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Associate Professor Martyn Bone

Dr. Martyn Bone

Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture
Coordinator of the Center for Transnational American Studies; PhD coordinator
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: bone@hum.ku.dk
Phone (office): +45 353 28596
Office: building 24, room 24.3.57
Webpage

Main research areas

American literature (especially twentieth and twenty-first century); U.S. southern literature and culture; migration and labor in U.S. southern literature; Black Atlantic studies; transnational American studies.

Five main publications

  • "Intertextual Geographies of Migration and Biracial Identity: Light in August and Nella Larsen's Quicksand." In Annette Trefzer and Donald Kartiganer, eds., Faulkner and the Returns of the Text (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming 2011).

  • "The (Extended) South of Black Folk: Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God." American Literature vol. 79, no. 4 (December 2007): 753-779.

  • Perspectives on Barry Hannah (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007) (editor, contributor, introduction)

  • "The Transnational Turn, Houston Baker's New Southern Studies, and Patrick Neate's Twelve Bar Blues." Comparative American Studies vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2005): 189-211.

  • The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005)

Teaching

Spring 2010:

  • "Literature after 9/11" (MA course)
  • "Twentieth Century African American Women's Fiction" (BA valgfag course)
  • American History and Literature (BA introductory course: lectures and coordinator) 


Dr. Leigh Anne Duck

Visiting Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture, 2009-2010
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: lad@hum.ku.dk
Phone (office): +45 353 28452
Office: building 24, room 24.3.61
Webpage

Main research areas

Literature and culture of the modern and contemporary U.S. and South Africa; modernism; constructions of race, nation, and globalization; theories concerning narrative, and memory.

Five main publications

  • The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006).

  • "Plantation/Empire," forthcoming from The New Centennial Review.

  • "From Colony to Empire: Postmodern Faulkner," Global Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2006, edited by Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009), 24-42.

  • "Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Comparative Literature," Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 8.1 (2007): 37-43.

  • "‘Rebirth of a Nation': Hurston in Haiti," Journal of American Folklore 117.474 (Spring 2004): 127-46.

Teaching

Spring 2010:

  • "Plantation Images: Sex and Violence/Society and Selfhood" (MA course)
  • American History and Literature (BA introductory course)

Professor Russell DuncanProf. Russell Duncan

Professor of History and Social Studies in the English-Speaking World
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: duncan@hum.ku.dk
Phone (office): +45 353 28580
Office: building 24, room 24.4.54
Webpage

 

Main research areas

American history and politics; the American Civil War and Reconstruction; intellectual and social history of American art; contemporary American society.

Five main publications

  • Contemporary America (with Joseph Goddard) (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, New York: St. Martin's Press, and Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2009)

  • Transnational America: Contours of Modern US Culture (ed. with Clara Juncker) (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen/Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004)

  • Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (ed. with David J. Klooster) (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002)

  • Trading Cultures: Nationalism and Globalization in American Studies (ed. with Clara Juncker), (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen/Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002)

  • Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (New York: Avon Press, 1994, and Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999)

Teaching
Spring 2010:

  • Contemporary American Dilemmas, 1989-2010 (BA valgfag course)
  • Globalization, World Order and Theories of International Relations (MA course)


Joe Goddard

Assistant Professor of United States History and Contemporary Society
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: goddard@hum.ku.dk
Phone (office): +45 353 28580
Office: building 24, room 24.4.576
Webpage

Main research areas

Contemporary American history and politics; contemporary American society; urban and suburban history, environmental history, material culture.

Main publications

  • Contemporary America (with Russell Duncan) (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, New York: St. Martin's Press, and Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2009)

  • "Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside." Environment and History vol. 15 (November 2009): 413-439

  • "Virginia Lee Burton's Little House in Popular consciousness: Fuelling Post-war Environmentalism and Anti-urbanism?" The Journal of Urban History (forthcoming, late 2010)

  • "Penurbia," in Goldfield, David, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History, (London: Sage Publications, 2007), 562-566.

Teaching
Spring 2010: Joe Goddard is on research leave until fall 2010.

 

Dr. Sandi Michele de Oliveira

Associate Professor
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: smo@hum.ku.dk 
Phone (office): +45 3532 8430
Office: building 24, room 24.3.33
Webpage

Main research areas

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Five main publications

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Teaching

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Dr. Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt

Associate Professor in Contemporary American Literature and Literary Theory
Head of the Ph.D. Program in Transnational and Migration Studies, TRAMS
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: siegum@hum.ku.dk
Phone: +45 40238588
Office: 24.4.50
Webpage

Main research areas

Contemporary Literary Theory, Modern American Literature, Jewish Studies, Migration and Transnational Studies.

