Curriculum Vitae PD Dr. Philipp Löffler

I. ACADEMIC INSTITUTION/INSTITUTSADRESSE: University of Heidelberg, English Department Kettengasse 12, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Office: Room 317 E-mail: philipp.loeffler@as.uni-heidelberg.de Phone: 06221-542837 II. DEGREES/ABSCHLÜSSE: Venia Legendi für das Fach Amerikanistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, University of Heidelberg Dr. Phil. (summa cum laude), University of Heidelberg Magister Artium (with distinction, 1,0), University of Tübingen Master of Arts, Washington University, Saint Louis III. EDUCATION/WISSENSCHAFTLICHER WERDEGANG: 2011 2018: University of Heidelberg, Habilitation, American Studies 2009-2011: University of Heidelberg, Dissertation, American Studies 2007-2009: University of Mainz, Dissertation, American Studies 2004-2005: Washington University, Saint Louis, M.A. Program, German and Comparative Literature 2001-2006: University of Tübingen, M.A. Program, American Studies, German Literature, Rhetoric IV. EMPLOYMENT/LEHRTÄTIGKEIT: April 2011 - Present: University of Heidelberg, English Department, Assistant Professor January 2012 - July 2012: University of Washington, Seattle, English Department, Visiting Assistant Professor 2009 - March 2011: University of Heidelberg, English Department, Junior Faculty Member (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) July - September 2009: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York (DAAD) 2007-2009: University of Mainz/Germersheim, English Department, Junior Faculty Member (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) 4

2006-2007: University of Tübingen, English Department, Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) 2004-2005: Washington University Saint Louis, German Department, Teaching Assistant V. ADVISORY POSITIONS/DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES/AUFGABEN UND FUNKTIONEN AM LEHRSTUHL 2013-Present: Editorial Assistant Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2010-Present: Organizer of the English Department s annual public lecture series (studium generale) 2009-Present: Permanent Committee Member and Reviewer for the North America Exchange Programs at Heidelberg University 2009-Present: B.A. and M.A. (Co)Examiner VI. Teaching/Lehre: University of Heidelberg (2009-2018) Vorlesungen: Key Concepts in Cultural Studies (recurrent with Prof Vera Nünning and PD Peterfy, Ringvorlesung: Literary History (organizer, recurrent) Dr. Hauptseminare: Literary Naturalism in the US (with Prof. Leypoldt), American Literary Realism, Literary Regionalism and the Turn to Genre Fiction, Romantic Poetry Proseminare: Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Romanticism, Race, Racism and American Literature, Henry James and US Literary Realism, The American Short Story, James Bond 007 and the Cold War, The American Renaissance, Race Relations in the US, 1865-1965, Kate Chopin, Nature Writing from the Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century Key Texts in American Romanticism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Uses of Literature, The Gilded Age: History, Politics, Literature, The Fireside Poets, The Historical Novel,: American Literary Naturalism, Theories of American Studies, Toni Morrison, Aesthetic Education, American Romanticism: Poetry, American Fiction after 1945, American Literature in the Early Republic, Wilderness and the Frontier in American Cultural History, From Babe Ruth to Underworld: The Cultural Logic of American Baseball, 20 th -Century American Poetry and Poetics, Herman Melville and American Romanticism, Mark Twain, The Post-War American Counter-Culture: Texts and Contexts (1945-1975), Introduction to 20 th -Century American Drama 5

