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Dr. Sibylle Machat
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(often looked for by students, hence at the top :-) ):
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QUALIFICATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
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Academic and Professional Qualifications
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2012 |
Promotion summa cum laude, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
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2005 |
M.A. (Magistra Artium) in Anglistik & Amerikanistik (English & American Studies), Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Media Studies) and Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Business Studies), Universität Mannheim, Germany. (Erfolgreiche Zwischenprüfung in Öffentlichem Recht (Public Law) 2001).
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2002 |
MA (Master of Arts) in United States Studies, University of London, England.
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1998 |
Abitur, Lessing Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany.
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Professional Appointments and Experience
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Current Position |
2017 – |
Head of Study Program (Studiengangsleiterin) MA “Kultur – Sprache – Medien” (“Culture – Language – Media”) (KSM);
Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany |
2006 – |
Assistant Professor/Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany; since summer 2022 as “Akademische Rätin” |
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Volunteer Academic Positions/Jobs |
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2020 – |
Treasurer of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment“ e.V. – EASLCE |
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Previous Appointments
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2/2015-10/2015 |
German Research Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress. |
2007 – 2008 |
Exchange lecturer in the KSM program, Universitet Sonderborg, Denmark |
2006 |
Teaching assignment at the Universität Mannheim, Germany.
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2005 – 2006 |
Assistant, Promotionskolleg “Formations of the Global”, Universität Mannheim |
2005 – 2006 |
Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
2004 – 2006 |
Student assistant, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim
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2003 – 2006 |
Student assistant for computer issues, English Department, Universität Mannheim |
2003 – 2004 |
Student assistant, organization of annual conference of the GAAS |
2003 – 2005 |
Tutor, LS Medienwissenschaft, Universität Mannheim |
2002 – 2003 |
Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
2002 |
Student assistant, KAMPA II Content Analysis, Universität Mainz |
2000 – 2001 |
Tutor, LS Amerikanistik, Universität Mannheim |
1999 – 2001 |
Student assistant, VIROR (Virtual University Rhine Upper-Rhine) |
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Awards and Grants
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2018 |
Fulbright American Studies Institute Membership |
2014 |
DGfA Kluge Fellowship |
2001/2002 |
DAAD scholarship
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various |
multiple DAAD and EUF conference travel grants |
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
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Areas |
* Cultural Studies
* Business Studies as Cultural Studies
* Literary Studies— |
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Classes Taught |
At Europa-Universität Flensburg:
FS 24 – Globales Lernen in der Grundschule: Transfer in die Unterrichtspraxis
FS 24 – “Make sure we have trees!” – texts about humans, activism, and trees
FS 24 – “Too Cool for British Rule” – the Founding Fathers in US popular culture
FS 24 – Project: Editing & Publishing
FS 24 – Projekt: Museumsarbeit & Ausstellungsgestaltung
FS 24 – Marketing
HS 23 – Project Work “Men at Sea”
HS 23 – Projekt: Flensburger Kurzfilmtage
HS 23 – Projekt: Flensburger Kurzfilmstreifzug II
HS 23 – 21st Century Economics & You
HS 23 – Introduction to Intercultural Literary Studies
HS 23 – Introduction to Literature – B
FS 23 – “Our Patriots,” “American Icons” & “Evil Characters” – the ‘Founding Fathers’ in contemporary US culture
FS 23 – Narrative Poetry
FS 23 – Projekt: Flensburger Kurzfilmstreifzug
FS 23 – Marketing
FS 23 – Globales Lernen: Transfer in die Unterrichtspraxis
HS 22 – Economics: Current Issues
HS 22 -Introduction to Literature C
HS 22 -Introduction to Intercultural Literary Studies
HS 22 -Project Literature: (Novels about) Men on the Water
HS 22 -Projekt: Flensburger Kurzfilmtage
FS 22 – American Drama (x2)
FS 22 – Globales Lernen: Transfer in die Unterrichtspraxis
FS 22 – Marketing
FS 22 – Projekt: Flensburger Kurzfilmstreifzug
HS 21 – Economics: Current Issues
