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Dr. Birte Wege, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Bienroder Weg 80, Raum 203
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391 8729
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birte.wege(at)tu-braunschweig.de

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Since October 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Braunschweig, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Didaktik
October 2017 – present (on Sabbatical Oct 2023-March 2025) Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy Institute, Department of Literature, Freie Universität Berlin
October 2015-September 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, John F. Kennedy Institute, Department of Literature, Freie Universität Berlin
2011-2015 PhD, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Dissertation: “Drawing on the Past: The Graphic Narrative Documentaries of Emmanuel Guibert, Ho Che Anderson, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco.” (summa cum laude) Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein, Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper, and Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger.
2008-2009 Master of Business Administration, Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2007 ACE TESOL Certificate (CELTA-Equivalent), Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada Qualification as EFL Instructor
2004-2005 Master of Arts, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2000-2004 English Literature and Linguistics, Political Science, Islamic Studies (Undergraduate- and Graduate-Level Coursework) Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany

Scholarships & Awards

2016 Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
2011-2015 Doctoral Grant, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2004-2005 Sarah Nettie Christie MA Scholarship, University of Alberta
Forschung und Lehre
  • Comics Studies;
  • Comicdidaktik
  • 20th- and 21st Century American Literature
  • Literaturdidaktik
  • Young Adult Literature
  • Representations of Childhood
  • American Drama
  • Canadian Literature
  • Documentary Forms
  • Visual Culture and Photography
  • Narratives of War and Violence
  • Queer Literature
  • Gender Studies
Publikationen

Monograph

Drawing on The Past: Graphic Narrative Documentary. Frankfurt-am-Main: Campus, 2019.

 

Edited Volumes

Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History. Berlin: De Gruyter. (With MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Florian Sedlmeier, and James Dorson). 2020.

American Counter/Publics. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. 9-18. (With Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, and Alexander Starre)

 

Recent Articles

“Introduction: American Counter/Publics.” American Counter/Publics. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, and Birte Wege. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. (With Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, and Alexander Starre)

“The Dinosaur in the Room: Bringing the ENRON Scandal to the Stage.” Fictions of Management: Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture. Eds. JamesDorson and Jasper Verlinden. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019.

 

Talks

PAMLA 2012 – 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Presentation Title: Picturing Reality: Photographs and Graphic Images as Narrative Tracks in Emmanuel Guibert’s The Photographer

MLA 2014 – 129th Annual Convention
Presentation Title: “A story lived, photographed[,] told[,] written and drawn”: The Dance of Pen and Camera in Guibert and Lefèvre’s The Photographer

Graduate School of North American Studies - Seventh International Graduate Conference 2014
Presentation Title: "Weapons of Mass Displacement:" In the Shadow of No Towers and the War of Images

Political Art and the Aesthetic-Political: International Workshop 2015 (John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin)
Presentation Title: A Documentary of Documentation: MLK, Civil Rights Photography, and Graphic Narrative

Framing Violence: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Theorizing Frames. (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, July 2016)
Presentation Title: Reframing the ‘Real’ in Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal

Literature Colloquium, John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin (July 2019)

Presentation Title: (Un)Scripting Reality: Theatre in Vancouver

Popular Culture, Media, and Politics in the US, (Ringvorlesung) FU Berlin. (January 2020)
Presentation Title: The Real as Co-Player in American Drama: Two Case Studies

Comic-Kunst-Körper. Konstruktion und Subversion von Körperbildern im Comic, (Ringvorlesung) FU Berlin. (Summer Semester 2020). [postponed due to Corona-Virus to Winter Semester 2020/21]
Presentation Title: Körper(-politiken) in dokumentarischen Comics

Disaster and Disease in North America, (Ringvorlesung) FU Berlin (February 2021)
Presentation Title: Drawing Fire: War Journalism meets Graphic Narrative in Emmanuel Guibert's The Photographer

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien Annual Conference 2022 – 68th Annual Conference, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Presentation Title: Wobbly Lines: Graphic Lessons on the IWW

"To Be Continued:" The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation: Conference JFKI & EXC2020 Temporal Communities, John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, February 2023
Presentation Title: Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Future of Robot Reboots

Guest Lecture (for Seminar "Introduction to Teaching Literature") TU Braunschweig, June 2023
Presentation Title: Teaching up a Storm: Adapting Shakespeare's The Tempest for the Classroom

 

Conferences and Workshops organized

Imagery and Race – Student conference organized as part of the interdisciplinary MA seminar “Imagery and Race” (co-taught with Prof. Sebastian Jobs of the JFKI History department); held at the John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin. (February 2019)

American Counter/Publics: 65th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) – Organized with Ulla Haselstein (FU Berlin), Frank Kelleter (FU Berlin), David Bosold (FU Berlin), Alexander Starre (FU Berlin), Thomas Dikant (FU Berlin), and Sophie Spieler (FU Berlin); held at the John F. Kennedy Institute. (May 2018)

Exemplary Singularities: Fault Lines of the Anecdotal – International conference organized with MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (FU Berlin), Florian Sedlmeier (FU Berlin), and James Dorson (FU Berlin); held at the John F. Kennedy Institute. (February 2018)

Framing Violence: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Theorizing Frames – Organized with Curd Knüpfer (FU Berlin); held at the John F. Kennedy Institute. (July 2016)

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