Five main publications

  • "Re-Circumcising Derrida." Orbis Litterarum vol. 56, no. 1 (2001): 1-17.

  • "Secrets and Sacrifices of Scission." In Derrida and Religion, eds. Y. Sherwood & K. Hart (London: Routledge, 2005), 283-309.

  • "Milah: A Counter-Obituary for Jacques Derrida." In SubStance. A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, 106, vol. 34, no. 1 (2005): 32-38.

  • "From Misprision to Travesty." In From Bible to Midrash. Protrayals and Interpretative Practices, ed. H. Trautner-Kromann (Arcus, 2005), 167-187.

  • "The Double Movement of Creation." In Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation, eds. Sven Rune Havsteen og Nils Holger Petersen (Turnhout: Brepols), 2007.

Teaching
Spring 2010: No teaching.

Dr. Gregory Stephenson

Teaching Lecturer
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: gkstephenson@mail.dk
Phone (office): +45 3532 9115
Office: building 24, room 24.3.32
Webpage

Main research areas

American Studies with particular emphasis on American literature, especially of the post-war period.

Five main publications

  • Understanding Robert Stone (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002)

  • Comic Inferno: A Study of the Fiction of Robert Sheckley (San Bernardino,California: Borgo Press, 1997)

  • Out of the Night and into the Dream: A Study of the Fiction of J.G. Ballard (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991)

  • The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990)

  • Exiled Angel: A Study of the Work of Gregory Corso (London: Hearing Eye, 1989)

Teaching

Spring 2010:

  • American History and Literature (BA introductory course: lectures and seminars.)
  • American Fiction between the Wars (elective at BA level).
  • American Literature, a Survey (Open University).

Rasmus Christian Andersen

PhD Student
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: rca@hum.ku.dk 
Office: 24.3.19
Webpage 

Working title

Global Metropolis: The Ghetto, the Barrio, and Chinatown in Postwar American Cinema.

My dissertation is an inquiry into the representation of ethnic urban enclaves and neighborhoods in postwar American cinema within the context of urban history and global metropolitan studies.

Lene Baggesgaard

PhD Student
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: lbaggesgaard@hum.ku.dk
Office: 24.3.30
Webpage

PhD Student Søren Stall Balslev.

Søren Staal Balslev

PhD Student
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: balslev@hum.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 85 82
Office: 24.4.25
Webpage

Working title

Why are terminal events so pleasing, I wonder? On Don DeLillo's Apocalyptic Narratives.

My dissertation is occupied with locating, analyzing and interpretation the suspiciously neglected apocalyptic and eschatological layers inherent in DeLillo's oeuvre. Although several apocalyptic sub-motifs have been studied since Americana was published in 1971, no single monographic work has yet been produced in direct relation to the overall frame of eschatological reflection in DeLillo's writing, a problem I seek to address. The findings will be read through the lens of the American apocalyptic tradition, beginning with James Fenimore Cooper's The Crater (1847) up until Point Omega (2010), DeLillo's latest novel.

PhD Student Mads Fuglede.


Mads Fuglede

PhD Student
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: madsf@hum.ku.dk  
Office: 24.2.61
Webpage

 

 

PhD Student Stuart Towner Noble.

Stuart Towner Noble

PhD Student
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Email: stuartn@hum.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 86 33
Office: 24.4.42
Webpage


Working title 

Sí, Se Puede: Political Art, Performative Citizenship and the New Spaces of Patriotic Culture.

Primary supervisor: Dr. Martyn Bone.

Within the historical contexts of America's culture wars and the contemporary politics of transnationality, globalization, migration, and postcolonialism, Stuart Noble's dissertation examines the visual culture surrounding Barack Obama's presidential campaign and investigates the ways grassroots artists and activists presented new patriotic aesthetics to stage hybrid cosmopolitan identities. Crucial to his framework of performative citizenship are notions of an individual's and/or community's relationships to media and the public sphere, which can transform performative possibilities in historically and geographically contingent ways. His project therefore presents citizenship as a spatially constructed artistic performance through which normative patriotic identities are visualized, narrated and imagined.

Stuart Noble was awarded a full scholarship to the Transnational and Migration Studies Ph.D. research program in February 2010 by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. He earned his M.A. in American Studies from the University of Southern Denmark in 2006 where he was the 2007 recipient of the Honora Rankine-Galloway prize awarded by the Center for American Studies and the United States Embassy in Copenhagen. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1996.