Wesley Moore

Wesley Moore

Graduiertenkollegs
Graduiertenkolleg 2806 Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen

Universitätsstraße 40
91054 Erlangen

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • US Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts
  • Fiktionen der Aufmerksamkeit
  • Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus
  • Narratologie

Projekte

Aktuelle Projekte         

Promotion: Blurring Boundaries: Virtual Structures and the Role of Art and Literature in the Work of Jennifer Egan, Ben Lerner, and Ruth Ozeki

Frühere Projekte                         

Master-Arbeit: Exploring Expatriation: Character, Setting, and Cognitive Mapping in Leaving the Atocha Station and A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism

Vita

  • seit 10/2022: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2806 Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen
  • 07/2021: M.A. North American Studies: Culture and Literature (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • 11/2020 – 07/2021: Studentische Hilfskraft des Department of American Literary Studies (PD Dr. Harald Zapf)
  • 07/2020 – 07/2021: Department of Islamic Religious Studies (Prof. Dr. Abbas Poya)
  • 05/2015: M.A. Linguistics (University of South Carolina)
  • 05/2014 – 06/2015: Student Services Assistant at English Programs for Internationals (University of South Carolina)
  • 08/2013 – 05/2014: German Teaching Assistant
  • 05/2008: B.A. German Studies, Minor in Art History (University of South Carolina)

Workshops

  • “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.

Sonstiges

  • Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (GAAS/DGfA)

Lehre

  • 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)