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Junior Professor Sulimma| Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes

City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures. Co-edited with Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr, the Ohio State University Press (2023).

Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television. Edinburgh: University Press, 2021.

Die anderen Ministerpräsidenten – Geschlecht in der printmedialen Berichterstattung über Berufspolitik. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014.

Articles

  •  With Hanna Henryson. “Nothing was solved, only accelerated: Gentrification as Apocalypse in Contemporary Dystopian Berlin Novels” (in preparation).
  • “Gender Studies meets Seriality Studies: Fernsehen und Intersektionale Geschlechtlichkeit.“ Handbuch Televisuelle Serialität, edited by Sven Grampp and Olga Moskatova. Springer (in preparation).
  •  “Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies.” Companion of Literary Urban Studies, edited by Lieven Ameel. Routledge, 2022. 87-102.
  •  “Needs to Be More Explicit about the Methodologies…: Reluctance, Collaboration, and Vulnerability in Research Processes.” Dossier “Method as Practice,” edited by Ilka Brasch and Alexander Starre. Amerikastudien / American Studies 67.1 (2022): 14-16.
  • “Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings’s Why Stories Matter (2011).” Culture^2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol.1, edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. transcript, 2022. 127-142. Open Access. 
  • “Wieviel Hitze verträgt ein Trinkwasserspender? Zur gegenderter Kanonbildung, Legitimität und einer kritischen Sphäre des Fernsehens.” Realität in Serie: Realitätsbehauptungen und -effekte in Fernsehserien, edited by Katja Kanzler, Stefan Schubert, and Sophie Spieler. Springer, 2022. 105-127.
  • “Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise.” Playing the Field II: American Studies, Video Games, and Space, edited by Dietmar Meinel. De Gruyter, 2022. 223-240.
  • “The Plane, the City, the Chase: Killing Eve and European Aviation Culture.” Dossier “Contemporary US Television and/in the Banal Anthropocene,” edited by Diane Negra and Julia Leyda. Screen 62.1 (2021): 107-115.
  • “Scripting Urbanity through Intertextuality in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became: I’m Really Going to Have to Watch Some Better Movies about New York.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2021). DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1865866.
  • “Defined by Distance: The Roadtrip and Queer Love in Alice Isn’t Dead.” Special Issue “Feminism, Gender, and Podcast Studies,” edited by Julia Hoydis. Gender Forum 77 (2020): 69-89. Open Access.
  • with Julia Havas. “Through the Gaps of My Fingers: Genre, Femininity, and Cringe Aesthetics in Dramedy Television.” Television & New Media 21.1 (2020): 75-94.
  • “‘Sir, she can hear you‘: The Mute White Woman as Cinematic Meditation on Gender, Communication, and Heterosexual Romance.” American Counter/Publics, edited by Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, and Birte Wege. Winter, 2019, 325-341.
  • “Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics.” Hysterical! Women in American Comedy, edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant. University of Texas Press, 2017. 379-401.
  • “Simultaneous Seriality: On the Crossmedia Relationship of Television Narratives.” Special Issue “Serial Narratives,” edited by Kathleen Loock. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1-2 (2014): 127-143.
  • with Bettina Soller. “‘It’s a great time to be a woman in politics!‘ –  Serielle Verhandlungen von Politikerinnen als Protagonistinnen von US-Fernsehserien.“ Indes – Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft 4 (2014): 78-88.
  • “Ein Aufschrei ohne Konsequenzen?“ Politische Kultur in der Krise: Jahrbuch des Göttinger Instituts für Demokratieforschung, edited by Alexander Hensel, Roland Hiemann, Daniela Kallnich, Robert Lorenz, and Katharina Rahlf. ibidem, 2014. 275-277.
  • “‘Did you shoot the girl in the street?‘ –  On the Digital Seriality of The Walking Dead.” Special Issue “Digital Seriality.”Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 8 (2014): 83-100. Open Access. 

 

Blog Posts and Digital Essays

 

 

Reviews

  • “Kevin R. McNamara (ed.). The City in American Literature and Culture.” Amerikastudien / American Studies (forthcoming).
  • “Stefan Schubert. Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary Popular Culture.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69.2 (2020): pp. 191-194.
  • “Rubén Cenamor and Stefan Brandt (eds.).  Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction.” Anglia - Journal of English Philology 138.1 (2020): 207-211.
  • “Judith Kohlenberger. The New Formula For Cool: Science, Technology, and the Popular in The American Imagination.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65.2 (2017): 231-234.
  • “Amanda Lotz. Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1-2 (2014): 212-213.
  • “Podcast Review Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century (Amanda Lotz).” Critical Studies in Media Communication Podcast Series, March 2015. https://audioboom.com/boos/2944592-cable-guys-television-and-masculinities-in-the-21st-century.
  • “Conference Report Internationale Konferenz der DFG Forschergruppe Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität, 2013.“ Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Aug. 2013): www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/index.php?TID=93.
  • “Annika Bach, Katharina Fritsche, and Margreth Lünenborg. Migrantinnen in den Medien -Darstellungen in der Presse und ihre Rezeption.“ Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 2 (2012): 198-200.

 

 

Newspaper Articles

  •  Focus. Dec. 2021. „Die neuen Fünfziger: Sex and the City Revival.” (interview: Birgit Querengäßer)
  • Bayrischer Rundfunk. June 2021. “Herrscherinnen: Geschichten von Frauen und Macht.“ (interview: Vanessa Schneider)
  • Die Rhein Pfalz Zeitung.“ Jan. 2018. Lange von Weißen Männern geprägt: Mediathek-Interview mit Maria Sulimma.“ (interview: Anne Lenhardt)
  • PULS – Das junge Programm des Bayrischen Rundfunks. April 2017. “Spielwiese: Flashbacks auf der Couch: Warum Serien so besessen sind von der Vergangenheit.“ (interview: Verena Fücker)
  • Deutschlandfunk Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. March 2014. “Schwerpunktthema: Frauen an der Macht.“ (interview: Christian Forberg)
  • ER MAG – Geschichten über Männer (Konrad Adenauer Foundation). Nov. 2013. “Besorgte Versorger – die neuen alten TV-Väter.“ (interview: Dorothee Barsch)

 

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

  • “Microscripts of Gentrification:  Leisure and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Literature” (14 Dec. 2022, Keele University)
  • “Leisure in the Postindustrial City: Gentrification and Literature” (24 Nov. 2022, University of Münster)
  • “More than just remembering: Gender, Seriality, and Television” (23 Nov. 2022, University of Münster)
  • “The Travel Writing of Louisa May Alcott” (27 Oct. 2022, EUCOR Lecture Series “Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature”)
  • “To live in a city is to consume its offerings: Speculative Fiction and Gentrification in Ling Ma’s Severance“ (28 June 2022, ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Chichester)
  • “Television and Seriality” (13 Dec. 2021, University of Paderborn)
  • “TV Thursday - Gentrifizierung und Fernsehen“ (9 Dec. 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
  • with Hanna Henryson, “Nothing was solved, only accelerated: Gentrification as Apocalypse in Contemporary Dystopian Berlin Novels“ (28 Oct. 2021, University of Uppsala; 7 Dec. 2021 University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • “Trivial Pursuits: Literature, Gentrification, and Postindustrial Cities“ (17 Nov. 2021, KWI/ Institute for the Advanced Study, Essen)
  • “Hipsters and Gentrifiers in the Work of Sarah Schulman: A Literary Studies Approach to Gentrification“ (16 Nov. 2021, lecture series: “Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Culture,” Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • “AOC plays Among Us: Politik und/als Populärkultur“ (11 Oct. 2021, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland)
  • “This is what a Gentefier looks like: Gentrification and Seriality in Vida and Gentefied“ (23 Sept. 2021, Symposium  “To Be Continued: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations,” University of Delaware)
  • “A Portal to a City that No Longer Exists: Drinking Coffee at the Bodega during Gentrification” (12 Sept. 2021, Symposium “Transatlantic Rust Belts – Scripting Urban Future(s),” Wayne State University)
  • “Where is Everybody?: The Agoraphobic Imagination of Gentrification in Times of COVID-19” (2 Sept. 2021, conference “Ecologies of Fear: Spatial Politics and Imaginaries of Crisis and Danger,” KWI Essen)
  • “TV Thursday: Good Wives, Witches & Girlbosses - wie Serien Frauen eine Stimme geben” (15 July 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
  • “Needs to Be More Explicit about the Methodologies…: Reluctance, Collaboration, and Vulnerability in Research Processes” (18 June 2021, annual conference of the German American Studies Association, University of Heidelberg)
  •  “Gentrification in Series:  Television Storytelling from Gentefied to Search Party” (29 May 2021, conference “The City, the Media & Gentrification: Actors, Discourses and Representations,” Sorbonne Université Paris)
  • “Dilemma as Technique: Gentrifier-Protagonists in Sarah Schulman’s Maggie Terry and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation” (7 May 2021, Symposium “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification,” Keele University)
  • “TV Thursday - Serial Politics” (15 April 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
  • “The White Postfeminist Trivial of Lena Dunham (… and Sylvia Plath … and Philip Roth)” (14 Dec 2020, Leibniz University Hannover)
  • “Is that how Lovecraftian Horror Works Now?!: On Gentrification, Cultural Homogeneity, and Dichotomies of Consumerism in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became” (21 Aug 2020, Symposium “Representing Urban Change: Gentrification and Displacement in Literature and other Media,” University of Uppsala; available online: https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/697/video/12920)
  • “Unmittelbare Stadt“ (7 July 2020, lecture series “Kernbegriffe für die Stadt der Zukunft“ TU Braunschweig; available online: https://www.uni-due.de/cityscripts/events)
  • Lecture “Focus Feminist Heritage: Bandits (1997)” and interview with actor Jasmin Tabatabai (7 March 2020, Berlin Feminist Film Week)
  • “Of Trivial Things, Leisure, and Cities” (3 Feb. 2020, Symposium “Spending Time With/In the Nineteenth Century,” Goethe University Frankfurt)
  • “Killing Eve… and the Planet – One Flight at a Time: Popular Culture and Aviation” (11 Dec. 2019, lecture series “Popular Culture, Media, and Politics in the US,” John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
  • “Barista, barista, (anti-)capitalista?: White Masculinity, Coffee Connoisseurship, and the Urban Café” (29 Nov. 2019, conference “Metropolitan Masculinities: Narratives of Gender and Urban Space,” Ruhr University Bochum)
  • “Seriality and Gender: The Politics and Practices of American Television” (24 Oct. 2019, University of Heidelberg)
  • “Play by Paratext: Television Narration, Seriality, and Interactivity” (1 June 2019, ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Pamplona)
  • “Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise” (17 May 2019, conference “Playing the Field II: Video Games, American Studies, and Space,” University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • “Simultaneity versus Seriality: The Conflicting Temporality and Locality of Television’s Urban Chase Scene” (15 Feb. 2019, Symposium of the Association for Literary Urban Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • “I am. I am. I am. – HBOs Girls zwischen distanzierten Blicken, Qualitätslabels, und geschlechtlicher Universalität“ (31 Jan. 2019, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg)
  • “ You’d be the first to die. – Death, Gender and Serialized Survivalism in The Walking Dead Franchise” (15 July 2018, “Console-ing Passions – International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism,” Bournemouth University)
  • “Sir, she can hear you: The Mute Woman in Popular Culture” (26 May 2018, annual conference of the German American Studies Association, Freie Universität Berlin)
  • “The Ur-Feminist Voice of a Generation?: Reading HBO’s Girls and its Critical Sphere” (5 Oct. 2017, conference “Reading American TV Series,” Saarland University)
  • “Gender and Seriality in Contemporary US-American Television Narratives” (10 April 2017, TU Dresden)
  • “No Place like Home?: The Apartment Shares of Contemporary Female TV Protagonists” (23 March 2017, annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago)
  • “Dead yourself?: Serialized Survival and Fanagement in The Walking Dead-Franchise” (29 Nov. 2016, University of Siegen)
  • “More Cringe than Comedy?  The complicated Humor of HBO’s Girls” (12 Nov. 2016, annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, University of Innsbruck)
  • “Some of the Spoilers… will not be Spoilers: Crossmedia Franchises between Simultaneity, Adaptation, and Transmedia Storytelling” (15 June 2016, workshop “New Media Writing,” Freie Universität Berlin)
  • “Will this Gender ever be Televised? On the Challenges of Seriality and Gender Studies” (22 June 2016, conference “Seriality Seriality Seriality: The Many Lives of the Field That Isn’t One,” Freie Universität Berlin)
  • “2015: Simultaneous Seriality and The Walking Dead” (17 June 2016,  ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Amsterdam)
  • “Beyond the Double Bind? Professional Femininities and 'Uniform' Desires” (21 May 2016, annual conference of the German American Studies Association/DGfA, University of Osnabrück)
  • “Not That Kind of Girl: Television’s Troubled Relationship with Academia and TV Criticism” (23 April 2016, biennial conference of the European American Studies Association, University of Constanta)
  • “Investigating Gender and Seriality in HBO’s Girls: The Hauntings of Television's Critical Sphere” (7 Dec. 2015, University of Michigan)
  • “I don't WANT to kill any of you - Gendered Discourses of Authority and Authorization” (23 Nov. 2015,  Project Narrative, the Ohio State University)
  • “She is not your mother anymore: The Walking Dead and the Attraction of Serial Survival” (24 July 2015, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
  • with Bettina Soller, “You Know, Government Isn’t Just a Boys Club Anymore: Female Protagonists in Contemporary US-American Political Drama and Comedy Series” (19 June 2015,  “Console-ing Passions – International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism,”  University College Dublin)
  • with Felix Brinker and Frank Kelleter, “Quality TV? Die neuen amerikanischen Fernsehserien: The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad“ (13 June 2015, Freie Universität Berlin)
  • “Negotiating Serial Flow: The Walking Dead as Transmedia Phenomenon” (26 Feb 2015, conference “Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation,” Hannover)
  • “Everybody Makes it Until They Don’t - Serial Television and Zombies in The Walking Dead” (11 Dec. 2014, German-American Institute Tübingen)
  • “Gender and Serial Television Narratives” (3 Oct. 2014,  University of Michigan)
  • “It happened in Salem, not surprisingly - On (Not) Trying Witches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (18 Jan. 2014, University of Göttingen; 1 Feb. 2014, University of Konstanz)
  • “Doing Gender in Crossmedia Serial Narratives” (1 July 2013, annual conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, University of Tartu)
  • with Uta Scheer. “Once Upon a Time... Neue Geschlechterbilder in Polit-Medien und TV-Serien – Wahrheit oder Märchen?“ (16 Jan. 2013, University of Göttingen)