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Schuster, Kit

Kit Schuster, M.A.

schusterDoctoral Candidate, North America Studies they/them/theirs


North American Studies| Sulimma 

 

 

Research Interests


 

  • Popular Culture
  • Literary Studies
  • Media Studies, Film and Television Studies
  • Gender and Queer Studies
  • Transgender Studies
  • Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction
  • Posthumanism and Transhumanism
  • The Gothic

 

CV


Education

11/2022 –
10/2025


 

PhD in English and American Studies
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Thesis title: Conceptions and Expansions of the Human in Trans Speculative Future Fiction
Thesis supervisor: JunProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma

10/2019 –
08/2022

 

 

M. A. in British and North American Cultural Studies
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Final grade: 1.0
Thesis title: Transgressive Bodies in the 21st Century: Posthuman Variations on Frankenstein
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte

09/2017 –
01/2018


Erasmus Exchange Program

Arts and Humanities Department, University College Dublin, Ireland

 

10/2015 –
08/2019

 

 

B. A. in English and American Studies / German Literature
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany

Final grade: 1.1
Thesis title: Displacement of Desire and Dissident Sexuality in Dracula
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann

 

Professional Employment

04/2023 –
09/2023


 

Research Associate

English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Assistant to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Sulimma

 

08/2022 –
02/2023


 

Research Assistant

University College Freiburg, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Assistant to Dr. Plumley

 

08/2020 –
03/2021





Student Research Assistant

English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Lemke

 

 

02/2018 –
03/2018

 

05/2017 – 09/2017


Student Research Assistant

English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Developing FREDDIE (Freiburg English Dialect Database for Instruction and E-Learning) with Prof. Dr. Kortmann

 

 

 

Conference Papers and Talks

08/2023

 

Queer (Second) Cities, University of Surrey/University of Freiburg, in cooperation with ALUS (Association of Literary Urban Studies)

Topic: “Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel: Displacement and Queer Belonging on a Dying Planet”

08/2023

 

 

Disruptive Imaginations, Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden

Topic: “Gendered Futures, Future Genders: Trans Imaginations”

 

06/2023

 

 

LitCult Colloquium, University of Freiburg

Topic: “Trans Future Fictions”

 

02/2023

 

 

Gender_Queer* Lectures, Regenbogenreferat des AStA, University of Freiburg

Topic: “Sybille Schwarz und der queere Petrarkismus”

 

06/2022

 

 

Zukunftsentwürfe in der Populärkultur, Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik, University of Freiburg

Topic: “Posthuman Anxieties in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina

 

02/2022

 

 

MasterVision, University of Bremen

Topic: “‘No Pride in Police’: Mapping the Debate Surrounding Uniformed Police Marching in Pride Parades in the English-Speaking Context”

 

04/2021

 

Narratives of Body and Mind, ACCELS, RWTH Aachen

Topic: “Embodied Being and Non-Being in FRANK3N5T31N (2015)”

PUBLICATIONS


10/2021



“‘I live with doubleness’: Non-Binary Gender Identity and Othering in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story,” Alluvium, Vol. 9, No. 6 (2021). Web.

 

Upcoming

 

 

“From Gothic Heroines to Monstrous Prom Queens: Gender Horror in Dracula and Jennifer’s Body,” Subversion and Transgression through the Unspeakable: Perspectives on Queerness and Gender in the Gothic. ed. Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. Publication date TBA.

 

Upcoming

 

 

“Embodied Being and Non-Being in Bernard Rose’s Frankenstein (2015),” Poetics of Disturbances: Narratives of Non-Normative Bodies and Minds. ed. Jarmila Mildorf et al. Brill. Publication date TBA. Narratives and Mental Health.

 

Upcoming

 

“Gynoid Futures and Posthuman Anxieties in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina,” book title TBA, ed. Michael Fischer and Markus Tauschek. Waxmann Verlag Gmbh. Publication date TBA. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik.

 

Editorial Work

08/2022

Guest Editor: Alluvium (open access scholarly journal dedicated to 21st-century writing and 21st-century approaches to the literary canon)

 

Teaching Experience


04/2023 –

06/2023

 

Teaching Fellowship
University College Freiburg, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Awarded a Teaching Fellowship fund for the course “Visual Anthropology and Documentary Film,” an online seminar for students from Ukraine in cooperation with the “Freiburger Filmforum Festival of Transcultural Cinema”

04/2023 –

09/2023

Teaching Assignment
English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Teaching seminar course “Posthuman Futures and Science Fiction”

04/2021 –

08/2022

 

Teaching Assistant
University College Freiburg, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Teaching “Culture & History” with Dr. Plumley

 

05/2019 –

03/2021

Teaching Assistant
English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Teaching “Introduction to Literary Studies” with Profs. Drs. Lemke, Hochbruck, Lethbridge

 

Workshops

06/2023

 

 

 

“LGBTQ+ Recht und Gerechtigkeit”
Arbeitskreis für feministische Theorie und Praxis Freiburg

Leading an academic workshop and discussion group on LGBTQ+ justice for the event series “PROTEST – Wem gehört die Straße? Feministische Sichtweisen auf Protest(formen)”

 

10/2022

09/2023

 

“Trans*Bodywork für TIN”
Aufgeklärt?! Aktionswoche sexuelle Bildung, Freiburg

Leading a dance education workshop for trans, inter, and non-binary people focussing on gendered embodiment and body work

07/2022

 

 

“3rd BOX Workshop”
Ludwigsburg Theatre

Leading a five-day dance education workshop for adults

Academic Service and Administration


Mentoring

10/2021 –

02/2022

International University Mentoring Program
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

10/2021

10/2020

First Semester Mentoring
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

10/2020 –

02/2021

M. A. Mentoring Program
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

 

Committee Work

11/2022 – 11/2024

 

Committee for the 34th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies
English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

11/2020 – 01/2022

Appointment committee for a tenure track professorship
English Department, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg