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Dr. Johanna Heil

Philipps-Universität Marburg
North American Literary and Cultural Studies | Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Research
johanna.heil@uni-marburg.de

Academic Positions and Education

2017 to present Managing Director, Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Research, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
2015 to present Assistant professor: Department of English and American Studies, North American Literature and Culture, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
2009 –2014 Research Assistant / Ph.D. Candidate: Department of English and American Studies, North American Literature and Culture, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Research stays at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The New School, Barnard College

Publications (Selection)

Monograph

Walking the Möbius Strip: An Inquiry into Knowing in Richard Powers’s Ficti on. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.

Edited Collections

Communicating Disease: Cultural Representati on of American Medicine. Ed. Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. Print.
Controlling Bodies, Constructing Minds: (Post-)Feminist Identi ty Politi cs in the Biomedical Age. Ed. Johanna Heil and Anna Thiemann. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. (in preparation)

Articles

“Dancing Contact Improvisation with Luce Irigaray: Intra-Action in Elemental Passions.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. (forthcoming)
“Between Organic Movement and Technique: Practicing Self-Care and Forging Subjectivities in American Modern Dance.” Modernities and Modernization in North America. Ed. Ruth Mayer and Ilka Brasch. Heidelberg: Winter. 2019. 163-86.
“Practicing Graham: Becoming-Body between Counts and Spaces.” Verkörperte Heterotopien: Zur Materialität und [Un-]Ordnung ganz anderer Räume. Ed. Lea Spahn, Jasmin Scholle, Susanne Maurer, and Betina Wuttig. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018. 43-55.
“Exercises in Discipline and Freedom? The Graham Technique.” Dance Chronicle 39.2 (2016): 123-52. Print.