Fellows

Winter 2024/25

 

Anna Corrigan

Anna Corrigan researches visual culture and politics in Latin America. She is particularly interested in the formation of publics, networks, and collective movements through creative practice since 1945. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, and completed an Erasmus Mundus Master’s course (Crossways in Cultural Narratives) at the Universidade Santiago de Compostela, University of St. Andrews, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She received her PhD in 2024 from the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and is forthcoming in  Revista Hispánica Moderna and Security Dialogue. She teaches in the Faculty of Modern Languages and the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. 

 

 

Sigal Yona

Sigal Yona is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University in Belgium. Her research interests include language and cultural mediation, transnational studies, cinema memory, and film history and historiography. Her current project centers on film exhibition and cinema audiences in early Israel, with a particular focus on films from South Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her research employs an interdisciplinary approach, combining archival and oral history methods. She has previously taught at Vassar College in New York and Middlebury College in Vermont.

 

 

 

 

Summer 2024

 

Clara Dawson

Clara Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Manchester. As a specialist in poetry of the long nineteenth century, her research has developed along two pathways: print culture and environmental humanities. Her early career focused on print culture and resulted in a monograph, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation (Oxford University Press, 2020). Research published since her monograph has focused on the gift annual, an important and under-researched area of Romantic and Victorian print culture. Her contributions develop new aesthetic categories for the gift annual and situate it in wider currents of Romantic and Victorian literature. Her new research project on avian poetics in the long nineteenth century takes an interdisciplinary approach and is based in the field of environmental humanities. The project combines poetry, natural history, and conservation science. 

 

 

 

Manuel Vogelsang

Manuel Vogelsang recently completed his PhD at the University of Zurich. His doctoral dissertation aims to enhance our understanding of melodrama’s central role in the American imaginary by arguing that the genre’s affective and creative possibilities originate in its attention to form (typically resulting in a characteristically subjective framing of the text) and the way this allows for an account of the past that both engages and transcends the archive, at the same time acknowledging and wilfully ignoring the past. He is currently preparing a book based on his dissertation and researching a project on visual artists who have become visually impaired due to an AIDS-related illness.

 

 

 

Winter 2023/24

 

Anna-Rose Shack

Anna-Rose Shack is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral project is concerned with how early modern female poets represent and articulate vulnerable selfhood in lyric poetry. Her wider research interests include poetic form and affect, religious writing, and vulnerability studies. Anna-Rose is also passionate about using her background in theatre to bring poetry to life through the curation of literary events and performances. While at FAU she will further explore the role of sentimental discourses in shaping the nineteenth-century reception of the Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Tsaturyan

Robert Tsaturyan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture at the Education University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD in Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022, with a dissertation entitled Writing “Chuangshang” in the Republican and Post-Cultural Revolution Eras: A Poetics of Trauma in the Work of Hu Feng, Wang Jiaxin, and Yang Jian. His research focuses on contemporary Chinese poetry, the transnational and translingual connections between Chinese, Russian, and Eastern European authors, and the interface between poetry and history.

 

While at FAU, he intends to further explore the questions of trauma and memory in contemporary Chinese poetry, the role of translation, and its implication for the study of comparative sentimentality.

 

Summer 2023

 

Anthony J. Obst

Anthony Obst is a doctoral candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin’s Graduate School of North American Studies. His dissertation draws on W. E. B. Du Bois’s „Black Reconstruction“ to theorize abolition democracy as a structure of feeling in the 1930s, arguing that other Black radical writers and activists at the time thought and felt similarly about the unfinished work of abolition and how it related to the ongoing crisis of democracy in their present. In 2022, Anthony was a visiting research scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work as a culture journalist has appeared in Berliner Zeitung, Spex, and taz, among others.

 

 

 

Ruth Barratt-Peacock & Sophia Staite

Originally from Tasmania, Ruth Barratt-Peacock is a literary studies scholar and musicologist. She wrote her PhD on Romantic irony in contemporary Australian poetry with the DfG -funded research group “Models of Romanticism” at the FSU Jena. She currently researches classical music as a social practice on page and screen and will be starting a project on the social construction of childhood in metal music studies as a Walter Benjamin fellow with the University of Huddersfield in 2024. Her research has been published in Metal Studies; The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

Sophia Staite recently completed her PhD at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her thesis examined the anglophone adaptation of Japanese superhero franchise Kamen Rider, with a focus on cultural constructions of boyhood. Her research has been published in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture, and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

 

 

Research Project: Melodrama and Affect in Children’s Media

Building on their existing research into melodrama and affect in Japanese children’s television, Ruth and Sophia bring the ideas of ‘sideway growth’ (Stockton 2009) and ‘queer affect’ (Georgis 2013; Dyer 2019) to analysis of resistant power in melodrama in different cultural settings. They examine the relationship between narrative, body, and sound in children’s media from Germany, Sweden, and North America.

Katy Hull

Katy Hull is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her interests include gender and civil rights, as well as cultural and intellectual history. Her current project is on the intersection of emotions and activism in New Left autobiographies, with a particular focus on black female activists. Her first book, The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism was published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

 

 

Winter 2022

 

Rama Srinivasan

Rama Srinivasan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice. She is also affiliated as visiting faculty with the International Institute of Information Technology, India. In 2020, she was awarded the Marie Curie Grant for the project, RE-NUP: Spousal Reunification and Integration Laws in Europe. RE-NUP studies the modes through which immigrant couples and families from South Asia navigate visa/residency processes in Germany, Italy and France. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University in 2017 and has also been a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020, her monograph, Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India, was published by Rutgers University Press. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, law and society, popular culture, phenomenology, emotions and affect.

 

 

 

 

Nele Sawallisch

Dr. Nele Sawallisch is the assistant professor („Juniorprofessorin“) for American Literature and Culture at Trier University. Her doctoral work investigated autobiographical writing and slave narratives and was published as Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century (transcript, 2019). While sentimental literature is a crucial influence in this context, it was her interest in comedy and comedy formats that led to a deeper investigation of sentimentality. More precisely, her time at FAU will be dedicated to the nexus between civil religion, sentimentality, and state narratives in different comedy formats such as late-night shows and stand-up in the United States post-2016. In addition to North American literatures of the long nineteenth century, her research interests include comedy and gender, life writing and life performing, and popular culture. She is currently preparing special issues on „Funny Women“ (for EJAS) and „Participation and Humor“ (for StAH).

 

 

Summer 2022

 

Deidre Pribram

E. Deidre Pribram, Ph.D., is Professor in the Communications Department of Molloy College, Long Island, New York.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, Emotional Expressionism: Television Serialization, The Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality (Lexington 2023).  Other recent publications include A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations (Routledge 2018) and „Melodrama and the Aesthetics of Emotion“ in Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures (Columbia UP 2018), as well as numerous books, chapters, and articles on cultural emotion studies, film and television studies, gender, and popular culture. 

 

 

 

James Godley