Theresa J. Marx

Theresa J. Marx, M.A.

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate she/her
North American Studies | Lemke

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