Presentations
Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber
February 2023
“Clotels; or: The Revisioning/Reprinting Continuations of the President’s Daughter.” Invited Talk. International Conference “’To be Continued’: The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation.” John. F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
January 2023
“Questions of Translation: Perspectives / Perspektiven USA and the Protest Against Protest.” Invited Talk. W.E.B. DuBois Lectures. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
November 2022
“’a symbol, for a time’: T.S. Eliot.” Ringvorlesung “Der Literaturnobelpreis: Das herausragendste Werk gewinnt? Autoren & Autorinnen auf der großen Bühne.“ Toscanasaal of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 2022
“Everybody’s Protest Poem: Articulating Translation in Perspectives / Perspektiven USA.” Invited Talk. Research Colloquium of the Departments for North American Literature and Cultural Studies "Perspectives in American Studies." John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
January 2022
“Think Small: Minor Forms and the Making of Modernity.” Invited Online Talk. Lecture Series “American Visions.” Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
November 2021
“How Do We Remember?” Opening of the Online Exhibition “Monuments & Memory” (Flagler College & JMU Würzburg). Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 2021
“WueGlobal: Writing, Learning, Digital Connection.” Invited Online Project Presentation at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Community Digital Meeting.
May 2021
Moderation of the Reading and Discussion "Writing Matters: An Evening with (Virtual) Writer in Residence Jan Carson." Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU in cooperation with Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ).
January 2020
“Artikulation: Alter Hut oder neuer Leitbegriff interdisziplinärer Forschung und Lehr in der Anglistik/Amerikanistik?” (with Zeno Ackermann). Cultural Studies Working Group Meeting “Sound.” German Association for the Study of British Culture (BritCult). Großbritannienzentrum, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Moderation of the Screening and Discussion "Writing Matters: An Evening with Screenwriter and Television Creator Anna Winger." Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU in cooperation with the Katholische Akademie Domschule.
November 2019
“Schreibaffine Lehrveranstaltungen – Warum können sie nicht vernünftig schreiben?” Workshop on Writing-Focused Teaching Formats with Dr. Petra Zaus and Thomas Schroeter. Tag der Lehre. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
July 2019
Moderation of the "Writing Matters" Panel Discussion "Africa and Beyond: Find the Power in More Than One Story" with Yaa Gyasi (Writing Matters Writer in Residence 2019), Julien Bobineau (JMU), Yogita Goyal (UCLA), Mutiat Oladejo (University Ibadan) and Barbara Sponholz (JMU). Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU in cooperation with the Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS).
Moderation of the Reading and Discussion "Writing Matters: An Evening with Writer in Residence Yaa Gyasi" in cooperation with Christina Motsch and Katharina Nay (Main Franken Theater), Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU, and the Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS). Toscanasaal of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 2019
"#metoo, #himtoo, #youtoo? (Nicht)Kommunikation in der Ära Trump." Invited Talk. Lions Club Würzburg.
May 2019
Dialogforum "Reden wir mal über … Mensch und Kreativität." Invited Panel Discussion. An Initiative of the Katholische Akademie Domschule and the Katholische Akademikerseelsorge Würzburg.
November 2018
Moderation of the "Writing Matters" Panel Discussion "Enemy of the People? Press, Politics, and Public Debate" with Thomas Chatterton Williams (Writing Matters Writer in Residence 2018), Joshua Yaffa (New Yorker Magazine), Andreas Jungbauer (Main-Post), Peter Hoeres (JMU), and Catrin Gersdorf (JMU). Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU in cooperation with the Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS).
"Your Career Is Not An Instastory: pragmatische Überlegungen zur wissenschaftlichen Produktivität und Profilierung im Online-Zeitalter." Invited Presentation. SCIENTIA Netzwerk. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
October 2018
"Everybody's Protest Poem: Artikulierende Übersetzung um 1950." Inaugural Lecture Program with Zeno Ackermann "Artikulation und Kulturwissenschaft." Toscanasaal of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Moderation of the Reading and Discussion "Writing Matters: An Evening with Writer in Residence Thomas Chatterton Williams." Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU in cooperation with the Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS). Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 2018
"Here, There.... Everywhere: Teju Cole and the 'fait divers.'" Invited Talk. International Conference "Glocal Places of Literature: Production – Distribution – Reception." Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
December 2017
"Susan Sontag: Geist aus Leidenschaft." Invited Presentation. Katholische Akademie Domschule and Main Franken Theater Würzburg.
June 2017
Introduction of Keynote Speaker Anita Patterson. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien "Modernization and Modernities in North America." Leibniz Universität Hannover.
February 2017
"Reed Smoot's Prayers and the "Mormon Moment" of US-American Politics." Invited Talk. International and Interdisciplinary Conference "Cultures of US-American Conservativism." Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
January 2017
"Return on Investment: 20th-Century American Arts Funding and the Arts of Literary Payback." Lecture Series. "The Ecstasy of Gold: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Money." John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies. Freie Universität Berlin.
November 2016
"Converso Questions: The Cosmopolitan, the National, and Constructions of the Converso in the Early American Republic." Invited Lecture. Lecture Series "Strangers in the World? Legacies of Early Modern Cosmopolitanism." Universtität Potsdam.
May 2016
"Of Copies, Rights, and Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Remix: A Pre-Digital Case Study." Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien "The United States and the Question of Rights." Universität Osnabrück.
January 2016
"Better Homemaking with the Devil Baby of Hull-House." Invited Talk. Cooperative Workshop of the American Studies Departments at the Leibniz Universität Hannover und the Universität Osnabrück "The American City." Leibniz Universität Hannover.
