Stefanie Schäfer (Jena): 'Growing Up' Inuit: Indigenous Epistemologies in Aviaq Johnston's Young Adult Novel "Those Who Run in the Sky"

PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in addition to teaching as a Visiting Professor at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2018-2019.

Stefanie Schäfer’s work centers on gendered figurations of the national in the US and Canada and draws on concepts from Transnational North American Studies, American and Canadian Studies, as well as Popular Culture and Visual Culture. Her research interests include auto/biographies and self-narration, cultural mobilities, gender and identity performance and popular culture in literature and film in the US and Canada. She has co-edited books on contemporary subjectivity, teaching 9/11 literature,  impostors in North American culture, black womanhood in popular culture. In her most recent book project,  "Yankee Yarns. Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in 19th-Century American Culture“,  she examines the performance of white American masculinity in the Yankee figure.