes in Modern American Novels 

1994-1997    

Scholarship for an interdisciplinary postgraduate program, “Democracy in the US” by the German Research Foundation

1988 – 1993    

Scholarship by the German National Scholarship Foundation    

1990-1991    

Erasmus-scholarship by the European Union