Wiebke Kartheus, M. A.

Research Interests

Museum studies/ Museology
Institutional history and self-naration
Modern and contemporary architecture
Politics of exhibition making
Art and capitalism
Race and ethnicity in the art museum
Feminist and queer theories
Forms of visual narration (e.g. comics, graphic novels, music videos, etc.)

Current Project:

"Museum Studies as American Studies: Tracing a Relationship by Looking at American Art Museums and Their Architecture" (PhD)

University Education

11/2016-Present	PhD American Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
10/2017-03/2018	Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston
10/2012-03/2015	Graduate studies (MA), American Studies, Leipzig University
04/2008-09/2012	Undergraduate studies (BA), World English Literatures and Cultures and Art History, Saarland University

Scholarships

06/2018	PhD Bavarian American Academy (BAA) 2018 summer academy in cooperation with Florida International University in Miami on “Questions of the Archive”
10/2017-03/2018	Doctoral research stipend, Fulbright Commission, Berlin
02/2018	Travel grant for a research trip to Miami, Graduate School for the Humanities, Göttingen (GSGG)
12/2017	Travel grant for a research trip to Denver, Graduate School for the Humanities, Göttingen (GSGG)
11/2017	Travel grant for a research trip to Chicago and Milwaukee, Graduate School for the Humanities, Göttingen (GSGG)

Publications

"Bargaining for Prestige in the Exhibition: The Ambiguous Relationship between Economic and Non-Economic Capital and Its Effects." COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 17.1 (2016).
"The ‘other’ as Projection Screen: Authenticating Heroic Masculinity in War-Themed Heavy Metal Music Videos." Metal Music Studies 1.3 (Sept. 2015): 319-40.
with Bast, Florian, et al. "American Anxieties." Einleitung. aspeers: Emerging Voices in American Studies. 7 (2014). vii-xvi.
with Adamkiewicz, Ewa, et al. "Memories in American Studies." Einleitung. aspeers: Emerging Voices in American Studies. 6 (2013). xii-xxi.

Reviews

"Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch." Buchrezension. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (2017): 1-3. Taylor & Francis.

Talks and Conference Papers

"Museums as Places of Constructing the Past and Present." Guest lecture. American Studies Department University of Graz (June 13, 2018).
"Museum Studies as American Studies." 10th Annual Summer Academy of the Bavarian America Academy “Questions of the Archive” June 2 – June 10, 2018 (Miami, June 6, 2018).
"Museum Studies as American Studies: Tracing a Relation by Looking at American Art Museums and Their Architecture." Research Colloquium at the Department of American Studies, Leipzig University (30 November, 2016)
"The Whitney Museum of American Art: Presenting Art, Preserving Value, and Shaping the American Art Scene." Regional-Kolloquium for American Studies. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle (Saale), April 29, 2016)
"Presenting Art, Preserving Value: The American Art Museum and Capitalism in the 21st Century." Research Colloquium at the Department of American Studies. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (January 27, 2016)
"Can We Trust Our Eyes? Edward Snowden and the Image of the Empty Seat." Trust Issues: Community, Contingency, and Security in North America. JFKI Graduate Conference 2014. Freie Universität Berlin (May 9 – 10, 2014).
"Stereotypes, Rupture, and Potential: ‘The Other’ in Heavy Metal Music Videos Displaying Wars in the Middle East." Metal and Marginalisation: Gender, Race, Class and Other Implications for Hard Rock and Metal. Centre for Women’s Studies and the International Society of Metal Music Scholars (York, April 11, 2014).
"Metallica’s Music Video for The Day that Never Comes (2008): Contesting ‘Islamophobia’ or Reaffirming Established Patriotic Narratives?" American Wars: Material and Ideological Battlegrounds. 12th Annual Student and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (7 – 9 November, 2013).