Jennifer Howard
Jennifer Howard, M.A.
Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate she/her
Department of North American Studies | Lemke
jennifer.howard@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
R 4049 | KG IV
Office hours: Thursdays 12:00-14:00, in my office (KGIV Room 4049) or via Zoom.
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TEACHING
Literary Studies Seminar: "The End of Good Feelings – American Struggles for Hope in Dark Times" (Summer 2024)
Literary Studies Seminar: "Comedy as Resistance" Winter 2023/2024
Literary Studies Seminar: "Resistance Culture – Activism and Empowerment in the United States" (Summer 2023)
Literary Studies Seminar “Made in America – Literary Expressions of Collective Identity(s)” (Winter 2022/3)
Cultural Studies Seminar “Power Matters: Class, Alienation and Anger” Cultural Studies Seminar (Co-taught with Kristina Seefeldt) (Winter 2022/3)
Cultural Studies Seminar "The Intellectual History of American Identity - Its Symbols, Rhetoric and Rituals" (Summer 2022)
Cultural Studies Seminar "Understanding the American Dream – Its Origins, Adaptations, and Impact" (Winter 2021/2)
Tutorial, "Introduction to Literary Studies"
Tutorial, "Introduction to Cultural Studies"
ACADEMIC CAREER
10.2021 – Present |
Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate, Prof. Sieglinde Lemke Working title: “Higher ground in a divided nation: Civil Religion in America” |
10/2020 – 10/2021 |
Research Assistant, Prof Sieglinde Lemke |
04/2020 – 08/2020, |
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Sieglinde Lemke |
10/2019 – 03/2020 |
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Wolfgang Hochbruck |
04/2019 – 08/2019 |
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Stefanie Lethbridge |
07/2008 – 08/2008 | Teacher, English as a Second Language (ESL) Berlitz, Cochem, Germany |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
11/2012 – 07/2018 |
Corporate Trainer/Talent Development Specialist |
05/2011 – 11/2012 |
Member Service Representative |
02/2010 – 05/2011 |
Member Service Representative |
EDUCATION
2018 – 2021 |
MA, British and North American Cultural Studies Thesis: “Dismantling the American Dream: Optimistic ideas for American problems & their flaws” |
2004 – 2009 |
BA, Liberal Arts (awarded 2011) |
LANGUAGES
English | Native speaker |
German | Conversational and learning at B2 level |
CONFERENCES
February 2023 |
Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies "Higher Ground in a Divided Nation: The State of Civil Religion in the face of an ever-polarized America" |
April 2022 |
EUCOR English Conference "High Ground in a Divided Nation: Civil Religion in America" |
April 2021 | EUCOR English Conference "Killing the Joy of the American Dream: Uncovering the hidden unhappiness of James Truslow Adams' Epic American Dream" |