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Dr. Amy Doherty Mohr
Amerika-Institut
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schellingstr. 3/VG
80799 München
Amy.Mohr@lmu.de

CURRENT POSITION

Lecturer, American Literature. Academic Associate, Department of English and American Studies, LMU Munich. 2009–present.

Contact for student exchanges with the University of Georgia and Wayne State University.

RESEARCH

  • Imagining place in American literature, with a focus on the Global South and postwar literature.
  • Pedagogy, particularly the teaching of literature, and academic and creative writing in an international context.

Associated Fellow: “Practicing Place: Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations.” GRK 2589, DFG-funded research training group. Speaker: Professor Dr. Robert Schmidt, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. April 2021-present.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, Tufts University

M.A., English, Brown University

B.A., English and Spanish, Bates College. High Honors in English.

POSITIONS HELD

Editor, Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, Rachel Carson Center, LMU. 1 Oct.–31 May 2023.

Lecturer, American Literature, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001–09. English Department Outstanding Teaching Award, 2008.

Instructor, English Department, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 1998–99.

Visiting Scholar, Center for Gender Studies, U of Chicago, 1998–99.

Lecturer, Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 1997.

Lecturer, Sweetland Center for Writing/English Composition Board, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1995–97.

PUBLICATIONS

Interviews

Sollors, Werner. “A Conversation with Werner Sollors on The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s.” Interview by John Wharton Lowe and Amy Mohr. Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 69, no. 2, 2024, pp. 171–92, doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/2/7.

García, Cristina. “‘Secrets are Potent Marginal Areas’: An Interview with Cristina García.” Interview by John Wharton Lowe and Amy Mohr. Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 69, no. 1, 2024, pp. 81–94, doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/1/8.

Edited Collections

New Interpretations of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. Edited by Amy Mohr and Mark-Olival Bartley. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena. Edited with a critical introduction by Amy Doherty, Arte Público Press, 1997, pp. vii–l.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Digital Teaching and Learning in the Humanities: Challenges and Innovations, Principles and Practice.” Education, Technology & Culture, edited by John Dean and Gerhard Finster, co-edited by Konstantinos D. Karatzas and Olga Akroyd, GIRES Press (GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship), 2023, 38–54.

“What happens to a dream deferred?”: Home and Civil Rights in A Raisin in the Sun.” Perspectives on Homelessness, edited by Anna Flügge and Giorgia Tommasi, vol. 314, Winter, 2022, pp. 163–86.

“Bearing Witness: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’ and the Ethical Power of Testimony.” Southern Studies in Europe, special issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited by Lia Kindinger, vol. 58, no. 3, 2021, 75–93.

“Myths of Domesticity and Mobility in Grace King’s “A Crippled Hope” and "The Little Convent Girl.” Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Grace King and Modernism, edited by Melissa Walker Heidari and Brigitte Zaugg, Routledge, 2019, pp. 119–31.

“Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman: Literary and Cultural Contexts.” New Interpretations of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, edited by Amy Mohr and Mark Olival-Bartley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 155–88.

“Over There: Willa Cather’s Mobilization of Domestic Spaces in One of Ours.” Critical Regionalism, edited by Klaus Lösch, Heike Paul, and Meike Zwingenberger, Bavarian America Academy Series, Winter, 2016, 153–71.

“Meanings of Mobility in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” Willa Cather Newsletter & Review, vol. 58, no. 1, 2015, pp. 9–16.

“Down the River, Out to Sea: Mobility, Immobility, and Creole Identity in New Orleans Regionalist Fiction (1880–1910).” European Journal of American Studies, Special Issue: Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism, vol. 9, no. 3, 2014, ejas.revues.org/10412.

“Teaching Cather in Munich, Germany.” Teaching Cather, vol. 10, no. 1, Summer 2014, pp. 4–20

Doherty, Amy. “Redefining the Borders of Local Color Fiction: María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction in The Century Magazine.” “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916, edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves, University of Iowa P, 2001, pp. 165–78.

Doherty, Amy. “Representing Mexico: María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction in The Century Magazine, 1913–1916.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III, edited by María Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, Arte Público Press, 1999, pp. 92–102.

Book Review: In the Country of Lost Borders: New Critical Essays on My Ántonia, edited by Stéphanie Durrans, Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2017. 192 pp. European Journal of American Studies [Online], Reviews 2017-3, journals.openedition.org/ejas/12357.

Reference Articles

“María Cristina Mena (1893-1965).” Biographical headnote; Recommendations for Instructor’s Guide. Heath Anthology of American Literature, general editor Paul Lauter, 7th ed., vol. D, Cengage, 2014, pp. 1599–1624.

“María Cristina Mena Chambers.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, edited by Nicolas Kanellos, vol. 2, Greenwood, 2008, pp. 758–61.