HS 21 – Introduction to English and American Literature
HS 21 – Introduction to Intercultural Literary Studies
HS 21 – Project: Exploring the Digital Humanities
HS 21 – Project Literature: Major American Novels
FS 21 – Cli-Fi, Tree-Fi – texts about humans and trees
FS 21 – Globales Lernen: Transfer in die Unterrichtspraxis
FS 21 – Marketing
FS 21 – Project: Photography
HS 20 – 2020 Vision(s)
HS 20 – Introduction to Intercultural Literary Studies
HS 20 – Introduction to Literature C
FS 20 – American Politics on Film
FS 20 – Fictions of Climate Change (Cli-Fi)
FS 20 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt
FS 20 – Marketing
FS 20 – Narrative Poetry
FS 20 – Projekt: Tag des Wassers – Aktionswochenende Phänomenta
HS 19 – Introduction to Literature A
HS 19 – Introduction to Literature B
HS 19 – Introduction to Literature C
FS 19 – Projekt: 50 Jahre Mondlandung
FS 19 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt
FS 19 – Marketing
FS 19 – Narrative Poetry
FS 19 – Project Work Literature: Climate Change Fiction
FS 19 – Macbeth & Romeo & Juliet
FS 19 – Transnational Perspectives on European Cultures
HS 18 – Introduction to Literature A
HS 18 – Introduction to Literature B
HS 18 – Introduction to Literature C
HS 18 – Project Work Literature: Climate Change Fiction
HS 18 – Thinking about the Economy
FS 18 – American History on Film
FS 18 – Exkursion nach Pensa
FS 18 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt
FS 18 – Marketing
FS 18 – Project: Photography
Fs 18:- Shakespeare
HS 17 – Introduction to Literature C
HS 17 – Introduction to Literature D
HS 17 – Introduction to Literature E
HS 17 – Project Literature
HS 17 – Worldly Philosophers II – economic thought and thinkers from WWI until today
SS 17 – American Politics on Film A
SS 17 – American Politics on Film B
SS 17 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt
SS 17 – Worldly Philosophers I – economic thought and thinkers from the Bible until WWI
SS 17 – KSM Project: Social Media Networking
WS 16/17 – Introduction to Literature
WS 16/17 – American Drama
WS 16/17 – American History
WS 16/17 – Wordly Philosophers: Economic Thought and Thinkers from the Bible until Today
WS 16/17 – Event Management: Konzertorganisation
WS 16/17 – Project: Adaptations
WS 16/17 – KSM Project: Photography
SS 16 – E Pluribus Unum: Independence and the Early Republic
SS 16 – 100 Years of Contact and Conflict: Great Britain, France and the USA 1770-1870
SS 16 – US Election Watch
SS 16 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt
SS 16 – KSM Project: Distant Reading and the Digital Humanities
SS 16 – KSM Project: Photography
WS 15/16 – Introduction to Literature
WS 15/16 – American History: Key Documents A
WS 15/16 – American History: Key Documents B
WS 15/16 – Adaptations: Literature in/and/on film
WS 15/16 – Smith & Marx: Classic texts of political economics and their influence today
(SS 15 – none: German Research Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress)
WS 14/15 – Introduction to Literature
WS 14/15 – American Drama
WS 14/15 – American History & Culture A
WS 14/15 – American History & Culture B
WS 14/15 – Projekt: Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
SS 14 – Children’s Literature
SS 14 – Kolloquium
SS 14 – BWL for KSM
SS 14 – Globales Lernen: Kinder dieser Welt (Team Teaching)
SS 14 – Globales Lernen: Globalität & Transkulturalität (Team Teaching)
WS 13/14 – Introduction to American Literature
WS 13/14 – American Romanticism
WS 13/14 – Maddaddam
WS 13/14 – Good Old Europe: Americans in/on France
WS 13/14 – American Film Classics of the 50s
WS 13/14 – Projekt: Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
SS 13 – American Poets, American Poetry
SS 13 – Major Works of Literary and Media Theory
SS 13 – Major Works of English and American Short Fiction
SS 13 – Key Moments in American History
SS 13 – BWL for KSM
WS 12/13 – Introduction to American Literature
WS 12/13 – American Film Classics of the 30s and 40s
WS 12/13 – 600 Years of British Comedies
WS 12/13 – Children’s and Young Adult Literature
WS 12/13 – Projekt: Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
WS 12/13 – KSM Projekt: Photography
SS 12 – Key Moments in American History
SS 12 – BWL for KSM
SS 12 – American Short Fiction
SS 12 – American Drama
SS 12 – Organisation lecture series “Endzeitstimmungen”
WS 11/12 – Introduction to American Literature
WS 11/12 – Ecocriticism
WS 11/12 – Projekt: Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
WS 11/12 -KSM Projekt: Podcasting
SS 11 – International Marketing: BWL for KSM
SS 11 – Post-Apocalyptic Novels
WS 10/11 – Postmodernism for Beginners
WS 10/11 – Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court
WS 10/11 – Projekt: Film
SS 10 – Slavery and Slave Narratives
SS 10 – Cross-Cultural Management: BWL for KSM
WS 09/10 – Three Major American Novelists: Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck
WS 09/10 – Media Theories
SS 09 – Modern Theory & Criticism
SS 09 – Intercultural Communication: Business Studies for KSM students
WS 08/09 – Introduction to American Literature
