American Studies
Sections

Dr. Manuela Müller

Curriculum vitae

Education
2003 First State Examination for Higher Teaching in English and Music Education, TU Chemnitz
2008 Dr. phil, TU Chemnitz
2012 Second State Examination for Higher Teaching in English and Music Education, Saxony State Board of Education
   

Awards and Honors
2004 Scholarship, Saxon Scholarship Program
   

Academic Appointments
2004 - 2006 Research Assistant and Lecturer, English Department, TU Chemnitz
   

Work Experience
2008 - 2012 Teaching in various private and public schools in the fields of vocational training, remedial education, and higher education
Since 2012 Academic High School Teacher (Höheres Lehramt an Gymnasien)
   

Publications

Monographs

Trickster im Native American Film: Die Weiterführung der oral tradition. München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2009, 206 pp.
 

Scholarly Articles

“’For spirits, time doesn’t exist”: Chris Eyre’s thriller Imprint read against the backdrop of Lakota culture and belief.”
First Takes: Indigenous Film in North America. Eds. Wendy Pearson, Kerstin Knopf and Ernie Blackmore. Forthcoming.

"Trickster im Native American Film: Die Weiterführung der oral tradition [Tricksters in Native American Film: the Continuation of the Oral Tradition]."
English and American Studies in German – A Supplement to Anglia 2009. Hg. Paul Georg Meyer. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010, 129 - 131.

“Native Cinema: ‘sit back, watch, and listen.’”
Intermedialities. Hg. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel und Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2007, 83 - 93.
 

Reviews

Nancy Shoemaker, A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (New York: Oxford UP, 2004). Amerikastudien / American Studies 51 (2006): 607 – 609.

Teaching
WS 2005/2006  
  • American Renaissance (S)
SS 2005  
  • The Trickster in Native American Cultures (S)
WS 2004/2005  
  • The Native American Trickster in Literature and Film (S)
SS 2004  
  • Native American Literature: From Oral Tradition to Native American Renaissance (S)

Conference Papers and Presentations

"Native American Detective Fiction of the Noughties."
Presentation at the conference "Detective Fiction in American Popular Culture", TU Chemnitz, October 28, 2011.

"Native American Oral Tradition, Screen Adaptations, and the Image of the Trickster."
Presentation at the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), TU Chemnitz, November 4, 2006.

"Der Schuh des Manitu vs. Adaptionen indianischer Literatur im indianischen Gegenwartskino."
Presentation at the conference  "Literature and the Media", TU Chemnitz, January 15, 2004.