Corina Wieser-Cox (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)
North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
Corina Wieser-Cox
Büro: GW 2, A 3.710
Telefon: +49 (0)421 218-68331
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Doctoral Student | University of Bremen - North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
- Master of Arts | January 2021 | University of Bremen - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Media, Text
- Bachelor of Science | May 2017 | Troy University - English Literature and Creative Writing
Awards & Scholarships
- Troy University Chancellor’s Scholarship | Aug. 2013 – May 2017
- Troy University Track and Field Scholarship | Aug. 2013 – May 2017
- PhD fellowship by Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. | Jan. 2022 – Jan. 2023
- GAPS Graduate Award | May 2021
- Bremer Studienpreis | March 2022
Academic Functions
- PhD Student & Research Assistant since January 2022
- Coeditor of COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies) since August 2022
- Executive Director of INPUTS - Institute for Postcolonial and Transnational Studies
Teaching
B.A. English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen:
- Speculative Queer Fiction in Contemporary US Literature (SOSE 2021)
- Key Moments in the Cultural History of the English-Speaking World (WISE 2021/22)
- Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Fiction and Poetry in North America (SOSE 2023)
- Of Women and Nature - Ecofeminist Literature in North America (WISE 2023/24)
- Environmental Dystopias in Postcolonial Film and Literature (SOSE 2024)
- Chicanx Literature and Poetry (WISE 2024/25)
Research Areas
- Borderland & Chicanx Studies
- Queer & Gender Studies
- Horror & Speculative Fiction and Film
- Trans* & Nonbinary Representations within Film
- Native Mexican Literature and Film
- Postcolonial Theories & Concepts
- Indigenous Teachings & Knowledges
- Two-Spirit & Queer Indigeneities in Fiction and Film
Presentations
Exploring Contradictions Beyond Contradiction - 1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies: February 11–14, 2025, University of Bremen
- "Re-Centering the Lesbian Indigenous Body and Desire: Contradicting Heteropatriarchy with Decolonial Conceptions of Gender and Sex in Ángeles Cruz's Filmography"
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Thirteenth Annual Conference: June 6-8, 2024, Bodø, Norway
- "Critiquing Heteropatriarchal Mexican Cinema with Decolonial Representations of Gender and Sex in Ángeles Cruz’s Nudo Mixteco (2021)"
Invited Guest Lecture - Aware Together: University Action Day Against Discrimination: April 24th, 2024, University of Bremen
- "We're Trans, We're Queer, and We're Here: Decolonizing Mexican and Chicanx Queer Cinema"
Invited Presentation - Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität: March 14-15, 2024, University of Bremen
- "The Bracero Program, Migrant Workers, and Chicana Rage in V. Castro’s Queen of the Cicadas"
Invited Guest Lecture - Bremen Blue Humanities Lecture Series: December 20, 2023, University of Bremen
- "Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative Futures in The Deep"
Imagining Queer Ecologies - The British Society for Literature and Science: December 1, 2023, University of Oxford
- "Desire and Intimacy During Doomsday: Indiqiqueer & 2Spirit Apocalyptic Literature"
Invited Guest Lecture - Gender, Culture, Feminism: November 22, 2023, University of Bremen
- "Chicana Feminism, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Myth of La Llorona in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra"
PGF 2023 - Spaces of Affect in the Americas: November 9-11, 2023, University of Hannover
"Desire and Intimacy During Doomsday: Indiqiqueer & 2Spirit Apocalypses in Love After the End (2020")
Science goes PUBlic: November 9, 2023, Kono Bar, Bremen
"Indigiqueer & Two-Spirit Futurisms In North America"
Conference Co-Organizer of Queering Postcolonial Worlds - Postgraduate Conference: October 6 & 7, 2023, University of Bremen
Disruptive Imaginations: The Association for Research in the Fantastic: August 15-19, 2023, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
- "Femicide and Indigenous Vengeance: Disruptive and Decolonial Rage in V. Castro’s Queen of the Cicadas"
Postcolonial Narrations – Matters of Life and Death: October 20-22, 2022, University of Bonn, Germany
- “Transgressing the Borders of Being: Posthuman Indigenous Resistance in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008)”
Research/er/ed: Navigating, disrupting, and exploring liminal spaces between researcher and researched: October 3, 2022, The London School of Economics and Politics, online
- “Existing and Researching in the Queer Borderlands”
Invited Guest Lecture - Key Topics in Literature and Cultural History: The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film - the USA: July 18 & 21, 2022, University of Bremen, Germany
- “Analyzing Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008) and Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street”
Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA): March 11-14, 2022, University of Buffalo, Baltimore, MD, USA
- “Queering Dark Academia – Investigating Cultural Expressions of the ‘Other’”
Invited Guest Lecture - Key Topics in Literature: US Latinx Writing: January 21, 2022, University of Bremen, Germany
- “How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot: And Other Life Lessons”
Speculative Fiction and Ethics: The Association for Research in the Fantastic: September 23, 2021, University of Cologne, Germany
- “This Is the World We Made: Intersectional Representations of Queer Futurism, Neo-Colonial Militarization and Scientific Ethics in The Old Guard (2020)”
Global Gender Nonconformity, Past and Present: June 10, 2021, King's College London & Northumbria University, online
- “The Decolonization of Language in Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet: Investigating Trans* & Neurodivergent Representations in Young Adult Literature”
Publications
Books
Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox, eds. Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. London: Routledge (September 2024).
Special Issues
- Wieser-Cox, Corina, Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, and Oluwadunni Talabi (Eds.). Queering Postcolonial Worlds. Special Issue, Gender Forum, 2024. Forthcoming.
- Wieser-Cox, Corina, Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, and Oluwadunni Talabi (Eds.). Envisioning Queer Racialized Self-Representations in the Americas. Special Issue, Am Lit, Vol. 6 No. 2. Forthcoming.
Articles
- Wieser-Cox, Corina, Ernie Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf and Wendy Pearson. "Introduction: Indigenous Filmmaking Throughout the World—Making Film Mino-Bimaadiziwin." Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film, eds. Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox. London: Routledge, September 2024.
- Wieser-Cox, Corina. “Transgressing the Borders of Being in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008).” Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film, eds. Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox. London: Routledge, September 2024.
- Wieser-Cox, Corina. "Spectacle of the Demonic Other: Transcoding Evil in American Horror Story: Apocalypse." Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 60-77.
- Novak, Stina, and Corina Wieser-Cox. “‘This Is the World We Made’: Queer Allegory, Neo-Colonial Militarization and Scientific Ethics in The Old Guard (2020).” Gender Forum, no. 82, Aug. 2022, pp. 75–98. http://genderforum.org/gender-violence-and-the-state-in-contemporary-speculative-fiction-ii-issue-82-2022/