Curriculum Vitae
Currently I am teaching “Academic English” at the University of Vechta and freelancing in the areas of English language training. I am also working on a longer research project on the transnational reception of the films and music of Doris Day.
Current Teaching Affiliations:
- Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (LfbA) Academic English, University of Vechta
- Privatdozentin für
Amerikanistik: Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaft am
Fachbereich 10- Sprach-und
Literaturwissenschaften der Universität Bremen
- Vertretungs-availability: Please send inquiries to amscholz@uni-bremen.de
Recently Held Positions
SS 2013-SS 2014
- Vertretungsprofessorin
(W3) für Nordamerikanische Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaft im Fachbereich
Literaturwissenschaft/Amerikanistik der Universität Konstanz
SS 2011
- Akademische Oberrätin, Lehrstuhl North American Studies am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
WS 10/11
- Vertretungsprofessorin, Lehrstuhl North American Studies am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
WS 08/09
- Vertretungsprofessorin für Nordamericanische Literatur- und
Kulturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik der
Universität Hamburg
Freelance work:
2008-
- Language Trainers (Great Britain, Frankfurt/Main)
freie Mitarbeiterin
- Abat AG (SAP Software Training) Bremen
- Bremische Beamten-Baugesellschaft GmbH
- Translation Consultant
Research Project funded by the American Councel of Learned
Societies
Education
- Habilitation, University of Bremen, Germany, 2006 (American Studies / Cultural Studies´)
- Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1993 (U.S. History)
- M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1988 (U.S. History)
- B.A., with Highest Honors, California State University, Fullerton, 1986 (American Studies/Sociology)
Employment History:
2000-2006
- Universität Bremen
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin für Amerikanistik:
Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
1994-1999
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen
Lektorin (lecturer) für US Cultural Studies und English
1993-1994
- University of California, Irvine
Lecturer in History and Women’s Studies
- Irvine Valley College, Irvine, California
Instructor in History
1987-1993
- University of California, Irvine
Teaching Assistant, Department of History
Teaching Associate, Humanities Core Course,
Teaching Assistant, Department of English
Teaching (Areas of Specialization):
- American Cultural and Literary Studies
- Film History and Transnational Film Studies
- Gender Studies
- U.S. History
- Methods in Cultural Studies
- Academic English
Recent Teaching
Universität Vechta (SS 2018 & WS 2018-19)
- Advanced Academic English B2+
- Advanced Academic English C1
Universität Bremen (Summersemesters 2017, 2016, 2015)
- Key Topics in Cultural History: Gender and Power in 20/21st Century U.S. Culture/Media (BA Seminar)
Universität Konstanz, 2013-2014
Haupt-und Oberseminare: Literary and Cultural Studies - Film and Media Studies
- Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Literature and Hollywood Film (3SWS)
- Men's
and Women's Short Fiction in 19th Century America
- U.S.
Women Writers and Modernity/Modernism: 1920s-1930s
- Work
and Identity in 19th-21st Century U.S. Literature/Culture
- Mothers
and Daughters in U.S. Literature
- 20th Century
U.S. Short Fiction
- Gender,
Power and Identity in U.S. Film and Media
Universität Bremen (Wintersemester 2011/12)
- Labor and Self in U.S. Literature and Culture: 19th through 21st Centuries (BA Seminar)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Lectures:
- Adaptation as Reception: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Hollywood Film
(2 SWS-Master’s Level, WS 2010-2011)
- From Puritanism to Postmodernism: U.S. Literary History (2 SWS-BA Level, SS 2011)
Seminars:
- Literary and Cultural Studies (2 SWS-Master’s Level/Magister)
- U.S. Family Affairs: Literary, Historical and Cinematic Narratives of a Cultural Institution
- Work and Identity in 19th and 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture
- Research Kolloquium (WS 2010/11)
- Research Kolloquium w/Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke (SS 2011)
- Literary and Cultural Studies (2SWS- BA level)
- Rupture and Continuity : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 11.Sept. 2001, co-taught with Christian Klöckner, Jared Sonneckson and Lars Metzger
- North American Literatures and Cultures (Übungen-2x, SS 2011)
Publications
Articles forthcoming 2018:
“‘You’ll Never Know the Old Vienna’: The Third Man (1949) as Historical Referent in Contemporary Austrian Culture and Literature.” In Katya Krylova, ed. Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture. Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming.
“Film und Frau and Doris Day: Gender Negotiations, Female Spectatorship and Hollywood Sex Comedies in Cold War West Germany.” In Jürgen Kamm and Karsten Fitz, eds. Transatlantic Cinema: Production, Genres, Encounters, Negotiations. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2018.
Published Articles
“Cultural Prestige, Gender and Adaptation: The Fortunes of Jane Austen as ‘Chick Lit’” in Eric Sandburg and Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, eds. Adaptation, Awards Culture and the Value of Prestige. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 133-149.
“In Sickness and in Health: The Third Man’s U.S. Centered ‘On-Location’ Movie Publicity and Austrian/U.S. Postwar Relations” in Ralph Poole and Joshua Parker, eds. Austria and America: 20th-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters (Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2017): 81-96.