Übung: Fundamentals of Research and Writing (recurrent) University of Washington, Seattle (2012) English 355: Writing History in American Literary Culture, 1945-2000 English 535: American Transcendentalism: History, Philosophy, Politics University of Mainz/Germersheim (2007-2009) Hauptseminare: Historical Fiction - Fictitious History (with Prof. Leypoldt) Proseminare: Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Romanticism, Democratic Vistas in American Cultural History, Theories of Literary Authorship Übung: Grammar I University of Tübingen (2006-2007) Proseminare: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature), American after the End of the Cold War VII. Publications/Veröffentlichungen: Books & Editorial Work/Bücher 1. Publishing Scoundrels: American Literature and the Invention of Professional Authorship, 1790-1915 (in preparation). 2. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Practice, Teaching, Model Interpretations. Philipp Löffler, Vera Nünning, Margit Peterfy. Berlin: DeGruyter (2020). 3. Handbook of American Romanticism. Ed. Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, and Jan Stieverman. Berlin De Gruyter (2019). 4. Reading the Canon: Literary History in the 21 st Century. Ed. Philipp Löffler. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 5. Reading Practices. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 31. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Günter Leypoldt, and Philipp Löffler. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2015. 6. Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. 6

7. Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature. Special Issue Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.2. (2012). Ed. Clemens Spahr and Philipp Löffler. Journal Contributions/Aufsätze in Zeitschriften 1. German Contributions: Annual Report. American Literary Scholarship 2016 (1): 375-383. 2. Introduction: Reading in the Age of Academic Literary Studies. Reading Practices. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Ed. Vol 31. Winfried Fluck, Günter Leypoldt, and Philipp Löffler. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2015. 1-11. 3. Identity Fiction and the Rise of Theory. In: Reading Practices. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 31. Ed. Winfried Fluck, Günter Leypoldt, and Philipp Löffler. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2015. 149-167. 4. German Contributions: Annual Report. American Literary Scholarship 2015 (1): 415-419. 5. From Cold War Politics to Post-Cold War Fiction: Philipp Roth s I Married a Communist and the Problem of Cultural Pluralism. College Literature. 42.2 (Fall 2015): 597-618. 6. Longing on a Large Scale Is What Makes History: The Uses of Baseball and the Problem of Story-Telling in Don DeLillo s Underworld. NINE. A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 23.1 (Spring 2015): 91-109. 7. Introduction: Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature (with Clemens Spahr). In: Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Clemens Spahr and Philipp Löffler. Special Issue Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.2 (2012): 161-176. 8. Language is the House We Live in: Language-Centeredness and the Limits of Political Activism in Post-War American Poetry (1950-1980). In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57.4 (2009): 355-374. Invited Book Chapters and Essays/Sammelbandbeiträge 1. The Sociology and Institutions of Contemporary American Fiction. The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts Literary Developments Critical Analyses. Ed. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (forthcoming 2019). 2. Alltag und Exzess: William Carlos Williams, F.Scott Fitzgerald und der amerikanische Modernismus in den Zwischenkriegsjahren. 1917: Einbruch/Aufbruch der Moderne in Literatur, Musik und den Künsten. Leipzig: Schriften der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (forthcoming 2019). 3. The Best Battlefield Scene of All Times: The Feeling of History and the Problem of Realism. In: Rhetoric of Evidence. Epistemic Models and Rhetorical Practice in Science, Education, and Culture. Ed. Olaf Kramer. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press (forthcoming 2019). 7

