{"id":10570,"date":"2025-09-01T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:25:07","slug":"prof-dr-sieglinde-lemke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/prof-dr-sieglinde-lemke\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/Lemke-Foto.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Sieglinde Lemke\" class=\"wp-image-10573 size-full\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">University of Freiburg<br>American Studies and Cultural Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Language &amp; Literature)<br>April 2010 &#8211; March 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"[&amp;&gt;*]:bl-relative last:[&amp;&gt;*.bl-absolute]:bl-absolute [&amp;&gt;*]:bl-z-20 last:[&amp;&gt;*]:bl-z-10 bl-relative bl-overflow-x-clip [.wp-block-ufr-section_&amp;]:bl-overflow-x-visible bl-bg-identity-lightblue bl-text-identity-black dark:bl-bg-identity-lightblue dark:bl-text-identity-black bl-py-[24px] align wp-block-ufr-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-ufr-section-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\t\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Update: 31.08.2011<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sieglinde Lemke hat nach ihrem Studium der Amerikanistik und Geschichte an der Universit\u00e4t Konstanz und UC Berkeley 15 Jahre am John F. Kennedy Institut an der FU Berlin unterrichtet. Sie ist die Autorin von&nbsp;Vernacular Matters in American Literature&nbsp;(Palgrave, 2009) and&nbsp;Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism&nbsp;(Oxford UP, 1998). Neben Forschungsaufenthalten an der UC Irvine und UCLA war sie als Gastdozentin an der Boston University und der Universit\u00e4t Harvard t\u00e4tig. Seit 2005 ist sie Professorin am Englischen Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t, Freiburg und Initiatorin der Sommerakademie f\u00fcr kreatives Schreiben, \u201eThe Black Forest Writing Seminars\u201c. Zu ihren Forschungsinteressen geh\u00f6rt die Afroamerikanische Literatur, Modernismus, Film- und Kulturtheorie. Bei ihrem j\u00fcngsten Forschungsaufenthalt in Los Angeles hat Frau Lemke den Grundstein ihres FRIAS-Projekts \u00fcber Repr\u00e4sentationen von Armut in der amerikanischen Gegenwartskultur gelegt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bl-w-full wp-block-ufr-accordion\">\n\n\n<article class=\"ufr-accordion-container-wrapper\" data-accordion=\"animationDuration: 400; direction: vertical; collapsible: true; \">\n\t<div class=\"ufr-accordion-container-flex-wrapper \">\n\t\t\n\n<section\n\tid=\"Selected-Publications\"\n\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-section\n\tufr-accordion-item-section--vertical\">\n\t<div class=\"bl-group\/accordion-header ufr-accordion-item-header\n\t\t\t\"\n\trole=\"button\"\n\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\taria-label=\"Toggle accordion item: Selected Publications\"\n\taria-controls=\"Accordion Selected-Publications content\"\n\t>\n\t\t<div class=\"ufr-accordion-item-header-wrapper\n\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"ufr-accordion-item-header-heading\n\t\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-heading--vertical\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\tSelected Publications\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<span class=\"\n\t\t\tchevron-container\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-chevron-container\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-chevron-container--!numbered ufr-accordion-header-chevron-container--light-in-lightmode ufr-accordion-header-chevron-container--dark-in-darkmode \t\t\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t<svg width=\"100%\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 50\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n\taria-label=\"chevron-right\" class=\"bl-h-[40px] md:bl-h-[40px] xl:bl-h-[100px] bl-rotate-90\" role=\"img\">\n\t<title>chevron-right<\/title>\n\t<path d=\"M5.00012 5L25.6062 25.0002L5.00012 45\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"12\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div\n\t\tid=\"Accordion Selected-Publications content\"\n\t\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-body\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-body--vertical\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-body-outer-content-wrapper\n\t\t\t\t\t\"\n\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"is-layout-flow\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Vernacular Matters: A Comparativist Approach to American Literature<\/em>New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Cultural Studies Bibliography<\/em>. John F. Kennedy Institute Working Papers. Berlin: Zentrale Universit\u00e4tsdruckerei, 1996.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Editorships<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Power of Perception: Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Internationalism in Henry James<\/em>.&nbsp;(Co-edited with Anette Jael Lehmann; forthcoming).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature:&nbsp;<\/em><em>Festschrift f\u00fcr Winfried Fluck zum 60.&nbsp;<\/em><em>Geburtstag<\/em><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. Co-edited with Thomas Claviez und Ulla Haselstein)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Zora Neale Hurston. The Complete Stories<\/em>. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. (Co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDu Bois: Of the Coming of John.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Oxford Companion to The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>. Ed. Shamoon Zamir. Oxford UP, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDiaspora Aesthetics: Exploring the African Dispora in the Works of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Jean Michel Basquiat..\u201d&nbsp;<em>Exiles, Diasporas, and Strangers<\/em>. Hrsg. Kobena Mercer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 122-145.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cAesthetics of Transgression: Awe, Alterity, and Apprehension in&nbsp;<em>The Scarlet Letter<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Aesthetic<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature: Festschrift f\u00fcr Winfried Fluck zum 60.