Corina Wieser-Cox (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)

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 Literatures in the United States (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

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 (August 2024).

Articles

• 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, 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/