Wesley Moore

Education & Employment

• Oct 2022 – Sept 2025: Research associate in the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK2806)
• July 2021: MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Nov 2020 – July 2021: Student assistant for Department of American Literary Studies (PD Dr. Harald Zapf)
• July 2020 – July 2021: Department of Islamic Religious Studies (Prof. Dr. Abbas Poya)
• May 2015: M.A. Linguistics (University of South Carolina)
• May 2014 – June 2015: Student Services Assistant at English Programs for Internationals (University of South Carolina)
• Aug. 2013 – May 2014: German Teaching Assistant
• May 2008: B.A. German Studies, Minor in Art History (University of South Carolina)

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

• “Mediating Material Space: Art, Literature, and the Limits of Neoliberalism in Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04.” The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art, University of Strasbourg 21.-22. Mar. 2024.
• “Affective Boundaries: Death, Trauma, and Digital Space in the fiction of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan.” PGF Conference (DGfA)– Spaces of Affect in the Americas, Hannover University, 9.-11. Nov. 2023.
• “Blurring Boundaries: Late-Modern Structures, Authenticity, and the Role of Fiction in the Work of Jennifer Egan and Ben Lerner” Post Ben Lerner Conference Post Graduate Workshop, Université Paris Cité, 28. June 2023.

Miscellaneous

• Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)

Teaching

• Speaking Skills/Conversation Practice (WS 23/24, Sprachenzentrum der FAU)
• Writing/Grammar B1 (Summer Semester 2015, EPI at the University of South Carolina)
• German Level A2 (Spring Semester 2014, University of South Carolina)
• German Level A1 (Fall Semester 2013, University of South Carolina)