{"id":1264,"date":"2017-06-07T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/?page_id=1264"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:30:02","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image-1024x478.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-2677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image-1536x717.png 1536w, https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/agnieszkasoltysikmonnet\/files\/2025\/08\/image.png 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Director of English Doctoral School, Occidental Switzerland (CUSO), 2017-2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Head of English Department, 2022-24<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Head of English Department, 2015-2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director of New American Studies Masters Specialization Program, 2013-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PRIZES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Russel B. Nye Award for the Outstanding Article in the Journal of Popular Culture award: \u201cAmerican War Adventure and the Generic Pleasures of Military Violence: Clint Eastwood\u2019s American Sniper\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Popular Culture<\/em>, Vol. 51, Issue 6, Dec. 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE AND INVITED ADDRESSES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Language of Integration: The Power and Powerlessness of Words in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy,\u201d ALPS Summer School, Vaumarcus, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe 2024 Presidential Election: What Happened and Why,\u201d Invited Address to Swiss Parliamentarians of the Socialist Party, Bern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Counterculture and its Influence on the War on Drugs,\u201d Invited Guest Talk for the Swiss Society of Psychedelic Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cCalifornia Gothic,\u201d Roundtable at the International Gothic Association (IGA) Biennial Conference, Halifax, Canada&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cEnvisioning the Ecological Future,\u201d Invited Talk at the University of Lodz, Poland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cPsychedelics in Literature and Culture: 1950s to the Present.\u201d Invited Talk at the University of Freiburg, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cLSD and the 1960s Counterculture.\u201d Presentation at the invitation of the Psychedelic Awareness Association of Lausanne. UNIL.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar as Adventure: Violence, Pleasure and Masculinity,\u201d Invited Talk at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts, University of Munich (online)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cApocalypse, Utopia and Ernest Callenbach\u2019s Ecotopian Vision,\u201d Keynote at the&nbsp;Consumption, Sufficiency and Futures Imaginaries International Workshop at the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;University of Geneva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar, Anthropocene, Imagination,\u201d presentation as part of a panel on the \u201cMilitarized Anthropocene\u201d at the Biennial EAAS Conference organised by the University of Warsaw \u2014 ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar Gothic,\u201d Keynote at the International Gothic Association Biennial Conference,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lewis University, Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cProgress, Utopia, and Apocalypse: The Overlapping Temporalities of the 19th Century,\u201d Keynote at the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;Biennial Conference of the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, University of Exeter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar, Affect, Genre.\u201d John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe American Woman Warrior: A Transnational Feminist Look at War, Imperialism and Gender.\u201d EAAS Women\u2019s Studies Network Conference, UNIL&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Current State of American Studies.\u201d Keynote lecture at the Polish American Studies Association Conference. November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cTransatlantic Gothic.\u201d Invited lecture at the University of Bern, Nov. 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cFrom Iwo Jima to Iraq: Approaching Combat Death Through Genre.\u201d Invited lecture in the American Studies Center Colloquium Series. April 14, 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cJohn Wayne and Post-War Paternity.\u201d Invited lecture at the American Studies Center, Warsaw.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cLincoln et la guerre,\u201d Guest lecture at the Institute des Am\u00e9riques, Universit\u00e9 de&nbsp;&nbsp;Nice, Sophia Antipolis&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Adventure Genre, Or, the Sensationalist Origins of Naturalist and Modernist Fiction.\u201d Invited lecture at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar Gothic.\u201d Keynote at the&nbsp;<em>All That Gothic<\/em>&nbsp;International Conference, Lodz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Transnational Zombie: Postcolonial Memory and Rage in the Recent European Horror Film.\u201d&nbsp;Invited lecture at&nbsp;<em>American Media<\/em>&nbsp;conference, Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Gothic and Fantastic: What&#8217;s the Difference?&#8221; Keynote at the X&nbsp;<em>Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantastica: Paisajes goticos<\/em>, Lausanne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Altered States of Consciousness and Literature,&nbsp;<\/em>English Doctoral School 3-day Workshop, Cr\u00eat-B\u00e9rard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Reconsidering the Human and Humanism in the Environmental Humanities,&nbsp;<\/em>English Doctoral School Conference, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature &amp; Film: New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference,&nbsp;<\/em>International Gothic Association, A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference, Simon Fraser University, ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Queer Theory and Literary Study,<\/em>&nbsp;English Doctoral School Conference, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Ecological Emergency: The Role of Language and Narrative in Ecological Change,<\/em>&nbsp;English Department Lecture Series, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Writing Contemporary Wars and Contemporary Militaries: Film and Literature of Military Interventions from the Persian Gulf to the Present.