My Academic CV

(short version)

Dr. Sibylle Machat
Born 1978 in Mannheim, Germany.
 
 
(often looked for by students, hence at the top :-) ):
Sibylle Machat, “Some Words on the Mystery of Writing a Term Paper, (complete with references ranging from Star Wars to advice given to passengers of river crossing vehicles).” updated 2022 version.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Academic and Professional Qualifications

2012
Promotion summa cum laude, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
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).
2002
MA (Master of Arts) in United States Studies, University of London, England.
1998
Abitur, Lessing Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany.

Professional Appointments and Experience

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”
Volunteer Academic Positions/Jobs
2020 – Treasurer of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment“ e.V. – EASLCE
Previous Appointments
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.
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
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)
Awards and Grants
2018 Fulbright American Studies Institute Membership
 2014 DGfA Kluge Fellowship
 2001/2002
DAAD  scholarship
various multiple DAAD and EUF conference travel grants

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

 
 
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”

 
 
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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