Lisa Seuberth

Research Interests

• US-American literature (20^th – 21^st cent.)
• Postcolonialism, African American Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies
• Sociology of literature
• Speculative fiction
• Digital Humanities

Research Projects

Dissertation: “Whiteness as Usual? American Africanism in the 21^st-Century Novel”

Education & Employment

• Feb 2024 – Apr 2024: Post-Graduate Research Fellowship at Duke University (NC, USA), sponsored by the Bavarian American Academy
• Sept 2023: Erasmus+ Travel Grant, Keele University (Great Britain)
• Since Oct 2022: Research associate in the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK2806)
• Mar 2022– Aug 2022: Research associate at the Chair of New German Literature (Prof. Dr. Niefanger), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Oct 2021 – Feb 2022: Research associate at the Chair of American Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Kley), deputizing for the assistant professor, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Since Apr 2021: Dissertation Project “Whiteness as Usual? American Africanism in the 21^st-Century Novel” (Prof. Dr. Kley), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Dec 2020: First State Exam (L-Gym, English, French), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Feb 2020: B.A. in English and American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Apr 2019 – Mar 2020: Student assistant at the Chair of American Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Kley), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Oct 2018 – Jan 2021: Student assistant at the French Department of the Language Center, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Publications

Journal Articles

“The Underground Railroad (2016) as Anti-White-Supremacist Fantasy.” Society of Americanists Review, Pennsylvania State University, vol.3, 2021-2022, pp. 158-189. https://journals.psu.edu/soar/article/view/62519/62215.

“Anti-Supremacist Speculations: George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)” Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, vol 6, no. 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2021-0050.

“From Melville to Saunders: Using Liminality to Uncover US-American Racial Fantasies.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 23, no.1, 2022, pp. 41-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5283/copas.357.

Workshops

“Digging for Gold: Knowledge Extraction from Text.” Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS Infra) Training School, UNED Madrid, 9. – 11. Mai 2023. Digital participation.

Lectures

“Stylometry, Collocate Analysis, and/or Close Reading: Evaluating Quantitative Approaches to Racialized Darkness and Light.” Virtual Conference on Darkness in the American Imagination, PoPMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies, 4.-8. Sept. 2023.

“Literary Awards as (Anti-)Racist Infrastructures.” International Conference on Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance, Torino, 23.-25. Mar. 2023.

“Literary Awards as Sites of Cultural Memory and the Cultural Capital of Diversity.” PGF Conference (DGfA) – Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies, Regensburg, 10.-12. Nov. 2022.

“Whiteness as Usual? American Africanism in the 21st-Century Novel.” Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, 07.-09. Jul. 2022.

“From Melville to Saunders: Whiteness and (Anti-)Blackness in US-American Literature.” PGF Conference (DGfA) – Transnational Relations: Past, Present, and Future, Stuttgart, 04.-05. Dec. 2021.

Teaching

Introduction to Literary Studies, FAU – Winter semester 2021/22, 2022/23

Memberships

• Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)
• Interdisciplinary Center for Gender, Difference, and Diversity (IZGDD)