Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
North American Cultural Studies
urban studies
ambiguity
literary and cultural history of North America
politics and poetics of multicultural literature
theories of knowledge
uses of literature
religious typology
ethnic and racial stereotyping: sounds, sights, verbal features
Inter-American studies
Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2004 – 2005
Dorothea-Erxleben Fellow of the Department of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony, Germany, 2001 – 2009
English, French, German
Der frühe amerikanische historische Roman im transatlantischen Vergleich. Interamericana 2. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.
Intercultural Negotiations in the Americas and Beyond. Edited with Marietta Messmer. Special Issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 3.2 (Juni 2001).
Do the Americas Have a Common Literary History? Interamericana 1. Edited with Annette Paatz, in collaboration with Rolf Lohse and Marietta Messmer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.
Prefiguring CanAmerica? White Man's Indians and Religious Typology in New England and New France. Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo J. Hebel. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 165-82.
The Goods of Bad Mobility: Pierre-Esprit Radisson's Relation of my Voyage, being in Bondage in the Lands of the Irokoits, 1669/1885. English on the Move: Mobilities in Literature and Language. SPELL 27 (Swiss Papers in English Literatures and Languages), ed. David Britain and Annette Kern-Stähler. Tübingen: Narr, 2012. 53-68.
Amerika, 'für die liebe Jugend frei bearbeitet'. Der rote Wunderschirm. Kinderliteratur der Sammlung Seifert von der Frühaufklärung bis zum Nationalsozialismus. Ed. Wolfgang Wangerin. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011. 217-22.
Inventing Iroquoia. Migrating Tropes of Similarity and Heritage in Francophone Narratives of Colonial Possession. FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research 4:2 (Dec. 2011).
with Carola Hecke, Paula M.L. Moya, and Nicole Shelton. Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp for Americanists and Future EFL-Teachers. Identity in Education. Ed. Amie MacDonald and Sandra Sanchez-Casal. New York: Macmillan-Palgrave, 2009. 225-50.
Alternate Identities and Creolities in Canadian Literary Discourse. Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. Ed. Josef Raab and Martin Butler. Trier: LIT / Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, 2008. 33-56.
with Eva Findenegg and Frank Lauterbach. Normative Programs and Artistic Liberties: Inter-American Case Studies in Historical Fiction and the Campaign for Cultural Emancipation. Internationalität nationaler Literaturen. Ed. Udo Schöning. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2000. 348-89.
Speaker of Research Training Group „Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions“, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation, 2018-2022
PI in Ambiguity and Distinction Research Group 2600, funded by the German Research Council / DFG, 2018-2021
GAPS Dissertation Awards Committee, 2013 – 2014
Review Committee, Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 2011
Directory Board Zentrum für Theorie und Methodik der Kulturwissenschaften / Center of Modern Humanities, Göttingen, 2007 – 2009
Fulbright Liaison Officer, Göttingen University, 2007 – 2010
Selection Committee of the California Study Center, University of Göttingen, 2005 – 2008
Directory Board, Collaborative Research Center Internationality of National Literatures (SFB 529), Junior Scholars Representative, 1997 – 1998
university in society,
Industry-University Cooperation
international cooperations in teaching,
running, biking,
support of schools,
work towards sustainable models of parenting
Married, mother of two grownup children
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