Theresa J. Marx

Theresa J. Marx, M.A.

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

R 4005 | KG IV

Office Hours: Monday 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 2023 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

2025 Summer Term

PS "See you after the Apocalypse: Critical Perspectives on Radical Futurism"

2024/25 Winter Term

PS “African Diaspora Narratives: From 1619 to the Present”

2024 Summer Term

PS “Speculative Futures: Framing Hope and Dread in Contemporary Film and Literature”

2022 Summer Term

Tutorial “Introduction to Cultural Studies: Tutorial”

2020 Summer Term

Seminar “German Conversation”
Seminar “Intermediate German”

2019 Winter Term

Seminar “German Conversation”
Seminar “German 101”

TALKS

“Hybrid Futures: Undoing Gender and Species Binaries in Haraway’s “The Camille Stories” and Lemire’s Sweet Tooth“
EUCOR Conference Strasbourg | April 2025

“Transformative Kinship: Technology, Cultural Preservation and the Dynamics of Nonhuman
Motherhood in Black Panther”
Fourteenth CAAR Biannual Conference Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | March 2025

“Intersectional Environmentalism in Black Panther”
Introduction to Cultural Studies Lecture Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg| January 2025

“’Tell me the Story of Home’: Afrofuturism and Black Panther”
HS Black Media Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg| June 2024

“’Maybe not soon, but eventually.’: Recovery, Reunion, and Return in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves”
Sustain*able: A Cultural Studies Approach to Sustainability Summer Conference Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg| June 2024

“Walls within Us: Social (Dis-)Connect in Afrofuturistic Narratives”
[Dis-]Connection: Analyzing Cultures of Violence and Attempts to Connect Winter Conference Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg| December 2023

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