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Susen Halank, M.A.

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. American Studies
  7. Team
  8. Susen Halank, M.A.
  9. Publications and Conference Presentations

Susen Halank, M.A.

Edited Volumes

  • “‘I count my hopes’: Humanities and Narrating the Environmental Crisis” in (E-co)nnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change (in Arbeit)
  • Lützelberger, Florian and Katrin Betz (in collaboration with Susen Halank). Old & New. Contributions to the XXXVI Forum Junge Romanistik in Bamberg. AVM, 2024.

Essays in Scholarly Journals

  • “‘[A] curious creature’?: Dickinson and/in Popular Culture” in Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies(COPAS), vol. 26, no. 1, October 2025, pp. 8–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.402
  • "'[A] soul’s release': Confessional Modes in Elizabeth Bishop’s Emotional Correspondence." Bishop–Lowell Studies, vol. 4, November 2024, pp. 60–81. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/bishoplowellstud.4.0060
  • "Reprint, Revise, Rethink, Rewrite: (Digitally) Revising Elizabeth Bishop’s Manuscripts“ in Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Literaris XXX: Studia epistolographica: la carta como material filológico (in progress)
  • "'Is it stupid to want my children to be happy?': Discourses of Motherhood and Caretaking in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Quicksand." Gender Forum: Early Career Researchers X (in progress). 

Reviews

Miscellaneous

  • "Von Menschenrechten zu Bürgerrechten und von Malcom Little zu Malcom X.” Anno 25. Das Magazin der Medienjubil?en. Ed. Markus Behmer (in progress)
  • "Let them be Sea-Captains.’” Anno 25. Das Magazin der Medienjubil?en. Ed. Markus Behmer (in progress)
  • ?'No coward soul is mine.‘“(22.5 MB) Anno 23. Das Magazin der Medienjubil?en. Edited by Markus Behmer, Safner 2023, pp. 160-161.
  • ?Mary Wollstonecraft: Einst sozial ge?chtet – heute Rollenvorbild."(48.4 MB) Anno 22. Das Magazin der Medienjubil?en. Edited by Markus Behmer and Vera Katzenberger, Safner 2022.

Conference Presentations, Guest Lectures and Talks

  • (forthcoming) 3/2026: Stuck In the Middle? Fluid Masculinities in Trans Life Writing”, Conference presentation during the 57th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA), Gannon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • (forthcoming) 03/2026: “‘Prosaic Foundations’: Women’s Epistolary Practices as Radical Spaces”, Conference presentation during the 57th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA), Gannon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • (forthcoming) 11/2025: “Combined Eco-Narratives: Literary Studies and Environmental Engagement”, Conference presentation during the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), Leipzig University.
  • 07/2025: “‘In sunshine or storm’: Dickinson’s Epistolary Weatherworlds”, Conference presentation during the Critical Institute of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 07/2025: “‘The ceaseless flight of the seasons’: Dickinson’s Weatherworld and Epistolary Poetics”, Conference presentation during the Annual Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 07/2025: “‘In sunshine or storm’: Dickinson’s Epistolary Weatherworlds”, Conference presentation during the Critical Institute of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 03/2025: “‘A dissembling Wheel’: Emily Dickinson’s Remediated Poems.” Conference presentation during the 56th Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA), La Salle University Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • 11/2024: "‘A Curious Creature’?: Dickinson and/in Popular Culture." Conference presentation during the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), FAU Erlangen.
  • 09/2024: "Reprint, Revise, Rethink, Rewrite: (Digitally) Revising Elizabeth Bishop’s Manuscripts." Conference presentation during 1st Congreso Internacional: Los Materiales de la Filología (archivos, epistolarios y cultura libresca), Universitat de València.
  • 03/2024: "A Poem’s Second Life: Correspondence as Enlarged Poetry in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century US." Conference presentation during the HCA Spring Academy 2024 for American Studies (Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics and Religion), University of Heidelberg.
  • 12/2023: Participation in the post-performance discussion on ecocriticism with dramaturg Armin Breidenbach as part of the production H?nsel & Greta & the Big Bad Witch at the ETA Hoffmann Theater.
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