Dr. Si­mon Strick

• Postdoctoral Position at DFG Graduate Training Group "Automatisms", University of Paderborn, since November 2014
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Charité Berlin, Project "Schädelbasiswissen" (funded by VW-Stiftung). Nov 2014 - Sep 2014
• Postdoctoral Res earcher at Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, Project "Schädelbasiswissen" (funded by VW-Stiftung). Headed by Sigrid Weigel and Ernst-Johannes Haberl. May 2012 - Oct 2013
• Visiting Fellow at the Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 2011 - 2012
• Assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies, HU Berlin. April 2009 - March 2010
• Associated member of the DFG–Graduate Program Gender as a Category of Knowledge, HU Berlin. Headed by Christina von Braun and Volker Hess. 2005 - 2008

• PhD-Degree with highest honors in American Studies; Humboldt University Berlin.
• Dissertation: “American Dolorologies: Pain, Sentimentality, and Biopolitics in American Culture” (2011); Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Dietze (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg (Berlin). 
• Book American Do lorologies: Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics, published 2014 with State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. 
• MA-Degree (Magister) received in American Studies, Art History and Philosophy; Humboldt University Berlin in 2004
• Magistral/Master's Thesis: "The Performativity of Marginality in American Rap Music" (Degree 1,0); Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günter H. Lenz † (Berlin)

• American Dolorologies: Pain, Sentimentality, Biopolitics. SUNY Press, Albany 2014.
• "Structuralism/Deconstruction". Entry in Approaches to American Studies. Eds. Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper and Antje Dallmann. London/Routledge. Forthcoming 2015.
• "Torture, Empathy, Democracy, and Torture again". In: Empathy: a Neurobiological Concept and its Cu ltural History. Eds. Sigrid Weigel and Vanessa Lux. Forthcoming 2015.
• "Deformities, Essences, and Potentials: Cranial Knowledge, Children’s Heads and the Racialization of Disability", Medical History. Forthcoming 2014 (peer reviewed)
• "Visceral (Auto)biographies: Pain, Plastic Surgery, and Gender". In: Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography. Eds. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. University of Toronto Press, 2014. (peer reviewed)
• "Straight Screen: Begradigungsarbeit am iPhone". In: Feministische Studien, Nr. 2, Themenheft: The Queerness of Things not Queer, 2012: 228-244. (peer reviewed)
• "Jesus". Entry in What Can a Body Do? Praktiken und Figurationen des Körpers in den Kulturwissenschaften. Eds. Körpernetzwerk et al. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2012.
• "Schmerz in Photographien von Ex-Sklaven um 1863". In: Um/Ordnungen: Fotografische Ordnungen von Menschen bildern. Eds. Klaus Krüger, Matthias Weiß and Leena Crasemann. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010
• "Vorher Nachher: Zur Erzählbarkeit des kosmetischen Selbst". In: Schön normal – Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf somatische Selbsttechnologien. Ed. Paula Villa. Transkript. 2008.
• “Respect and Repression: German Rap Music as Cultural Translation”. In: American Music in a Transcultural Perspective – A Fresh Look at Blues, Country, Folk, Jazz, Rap, Rock. Special Edition of Amerikastudien / American Studies. Eds. Wilfried Raussert and John Miller Jones. Heidelberg 2008.
• “Erlösendes Make-Up: Männlichkeit, Medialität und Mel Gibsons Passion of the Christ”. In: Erlöser – Figurationen männlicher Herrschaft. Eds. Sven Glawion, Jana Husmann-Kastein, Elahe Haschemi Yekani. Bielefeld 2007.
• “Geschlecht als Gewinn: Zum S pektakel der Normierung in The Swan”. In: Plurale. Heft 5: Gewinn. Eds. Mirjam Goller et al. Berlin 2005.
• “Rap and Death”. In: testcard: Beiträge zur Popgeschichte. #14. Ed. Martin Büsser†. Berlin 2005.
• “Graffiti – Zug und Entzug der öffentlichen Signaturen”. In: Plurale. Heft 4: Werkzeug. Eds. Mirjam Goller et al. Berlin 2005.