<\/em>&nbsp;Conference at UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Talking about Race and Racism.&nbsp;<\/em>Conference cycle in Autumn 2021 at UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Narratives of (Un)Sustainability<\/em>. Conference at UNIL&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PHD Day,&nbsp;<em>Interviews and Mindful Writing Strategies<\/em>, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>American Studies: Looking Backwards and Forw<\/em>ards, CUSO Workshop with Cynthia Wu (SUNY Buffalo) and Tomasz Basiuk (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>American Gothic Study Day&nbsp;<\/em>(with invited speakers from Lancaster University and Manchester Metropolitan University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Transnational American Studies<\/em>, UNIL&nbsp;&nbsp;(CUSO workshop with invited speakers from University of Graz and Uppsala University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>New Narratives of the Cold War<\/em>, UNIL\u2028(International Conference with 50 participants, including invited speakers from Univeristy of Kentucky and CUNY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Postfeminism<\/em>, UNIL (Doctoral School conference with Angela McRobbie and Rosalind Gill)\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Emotion, Affect and Sentiment: The Language and Literature of Feeling,<\/em>&nbsp;SAUTE (Swiss Association of University Teachers of English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gothic Figures of Race<\/em>, UNIL (with invited speakers from Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Brighton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Literature and Altered States&nbsp;<\/em>Doctoral Colloquium, Cr\u00eat B\u00e9rard, Switzerland\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Crossing the Americas\/Cruzas las Americas<\/em>: Hemispheric American Studies, Geneva and Lausanne\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2008&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Reading Visual Media&nbsp;<\/em>International Colloquium, Cr\u00eat-B\u00e9rard\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2008&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Writing American Women: Gender, Text, Performance&nbsp;<\/em>Conference, Cr\u00eat-B\u00e9rard 2007&nbsp;<em>American Counterculture&nbsp;<\/em>Conference, University of Lausanne&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSur la route avec Eo,\u201d&nbsp;Comparative Literature Conference&nbsp;(CIEL):&nbsp;<em>Premier r\u00f4le aux animaux autres qu\u2019humains dans les fictions : Agentivit\u00e9, exp\u00e9rience, point de vue,&nbsp;<\/em>UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201c\u2019James Baldwin in Switzerland: \u2018A Stranger in the Village\u2019\u201d for a Study Day on Pierre&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Koralnik, organized by the UNIL Cinema Department and the Cinemath\u00e8que Suisse, Lausanne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cFungal Transcendence: Psychedelic Sequences in Mushroom Horror,\u201d International Gothic Association (IGA) Biennial Conference, Halifax, Canada&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSustainability in Humanities Research,\u201d Roundtable at the Faculty of Arts Research Day, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Ecological Emergency: The Role of Language and Narrative,\u201d UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cMushroom Horror.\u201d International Gothic Association, Trinity College University,&nbsp;Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar as Adventure: Pleasure, Violence and Masculinity,\u201d International Conference:&nbsp;<em>From \u00c2ventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and Texts,&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;University of Munich, ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cHow to Speak about Race and Racism in the Classroom,\u201d UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar, Anthropocene, Imagination,\u201d \u201cMilitarized Anthropocene\u201d Panel, EAAS Biennial&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Conference, Warsaw ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cHaunted Trees and Dead People, Apocalypse Nowadays,\u201d Haunted Nature Conference, University of W\u00fcrzburg&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Participation in Round Table on \u201cPrimitivism in Literature,\u201d French Department, UNIL&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cDe-conditioning, Brainwashing or Enlightenment: LSD and the Psychedelic Revolution&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Against the Backdrop of War in the 1960s,\u201d Basel Conference Presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWar Gothic,\u201d International Gothic Association, Chicago, Lewis University, Keynote Address<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAmerican Counterculture and the Hippie,\u201d UNIL, Zelig Pub Public Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAdventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War,\u201d Narrative Conference, Lexington, KY&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cFrom Brook Farm to Burning Man: Alternative Communities in the United States,\u201d Swiss Association for North American Studies, Bern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAdventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>European Association of American Studies. Constanta, Romania&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe White Terror\u201d: Richard Wright and the Southern Gothic,\u201d