Diana Wagner

second book project

• Medicine, Health, and Disease in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in New England (working title)

since March 2023

• University of Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Department of Literary Studies, American Literature and Culture

2020

• Ph.D. thesis defense (summa cum laude)

2014–2020

• PhD candidate at Philipps University Marburg; Thesis: Seeing and Perceiving: Embodied Intersubjectivity andGender Masquerade in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

2011–2014

• Magistra Artium (M.A.) in North American Studies at Philipps University Marburg

2009-2010

• University of La Coruña, Spain: Spanish Philology (exchange semester)

2006–2011

• Teaching Degree (English Language and Literature) “with Honours” at Kazan Federal University, Russia; Faculty: Philology and Arts

Winter 2024/25

• HS Trauma Narratives (University of Stuttgart)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (University of Stuttgart)
• Case Studies in American Literature I (University of Stuttgart)

Summer 2024

• HS American Literature and Legal Consciousness (University of Stuttgart)
• TA Literature of the Early Republic (University of Stuttgart)

Winter 2023/24

• HS Colonial American Literature (University of Stuttgart)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (University of Stuttgart)

Summer 2023

• HS “A Slight Hysterical Tendency”: Representations of Hysteria in U.S.-American Cultural Imagination (University of Stuttgart)
• HS Life Narrative: Memory, Experience, Identity (University of Stuttgart)

Summer 2022

• PS Narrative and Environmental Action (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Summer 2020

• Narratives of Immigration to the U.S.: Cultural Borderlands and Hybrid Identities (Justus-Liebig-UniversityGiessen)

Summer 2019

• PS North American Eco-Literature: Environment, Ecology, Ecocriticism (PhilippsUniversity Marburg)
• An Introduction to the Study of Narrative (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
• The US-Mexico-Border: Politics, Literature, Culture (Justus-Liebig-UniversityGiessen)
• TOEFL and IELTS Preparation Course (B2-C1) (Language Center, Philipps-University Marburg)

Winter 2018/19

• PS The Short Story in North America from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present (Philipps UniversityMarburg)
• TOEFL and IELTS Preparation Course (B2-C1) (the Language Center, PhilippsUniversity Marburg)

Summer 2018

• Writing the Self: From Franklin to Facebook (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
• PS Out of Her Mind?: Women and “Madness” across Media (Philipps-University Marburg)

Summer 2016

• PS Siri Hustvedt and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature (Philipps-University Marburg)

Monograph

• Wagner, Diana. Seeing and Perceiving: Synesthetic Perception, Embodied Intersubjectivity, and Gender Masquerade in Siri Hustvedt’s Works. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.

Articles

• Wagner, Diana. “Much-Needed Rest?: Female Agency and the Rest Cure in Treatments of Depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” In Narrating, Representing, Reflecting ‘Disability:’ 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives, edited by Wilfried Raussert and Sarah-Lena Essifi. De Gruyter, 2024. (forthcoming)

• Wagner, Diana. “‘Embodied Minds’ and Intersubjectivity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works.” In Contradiction Studies—Exploring the Field, edited by Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf, and Martin Nonhoff. Springer VS, 2023, pp. 277–98.

• Wagner, Diana. “‘A Spectacle of Simulacra’: Interveillance and the Ambiguities of Mediatization in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels.” Modernities and Modernization in North America, edited by Ilka Brasch and Ruth Mayer. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018, pp. 409–26.

• Wagner, Diana. “‘Perceptions and Their Mutability’ in Siri Hustvedt’s Works.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 18, no.1, 2017, pp. 1-18, http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/274/370

• Wagner, Diana. “Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World: Does Art Have a Gender Identity?” Alluvium, vol. 4, no. 6, 2016,http://dx.doi.org/10.7766/alluvium.v4.6.01

Book Reviews

• Wagner, Diana. “Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), 425 pp.” Amerikastudien / American Studies63.1: 2018.

03/05/2024   

“Women’s Reproductive Health in New World Slavery: History and ‘Hysteria’ in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” Health in American History— 2024 Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA, 3-5 May 2024, Erfurt, Germany

07/03/2024   

“Silenced Voices, Enduring Echoes: Agency and Medical Authority in Early American Gynecology,” Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600—1865, 7-8 March 2024, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

09/11/2023   

“Decolonizing Medical Knowledge: The Boston Smallpox Inoculation Controversy,”Interdisciplinary Symposium: Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies, 9-10 November 2023, University of Basel, Switzerland

30/06/2023   

“Much-Needed Rest?: Female Agency and the Rest Cure in Treatments of Depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” Narrating, Representing, Reflecting ‘Disability:’ 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives, June 30—July 1, 2023, University of Bielefeld, Germany

23/05/2019   

“Nature and Ecology in Contemporary Canadian Short Fiction,” Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies, International Conference, 22–24 May 2019, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

19/06/2017   

“Gender and Age Troubles in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World”; “The Many Faces of Diversity” Workshop, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

09/06/2017   

“‘A Spectacle of Simulacra’: Interveillance and the Ambiguities of Mediatization in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels”; DGfA Annual Conference, 8-10 June 2017, Leibniz UniversityHannover, Germany

13/05/2017   

“Truth is Intersubjectivity: Multiple Selves and Intersubjective Alter Egos in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels,” SASS 2017, 11-14 May 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

11/02/2017   

“‘Embodied Minds’ and Intersubjectivity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works,” Conference“Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field,” 9-11 February 2017, University Bremen, Germany

08/10/2016    

“‘Perceptions and Their Mutability’ in Siri Hustvedt’s Works,”
Postgraduate Forum (PGF) Conference, 6-8 October 2016, University of Hamburg, Germany

10/09/2016    

“Gender and/or Genius: Siri Hustvedt’s Representation of a Woman Artist,”Conference “Interrupted Discourse, Discontinued Dialog: Diversity, Marginalization, Otherness,” 9-11 September 2016, University of Łódź, Poland

10/06/2016    

“‘Monsters at Home’: Maskings in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels,”
Amerikanistendag 2016, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands

23/10/2015    

“Does Art Really Have a Gender Identity?: Siri Hustvedt’s Playing with Perception in the Art World”; International Conference “Living, Thinking, Looking,” Birkbeck, University of London, England