4. Populäre Kulturen Made in the USA: Zur Erfolgsgeschichte amerikanischer Fernsehserien im 21. Jahrhundert. Kulturgeographie USA Moderne Landeskunde. Ed. Werner Gamerith und Ulrike Gerhard. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2017. 275-282. 5. The Practice of Reading and the Need for Literary Value. Reading the Canon: Literary History in the 21 st Century. Ed. Philipp Löffler. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 1-22. 6. Zwischen Pragmatismus und Heilsgeschichte: Zur Funktion der Straße in der amerikanischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. On the Road Über die Straße. Ed. Erik Wegerhoff. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2016. 87-113. 7. Philip Roth s American Pastoral. In: The American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Timo Müller. De Gruyter Handbooks in English and American Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. 389-401. 8. Aliens in America: Steven Spielberg, Toni Morrison, and the Ends of Postmodernism. In: The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary American Novel. Ed. Tim Lanzendörfer. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 17-35. 9. Expert Authority: Postwar American Literature and the Production of Intellectual Life. In: Emergent Forms of Life in Contemporary English and American Fiction. Ed. Michael Basseler, Daniel Hartley, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 97-118. 10. Thoreau s Economy: Walden, Homestead Politics, and the Use of Land in 19 th Century American Culture. In: Rural America. Ed. Antje Kley and Heike Paul. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 37-52. 11. Beat Poetry and the Cold War. In: Handbook of American Poetry: Contexts Developments Readings. Ed. René Dietrich, Oliver Scheiding, and Clemens Spahr. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 297-310. 12. Was ist eine literarische Epoche? Literaturgeschichte, literarischer Wandel und der Praxisbegriff in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. In: Praxeologie. Ed. Friederike Elias, Albert Franz, Henning Murmann und Ulrich Weiser. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 73-97. 13. The Possibility to Make Worlds: Self-Creation, Lukàcsean Aesthetics, and Richard Powers Plowing the Dark. In: Ideas of Order. Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Ed. Antje Kley and Jan Kucharzewski. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 93-120. 14. Lost and Found: The Challenge of Teaching 9/11 Poetry. In: Learning 9/11: Schlüsselkompetenzen und ihre didaktische Umsetzung im kulturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht an der Hochschule. Ed. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Stefanie Schäfer. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. 177-198. 15. Zwischen Multikulturalismus und sozialer Gerechtigkeit: Zum Identitätsdiskurs der Globalisierung. In: Kulturtheorien im Dialog: Neuorientierung in der kulturwissenschaftlichen Text- Kontext Debatte. Ed. Oliver Scheidung, Frank Obenland and Clemens Spahr. Berlin: Akademieverlag, 2011. 137-156. 8

16. The Trouble with Ethnicity: Iconizing the Negro Artist Miles Davis. In: American Cultural Icons and the Production of Representative Lives. Ed. Bernd Engler and Günter Leypoldt. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 241-258. Book Reviews/Rezensionen: 1. Walter Benn Michaels. The Beauty of a Social Problem. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.3 (2017). Web. 2. Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt (eds.): The Cambridge History of American Poetry. In: Anglia 135.2 (2017): 404-407. 3. Jennifer Ashton (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945. In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 62.2 (2014): 173-176. 4. Birte Christ et al. (eds.): American Studies/Shifting Gears. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.3 (2013): 507-509. 5. David Boersema. Pragmatism and Reference. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.2 (2011): 274-276. VIII. FELLOWSHIPS AND STIPENDS/FÖRDERUNG: 1. Extern: Land Baden-Württemberg: Dissertation Fellowship Landesgraduiertenförderung-Baden-Württemberg (2007). Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Forschungsstipendium, Columbia University, New York (July-Sept. 2009) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Konferenzförderung Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature, together with PD Dr. Clemens Spahr (2011) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Konferenzförderung Acquired Taste. Reading in the Age of Academic Literary Studies, together with Prof. Günter Leypoldt (2013) University of Chicago & University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): Fellow at the Newberry Seminar of American Literature (Kenneth Warren and Walter Benn Michaels) (2016) 2. Intern: Graduate Academy, University of Heidelberg: Travel Grant, New York, Columbia University (2009). 9