Finding Aid: The Maria Cristina Mena Chambers Papers. Wrote formal documentation of an extensive archive of personal papers for the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, University of Houston, 2006.

Research Grant: The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena

A research grant from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, University of Houston, supported archival research at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress for the recovery and analysis of the short fiction of María Cristina Mena, a Mexican-American woman who published in major literary magazines in the U.S. in the early twentieth century, leading to the publication of The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena, Arte Público Press, 1997.

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY COLLABORATIONS

LMU-UGA Faculty Research Exchange. John Wharton Lowe, Barbara Methvin Professor, Department of English, University of Georgia, visited the Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich, 5–8 July 2022. Research visit to UGA, 19¬–24 September 2022.

UGA Faculty visit: Andrew Zawacki (University of Georgia). Poetry workshop and peer review. 23 June 2023.

New Orleans Conference: Bryan Wagner, LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities, Summer Semester 2022. Bryan Wagner, Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley, co-organized the New Orleans: A Sense of Place conference and visited my Master’s level seminar on New Orleans literature. Current project: An Open Curriculum on New Orleans Culture, a collaborative initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Virtual Student Dialogue: Cross-cultural discussion with students from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Co-organized with Dr. Nancy Goldfarb, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, and Annabell Türk, Program and Communications Manager, Amerika-Institut alumna BA 2015, IU Europe Gateway, Berlin, 25 January 2022.

COURSE TOPICS

Master’s Program, American History, Culture and Society

Literature of the American West
Literature and the Public Humanities
Postwar American Literature
Harlem Renaissance Literature
Contemporary American Short Fiction and Essays
Creative Writing (open to Master’s students in the Faculty of Languages and Literatures)

Bachelor's Program in North American Studies

Literary Periods: Modernist American Literature; American Literature 1945–65.

Place and the Environment: Southern Literature; New Orleans Literature; Caribbean American Literature; Nature and the Environment in American Literature; Regionalist Literature; Native American Literature; Road Narratives in American Fiction and Film; Canadian Literature; Willa Cather

Literature and Society: Essays and Poetry on African American Identity; Contemporary Immigration Narratives; Media and the Individual in American Literature and Culture

Literary Analysis and Academic Writing
The Art of the Essay
Grundkurs I: Introduction to the Study of American Literature and Media (with Anna Flügge)

Thesis Advisor: Master's Thesis (14 MA Theses), Bachelor's Thesis, Bachelor's Thesis Colloquium, Independent Study Projects.

SCHREIBZENTRUM/WRITING CENTER

Affiliated Member, Schreibzentrum/Writing Center.

Tutor Trainer and Coordinator for the Schreibzentrum/Writing Center, Amerika-Institut, Department of English and American Studies. Funded by Lehre@LMU, 2014–17. Designed tutor training program, conducted workshops, advised writing tutors, managed allocated funding. Earned TutorPlus Certification (80+ hours). Completed over 90 hours of workshops towards the Zertifikat Hochschullehre Bayern. (Certificate for University Teaching in Bavaria).

PROFiL courses: Completed over 90 hours of workshops towards the Zertifikat Hochschullehre Bayern (Certificate for University Teaching in Bavaria).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

New Orleans: A Sense of Place: Environmental and Cultural Resilience, an Interdisciplinary Conference. Collaboration with Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley), Nadine Klopfer (LMU), Pierre Héli-Monot (LMU). Co-convened by the Amerika-Institut and the Rachel Carson Center. Invited speakers from Berkeley, Tulane University, and the University of New Orleans. Funded by the Rachel Carson Center, the LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities Cooperation, and the Bavarian American Academy. LMU Munich and Amerikahaus, 21–22 July 2022.

Harper Lee: Revisions, an International Conference. Co-organized with Mark Olival-Bartley. Invited speakers from the University of South Carolina; Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main; Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; University of Santiago, Spain; Cairo University/Fulbright Professor, 2015-16 Harvard University. Funded by the Bavarian American Academy, DVA (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt). Junior Year in Munich, LMU and Amerikahaus, 23–25 June 2016.

PRESENTATIONS

American Literature and Approaches to Teaching

 “Talking, Storytelling, and Testimony: Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’” (2018) by Zora Neale Hurston.” Strange Talk? Practices and Politics of Dialect in US Literature and Media, Co-organized with Lia Kindinger, American Soundscapes, DGfA/GAAS Annual Meeting, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 25 May 2024.

“Cultural Memory and Displacement in post-WWII American Literature: A Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘D.P.’ (1953) and Kay Boyle’s ‘Home’ (1951).” UGA-LMU Faculty Exchange. English Department, University of Georgia, 21 Sept. 2022.