WS 08/09 – The Frontier Myth in American Culture
SS 2008 – The American Presidency and the Elections 2008
WS 07/08 – American Short Fiction
SS 07 – An Introduction to the United States today
SS 07 – Cultures in Contact: King Arthur in America
WS 06/07 – American Film Genres
At the Syddansk Universitet Sonderborg:
FS 08 – Englesk Kultur og Samfund: An Introduction to the United States
HS 07 – Engelsk Kultur og Samfund: An Introduction to Great Britain today
FS 07 – Engelsk Kultur og Samfund: An Introduction to the United States
At the Universität Mannheim:
SS 06 – Fictions of the Post-Apocalypse as Commentaries on Contemporaneous American Society
SS 06 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft”
WS 05/06 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft”
SS 05 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Medien- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive”
WS 04/05 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Medien- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive”
SS 04 – Tutorium zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Medien- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive”
WS 03/04 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Medien- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive”
SS 03 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in das Studium der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur”
WS 02/03 – Tutorien zur Vorlesung „Einführung in das Studium der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur” (mit speziellen Tutorien für ausländische Studierende)
SS 01 – Tutorium zur Vorlesung „Einführung in das Studium der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur”
WS 00/01 – Tutorium zur Vorlesung „Einführung in das Studium der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur”
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Research
Interests |
* The Cultural Dimensions of Economics and Economic Texts
* The Depiction of the Earth, planets, solar system and space travel in film, text, photography and art over the last 200 years
* Interrelations between the US Space Program and the Environmental Movement
* World and Society Structures in Post-Disaster/Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
* Space and Place in Narrative
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PUBLICATIONS |
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BOOK:
Sibylle Machat, In the Ruins of Civilizations: Narrative Structures, World Constructions, and Physical Realities in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. 314 pages.
OTHER:
Carstensen-Egwuom, Inken; Machat, Sibylle. “Globales Lernen als Lernbereich im M.Ed. Grundschule an der Europa-Universität Flensburg: Ein Erfahrungsbericht”. ZEP : Zeitschrift für Internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik; Münster. Vol. 40, Iss. 3, 2017: Pp. 18-26.
Sibylle Machat, “Images of Earth in American Children’s Books”. in: Insights. Scholarly Work at the John. W. Kluge Center. Jason Steinhauer, ed. The Library of Congress, loc.gov. September 2015.
Sibylle Machat, “Diversity in Speculative Fiction”. in: Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung. 2/2014. Miriam Aced et al., eds. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2014. Pp.146-169
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Sibylle Machat, “’I have a Dream’ Die Rede von Martin Luther King vom 28.8.1963 in Washington” in Paul, Gerhard, und Ralph Schock, (Hrsg.), Sound des Jahrhunderts. Ein akustisches Porträt 1900 bis heute. Berlin: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2013. Pp. 439-44.
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Sibylle Machat, “Prince Arthur spotted exiting Buckingham Palace! : The Re-Imagined Worlds of Fanfic Trailers” in: Loock, Kathleen, and Constantine Verevis, eds. Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 197-214.
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Sibylle Machat, “Review of Randy Laist, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels, Peter Lang Publishing, New York: 2010.” in: Anglia – Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 129, Issue 3-4, Pp. 558-63, December 2011.
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Sibylle Machat, “Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg). Bilder, die Geschichte schrieben.
– Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. Pp 172-79.
– Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2011. Pp 172-79.
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Sibylle Machat, “Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera” in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.) Das Jahrhundert der Bilder: Bildatlas 1949 bis heute.
– Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. Pp 282-89.
– Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2008. Pp 282-89.
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(online book reviews, conference reports etc to be added at some point)
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