Dr. Eva Gruber
Assistant Professor (Akademische Oberrätin) for North American Studies
Room: H 234
Phone: +49 7531 88 2440
E-Mail: eva.gruber@uni-konstanz.de
Office hours:
Monday, 11:30 - 12:30 in room H 234
or online by individual appointment (please contact me via email)
Office Hours during the semester break spring 2024:
Monday, February 19, 11.00-12.00, H 234
Monday, March 4, 11.00-12.00, H 234
Monday, March 18, 11.00-12.00, H234
plus online by invididual appointment.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Current
Associate Professor (akademische Oberrätin) of North American Literature and Culture, Department of Literature, Arts and Media Studies, University of Konstanz
2010-2016
Lecturer for North American Literature and Culture, Department of Literature, Arts and Media Studies, University of Konstanz (on maternity leave 06/2010-06/2011 and 08/2014-08/2015)
2004-2010
Assistant Professor of North American Literature and Culture, Department of Literature, Arts and Media Studies, University of Konstanz
Education and Qualifications
2009
Baden-Württemberg Certificate for Teaching in Post-Secondary Education
2006
Dr. Phil., University of Constance, supervisor Prof. Dr. R. M. Nischik
Ph.D. thesis on “Humor in Native American Literature: Reimagining Nativeness”
2001
Teaching Degree (1. Staatsexamen) University of Constance / University of Guelph, English (major) and Biology (major)
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
02/2010
Faculty Research Grant by the Canadian government for research fellowship at the University of Guelph, Ontario
10/2009-05/2010
Research Fellow, Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration,” University of Constance
09/2007
Scholarship for the Fulbright American Studies Institute 2007 in San Francisco
08/2003-12/2003
Research Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), research fellow at the Department of American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson
08/2002-07/2004
PhD Scholarship, Baden-Württemberg Post-Graduate Funding Program
2001
VEUK-Award fort the best M.A. thesis and best degree in the Department of Literature
Cooperations
2017 -
Transfer and teaching cooperation with IndigenIous: The North American Film Festival, funded, in collaboration with the Universities of Bremen and Tübingen
2024
Summer School "Remembrance as Reconciliation: the Dark Histories of Canada and Germany," in Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jade Ferguson and students from the University of Guelph, at the University of Konstanz
Research Interests
- Native North American Literature (and Film)
- The Novel of Passing
- Race in American Literature After 2000
- CanLit
- Literature and Food
Publications
Current courses
Title | Type |
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Trauma Narratives | Seminar |
Remembrance as Reconciliation: the Dark Histories of Canada and Germany | Seminar |