Selina Foltinek
http://www.americanstudies.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Foltinek_Selina/index.php

University of Bayreuth
Germany

 

Selina Foltinek is a research assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) of the DFG-funded project “The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in late 19th and early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture” at the University of Bayreuth. She completed her first state exam at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2018/19 (English, History, Social and Political Science) and holds a B.A. in English and History. In 2015/16, she spent ten months as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, U.S. In 2020, she received the Duke University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) to research for her Ph.D. thesis, which is tentatively titled “Knowledge Production and Negotiations of Agency in Semi-Autobiographical Fiction about Female Same-Sex Relationships.” Her research interests include gender and queer studies, postcritique, knowledge production, and US-American literatures from the 19th and 20th century.