Heidelberg Center for American Studies: Ghaemian Travel Grant, Washington, D.C. (2014) Modern Languages Faculty, University of Heidelberg: Travel Grant, Stanford University (2017); UCLA (2018) IX. PAPER PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES / VORTRÄGE: 1. Gilded Age Literature and the Rise of Realism (Ringvorlesung British and American Literary History, University of Heidelberg, November 2018) 2. Is there a Politics of Reading (Conference Paper, The Return of Materialism, University of Mainz, November 2018) 3. Identität und Erinnerung: Zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels an Aleida und Jan Assmann (Gastvortrag, Evangelische Fachschule für Sozialpädagogik, Karlsruhe, Octorber 2018) 4. Consequences of Academic Reading? Teachers Training, the German Public High School System, and Tom Franklin (Conference Paper, Annual Convention of the German Association of American Studies, Berlin, May 2018) 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Professionalization of the Arts (Conference Paper, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, San Francisco, May 2018) 6. Publishing Scoundrels: Henry James, Paul Auster, and the Ethics of Editorship (Conference Paper, American Comparative Literature Association, UCLA, March 2018) 7. Alltag und Exzess: F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams und der amerikanische Modernismus in den Zwischenkriegsjahren (Conference Paper, Zeitenwende 1917: Einbruch/Aufbruch der Moderne, Zentrum für Zeitgeschichte, Leipzig, November 2017) 8. American Romanticisms (Ringvorlesung Introduction to British and Americn Literary History, University of Heidelberg, November 2017) 9. The Longfellow-Puzzle: Book Production, Popularity, Peer Recognition (Conference Paper, Annual Convention of the German American Studies Association, University of Hannover, June 2017) 10. Learning the Nation: George Bancroft and the Liberal Arts Idea (Conference Paper, Annual Convention of the American Literature Association, Boston, May 2017) 11. Serial Authority: Quality TV and the Novel (Conference Paper, Novel Institutions, Stanford University, May 2017) 12. Deconstruction, (Ringvorlesung: Theory in Action: How Literary and Cultural Theory Works, University of Heidelberg, December 2016) 13. Aesthetic Experience and the Consumption of Serial Art: Quality-T.V. vs. the Novel, (Conference Paper, Novel Seeming Goods: The Futures of Novel in Anglophone Literature, University of Mainz, September 2016) 10

14. Gut Feelings ca. 1850: Hester Prynne and Ellen Montgomery in the Social Bios, (Annual Convention of the German American Studies Association, University of Osnabrück, May 2016) 15. Charlotte Perkins Gilman s Suggestion on the Negro Problem and the Practice of Literary Naturalism, (Gastvortrag, University of Erlangen, May 2016) 16. Herman Melville, Literary Value, and the Commodification of the Book, (Vortrag im Rahmen des Newberry Seminars of American Literature, Chicago, April 2016) 17. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a Schoolroom Poet, (Gastvortrag, University of Frankfurt, November 2015) 18. Literary History and the Problem of Periodization, (Ringvorlesung: Literary History from the Middle Ages to Postmodernity and Beyond, University of Heidelberg, October 2015) 19. Of Mapping and Guessing: Thomas Pynchon s Mason & Dixon and the 1990s, (Conference After Postmodernism, University of Mainz, September 2015) 20. After Literary History: 21 st Century American Literature and the Idea of the Contemporary, (Gastvortrag, University of Bonn, July 2015) 21. Authenticity and Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Culture, (Gastvortrag, University of Freiburg, June 2015) 22. Professional Reading, ( Contemporary Literature and the Culture of the School, Internationals Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, June 2015) 23. Transatlantic Primitivism: The Poetry of Philip Freneau and William Cullen Bryant, (Annual Convention of the German American Studies Association, University of Bonn, May 2015). 24. The Neoliberal House on Mango Street, ( Neoliberalism and American Literature, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, February 2015). 25. Zwischen Heilsgeschichte und Pragmatismus: Zur Funktion der Straße in der amerikanischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, ( On the Road/Über die Straße, Conference Paper, TU München, January 2015). 26. Jack Kerouac and the Myth of an American Beat Literature, (Ringvorlesung: Introduction to English and American Literary History, University of Heidelberg, January 2015). 27. A Truly American Literature: Longfellow, Emerson, and Literary Leadership, (Gastvortrag, University of Mainz/Germersheim, December 2014). 28. Pragmatism and the Study of Culture II, (Workshop with Dr. Habil. Michael Basseler, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen, November 2014). 29. Negative Education: Herman Melville and the Problem of Reading, (Conference Paper at the Annual Convention of the German American Studies Association, University of Würzburg, June 2014). 30. Aliens in America: Spielberg, Morrison, and the Ends of Postmodernism, (Annual Convention of the American Literature Association, Washington D.C., May 2014). 11

