Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau

Education

• 1988
  Intensive Language and Culture Studies at the Colegio de España, Salamanca, Spain
  
  

• 1994
  1. state exam in Geography and English, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
  

• 2002
  PhD in American Literature, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
  

• 2010
  Habilitation, University of Göttingen, Germany. Venia Legendi for American Studies
  
  

Academic Positions

• 2001 – 2009
  Assistant, American Studies Program, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
  

• 2010 – 2012
  Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland
  
  

• Since 2012
  Professor of North American Studies: Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  
  

• Since 2018
  Vice-Rector of Social Responsibity, Diversity, and International Affairs, UDE
  
  

Research Positions

• 1994 – 1996
  Research assistant, Collaborative Research Center SFB 309 Literary Translation
  
  

• 1997 – 1999
  Researcher, Collaborative Research Center SFB 529 Internationality of National Literatures
  
  

• 2000
  Postdoctoral researcher, Inter-American research collaboration, Göttingen
  
  

• 2004 – 2005
  Visiting scholar, Stanford University, U.S.A.
  
  

• 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

Additional interests

• university in society,

  Industry-University Cooperation

Soft Skills

• international cooperations in teaching,

  running, biking,

  support of schools,

  work towards sustainable models of parenting

Other activities and achievements/family

• Married, mother of two grownup children

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