My Academic CV
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Dr. Sibylle Machat Born 1978 in Mannheim, Germany. |
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QUALIFICATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE |
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Academic and Professional Qualifications |
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2012 |
Promotion summa cum laude, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
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2005 |
M.A. (Magistra Artium) in Anglistik & Amerikanistik (English & American Studies), Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Media Studies) and Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Business Studies), Universität Mannheim, Germany. (Erfolgreiche Zwischenprüfung in Öffentlichem Recht (Public Law) 2001).
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MA (Master of Arts) in United States Studies, University of London, England.
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1998 |
Abitur, Lessing Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany.
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Professional Appointments and Experience |
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Current Position | |
2017 – | Head of Study Program (Studiengangsleiterin) MA “Kultur – Sprache – Medien” (“Culture – Language – Media”) (KSM); Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany |
2006 – | Assistant Professor/Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany |
2/2015-10/2015 | German Research Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress. |
Previous Appointments |
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2007 – 2008 | Exchange lecturer in the KSM program, Universitet Sonderborg, Denmark |
2006 |
Teaching assignment at the Universität Mannheim, Germany.
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2005 – 2006 | Assistant, Promotionskolleg “Formations of the Global”, Universität Mannheim |
2005 – 2006 | Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
2004 – 2006 |
Student assistant, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim
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2003 – 2006 | Student assistant for computer issues, English Department, Universität Mannheim |
2003 – 2004 | Student assistant, organization of annual conference of the GAAS |
2003 – 2005 | Tutor, LS Medienwissenschaft, Universität Mannheim |
2002 – 2003 | Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
2002 | Student assistant, KAMPA II Content Analysis, Universität Mainz |
2000 – 2001 | Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
1999 – 2001 | Student assistant, VIROR (Virtual University Rhine Upper-Rhine) |
Awards and Grants |
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2014 | DGfA Kluge Fellowship |
2001/2002 |
DAAD scholarship
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various | multiple DAAD and EUF conference travel grants |
TEACHING AND RESEARCH |
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Areas | * American Culture, History, Literature * Business Studies as Cultural Studies * Literary Studies * Media Studies — |
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Classes Taught |
At Europa-Universität Flensburg: HS 17 – Introduction to Literature C At the Syddansk Universitet Sonderborg: FS 08 – Englesk Kultur og Samfund: An Introduction to the United States At the Universität Mannheim: SS 06 – Fictions of the Post-Apocalypse as Commentaries on Contemporaneous American Society |
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Research Interests |
* The Depiction of the Earth, planets, solar system and space travel in film, text, photography and art over the last 200 years
* Interrelations between the US Space Program and the Environmental Movement
* World and Society Structures in Post-Disaster/Post-Apocalyptic Fiction * Space and Place in Narrative
* Transformative Adaptations of Media Artifacts * The role of the Supreme Court in American Politics * European-American relations during the Early Republic |
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PUBLICATIONS | |
BOOK:
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Sibylle Machat, In the Ruins of Civilizations: Narrative Structures, World Constructions, and Physical Realities in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. 314 pages.
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OTHER:
Carstensen-Egwuom, Inken; Machat, Sibylle. “Globales Lernen als Lernbereich im M.Ed. Grundschule an der Europa-Universität Flensburg: Ein Erfahrungsbericht”. ZEP : Zeitschrift für Internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik; Münster. Vol. 40, Iss. 3, 2017: Pp. 18-26.
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Sibylle Machat, “Images of Earth in American Children’s Books”. in: Insights. Scholarly Work at the John. W. Kluge Center. Jason Steinhauer, ed. The Library of Congress, loc.gov. September 2015.
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Sibylle Machat, “Diversity in Speculative Fiction”. in: Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung. 2/2014. Miriam Aced et al., eds. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2014. Pp.146-169
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Sibylle Machat, “’I have a Dream’ Die Rede von Martin Luther King vom 28.8.1963 in Washington” in Paul, Gerhard, und Ralph Schock, (Hrsg.), Sound des Jahrhunderts. Ein akustisches Porträt 1900 bis heute. Berlin: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2013. Pp.
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Sibylle Machat, “Prince Arthur spotted exiting Buckingham Palace! : The Re-Imagined Worlds of Fanfic Trailers” in: Loock, Kathleen, and Constantine Verevis, eds. Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 197-214.
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Sibylle Machat, “Review of Randy Laist, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels, Peter Lang Publishing, New York: 2010.” in: Anglia – Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 129, Issue 3-4, Pp. 558-63, December 2011.
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Sibylle Machat, “Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg). Bilder, die Geschichte schrieben.
– Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. Pp 172-79. – Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2011. Pp 172-79. —
Sibylle Machat, “Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.) Das Jahrhundert der Bilder: Bildatlas 1949 bis heute.
– Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. Pp 282-89.
– Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2008. Pp 282-89. —-
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(online book reviews, conference reports etc to be added at some point)
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(often looked for by students :-) ):
Sibylle Machat, “Some Words on the Mystery of Writing a Term Paper, (complete with references ranging from Star Wars to advice given to passengers of river crossing vehicles).” updated 2015 version.
