Heike Schwarz, M.A.

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

E-Mail:	heike.schwarz@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Telefon:	+49 821 598 - 5728
Raum:	4051
Sprechzeiten:	Mi 11.30-12.30 Uhr
Hausanschrift:	Universitätsstraße 10 86159 Augsburg

 

                            

 

Studium Amerikanistik, Politikwissenschaften und Philosophie

M.A. mit der Arbeit: "A Timetravel towards Identity: Time and Identity in A Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides"

 

 

Interessen und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• American Literature (18th century to the present), CanLit
• Early 21st century New Literature
• Ecocriticism, Environmentalism and Literature, Ecopsychology

• Psychiatry and Literature
• Cultural Psychiatry, History of Madness and Psychology
• Trauma Studies

• Dystopian Literature
• Posthumanism and Animal Studies
• Film Studies
• Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, (Green) Consumer Culture

 

 

Dissertation

Beware of the Other Side(s): Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in American Fiction.

(completed and forthcoming)

 

 

Current Research Projects

• Wilderness and Civilization in American Literature
• "Forgetting the Forgetting": Representation of Alzheimer´s Disease in (World) Literature

 

 

Articles

"Nothing is static...": Norman Bates, Tyler Durden, and the Pop Culture of Multiple Personality Disorder. Ed. Lawrence Rubin. Miami/Florida. (forthcoming)

"Who knows what it´s to be like me?": The Ambiguity of Empathy with Pedophiles in Recent Novels and Films. (completed/under review)

"Who are we? Where are we?": Eco-Psychological Readings of Henry David Thoreau and Chuck Palahniuk.  Reading Nature: Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Imagery. Conference Proceedings. Madrid 2011.

Wilderness as Laboratory: Ecocentrism as Remedy in the American and Canadian Environ-Mental Novel. Ed. Tina Pusse. From Ego to Eco: Imagining Ecocentrism in Literature, Film and Philosophy. (in preparation)

Thou Shalt (Not) Kill: Environmental Ethics and Animal versus Species Protection in T.C. Boyle´s When the Killing´s Done. (in preparation)

"Leave the Grass!": Urban Gardening as Civil Disobedience in American EcoCulture. (in preparation)

 

 

Talks/Conferences

• "Who knows what it´s to be like me?": The Taboo and Ambiguity of Empathy with Pedophiles. A Short Study of Recent Novels and Films. PCA/ACA. National Conference. Boston. April 2012.
• Also Panel Chair. Mental Health and Mental Illness in Popular Culture. PCA/ACA. National Conference. Boston. April 2012.

• “‘Who are we? Where are we?’: Eco-psychological Readings of Henry David Thoreau and Chuck Palahniuk´s Fight Club”. Reading Nature: Cultural Perspectives on Environmental Imagery. International Conference. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). December 2011.

• "Literary Perspectives on Ecology". KlimaSichten Workshop in Collaboration with PLATFORM3 and WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future). Munich. September 2011.

• Film Talk about Climate Change Films. "The Age of Stupid" UK 2009. Film Museum Munich. KlimaSichten Workshop in Collaboration with PLATFORM3 and WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future). Munich. September 2011.

• “‘Wilderness was the laboratory...’: Ecocentrism as Remedy in the American Environ-Mental Novel”. From Ego to Eco: Imagining Ecocentrism in Literature, Film and Philosophy. NUI Galway, Ireland. June 2011.

•  “Painting Skyscrapers and Talking to Trees: Civil Disobedience, 'Eco-Democracy', and Deep Ecology in Contemporary Culture”. Transnational Perspectives on Democratic Cultures: Past and Present. Bavarian-American Academy, Munich/Nuremberg. May 2011.

• “'Nothing is static…': Norman Bates, Tyler Durden, and the Pop Culture of Multiple Personality Disorder”. National Conference of the PCA/ACA. Mental Illness and Mental Health in Popular Culture. San Antonio/Texas. April 2011.
• Also Panel Chair: Panel on Mental Illness in its Many Forms.

• "Mental Modernity, Ego Mobility, and Displacement of the Self: Shattered and Fragmented States of Consciousness in American Fiction". Transnational Conference: Modernity, Mobility, Displacement: Transnational Perspectives from Detroit. Wayne State University, Detroit. May 2010.

 

 

Lehrveranstaltungen

(Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Amerikanistik, Lecturer Lehrstuhl Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Prof. Dr. Butzer)

• Aktuell: Sommersemester 2012

• "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others": Die Fabel als Gesellschaftskritik (VL)

• Counterworlds and Cyberfolk: American Science Fiction

• "You have to read the end yourself...": The American Short Story of the 19th Century

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• "Des Menschen Doppelnatur...": Doppelbewusstsein und Multiple Persönlichkeiten in deutscher, amerikanischer und britischer Litertaur

• Beware of the Other Side: Multiple Personalities in American Fiction

• "The Question is the Story itself...": The Fictional World of Paul Auster

• Teenage Angst has paid off well: The Teenage Narrator and the Coming-of-age Novel

• Morals and Mysteries: Reading Nathanial Hawthorne´s Short Stories

• Rising from the Underground: Die Beat Generation in den USA und der BRD

• The Revenge of the Toxic Earth: The American Environmental Novel

• Humanimals: An Exploration into Animal Studies

• Of Black and Electric Sheep: Empathy and the Other in Literature

• Wilderness, Wolves and Disney World: Nature and its Discontents in the Short Fiction of T.C. Boyle