November 2015
"'This American World': Americanization, Modernization, Opportunity." Cooperative Lecture Series of the Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin and the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin "Borders in Motion/Frontieras en moviemento." John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
November 2015
Introduction and Moderation of the Reading with Miranda July The First Bad Man/Der erste fiese Typ. Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen.
July 2015
"Self-Evidence: Negotiations of Picture, Page, and Stage in 19th-Cenutry Abolitionism.". Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Trial Lecture.
May 2015
"News That Isn't New: Reprinting, Repetition, and Consensus Construction in Nineteenth-Century Popular Print." Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien "Knowledge Landscapes North America." Universität Bonn.
December 2014
"'Specters of Shylock': der 'Converso' in der frühen Republik." Habilitationsvortrag. Fachbereich für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin.
June 2014
"Modernism in American Centuries." Research Colloquium of the American Studies Department. Seminar for English Philology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
"Flarf: E-Detritus Composition and the Affordances of the Avant-Garde." Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien "America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment." Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 2013
"American Modernism after the Avant-Garde." Invited Talk. International and Interdisciplinary Conference "Cultures of Obsolescence in North America: Aesthetics, Materiality, History." Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
May 2013
"Modernism in American Centuries: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land." Invited Talk. Department of American Studies, English Seminar. Leibniz Universität Hannover.
December 2012
"Apocalypse Not Quite Yet': Cyborg-Variationen seit der Jahrtausendwende." Invited Talk. Lecture Series "Diversity Trouble." Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
June 2012
"Modernist Machinations: Replaying The Waste Land." International Conference "Memory, the United States, and Transnational Poetry." Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
May 2012
"Gift Money: Nightwood and the Funding/Form Logics of Late Modernism." Presentation in the Research Colloquium for American Studies, English Seminar. Leibniz Universität Hannover.
November 2010
"Real Things: Misuse and American Modernism at the End of the Poetic Production Line." American Studies Association Annual Meeting: "Crisis, Chains, and Change: American Studies for the 21st Century." San Antonio, Texas.
June 2010
“Aesthetic, etc.: Cosmopolitan Calculation and the Making of the American Modernist." Research Colloquium of the Departments for North American Literature and Cultural Studies "Perspectives in American Studies." John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
May 2010
"Gift Money: Nightwood and the Funding/Form Logic of Late Modernism." Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien "American Economies." Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
April 2010
"Ressentiment as Style." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms." New Orleans, Louisiana.
December 2009
"Converting Shylock: Arthur Mervyn and the 18th-Century American Gothic." International Conference "Gothic Renaissance." Universität zu Köln.
October 2008
"(Trans)national Trouble and the Undercover Jew: The Converso in the Literature of the Early Republic." International Trans-Coop Conference "Transatlantic American Studies." Universität Potsdam/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin.
May 2008
"Bad Modernism: Cosmopolitan Calculation from Henry James to James Baldwin." Invited Talk. W.E.B. DuBois Lectures. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
March 2008
Introduction and Moderation of Reading with Amy Bloom, Away / Die unglaublich Reise der Lillian Leyb. US Embassy Literature Series. Museum THE KENNEDYS. Berlin.
November 2007
"Lost and Found Images: September 11th and the Media of National Mourning." Invited Talk. Symposium for Prof. Dr. Peter Drexler "Bewegte Bilder/Bewegende Bilder/Bilder der Bewegung." Universität Potsdam.
October 2007
"White Slavery, Wandering Jews, and 'the Cause of America': Cosmopolitan Complications in Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive." American Studies Association Annual Meeting "América Acquí. Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 2007
"Internationalizing the International Theme: From Henry James's The American to Thomas Mann's Royal Highness." International American Studies Association World Congress "Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation." Universidad de Lisboa.
July 2007
"And Susan Sontag Wept: Portraits, Grief, and the Gritty Grain of the Real." International and Interdisciplinary Conference The Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real." John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
February 2007
"The Ethical Turn of the Inversion: From Henry James to James Baldwin." Florida State University Conference for Literature and Film "Cosmopolitanism: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation." Florida State University at Tallahassee.
November 2006
"Why Casper Isn't Really A Friendly Ghost: The American Gothic Explained." Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen "Amerikanische Nahaufnahmen in 440 Dialogen." HAU I (Hebel Theater), Berlin.
"Blaues Licht und ovale Portraits." Philologisches Film-Forum "Leni Riefenstahl: Mythen des Erhabenen." Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Freie Universität Berlin.
July 2006
"Elegaic (Self)Portraits: Mourning, Memorialization, and Diane Schoemperlen's The Names of the Dead." Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association. Johann-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
September 2005
"Poetry Talks with C.K. Williams." Internationales Literaturfest Berlin. Literaturhaus Berlin.
February 2005
"Das Tippfräulein wird zum Diktat bestellt: Eliots 'Typist' und die Substanz des Waste Land." Internationale Tagung "Working Girls: zur Ökonomie von Liebe und Arbeit in der Moderne." Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München.
December 2004
"Konfigurationen der Kontinuität: Europäische Philologie bei Ernst Robert Curtius" (with Marcel Lepper). Colloquium "Ein Kontinent wird vermessen: europäische Selbstthematisierungen im 20. Jahrhundert." Universität Augsburg.
December 2002
"Der praktische, theoretische und fiktionale Cyborg." Colloquim "Personale und kollektive Identität." Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung/ Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München.
April 2001
"Der weibliche Körper im Zeichen des Erhabenen: 'Gender Bending' der anderen Art in Richardsons Clarissa." Interdisciplinary Conference "Körperproduktionen: zur Artifizialität der Geschlechter." Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