• Organization of Workshop Digital Technologies in Surgery, ZfL Berlin, July 2014
• Organization of international conference Culture meets Surgery: Images, Models, and Interpretations of the Human Skull, ZfL Berlin. Together with Uta Kornmeier. November 2012
• Organization of interdisciplinary workshop Gender, Race and Violence in Pho tographs – Images and After-Images, University of Virginia. April 2012
• Organization of Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium, with participants from English, History, German, Jewish, Philosophy and Gender Studies, University of Virginia. Fall 2011 to Spring 2012 
• Co-Organizer of the international conference De/Constructions of Occidentalism at HU Berlin (DFG-Application, Concept, Organization). Together with Gabriele Dietze. June 2007
• Organization of international conference Capturing the... Truth? Changing Practices of the Documentary at HU Berlin. Together with Björn Wieders. 2005
• Organization of Annual Students‘ Conference at the Institute for English and American Studies, HU Berlin. Together with Philip Kneis. 2001-06

• "Learning from Game Studies from Queer Studies". Lecture at Workshop RuptureDynamics: Cultural Studies in Transition, Universität Konstanz. June 2014.
• "Anatomie und Ästhetik: Der Schädel als Objekt formgebender Chirurgie". Invited Lecture at Ringvorlesung Object Histories, Institute of Medical History, Charité Berlin. April 2014. 
• "Digitale Schönheit: Avatare, Geschlechterideale und das Uncanny Valley". Invited Lecture at Museum for Communication, Berlin. Januar 2014
• "Medical Narratives of Children's Cranial Deformation". Paper at international conference Imperfect Children, University of Leicester. September 2013
• "Von der Phrenologie zur digitalen Cranioplastie". Invited Lecture at Gender-Ringvorlesung Bodies of Knowledge, HU-Berlin. February 2013 
• "Feeling Oth er People's Pain between 1750 and 1860: Aesthetics Politics Biopower". Lecture at international conference Empathy: a neurobiological concept and its cultural and conceptual history, ZfL Berlin. January 2013
• "Cranial Deformity: Intersections of Race and Disability in 19th Century German Medicine". Lecture at international conference Culture meets Surgery: Images, Models, and Interpretations of the Human Skull, ZfL Berlin. November 2012
• "Looking at Scars in the 19th Century". Paper at interdisciplinary workshop Gender, Race and Violence in Photographs – Images and After-Images, University of Virginia. April 2012
• "Boys Culture Goes to Washington: Male Hysteria in the 1930s". Guest lecture at JFK-Institute for American Studies, FU Berlin. Feb 2012
• "Militär, Mitleid und Weiblichkeit in Zeiten des Terrors". Dissertation Defense-Lecture, Humboldt University Berlin. July 2011
• "Schmerz und Abolitionismus". Invited 031 Lecture at Workshop Körper: Normalisierungsprozess und Widerstand, organized by Leena Eckert, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. January 2011
• "Sklavenfotografie und Abolitionismus. Sentimentalität und die Erfassung von 'Black Suffering' im Amerika des 19. Jahrhunderts". Paper at international workshop Zwischen Konstruktion und Destruktion: Fotografische Ordnungen von Menschenbildern, Institute of Art History, FU Berlin. November 2009
• "Carving Flesh". Guest lecture at American Studies Dept, University of Bremen. Juli 2009
• "Master(ing) Pain: Contexts for a History of Pain and Subjection". Guest lecture at Department for German Studies, University of Virginia, USA. October 2008
• “Transformationen von Geschlecht in künstlerischen Diskursen: Mischen, Anhalten, Aushalten. Jürgen Klauke und Orlan”. Together with Sabrina Kühn. Lecture at Ringvorlesung Gender Studies, WS 2007/08, Humboldt University Berlin. 2008 
• “Körperliche Ausnahmezustände und Subjektproduktion”. Paper presented at KCTOS-Conference, Section “Ausnahmezustände in wissensgeschichtlicher Perspektive”, Vienna, Austria. 2007 
• “From American Exceptionalism to United States of Exception”. Paper at Transnational American Studies Summer School, UC Dublin, Ireland. 2007 
• “Eine fröhliche Chirurgie? Zu Technologie und Geschlecht in Orlans Reincarnation de Sainte Orlan”. Invited lecture at American Studies Institute, Graz, Austria. 2007
• “The Corporeality of Gender Inscription”. Paper presented at European Association of Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Annual Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2006
• “Crack Music: The Uses and Abuses of Drug Metaphors in HipHop Cinema”. Invited lecture at Conference Drugs in the A mericas, University of Erlangen. 2006
• “Gender Inscription as Spectacle: The Swan”. Paper presented at Annual PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, USA. 2006
• “Evidence and Non-Events: Performance Art and Reality TV”. Paper presented at the Conference Capturing the... Truth? Changing Practices of the Documentary at Humboldt University Berlin. 2005
• “White Rap and Counterculture”. Guest lecture at Research Colloquium Literature-Culture, JFK-Institute at the FU Berlin. 2004