International Gothic Association Biennial Conference, Vancouver&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s Okay to Watch on the Monitor: Torture and&nbsp;<em>Zero Dark Thirty,<\/em>&#8221; European Association of American Studies (EAAS), The Hague&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Lincoln and War: The Gettysburg Address in American Culture,&#8221; Inaugural Address, University of Lausanne&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Monstrous Invasions, Contaminations, and Cross-Fertilizations: American Horror and European Cinema,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>American Media-European Cultures: Negotations of Transnational Exchange<\/em>, Munich&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Night Vision Technology in the Contemporary Horror Film,&#8221; International Gothic Association Biennial Conference, Surrey, UK&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Gothic and Fantastic: What&#8217;s the Difference?&#8221; Keynote at the X Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantastica: Paisajes goticos, Lausanne, June 2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Blood Brothers: Nation, Combat and the Fraternal Metaphor,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Journ\u00e9e d&#8217;\u00e9tude&nbsp;<\/em>\u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Bourgogne (Dijon): Time Heals all Wounds, Resisting the Authority of History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism, May 2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Political Emotions: Civil Religion and Melodrama in Spielberg&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Lincoln<\/em>,&#8221; SAUTE: Emotion, Affect and Sentiment, UNIL, April 2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cMaxine Hong Kingston as Counterculture Writer,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tude<\/em>: Revolution and Utopias: Counter-Cultural Narratives in the U.S. 1960s, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall\u00e9e, Paris&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cCombat Death and the Cultural Work of Self-Sacrifice.\u201d Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World, 1780-2010,&#8221; Berne University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Race and Conflict in the Representation of the Iraq War:&nbsp;<em>Over There&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Generation Kill<\/em>,&#8221; Swiss Association of North American Studies Biennial Conference, University of Zurich&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cGender and Nationalism in Spanish-American War Fiction: Kirk Munroe\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Forward, March!&nbsp;<\/em>(1899).\u201d ESSE Biennial Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAll Brothers Now: Performances of Race in Recent TV Series and Films of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.\u201d MESEA Biennial Conference, Barcelona.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe \u2018Good High Days\u2019: Maxine Hong Kingston and a Counterculture Politics of Dope.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The (Modern) Concept of Intoxication\/Rausch&nbsp;<\/em>International Conference, Albert- Ludwigs Universit\u00e4t, Freiburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBatman as Gothic Hero,\u201d Invited Lecture at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cHuman Pets and Pretty Zombies: The Ethical Universe of Joss Whedon\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dollhouse<\/em>,\u201d International Gothic Association Biennial Conference, Heidelberg&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe flower that blooms above the dead\u201d: Flowers in the Visual Rhetoric of War Commemoration,\u201d SANAS\/AASA joint conference, Innsbruck, Austria&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBlack Like Me: Tropes of Racial Transformation in Contemporary American Cinema,\u201d ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), Turin, Italy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cCivil Religion, War and National Renewal,\u201d EAAS Biennial Conference, Dublin, Ireland&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cHemingway\u2019s Poetics of Distantiation,\u201d 14th Annual Hemingway conference, Lausanne&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Politics of Realism,\u201d SANAS Annual Conference, Basel&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cNight Vision, Body Genres, and Female Monsters: Recent Trends in the Contemporary Horror Film,\u201d International Gothic Association (IGA) Biennial Conference, Lancaster, UK&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Aesthetics of Cynical Cool: Male Writers and the Vietnam War,\u201d Swiss Association of University Teachers of English Biennial Conference (SAUTE), Fribourg&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grant, Cultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Bern, for conference:&nbsp;<em>New Narratives of the Cold War<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grant, FNS, for conference on:&nbsp;<em>Crossing the Americas\/Cruzar las Am\u00e9ricas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grant,&nbsp;<em>Fondation du 450\u00e8me<\/em>&nbsp;for conference:&nbsp;<em>Crossing the Americas\/Cruzar las&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Am\u00e9ricas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grant, Cultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Bern, for conference:&nbsp;<em>Crossing the Americas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2004&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grant, Cultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Bern, for Study Trip to New York for students&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in advanced seminar on Hart Crane\u2019s \u201cThe Bridge\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grant, Cultural Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Bern, to attend \u201cTheories of American<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Culture\u201d Conference, John F. 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