Stefan Schubert 

I received my BA and MA in American studies from American Studies Leipzig, having graduated in 2011 with an MA thesis on notions of narrativity and interactivity in video games. Since then, I’ve been working on my doctoral thesis, which is intended to equally focus on different aspects of narrativity in the context of popular culture.

My academic interests mostly focus on approaching popular culture (specifically film, TV, video games, the Internet, and other 'new media') with an emphasis on narrativity and textual dynamics. I am particularly invested in examining intermedial connections between, e.g., novels, films, or video games in regard to narrative conventions, strategies of representation, or theories of adaptation. My research focuses especially on the questions of narrative presences and narrative reliability. Likewise, I like to investigate analytic categories like gender and class in terms of how they are textually and narratively represented in different media.

In 2011, I co-organized the conference "American Pornographies: Consumerism, Sensationalism, and Voyeurism in a Global Context" (see website and conference report). Since 2009, I’ve been involved in the publication of ASL’s graduate journal aspeers, both as co-editor and as assistant editor. At ASL, I work as an assistant/secretary for Prof. Dr. Anne Koenen.

Publications and Presentations:

• "Haraway and the Terminator: Challenges and Benefits in Applying Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto' to Science Fiction Films." Approaching Literary and Cultural Theory. 9th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt U, Berlin. 12 Nov. 2010. Presentation.
• With Herrmann, Sebastian M., Ines Krug, Andreas Mooser, Julia Neugebauer, Bailing Qin, Eleonora Ravizza, Franziska Wenk, and Maria Zywietz, eds. aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 3 (2010). Print.
• With Herrmann, Sebastian M., Ines Krug, Andreas Mooser, Julia Neugebauer, Bailing Qin, Eleonora Ravizza, Franziska Wenk, and Maria Zywietz. "Crime and America." Introduction. aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 3 (2010): vii-xxviii. Print.