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Verena Baier

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Telefon: 2483
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Raum: 4064 (D)
Adresse: Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Life Writing
  • Memory Studies
  • Social Movements and Activism
  • Hemispheric American Studies
  • Spatial Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Dissertation project: Bookshelf Battlegrounds: Life Writing and the Left-Right Divide of
  • 1980s US Nicaragua Activism

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2024: Instructor at the Chair of Media Studies, University of Regensburg
  • Since 2018: Doctoral candidate in American Studies, University of Regensburg
  • 2019-2024: Assistant Manager of the Promotionskolleg der Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität Regensburg (PUR)
  • 2023: Research scholarship, Koordinationsstelle für Chancengleichheit der Universität Regensburg
  • 2023: Research scholarship, FAZIT-Stiftung
  • 2022: Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), UC Berkeley; research stay at Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • 2019/20: Visiting scholar at the Institute of European Studies (IES), UC Berkeley
  • 2018-2022: PhD scholarship, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw)
  • 2017/18: Instructor (substitute position), American Studies, University of Regensburg
  • 2017: State exam in English Studies, Spanish Studies, Educational Science, University of Regensburg
  • 2017: B.A. in American Studies, University of Regensburg

Publications

  • Nicaragua in the Rearview Mirror: Life Writing by Leftist US Activists since the 1980s (2025). In: Erbil, Duygu; Rigney, Ann & Vlessing, Clara (Hg). Remembering ContentiousLives. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73450-2_7
  • With Diepold, Markus et al. (2023). Remembering Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. In: COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies). 24, 1.
  • “Whose Tomorrow is Tomorrow?” Remembering (Past) Futures in Autobiographical Writings of the US-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement and the Contra War, 1979-1991 (2019). In: COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies). 20, 1.
  • Collective Writing – Writing Collectives: Die Konstruktion Kollektiver Identität in Life Writings der US-Nicaragua-Solidaritätsbewegung der 1980er (2019). In: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft. 5, 1.
  • Edited Volumes
  • With Markus Diepold et al. (2023). Remembering Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. In: COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies). 24, 1.
  • Conference Reports and Blog Articles 
  • With Belia, Vasiliki (2022). Conference Review: Remembering Contentious Lives. In: IABA/SNS Blog, Students and New Scholars Network der International Auto/Biography Association.
  • With Heger, Tamara (2021). Workshop Report: Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves: Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies. In: Frictions (Europe, America and Global Transformations).
  • Sometimes the Past is Just Around the Corner: Impressions from Berkeley (2021). In: Frictions (Europe, America and Global Transformations).

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations

  • “Revolution Revisited Online: The Making of Divergent Digital Memoryscapes by US and Nicaraguan Activists After the 2018 Nicaraguan Protests”, Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA), Charles University, Prague (July 2025)
  • “Digital Archives as Living Memoryscapes: Continuing US Nicaragua Activism Online and (Re-)Writing History”, GAAS Conference „Archiving America / American Archives”, University of Siegen (June 2025)
  • “Enduring Memories?: Life Writing of 1980s US-Nicaragua Activism Through Frictions and Transitions”, Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (July 2024)
  • “’I was a very small part of that history’: Writing Lives and Legacies in the Left-Right Struggle of 1980s US-Nicaragua Activism”, Summer Workshop: Narrating HiStory History in Literature – Literature in Historiography, University of Regensburg (May 2024)
  • “Archiving Hope: Remembering Activism in Collaborative Life Writings of the 1980s US-Nicaragua Peace and Solidarity Movement”, Remembering Contentious Lives, University of Utrecht (September 2022)
  • Remembering Nicaragua – Remembering Heroes? Life Writings by US Volunteers in the Nicaragua Peace and Solidarity Movement and the Contra War, 1979-1990”, Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley (March 2022)    

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