American Studies
Sections
American Studies 

Melanie Graichen, M.A.

Room:
Reichenhainer Straße 39, 211
Email:
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Curriculum vitae

Education
2004 Abitur
2012 Magister, TU Chemnitz
since 2012 PhD-Student in American Studies, TU Chemnitz
   

Awards and Honors
2014 Fulbright Scholarship, San Francisco State University
 

Academic Appointments
since 2014 TU Chemnitz, Research Assistant
2013-2014 Hochschule Mittweida, Research Assistant
2012-2013 TU Chemitz, Research Assistant
2007-2012 TU Chemitz, Student Assistant
 

Publications

Edited Books
Detective Fiction and Popular Visual Culture. (together with Gunter Süß and Cecile Sandten) Trier: WVT, 2013. 247pp.
   

Teaching
WS 2014/15  
  • Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte I: Frühgeschichte (V)
WS 2012/13  
  • Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte I: Early American Literature and Culture (V)
WS 2011/12  
  • Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte III:The 20th Century (T)
SS 2011  
  • Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte II: From the Early Republic to the ‚Gilded Age‘ (T)
WS 2009/10  
  • Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte III:The 20th Century (T)
 

Invited Seminars / Conference Papers and Presentations

"Crime and (Neo-Victorian) Consumption: Re-imagining the 19th Century in BBC’s Ripper Street."
Presentation at the International Conference “Consuming Crime: Consumption, Commodification and Consumerism in Crime Fiction, Film and Television” at the University of Limerick, Ireland (June 26-27, 2015).

"From Edmund to Amanda: The Count of Monte Cristo as a Serial Figure."
Multimedia presentation in the seminar "Revenge: From Hamlet to TrueGrit", Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, November 27, 2014.