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Martina Pfeiler has been working and teaching in the American Studies program at TU Dortmund Universität since 2002, after graduating with an M.A. in British and American Studies and Geography (Lehramt) from Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, Austria. In 2003 she published the book Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets (Narr Verlag 2003). In the academic year 2005/2006 she taught German as a guest professor at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, USA, while doing research for her doctoral thesis at Emory University and Georgia State University. In 2008 she completed her doctorate summa cum laude with a thesis entitled Poetry Goes Intermedia: U.S.-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive (Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2010). In the fall 2009 she taught in the American Studies program at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Martina Pfeiler is currently working on a new book dealing with the creative reception of Moby-Dick. She is part of the faculty and coordination of the International Ph.D. Program in American Studies: Transnational/Transatlantic Studies.
Martina Pfeiler's research interests involve the intersections of American Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. Since 2000 she has extensively researched U.S. poetry slams, poetry films, concrete poetry, as well as electronic poetry. In her current research Martina Pfeiler is focusing on Herman Melville and the creative reception of Moby-Dick in transnational contexts. She is interested in how U.S. literary works have been (co-)emerging in all kinds of print and electronic media throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, in particular texts from Romanticism (Hawthorne, Poe, Melville), the Beat Generation (most notably Allen Ginsberg), and American popular culture. She is also interested in the representation of the 1970s in literature, film and music. For Martina Pfeiler, continuing to learn how to critically engage with literary texts in a digital age is just as crucial as understanding the contrasting or subversive viewpoints of older texts that continue to be made relevant in the present by creatively shedding new light on U.S.-American culture and one's own.
In her current book project Martina Pfeiler is dealing with the creative reception of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick in Germany as well as in global/transnational contexts. (Habilitationsprojekt)