„Transnationalizing Porter’s Germans in Stanley
Kramer’s Ship of Fools (1965): East and West German Responses” in Thomas
Austenfeld, ed. Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools: NewInterpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (Denton:
University of North Texas Press, 2015):
149-168.
“The Transatlantic Voyage and Transnational Transformations: Interpreting the Meaning of “Germanness” on a Ship of Fools.” In Udo J. Hebel, ed. Transnational American Studies Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012: 489-503.
“Adaptation as Reception: How a Transnational Analysis of Hollywood Films can Renew the
Literature to Film Debates” Amerikastudien/American Studies, 54.4(2009):657-682.
"Thelma and Louise and Sense and Sensibility: New Approaches to Challenging Dichotomies in
Women's History Through Literature and Film." Journal of South Texas English Studies 1(2009):
n.pag. Web. 10 December 2009. URL: http://southtexasenglish.blogspot.com
« "Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and
the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany », European Journal of
American Studies, EJAS 2009-1, [Online], article 5, put online Jun. 17, 2009. URL : http://ejas.revues.org/document7610.html. (twenty page article).
“The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Revisited: Combat Cinema, American Culture, and the
German Past” German History: Journal of the German History Society (Oxford Journals),
26(2008): 219-250. http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/ghn004?
ijkey=xvlXozrHP01h7yV&keytype=ref
mit Linda Berg-Cross, JoAnne Long, Ewa Grzeszcyk, Anjali Roy. "The Single Professional Woman
as Global Phenomenon, Challenges and Opportunities." Journal of International Women’s Studies,
Vol. 5, 5 (June 2004): 34-59. http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Jun04/Single.pdf
"’Eine Revolution des Films: The Third Man, The Cold War, and Alternatives to Nationalism and Coca-colonization in Europe." Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 21.1(2001): 44-53.
"'Jane-Mania': The Jane Austen Film Boom in the Nineties", in Peter C. Rollins, John E. O' Connor and Deborah Carmichael, eds. 1999 Film and History CD-ROM Annual (Stillwater, OK: Film and History Press, 1999): 1-24.
"The Politics of Importing Postmodernity: Teaching Gender Studies in Germany," in Cristina
Giorcelli and Rob Kroes, eds., Living with America, 1946-1996, European Contributions to American Studies, Vol. 38 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1997): 259-266.
"Facts are such horrid things!": The Austen Canon and Lady Susan." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 45.1(1997): 33-42.
"American Way of Life for the World?": Notes Toward an International Discussion on American
Popular Culture." Proceedings of the KAAD Jahresakademie (Bonn: Hermann Weber, 1995): 139-143.
Scholarly Journalism, Online and Print
“How Jane Austen became ‘Chick Lit’: A Brief Cultural History.” Blog entry on http://storybird70.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/how-jane-austen-became-chick-lit-a-brief-cultural-history-by-anne-marie-scholz/
“Will the ‘Real Vienna’ Please Stand Up?” Blog entry for Berghahn Books, New York, 2013: http://berghahnbooks.com/blog/
“A Song for the Drive-Thru Tree: The Forest in
American Literature” in University Players News [University of Hamburg]
45(Winter 08/09): 10-11.
„Jane Austen’s Art of Feminism.“ Jane
Austen Society Southwest Newsletter 15(Spring 1991): 5.
Recent Invited Talks and Conferences
„Advanced Academic Writing: Learning How to Hedge”. Invited lecture, Language Centre, University of Vechta, 07.02.2018.
“Austen Reloaded-Die Verfilmungen”. Forum für Zeitgeschehen: “Geliebte Jane“, Zu Jane Austen’s 200. Todestag, Volkswagen Stiftung, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover , 7 Nov. 2017.
“Austrian National Identity and Historical Media Tourism: Comparing The Third Man Tour with The Sound of Music Tour”, ‘Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism and Belonging’, April 5-7, 2017, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
“Film und Frau and
Doris Day: Gender Negotiations and Hollywood Sex Comedies in Cold War West
Germany” International Conference: „Transatlantic Cinema:
Production-Genres-Encounters-Negotiations“, 27-29 October 2016, Universität
Passau.
„The Fine Line Between
Criminalization and ‚Fair Use‘: Doing Transnational Film History in the Midst
of Copyright ‘Crackdown’“. 63. Annual Meeting of the German Association of
American Studies. Universität Osnabrück, 19-22 May 2016.
“The Third Man (1949) as
Referent in Contemporary Austrian Culture and Literature”.Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and
Culture. University of Nottingham, UK, 13-15 April 2015.
“Visualizing Postwar Vienna: On-location
shooting and U.S.-centered movie publicity for The Third Man”. Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters,
1933-1955. Universität Salzburg/Stefan Zweig Centre, 24-25.01.2014.
„If It Weren’t For Bad Luck, I’d Have No Luck At All“: the T.V.Variety Show Hee Haw, Country Music, and the
De-Construction of White Rural America in the 1970s and 80s.” 60. Jahrestagung der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
30.05-02.06.2013.