Susen Halank, M.A.

Edited Volumes

  • 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] 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
  • "'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

Conference Presentations, Guest Lectures and Talks

  • 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 as an expert in ecocriticism in the post-performance discussion with dramaturg Armin Breidenbach as part of the production H?nsel & Greta & the Big Bad Witch at the ETA Hoffmann Theater.
  • 11/2023: "A Soul’s release: Elizabeth Bishop and Loren MacIver – Friendship, Anxiety, and Emotional Correspondence." Conference presentation during the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), Leibniz University Hannover.
  • 07/2023: "'The flowers of speech': an Ecocritical Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Letters.” Conference presentation during the Annual Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Soceity (EDIS), Amherst, MA, USA.
  • 07/2023: "'The flowers of speech': an Ecocritical Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Letters." Conference presentation during the Critical Institute of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Amherst, MA, USA.
  • 04/2022: “To Comprehend a Nectar/Requires Sorest Need“: Emily Dickinson: Letters, Poems, Publication. Guest lecture in the seminar "Emily Dickinson's Poetry" (JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher, University of Cologne).
  • 03/2021: Co-Moderation of the Forum Junge Romanistik.