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CONFERENCES AND LECTURES | |
2009 |
“USA – UK. A Battle of the Brains” at International Day. Flensburg, June 9th.
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“Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” at Ringvorlesung zu Das Jahrhundert der Bilder. Flensburg, June 22nd.
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“The World(s) of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx & Crake” at the Sixth Graduate Conference for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries. Passau, June 28th.
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2010 |
“Amerikas dunkelste Stunde: Die Berichterstattung über das Attentat auf Präsident Kennedy im Deutschen Fernsehen” at Ringvorlesung Zwischen ‘event’ und Ereignis. Geschichtsdarstellung im Fernsehen. Flensburg, May 11th.
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“Die Blaue Murmel – Geschichte und Einfluss der Erdfotografien der Apollo-Missionen” at Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium. Flensburg, May 25th
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“Economic and ecological criticism, economic and ecological collapse: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath” at DGfA Annual Conference. Berlin, May 27th – May 30th
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“the re-imagined worlds of fanfic trailers” at Remake / Remodel Conference in Göttingen, June 30th – July 2nd
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“‘the only color we could see’ – two photographs of Earth and their cultural impact” at Environmental Change – Cultural Change Conference in Bath, England, September 1st – 4th
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“World Constructions in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel” at PGF in Leipzig, November 5th – 7th | |
2011 | “Die ‘blaue Murmel’. Die Geschichte der Erdfotografien der Apollo-Missionen und ihr Einfluss auf das Erdbild” at Das Visuelle in der Praxis geographischer Vermittlung, in Frankfurt a.M., March 31st – April 2nd. |
“Photographs of the Earth and their Cultural Impact” at Deutsch-Dänisches Forschungskolloquium, Leck, May 6th. | |
“Earth Day and Space Day – Apollo 13 and G. Nelson’s National Environmental Teach-In” at ASLE 2011 Conference: Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 21st – 26th June. | |
2012 | “Was endet wenn die Welt untergeht? Fiktive Apokalypsen und ihre Nachspiele” at Ringvorlesung Endzeitstimmungen, Flensburg, May 9th. |
“Antizipierte Ruinen als Orte der Identitätsformation” at Visuelle Geographien – Von inneren und äußeren Bildern der Welt, Flensburg, July 12-14th. | |
2013 | “Erzählt(e) Zeit – von der Zeit in der Literatur” – Ringvorlesung Zeit, Flensburg, May 22nd. |
“Looking Earthward: The US Space Program and its influence on depictions of the Earth” – Posterpräsentation – Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Workshop “Ecocriticism and Globalization,” Universität Frankfurt, June 21st | |
“Bilder von antizipierten Ruinen als Orte der Identitätsformation“ – Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften – Jahrestagung 2013: Medien der Wissenschaften, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, October 2-5 | |
“Die Konstruktion der Welt in Nachrichtenbildern (am Beispiel des Fukushima-Reaktorunglücks)” – Visuelle Geographien III – Praktiken geographischen Sehens, Frankfurt a.M., November 14-15 | |
2014 | Einführungsvortrag Ringvorlesung “drei” – Phänomenta Flensburg, April 14 |
“Landscape – Wilderness – Ecosystem: On the Intersection of Cultural Geography and Ecocriticism” – Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning – Tartu, Estonia, April 29 – May 3 | |
“Spaceship Economies”: Apollo 13, Earth Day, and the Myth of Unlimited Supply – Imagining Earth Conference – Bochum, May 29-31 | |
“Earthseed: Social Justice and Environmental Consciousness in Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable’ novels” – DGfA Annual Conference: America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment – Würzburg, June 12-15 | |
“Meetings: Plato and Julian the Apostate – Ancient Philosophers as Characters in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction” – Diversity in Speculative Fiction – London, August 14-18 | |
2015 | “Die 3 im Märchen” – Ringvorlesung 3 – Phänomenta Flensburg, Jan 26 |
“Images of the Earth in American Children’s Books” – Library of Congress, Washington DC, September 17 | |
“Der Planet Erde im amerikanischen Kinderbuch, 1843-2015” – Visuelle Geographien V: Sehen, Denken, Vermitteln. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Nov 27 | |
2016 | “Images of Earth in American Children’s Books (1835-2015)” – Forschungskolloquium Sprache, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Jan 21 |
“Zwischen Wildnis und Zivilisation: der ‘Wilde Westen’“ – Ringvorlesung Grenzziehungen, Phänomenta Flensburg, Feb 8 | |
2017 | “Wie amerikanische Kinder die Welt sehen sollen: Planet Erde im Kinderbuch” – Ringvorlesung Wissensbilder, Phänomenta Flensburg, June 26 |
“Depictions of Planet Earth in American Children’s Books of the 1830s and 40s” – Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of the Global, Amsterdam, July 5 | |
“Depictions of Planet Earth in Antebellum American Children’s Books” – Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, EUF, Oct 5 |