• BA Seminar "Einführung in Postkoloniale Theorien", University of Bielefeld. WS 2014/15
• MA-Seminar "Teaching Popular Culture" at HU Berlin. SS 2013
• Queer Theory Reading Group, with Claire Raymond, University of Virginia. Spring 2012
• Seminar "Gender and Violence: Representing the Camp" (CPLT 3000). With Katja Baumgärtner, University o f Virginia. Spring 2012
• Seminar "Introduction to American Studies" (AMST 2001). With Sylvia Chong and Jennifer Rae Greeson, University of Virginia. Fall 2011
• MA-Seminar "American Sexualities" at HU Berlin. WS 2009/2010
• BA-Seminar "Questioning the Postracial Society" at HU Berlin. WS 2009/10
• BA-Seminar "Introduction to Gender Theory II: Intersections" at HU Berlin. SS 2009
• BA-Seminar "Gender and Media Theory" at HU Berlin. With Wibke Straube and Maja Figge. SS 2007
• Seminar "Bodies and Images" at HU Berlin. With Elahe Hashemi. WS 2006-07
• Seminar "Governmentality, Cultural Studies and Gender" at HU Berlin. With Prof. Gabriele Dietze. WS 2006-07
• Open Seminar "Reading Michel Foucault" at HU Berlin. With Alexandra von Barsewitsch and Patrick Brunken. SS 2003
• Organization of Students‘ Theses Research Colloquium - "Works in Progress". With Anna Katharina Otzen. 2001-04

2012
Nominee for Humboldt Dissertation Price, HU Berlin

2012
Berufungsliste for Junior Professor "Visual Culture" (2nd Place) at JFK-Institute for American Studies, FU Berlin

2011-2012
Visiting Fellow Scholarship, English Department, University of Virginia

2009
Dissertation Completion Grant, DFG–Graduate Program Gender as a Category of Knowledge, HU Berlin

2008
Research Grant, Wood Library of Medical History, Chicago, IL

2006-2008
Grant for Young Scholars, NaFöG HU-Berlin

• Rey Chow. "Menschlich im Zeitalter der Wegwerfmenschen". In: Kritik des Okzidentalismus. Eds. Gabriele Dietze und Claudia Brunner. Bielefeld 2009. 
• Beth Bjorklund. "Wie hö g0rt man auf ? Schlüsse in Mayröckers Prosa". In: Buchstabendelirien - Zur Literatur Friederike Mayröckers. Ed. Alexandra Strohmaier. Bielefeld 2009.

• Media Theory and Archeology, Queer Theory
• History of Knowledge, Medical History
• Digital Embodiments, Popular Culture