My Academic CV
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| 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, 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.
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MA (Master of Arts) in United States Studies, University of London, England.
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Abitur, Lessing Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany.
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Professional Appointments and Experience |
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| Current Position | |
| 2006 - | Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Universität Flensburg, Germany |
| 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 |
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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) |
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH |
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| Areas | * American Culture * American Literature since the 19th Century * Business Studies * Cultural Studies * Literaturtheorie * Media Studies – |
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At the Universität Flensburg: SS 12 – Key Moments in American History 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 |
* Interrelations between the US Space Program and the Environmental Movement
* World and Society Structures in Post-Disaster Fiction * The Depictions of Religion and Science in the American Novel * Cultural Studies in the 21st Century
* The Iconic Turn & Bildwissenschaft * American Fiction(s) |
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| PUBLICATIONS | |
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Sibylle Machat, “Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.) Das Jahrhundert der Bilder: Bildatlas 1949 bis heute. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. / Berlin: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2008.
–> ebenfalls erschienen in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg). Bilder, die Geschichte schrieben. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.
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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, Page 558-563, December 2011.
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(online book reviews, conference reports etc to be added soon)
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Forthcoming:
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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. Remake/Remodel: Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (forthcoming).
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. (Arbeitstitel). Berlin: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2013 (forthcoming). Sibylle Machat, Dissertation. –
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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).” 2009.
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| CONFERENCES AND LECTURES | |
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“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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“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. |


