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Curriculum Vitae Christoph Schaub, M.A. born June 12th 1981 in Bielefeld, Germany Ph.D. Candidate Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Columbia University 319 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Email: [email protected] Major Interests: Aesthetic Experience and Metropolitan Cultures German Literature and Culture since the 19th Century (emphases on working-class literatures, history of the novel, Weimar Culture) Politics of Memory in Post-war Germany Critical Theory (emphases on Frankfurt School, Pierre Bourdieu, feminist and postcolonial epistemologies, intersectional approaches, post-positivist realist thought) Popular Music (emphases on hip hop and techno) Late 20th Century US-American Literature and Culture Languages German (native), English (very good), French (good) Education 09/2009 – present 02/2009 Graduate Student, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Magister Artium, Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin (grade: 1,0 = A) M.A. thesis: Literarische Imaginationen Brooklyns im Rap Mos Defs und in Paul Austers ‚The Brooklyn Follies’ (graded 1,0 = A), advisor: Prof. Dr. Gert Mattenklott. 08/2006 – 05/2007 Non Degree Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature, Emory University Exchange Student (ERASMUS Program), Comparative Literature, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis Studies of Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Modern German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin 10/2004 – 02/2005 10/2002 – 02/2009 Curriculum Vitae Christoph Schaub 1 Stipends / Fellowships 09/2009 – present 09/2006 – 05/2007 09/2006 – 05/2007 Faculty Fellow, Columbia University Travel Grant of German-American Fulbright Commission Graduate Stipend, Graduate School of the Arts & Sciences, Emory University Stipend of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Mobility Stipend of ERASMUS Program 10/2005 – 01/2009 10/2004 – 02/2005 Teaching Experience Summer Term 2009 Summer Term 2008 / Winter Term 2008/09 Winter Term 2005/06 “Einführung in die Cultural Studies: Kultur, Identität, Macht“ (teamtaught with Urs Lindner), Asta-Veranstaltungen, Technische Universität Braunschweig. “Konzeptionen von Macht und Herrschaft am Beispiel der Bildung“ (team-taught with Martin Valenske and Michael Maschke), Projekttuorium (undergraduate course), Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität Berlin. Teaching Assistant: “Einführung in die Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft” (taught by Dr. Esther von der Osten), Peter Szondi Department of General and Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin. Publications Articles and Book-Chapters 4. “Beyond the ‘Hood? Detroit Techno, ‘Underground Resistance,’ and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics,” in: FIAR: Forum for Interamerica Reasearch 2.2 (September 2009). 3. “Mauer durchs Herz. Inszenierungen von Zeitzeug/innen-Wissen im erinnerungspolitischen Diskurs der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen,“ coauthored with Florian Kappeler, in: Inge Stephan and Alexandra Tacke (eds.): NachBilder der Wende, Köln, Weimar, Wien, Böhlau Verlag, 2008, 319-329. 2. “If Black Dante were to meet the Tupac Amaru of Stuttgart’s barrio: Political Poetics and Global Society: Contemporary Rap-Lyrics in the U.S.A. and Germany,“ in: Wilfried Raussert and John Miller Jones (eds.): Traveling Sounds. Music, Migration, and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond, Münster, London, LIT Verlag, 2008, 247-263. 1. “Die Banlieue und das Feuer. Urbaner Raum und ästhetische Selbstbehauptung in den Rap-Lyrics von La Rumeur,“ in: UTOPIEkreativ 189/190 (July/August 2006), 702-708. Reviews 1. Rev. of “Lisa Jandi: ’Vom »roten« zum »braunen« Gürtel? Rechtsextremismus in den Pariser Vorstädten’,“ in: UTOPIEkreativ 194 (December 2006), 1148-1149. Translations Curriculum Vitae Christoph Schaub 2 1. Trans. from English: “Boaventura de Sousa Santos: ‘Denken jenseits des Abgrunds. Von globalen Grenzlinien zu einer Ökologie von Wissensformen,“ in: Urs Lindner et al. (eds.): Philosophieren unter anderen. Beiträge zum Palaver der Menschheit (Festschrift Frieder Wolf), Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2008, 399-431. Short Critical Pieces 3. “Islamistischer Terrorismus und Fiktionalisierung. Literarische Produktion und Ideologie in Romanen von Safran Foer, McEwan und Cleave,“ in Phase2 18 (December 2005), 68-71. 2. “’trying to maintain.’ Hip Hop und Möglichkeiten ästhetischer Praxis,“ in: Phase2 12 (June 2004), 67-69. 1. “Entleerung des Opferbegriffs. Erinnerungspolitische Motive in der Gruppe 47,” coauthored with Alexander Reutlinger, in: Phase2 9 (September 2003), 17-21. Presentations 4. “The Rhetorics of ‘Doppelte Deutsche Diktaturgeschichte’: On the Leveling of Differences between National Socialism and GDR in German Commemorative Practice,” 2009 Annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 28th (upcoming). 3. “Beyond the ‘Hood? Detroit Techno, ‘Underground Resistance,’ and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics,” International Conference “Cornbread and Cuchifritos”: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, May 18th -20th 2009. 2. “Negotiating Artistic Production: Travel Narratives in Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’ and Christoph Ransmayr’s ‘Die Letzte Welt’,” Graduate Conference Literary Odysseys. The Journeys in and of Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 23rd and 24th 2007. 1. “Zwischen kapitalistischer Gegenwart und Utopie: Nichtaffirmative Narration in den Lyrics von Mos Def,“ Undergraduate/Graduate Conference Imaginationen des Kapitalismus, Brecht-Haus, Berlin, November 18th - 20th 2004. Public Scholarship • “Einführung in Rassismus(theorie),” workshop (team-taught with Lotte Arndt), Herrschaftskritisches Sommercamp, NFJ Berlin e.V., August 9th 2009, Lärz (bei Berlin), Germany. Membership in Professional Organizations 2009 – present Modern Language Association Curriculum Vitae Christoph Schaub 3
