Team > Selina Foltinek, B.A.

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Amerikastudien/ Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen

Selina Foltinek is a Ph.D. candidate and a research associate in the DFG-funded project The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in late 19th and early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture (2019–2022)

Academic CV 

• July 2019 –: PhD Project "Knowledge and Agency in Queer Women’s Semi-Autobiographical Narratives (1859-1987)" (Supervisors: Dr. Katrin Horn, Universität Bayreuth; Prof. Dr. Kley, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Apr 2019 – September 2022: Research Assistant in Dr. Katrin Horn’s DFG-funded PostDoc-Project “The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in late 19th and early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture” at University of Bayreuth, Website and DH project: ArchivalGossip.com (project cultivation support by Recovery Hub for American Women Writers)
  
• Jan – Feb 2022: Duke University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship; Duke University, Durham, NC; Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS), Sponsored by Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
  
• Apr 2020 – Sept 2020: Lecturer at the University of Bayreuth
  
• Oct 2012 – Mar 2019: Staatsexamen (Erste Staatsprüfung LAG)/Teacher’s Degree in Secondary Education at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (English, History, Education, Social Sciences)
• Apr 2017 – Mar 2019: Student assistant at the Department of English and American Studies, Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
• Feb 2018: B.A. in English and History; Thesis: "The Elite College as Social Microcosm in Campus Narratives of the 20^th and 21^st Century"
• Aug 2015 – June 2016: Fulbright Teaching Assistant at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, U.S.

Workshops and Conferences

• “Nineteenth-Century Tattle Tales: Tracing Gossip in Archives and Databases” (with Dr. Katrin Horn), Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg, Germany, Jan 26, 2022
  
• Co-Organizer of the International Conference “Speculative Endeavors – Cultures of Knowledge and Capital in the Long Nineteenth Century,” University of Bayreuth, Germany, Oct 21-23, 2021; Presentation: "'Interesting to the Ladies': How Foreign Correspondents Made Gossip a Profession" (with Dr. Katrin Horn)
  
• “Creative Transgressions of Heteronormativity: Negotiating Agency of Queer Female Authors and Their Aesthetics,” ASA (“Creativity Within Revolt”), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct 7-10, 2021
• Commentary on Digital Humanities Tools and Methods, Workshop: “Digitale Werkzeuge und Methoden zur Textanalyse,” University of Bayreuth, Oct 4, 2021
• Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, July 12-15, 2021
• Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Summer School at the University of Lausanne, June 29-July 2, 2021
• Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, NH, United States, June 21-26, 2021; Presentation: Presentation: “Proto-Intersectional World-Making and Queer of Color Repair in Audre Lorde’s Zami and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands
• Sexuality Summer School, Manchester, UK, May 24-28, 2021
• “Postcritical Pleasures? Queere Literaturwissenschaft zwischen Dekonstruktion und kreativem Potenzial,“ The Pleasures of Studying Literature (Internationale Werkstatt), Uiversity of Bielefeld, Germany, May 28, 2021
• “ArchivalGossip.com: American Studies between Digital Humanities and Archival Research” (together with Dr. Katrin Horn), Research Colloquium American Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Antje Kley), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 18, 2021
• “Queer Horizons of Female Same-Sex Desire in a Diachronic Perspective,” Sexuality in History. An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, University of Cologne, Germany, March 16, 2021
• Co-Organizer of the Workshop “Borderland Encounters: Identities, Bodies, and Emotions,” Bodies in the Americas: Subjectivities and Identification in Times of Polarization supported by Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Americas (RIIA) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Feb 18, 2021
• “Cushmania: Reconstructing Queerness and Celebrity of a Nineteenth-Century Actress” (with Dr. Katrin Horn), Digital Humanities and Gender History, Jena, Germany (online, Zoom), Feb 5, 2021
• Co-Organizer of the Workshop “Auto/Biography and Gender: Fact, Fake, Fiction,” University of Bayreuth, Germany, Oct 1-2, 2020; Presentation: “Semi-autobiographische Erzähltexte über gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen zwischen Frauen zwischen 1859 und 1987 : Handlungsräume und Genre-Fragen”
  
• “19th and 20th F/F Novels: Creative Revolt against Heteronormativity,” Reform Movements in US History, Bad Bevensen, Germany, Feb 15, 2020
• “A Phenomenological and Postcritical Approach to Female Same-Sex Narratives,” Carving out a Space for the History of Emotions, University College Dublin, Ireland, Jan 18, 2020
• “The Creative Potential of Literature: A Postcritical Approach to Narratives about Female Same-Sex Relationships,” Challenges to the Post-Truth Era (Postgraguate Forum of the German Association for American Studies), University of Passau, Germany, Dec 5, 2019
• “Making the ‘Impossible Woman’ Visible: 19^th and 20^th-Century Literary Imagination of American Non-Heteronormative Discourses,” In/visible: Representation, Discourse, Practices, Dispositifs, University of Palermo, Italy, Oct 22, 2019
• International Summer School "Reflections on Code," Akademie der Wissenschaften Mainz, Germany, Oct 8-11, 2019
• PhD Project Presentation, American Studies PhD Colloquium in Bamberg and in Bayreuth, Germany
• DARIAH-DE Workshop "Digital tools and methods for historical research," Leibniz-Institute of Eurpean History (IEG), Mainz, Germany, Sept 25, 2019
• "The Groves of Academe: College as Social Microcosm in Campus Narratives of the 20^th and 21^st Century," Seminar Pedagogy and Institutions: Narratives of Education and Self-Improvement, FAU Erlangen, Germany, June 3, 2019

Grants

• 2022: Frauenförderung University of Bayreuth (Equal Opportunities Fund for Women in Academia), Nachwuchsförderung University of Bayreuth (Equal Opportunities Funding Young Female Scholars)
  
• 2021: BAA (Bavarian American Academy) Fellowship for the Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College Summer Institute
  
• 2020 (postponed to 2022): Duke University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship; Duke University, Durham, NC; Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS), Sponsored by Bavarian American Academy (BAA)
  
• 2019, 2020: Nachwuchsförderung University of Bayreuth (Equal Opportunities Funding Young Female Scholars), Travel Grant
• 2015/16: Fulbright Grants (FLTA Program)

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Amerikastudien/ Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen

Research Interests

Gender and Queer Studies, Postcritique, Knowledge Production, American Literature of the 19^th and 20^th Century

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Amerikastudien/ Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen

Publications

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Amerikastudien/ Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen

Selina Foltinek, B.A.
Research associate and PhD candidate

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Building: Zapf Gebäude - Haus 1 Room: 1.2.33 95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 55-4758
E-mail: selina.foltinek@uni-bayreuth.de