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Amy Doherty Mohr teaches courses in American literature, with a focus on modernism, literature and society, and regional literature. Before moving to Munich, she was a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her PhD in English from Tufts University and her MA from Brown University. She has published essays in scholarly journals in Europe and the US, including The European Journal of American Studies and The Southern Quarterly.
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Schellingstraße 3 / VG
80799 München
Telefon:
+49 (0)89 2180-2848
E-Mail:
amy.mohr@lmu.de
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New 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, https://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, https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/1/8.
Essays
“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, 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, Spring 2021, 75–93.
Lectures
- “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, 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, 21 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 (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), University of Central Lancashire, Larnaca, Cyprus, 26-29 May 2022.
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.