“Rewriting New Orleans in Contemporary Literature.” New Orleans, A Sense of Place: Environmental and Cultural Resilience, an Interdisciplinary Conference. Co-convened by the Amerika-Institut and the Rachel Carson Center. LMU Munich and Amerikahaus, 21–22 July 2022.

“Cultural Memory and Displacement in post-WWII American Literature: A Study of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s by Werner Sollors.” MESEA Conference 2022 (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), University of Central Lancashire, Larnaka, Cyprus, 26–29 May 2022.

“Digital Teaching and Learning in the Humanities: Challenges and Innovations, Principles and Practice.” Keynote Lecture, International Virtual Conference. Education, Technology and Culture in Crisis: Secondary and Higher Education in a Time of Virtual Instruction. Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship (GIRES). 15–16 May 2021.

“‘yuh got tuh go there tuh know there’: Zora Neale Hurston’s Literary Expressions of Migration as Testimony.” Doing Southern Studies Today. Humboldt University, Berlin, 13–15 Jan. 2021.

“U.S. Education and the Pandemic: Literary and Cultural Insights.” Pandemics in American History & Culture. Online Lecture Series. Amerika-Institut, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, 7 Jan. 2021.

“Revision and Race: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman.” Fulbright Lecture Series 2016. Department of English and American Studies, LMU Munich, 22 June 2016.

“Walking the Line: Rights and the Reader.” US Rights in Education. 63. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) / Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies, Osnabrück, Germany. 21 May 2016.

“The Spirit of the Archive: The Significance of the María Cristina Mena Chambers Papers.” The Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. Special Collections, University of Houston. Skype presentation, 22 Apr. 2015.

“Germany’s Presence and Absence in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark and One of Ours.” Cather in Europe / Europe in Cather. Symposium in Rome. Centro Studi Americani, Rome. Willa Cather Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 12–14 June 2014.

Erasmus Faculty Mobility Lectures

Lectures on Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; "Mobility, Immobility and Creole Identity in New Orleans Regionalist Fiction: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes"; Presentation to EMMA Research Group: Writing the Color Line in New Orleans Regionalist Fiction: Grace King's "The Little Convent Girl" and Alice Dunbar Nelson's "The Stones of the Village." Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France. 30 Mar.–7 Apr. 2015.

Seminars in American Literature: Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”; Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. University of Tours, France. 1–5 April 2013.

GUEST LECTURES: Organizer/Moderator

John Wharton Lowe (University of Georgia), “Here in Berlin: Transatlantic Convergence in the Work of Cristina García and Werner Sollors.” Amerika-Institut, LMU 5 July 2022.

Dan Sinykin (Emory University), "Pandemic and Apocalypse: A Warning." Pandemics in American History & Culture. Online Lecture Series, Amerika-Institut, Rachel Carson Center, LMU, 4 Feb. 2021.

Bryan Wagner (University of California, Berkeley) "The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love." American Studies Today Online Lecture Series, Amerika-Institut, LMU, 12 Jan. 2021.

Robert Brinkmeyer (Professor/Director of Southern Studies, U of South Carolina), “Exclusion, Resistance, and Populism: Understanding Contemporary America through the Lens of Southern Literature.” Amerikahaus, 19 June 2017. “Southern Literary Regionalism and Populism: A Discussion.” Amerika-Institut, 20 June 2017.

Christa Buschendorf (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), “The Black Prophetic Tradition: Leadership Models in the Civil Rights Tradition and in #BlackLivesMatter.” 29 Nov. 2016. “Bodily Knowledge in Edward P. Jones’s Novel The Known World (2003)” 30 Nov. 2016. Supported by the Amerika Haus Verein.

Page Laws (Norfolk State University). “The Warmth of Other Memories: Reclaiming the Traumas and Triumphs of African America’s Great Migration.” Fulbright Lecture Series 2016. Department of English and American Studies. 29 June 2016.

Judy Wu (Ohio State University). "Eldridge Cleaver Visits Pyongyang, Hanoi, and Peking: Afro-Asian Internationalism, Radical Orientalism, and Global Feminism.” Amerika-Institut, LMU-Munich. Guest Lecture. Moderator. 16 Oct. 2014.

Jessica Pliley (Texas State University). “Saving White Slaves, Supervising Wives, & Policing Prostitutes: The FBI’s Enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act in America, 1910–41.” 3 July 2014.

Bruce Michelson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). “Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and The Motions of the Mind.” Amerika-Institut/Bavarian American Academy/Bavarian American Center. Amerikahaus, Munich. Guest Lecture. 6 June 2011.

Elizabeth Ammons (Tufts University). “Rising Waters: American Literature and the Fight for Environmental Justice.” North American Literature Program, Amerika-Institut, LMU-Munich. 15 June 2010.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Specialist Reviewer, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS)

Professional Memberships: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien/ German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Bavarian American Academy (BAA), MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US), MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas).