Theresa J. Marx
Theresa J. Marx, M.A.
Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate she/her
North American Studies | Lemke
theresa.marx@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
R 4005 | KG IV
Office Hours: Thursday 1-3pm
Theresa J. Marx (she/her) is a research associate, doctoral candidate, and lecturer in North American Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg. She completed her Master’s degree in British and North American Cultural Studies and received the Stephen Crane Award for her thesis titled ““The Story of Home:” Memory, Decolonization, and the Afrofuturistic Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”” Marx holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and English and has studied at the University of Freiburg and Grinnell College, IA. Currently, her research interests include Critical Futurisms, African American and Diaspora Studies, Visual Culture, and Environmental Humanities.
EDUCATION
Since 2022 PhD., North American Cultural Studies
University of Freiburg
Working Title: “Symbiocentric Tropes in CoFuturisms: Cocreating Justice”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke
2020-2023 M.A. in British and North American Cultural Studies
University of Freiburg
Final Thesis: “’The Story of Home:’ Memory, Decolonization, and the Afrofuturistic
Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
2019-2020 IES Abroad Study Program and Teaching Internship
Grinnell College, IA
2015-2020 B.A. in French and English
University of Freiburg
TEACHING
- 2024/25 Winter Term
“African Diaspora Narratives: From 1619 to the Present”
Undergraduate Seminar – Cultural Studies – University of Freiburg
- 2024 Summer Term
“Speculative Futures: Framing Hope and Dread in Contemporary Film and Literature”
Undergraduate Seminar – Cultural Studies – University of Freiburg
- 2022 Summer Term
“Introduction to Cultural Studies: Tutorial”
Undergraduate Lecture Supplement – Cultural Studies – University of Freiburg
- 2020 Summer Term
“German Conversation”
Undergraduate Language Course – German Studies – Grinnell College, IA
“Intermediate German”
Undergraduate Language Course – German Studies – Grinnell College, IA
- 2019 Winter Term
“German Conversation”
Undergraduate Language Course – German Studies – Grinnell College, IA
“German 101”
Undergraduate Language Course – German Studies – Grinnell College, IA
CONFERENCES
Sustain*able: A Cultural Studies Approach to Sustainability (April 25-June 27, 2024)
“’Maybe not soon, but eventually.’: Recovery, Reunion, and Return in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves”
[Dis-]Connection: Analyzing Cultures of Violence and Attempts to Connect (December 8, 2023)
“Walls within Us: Social (Dis-)Connect in Afrofuturistic Narratives”
OTHER
Conference organization: Connectivity and its Other (July 2, 2022)
University of Freiburg – Arnold Bergsträsser Institute Cooperation: Reziproker Wissenstransfer/ Colourblindness Q&A: videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/video/reziproker-wissenstransfercolourblindness/bbac33f3f088ff17bc24ec5b0348012f