&nbsp;<\/em><em>Geburtstag<\/em><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Hrsg. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein, Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.&nbsp;163-194.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cVernacular Aesthetics.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany<\/em>. Hrsg. Berndt Ostendorf und Ulla Haselstein<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 139-59.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section\n\tid=\"FRIAS-Project-2\"\n\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-section\n\tufr-accordion-item-section--vertical\">\n\t<div class=\"bl-group\/accordion-header ufr-accordion-item-header\n\t\t\t\"\n\trole=\"button\"\n\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\taria-label=\"Toggle accordion item: FRIAS Project\"\n\taria-controls=\"Accordion FRIAS-Project-2 content\"\n\t>\n\t\t<div class=\"ufr-accordion-item-header-wrapper\n\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"ufr-accordion-item-header-heading\n\t\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-heading--vertical\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\tFRIAS Project\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<span class=\"\n\t\t\tchevron-container\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-chevron-container\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-header-chevron-container--!numbered ufr-accordion-header-chevron-container--light-in-lightmode ufr-accordion-header-chevron-container--dark-in-darkmode \t\t\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t<svg width=\"100%\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 50\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n\taria-label=\"chevron-right\" class=\"bl-h-[40px] md:bl-h-[40px] xl:bl-h-[100px] bl-rotate-90\" role=\"img\">\n\t<title>chevron-right<\/title>\n\t<path d=\"M5.00012 5L25.6062 25.0002L5.00012 45\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"12\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div\n\t\tid=\"Accordion FRIAS-Project-2 content\"\n\t\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-body\n\t\t\tufr-accordion-item-body--vertical\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"ufr-accordion-item-body-outer-content-wrapper\n\t\t\t\t\t\"\n\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"is-layout-flow\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facing Poverty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Das FRIAS-Projekt \u201eFacing Poverty\u201c leistet einen Beitrag zu dem im Entstehen begriffenen kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeld, das sich mit Fragen sozialer Disparit\u00e4t bzw. der Ermangelung eines ernsthaften Interesses an dem Thema Armut auseinandersetzt. Anhand zehn ausgew\u00e4hlter Fallbeispiele (fiktionale und nicht-fiktionale Literatur, TV- und digitaler Medien, der Dokumentar- und Kunstfotographie) wird untersucht, wie Armut in den USA dargestellt wird bzw. \u00fcberhaupt \u00e4sthetisch dargestellt werden kann\/ darf. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen somit k\u00fcnstlerische Artikulationen von Armut. Ziel und Leitgedanke des Projektes ist es, den Begriff der Artikulation als Br\u00fcckenkonzept zwischen dem der Repr\u00e4sentation und der Performativit\u00e4t in Anschlag zu bringen.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"[&amp;&gt;*]:bl-relative last:[&amp;&gt;*.bl-absolute]:bl-absolute [&amp;&gt;*]:bl-z-20 last:[&amp;&gt;*]:bl-z-10 bl-relative bl-overflow-x-clip [.wp-block-ufr-section_&amp;]:bl-overflow-x-visible bl-bg-transparent bl-text-inherit dark:bl-bg-transparent dark:bl-text-inherit alignfull wp-block-ufr-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-ufr-section-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"bl-absolute bl-inset-0 bl-w-full bl-h-full bl-pointer-events-none bl-mt-0\">\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"bl-absolute bl-origin-center\n\t\t\t\tbl-w-96\t\t\t\tbl-top-[50%] -bl-translate-y-[50%] bl-left-[50%] -bl-translate-x-[50%]\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg\n\twidth=\"100%\"\n\tviewBox=\"0 0 64.5 64.5\"\n\tfill=\"none\"\n\txmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n\taria-label=\"\"\n\tclass=\"bl-relative bl-block dark:bl-hidden bl-w-full\"\n\trole=\"img\">\n\t<title><\/title>\n<linearGradient\n\tid=\"lgz5Zt0M4D\"\n\tx1=\"50%\" y1=\"100%\"\n\tx2=\"50%\" y2=\"0%\">\n\t<stop\n\t\toffset=\"0%\"\n\t\tstop-color=\"#f5c2ed\"\n\t\tstop-opacity=\"1\" \/>\n\t<stop\n\t\toffset=\"100%\"\n\t\tstop-color=\"#f5c2ed\"\n\t\tstop-opacity=\"0\" \/>\n<\/linearGradient>\n\t<path\n\t\td=\"m32.25,64c17.53,0,31.75-14.21,31.75-31.75S49.78.5,32.25.5.5,14.71.5,32.25s14.21,31.75,31.75,31.75\"\n\t\tstroke-width=\"2px\"\n\t\tvector-effect=\"non-scaling-stroke\"\n\t\tfill=\"url(#lgz5Zt0M4D)\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n<svg\n\twidth=\"100%\"\n\tviewBox=\"0 0 64.5 64.5\"\n\tfill=\"none\"\n\txmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n\taria-label=\"\"\n\tclass=\"bl-relative bl-hidden dark:bl-block bl-w-full\"\n\trole=\"img\">\n\t<title><\/title>\n<linearGradient\n\tid=\"uNDG4IjF3e\"\n\tx1=\"50%\" y1=\"100%\"\n\tx2=\"50%\" y2=\"0%\">\n\t<stop\n\t\toffset=\"0%\"\n\t\tstop-color=\"#000149\"\n\t\tstop-opacity=\"1\" \/>\n\t<stop\n\t\toffset=\"100%\"\n\t\tstop-color=\"#000149\"\n\t\tstop-opacity=\"0\" \/>\n<\/linearGradient>\n\t<path\n\t\td=\"m32.25,64c17.53,0,31.75-14.21,31.75-31.75S49.78.5,32.25.5.5,14.71.5,32.25s14.21,31.75,31.75,31.75\"\n\t\tstroke-width=\"2px\"\n\t\tvector-effect=\"non-scaling-stroke\"\n\t\tfill=\"url(#uNDG4IjF3e)\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:128px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of FreiburgAmerican Studies and Cultural Studies Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Language &amp; Literature)April 2010 &#8211; March 2011 Curriculum Vitae Sieglinde Lemke hat nach ihrem Studium der Amerikanistik und Geschichte an der Universit\u00e4t Konstanz und UC Berkeley 15 Jahre am John F. 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