Dr. Felix Brinker

Since 2021: Assistant Professor in American Studies at the Englisch Department, Leibniz University Hannover

2018-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher in American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover (DFG-Research Project "Kontingenz und Kürze") 

Winter term 2015/16: Lecturer in the "Culture" Division of the John F. Kennedy Institut for North American Studies, Free University Berlin

Beginning in October 2012: Lecturer in American Studies at Leibniz University Hannover

2012: Student Assistant in American Studies at Leibniz University Hannover

2010-2012: Student Assistant in American Studies at Leibniz University Hannover (Project Coordinator of the DFG-Research Project "Serielle Figuren im Medienwechsel")

2019: PhD, American Studies, Free University Berlin (Dissertation: "Superhero Blockbusters: Seriality, Politics of Engagement, and the Spirit of 21st Century Popular Culture.") 

2013-2018: Doctoral Student at the Graduate School for North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin (Dissertation: "Superhero Blockbusters: Seriality, Politics of Engagement, and the Spirit of 21st-Century Popular Culture")

2012: M.A., Leibniz University Hannover (Master's Thesis: "Grand Schemes & Hidden Plots: The Aesthetics of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Serial Television." Advisors: Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer und Florian Gross, M.A.)

2010-2012: Studies in the MA Program "Advanced Anglophone Studies" at Leibniz University Hannover

2010 B.A., Leibniz University Hannover (Thesis: "Searching for Earth, Finding America: Political Allegory and Representations of American National Identity in Battlestar Galactica." Advisors: Florian Groß, M.A. und Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer)

2005-2010: Studies in American Studies and Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover

2008-2009: Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, Great Britain

German Association for American Studies (DGfA/ GAAS)

Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP)

Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft

AG Comicforschung, Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft

Comics Studies Society (CSS)

DFG Research Unit „Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität“, associated Member, 2013–2016

"Managing Time, Mediating Modernity: Temporality, Mass Culture, and the Avantgarde, 1880-1920." 2-day symposium of the American Studies division, Leibniz Universität Hannover. Co-organized with Ruth Mayer and Annabel Friedrichs, 22 & 23 February 2019. 

“Trust Issues: Community, Contingency, and Security in North America.” Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies. Co-organized with Talel Ben Jemia, Mathias Großklaus, Nikolas Kessels, Siofra McSherry, Katharina Metz, Koen Potgieter, Sophie Spieler and Min Kyung Yoo. Keynotes: Susan Castillo (King's College London) and Martin Hartmann (Universität Luzern). John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin. May 9.-10. 2014.

"Imagining Media Change.” International Symposium (with preparatory film screenings and reading group sessions).Co-organized with Ilka Brasch, Svenja Fehlhaber, Shane Denson, and Florian Groß. Event in the context of the initiative of interdisciplinary media research, Leibniz University Hannover. Keynote speakers: Jussi Parikka and Wanda Strauven. American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover. 13 Juni 2013.

“M: Movies, Machines, Modernity.” Film Series, co-organized with Shane Denson and Ilka Brasch. Event in the context of the initiative of interdisciplinary media research, Leibniz University Hannover. November 2012 - January 2013.

Weekly series of lectures with Prof. Mark B. N. Hansen (Duke University), co-organized with Shane Denson. Sponsored by the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. Other sponsors: Gastwissenschaftlerprogramm of the Humanities Faculty, American Studies / Englisches Seminar. Event in the context of the initiative of interdisciplinary media research, Leibniz University Hannover. 2 - 6 July 2012.

“Chaos Cinema?” Film Series, organized with Shane Denson and Florian Groß. Event in the context of the initiative of interdisciplinary media research, Leibniz University Hannover. April-Juli 2012.

Two-day workshop on "The Contemporary Novel." With Ruth Mayer and Ilka Brasch. Workshop with the authors Wolfram Fleischhauer and Gina Mayer, Hannover, July 2010. 

Oktober 2013 - March 2018
Full Dissertation Scholarship, Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS), Free University Berlin (ended early on December 31st, 2017)

September – October 2015
Short Term Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research trip for archival research at the Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

December 2012 - Mai 2013
6-Month Scholarship to write a dissertation proposal, Graduiertenakademie of Leibniz University Hannover

2010-2012
Tuition scholarship, Freundeskreis of the Leibniz University Hannover

2008-2009
Erasmus-Scholarship to be an exchange student at the University of the West of England, Bristol, Great Britain