31. Aesthetic Specialists: Postwar American Literature and the Production of Intellectual Life, ( Emergent Forms of Life, Conference Paper, University of Giessen, April 2014). 32. The Best Battlefield Scene of All Times : Saving Private Ryan and the Question of Historical Realism, (The Rhetorics of Evidence, Conference Paper, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 2014). 33. Pragmatism and the Study of Culture, (Workshop with Dr. Habil. Michael Basseler, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen, January 2014). 34. The Historical Novel, (Ringvorlesung: Texts, Forms, Structures A History of Genres, University of Heidelberg, November 2013). 35. Identity Fiction and the Rise of Theory, ( Acquired Taste, Conference Paper, Heidelberg, June 2013). 36. Acquired Taste. Reading and the Uses of Literature in the Age of Academic Literary Studies, (Conference together with Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, June 2013). 37. Thoreau s Economy: Walden, Homestead Politics, and the Use of Land in 19 th Century American Culture, (Conference Paper at the Annual Convention of the German American Studies Association, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, June 2013). 38. The New Historicism, (Ringvorlesung: Introduction to Literary Theory, University of Heidelberg, November 2012). 39. Language is the house we live in: Language-Centeredness and the Problem of Collectivity in Postwar American Poetry, (Gastvortrag, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2012). 40....and the sour reek was fine and right. : Authenticty in Spielberg, Morrison and DeLillo, (Gastvortrag, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2012). 41. Was ist eine Literarische Epoche? Literaturgeschichte und Literarischer Wandel aus Praxeologischer Perspektive, (Conference Paper, Praxeologie, University of Heidelberg, December 2011). 42. Representations of the West in 19 th Century American Literature, (Ringvorlesung: Literary Regions, University of Heidelberg, November 2010). 43. Fashionable Blackness: Miles Davis and the Post-War American Counter Culture, (Gastvortrag, University of Jena, November 2011). 44. Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature, (Conference Organization together with Jun. Prof. Dr. Clemens Spahr, University of Mainz, July 2011). 45. Turning Point 9/11? Trends and Transitions in Public Intellectual Discourse, Cultural Theory and Contemporary Fiction, (Workshop at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies together with Tobias Endler und Maria Diaconou, June 2011). 46. The Possibility to Make Worlds: Self-Creation, Lukàcsean Aesthetics and Richard Powers Plowing the Dark, (Conference Paper, Ideas of Order. Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers, University of Erlangen, November 2010). 12

47. The Literary Canon: Theories, History, (Ringvorlesung: Key Concepts in Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Heidelberg, November 2010). 48. Teaching 9/11 Poetry, (Conference Paper, Learning 9/11: Schlüsselkompetenzen und ihre didaktische Umsetzung im kulturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht an der Hochschule, University of Heidelberg, September 2010). 49. American Postmodernism, (Ringvorlesung: Englische und Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte at the University of Heidelberg, Januar 2010). 50. Vom Nutzen des Selbst: Identität zwischen Multikulturalismus und Sozialer Gerechtigkeit, (Conference Paper, Gradnet Conference: Turns, Trends und Theorien in den Kulturwissenschaften, University of Erlangen, November 2009). 51. Multitudes Within: The Poetry of Bruce Andrews, Authorship and the Turn to Language. University of Tübingen (Conference Paper, University of Tübingen, December 2005). 52. Concepts of Allegory: Hegel and Benjamin, (Annual Graduate Student Conference, Washington University Saint Louis, April 2005). last updated: Feb. 2019 13