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 Summer 2024:

Monday, July 22, 11.30-12.30
Monday, July 29, 11.30-12.30, online
Monday, August 5, 11.30-12.30
Monday, September 16, 11.30-12.30
Monday, September 30, 11.30-12.30

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

Publications

Teaching

Teaching