Kirkland Alexander Fulk, Ph.D.

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1 The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor The University of Texas at Austin Lecturer, August May 2014 Kirkland Alexander Fulk, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin BUR 364, C University Avenue Austin, Texas PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill 2013 Fulbright Fellow, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel M.A., German Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill 2008 B.A., German and History (with departmental honors), UT-Austin 2006 Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg, UT-Austin German Department Summer Program 2004 DISSERTATION TITLE: Literature as Utopia: Spaces of Alterity in West German Postcolonial and Science Fiction Literature after Sixty-Eight ABSTRACT: In the wake of the revolts that shook West Germany in the late 1960s, literature ostensibly shifted its focus from the realm of social politics and collective utopian aspirations to a new emphasis on private subjectivity or so the story goes. My dissertation refutes such commonplace accounts by examining spatial alterity in postcolonial and science fiction texts from the 1970s written by Nicolas Born, Hubert Fichte, Alexander Kluge, and the anonymous cult writer P.M. This study reassess the critical currency of utopia after sixty-eight both the good place and no place by probing these authors works using post-adornian aesthetic theories that emerged concurrently in West German in the seventies, namely those of Karl Heinz Bohrer, Hans Robert Jauß, Dieter Wellershoff, Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. This dissertation argues that this post-revolutionary literature was particularly adept at opening textual spaces in which the idea of utopia could regain a foothold as a socio-critical force after its demise just a few years earlier. Committee: Richard Langston (advisor), Eric Downing, Jonathan M. Hess, Mark Hansen, Priscilla Layne

2 HONORS AND AWARDS Summer Research Assignment, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Host: Prof. Dr. Hans-Edwin Friedrich Kent James Brown Teaching Fellowship, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill Book Chapters Fulk CV 2 PUBLICATIONS Between Word and Image: The Photographic and Textual Exploration of Alterity in Hubert Fichte and Leonore Mau s Xango. Zwischen Kulturen und Medien: Zur medialen Inszenierung von Interkulturalität. Eds. Klaus Schenk, Renata Cornejo, and László Szabó. Vienna: Praesens, 2015 (In Print). Refereed Articles Ziffern im Schein der Wunderlampe: Neoliberal and Neocolonial Fictions in Dieter Kühn s Und der Sultan von Oman, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (forthcoming; under second review) From Outer Space to the Circus Tent: Science Fiction and the Problems of 68 in Alexander Kluge s Die Ungläubige, Textpraxis: Digitales Journal für Philologie # 7 (2/2013). Book Reviews Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past by Amir Eshel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, In Vermischte Nachrichten. Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch I. Eds. Richard Langston, et. al. Göttingen: V&R, Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture. Eds. Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel. New York: Rodopoi, In Focus on German Literature vol. 18. CONFERENCE PAPERS Welcome to Sphericon: The Future of Competition, Unemployment, and the Neoliberal Subject in Joachim Zelter's Schule der Arbeitslosen. German Studies Association: Washington, D.C. October 2-4, Dropping Science(-Fiction): Science Fiction, Genre, and the Classroom. German Studies Association: Kansas City, MO. September 18-21, The Cartographic Imagination: Constructing Postcolonial Space and Time in Dieter Kühn s Und der Sultan von Oman. Second Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial contexts: Bremen, Germany. September 3-7, From the Berlinale to Outer Space: Alexander Kluge s Die Ungläubige. Northeast

3 Modern Language Association Convention: Boston, MA. March 21-24, Corporeal Memory: Towards an Understanding of Pain, Memory, and the Body in Ingeborg Bachmann s Ein Ort für Zufälle. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: Lexington, KY. April 16-18, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Herbert Marcuse and the German Student Movement. North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop: Germany s 1968: A Cultural Revolution? Chapel Hill, NC. April 11-12, CONFERENCES ORGANIZED University of Texas-Austin Germanic Studies Workshop: Popular Music in Postwar German Culture. Austin, TX. March North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop: Germany s 1968: A Cultural Revolution? Chapel Hill, NC. April 11-12, SEMINARS ORGANIZED New Directions in Pop-, Sub, and Lowbrow Cultural Studies. German Studies Association: Kansas City, MO. September 18-21, Co-Convenor. University of Texas at Austin COURSES TAUGHT 2015 Fall: German Science Fiction (Senior Seminar) German Literature 1945-Present (graduate course) Spring: 2014 Fall: Protest, Revolt, and Revolution in Post-War Germany (Undergraduate German and Scandinavian Studies seminar taught in English) Contemporary German Civilization: Cultures and Conflict in Modernity Deutsche Literatur : Von der Aufklärung zum Kaiserreich Spring: Advanced Conversation and Composition: Contemporary German Society Protest, Revolt, and Revolution in Post-War Germany (Undergraduate German and Scandinavian Studies seminar taught in English) German Science Fiction (Senior Seminar) Fulk CV 3

4 2013 Accelerated First-Year German Advanced Conversation and Composition: Contemporary German Society University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2013 Intermediate German I Conversation and Composition: Jugend- und Popkulturen 2012 Intermediate German I Business German (Guest Instructor) 2011 Elementary German I 2010 Intermediate German I Intermediate German II 2009 Elementary German I (Summer and Fall) Intermediate German I Post-War German History and Culture (Guest Lecturer) 2008 Elementary German II German Philosophy in Youth and Pop Cultures (TA for Lecture Course and Instructor for 2 recitation sections) 2007 Elementary German I TEACHING WORKSHOPS Teaching German for Significant Learning, workshop: UNC-CH Geschichte, Politik, Revolte, NCAATG annual meeting and workshop: Wake Forest University Breaking Barriers: Advocacy, Articulation and Pedagogy, NCAATG meeting and workshop: UNC-CH University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Advisor 2014-present ACADEMIC SERVICE Committee Chair, Undergraduate Scholarships Committee Member, Undergraduate Course and Program Committee 2013-present Panelist on round-table discussion for graduate students on job market 2013, 2014 Fulk CV 4

5 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATONS American Association of Teachers of German, German Studies Association, Modern Language Association, Northeastern Modern Language Association Fulk CV 5