Dr. Jasmin Humburg
Adjunct lecturer
American Studies
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Academic Career
| Since October 2020 | Adjunct lecturer at the IAA |
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Since Summer 2014 |
Research assistant at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg |
| 2010–2013 |
Master studies Anglistik/ Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg |
| 2010–2011 |
Gilman Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
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2007–2010 |
Bachelor studies Anglistik / Amerikanistik and Media culture and communication sciences, Universität Hamburg |
Teaching
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Winter term 2015/2016 |
Ia-Seminar “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” |
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Summer term 2015 |
Ia-Seminar “Introduction to American Literature and Culture” Workshop: “Wie schreibe ich eine wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit?” (workshop on scientific writing) |
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Summer term 2014
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Seminar “From Dexter to Nurse Jackie: New American (Anti)Heroes on Television” Seminar “I yam what I yam: American Food Writing” |
| Winter term 2013/2014 | Seminar “Down and Out: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature and Culture” |
Lectures/ Conferences
| 01/2015 |
„Fragments of the Other Half: Television Documentaries and Narratives of Poverty“ Lecture Series Life/Rupture: Conflict Resolution and the Poetics of (Dis-)Continuity, Universität Hamburg |
| 11/2014 |
“Warum lesen so viele Menschen gern Comics?“ Kinderuni Hamburg |
| 10/2014 |
“Small Screen Indigence: Narratives of Poor America on Television”. Postgraduate Forum (PGF), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| 05/2014 |
“In Gold We Trust? Peniaphobia and the (In)Security of Wealth in U.S. Television Shows”. Graduiertenkonferenz Trust Issues: Community, Contingency, and Security in North America, JFK-Institut der FU Berlin |
| 11/2013 |
“’I’m too poor to have a fear of success’: Class Conflict in 2 Broke Girls“. Student and Graduate Conference American Wars: Material and Ideological Battlegrounds, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin |
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06/2013 |
Round table “What does clas s have to do with it?” Internationale Konferenz Screening Class: Precarious Visions and American Studies,Universität Freiburg |
Research interest
- Poverty / Class Studies
- Media and cultural studies
- US American television
- American literature of the 20. and 21. centuries
- Food Culture
Memberships in Academic Associations
- DGfA
- ASA
- ICA