Christian Klöckner, M.A.

Lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiter)

Institutional Mailing Address
Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie
Nordamerikastudienprogramm
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 5
53113 Bonn

Office Phone & E-Mail
Phone: 0228 – 731879
Fax: 0228 – 737948
E-Mail: c.kloeckneruni-bonn.de

Office Hours during the semester break
Day/Time: Tue, 27 July, 3-4; Tue, 10 August, 3-4; Tue, 31 August, 3-4;
and by appointment via email
Location/Room No.: Walter-Flex-Str. 3, Room 329

Education

2005-2009: Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bonn
2007-2008: Visiting Fellow, English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
October – December 2006: Research stay in New York (funded by the “Ambassador’s Award” of the U.S. Embassy in Germany)
2004: Magister Artium North American Studies, Modern History, Economic Policy. Master thesis: “‘3000 some poems disguised as people’ – 9/11 and Poetry: Significations”
2000-2001: DAAD Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
1998-2004: Studies of North American Studies, Modern History, Economics, University of Bonn

Professional Experience

since September 2008: Assistant Professor at the North American Studies Program, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn
since July 2005: Member of Research Group “The Futures of (European) American Studies,” University of Bonn, Germany; funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
January 2008: “American Studies in Germany,” Sixth Conference of the DFG Research Network “The Futures of (European) American Studies”, Co-Organizer with Dr. Simon Wendt, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2004-2007: Project Manager, “Transatlantic Summer Academy (TASA)”, University of Bonn
Winter term 2005-06: Lecturer, North American Studies Program, University of Bonn
2002-2004: Student Assistant, North American Studies Program, University of Bonn
2001-2002: Student Assistant, International Office, University of Bonn

Research Interests

Terrorism and political violence, poetry, theory, discourse analysis, narratology, 20th-century literature, gender studies, education policies. Christian Klöckner is working on a dissertation project that interrogates the aesthetic modes and narrative functions of terror and terrorism in twentieth-century American literature.

Publications

Books and Editions

„Say It“: 9/11 and Poetry. Frankfurt: Lang, 2010. (in preparation)
American Studies/Shifting Gears. Ed. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, and Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010.
Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Christian Kloeckner. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009

Essays

“Race, Poverty, Community: Should American Studies Believe in Obama?” American Studies/Shifting Gears. Ed. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, and Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 419-42.
(co-authored with Birte Christ)“Introduction: What’s in Two Names? From “The Futures of (European) American Studies” to American Studies/Shifting Gears.”American Studies/Shifting Gears. Ed. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, and Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 1-19.
(co-authored with Sabine Sielke) “From ‘Drops – of India’ to ‘Floors / Descending’: Orient and Orientalisms in US-American Poetry and Poetics. Introduction.” Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009. 9-32.
"The Impact of September 11 on the US Study Abroad Market.” An Overview of the US Study Abroad Market. DAAD Bulletin 2003. 14-18.