Dr. Mareike Spychala

Monographien

• Military Femininities: Gender and Imperialism in Autobiographies by Female Iraq War Veterans. DeGruyter, 2025. (In Arbeit)

Herausgeberschaften

• Seit September 2024: Mitglied des Editorial Boards der Open Access Fachzeitschrift Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS)
• Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery, edited by Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala, Liverpool UP, 2020.
• War and Trauma in Past and Present: Conference Proceedings. Eds. Lina Strempel, Chiara Manghi, and Mareike Spychala, Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, 2019. 
• Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), Vol. 17, No 1 (2016). Hrsg. mit einer Einleitung. Hg. Laura Oehme, Judith Rauscher, Theresa Roth. Mareike Spychala.

Kapitel in Sammelbänden

• “What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction, edited by Caroline-Isabelle Caron and Kristin Noone, McFarland, 2024, pp. 159-173.
• “Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes: Superheroines in The Old Guard (2020).” Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture, edited by Stefanie Schäfer und Teresa Hiergeist, transcript, 2024, pp. 225-241
• "'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations'? LGBTQ+ Representation in Star Trek's Shared Universe in the 21st Century." Televisual Shared Universes: Expanded and Converged Storyworlds on the Small Screen, edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhardt and Vincent Tran, Lexington Books, 2023.
• "War and Conflict." The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Eds. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch, Routledge, 2022, pp. 322-331. 
• “Not Your Daddy's Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 287-306.
• mit Sabrina Mittermeier “‘Never hide who you are’:  Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 331-350.
• “’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” War and Trauma in Past and Present: Conference Proceedings, edited by Lina Strempel, Chiara Manghi, and Mareike Spychala, Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, 2019, pp. 181-191. 
• "American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Kolloquium Forschende Frauen 2016 und 2017. Eds. Ute Franz und Iris Hermann, et al. U of Bamberg P, 2018, pp. 109-129. 

Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften

• “Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry.” Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies (In Progress)
• “Nostalgia, Masculinity, and Real Person Fiction: The Obama-Biden and Bernie Sanders Mystery Series." Gender in Crime, Special Issue of Crime Fiction Studies, edited by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, vol. 5, no. 1, March 2024, pp. 98-111.
• "Military femininities and soldierly identity in the Iraq War autobiographies by female U.S. veterans." Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies vol. 19, no. 3, Sep. 2016, pp. 321-336.

Rezensionen

• Review, Arthur Redding, Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture. Gender in Crime: Special Issue of Crime Fiction Studies, edited by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, vol. 5, no. 1, March 2024, pp. 115-117.
• Review, Frank Usbeck. Ceremonial Storytelling. Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2019. H-Soz-Kult. 2022.

Miszellen 

• "Go West?" Anno 23. Das Magazin der Medienjubiläe(22.5 MB)n. Ed. Markus Behmer, Safner 2023, pp. 165.
• “Military SF für das 21. Jahrhundert.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2020, Eds. Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 143-149.
• “‘It’s a work in progress, but so’s life.’ Frauen in Star Trek: Discovery und Doctor Who.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2019, Eds. Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 333-340.
• "Tief im amerikanischen Traum verwurzelt." Anno 18. Das Magazin der Medienjubiläen(77.4 MB, 83 Seiten). Ed. Markus Behmer, Safner 2018, pp.33.

Konferenzpräsentationen und Gastvorträge

• 09/2024: “Telepathic Aliens, Ship’s Doctors, and Female Captains: Stat Trek’s Ambivalent Feminism.” Gastvortrag, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
• 09/2023: "Intercultural Competence via Pop Culture: Using Doctor Who and Star Trek in the Classroom." BaTEG Summer School 2023: (Trans)Cultural Learning in Teacher Education, zusammen mit Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (Universität Bamberg).
• 07/2023: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations? Queere Repräsentation in Star Trek." Queer Geforscht - Veranstaltung der Antidiskriminierungsstelle der Universität Bamberg.
• 06/2023: “Forever Wars – Wars Forever? Military Conflict in American Speculative Narratives.” Gastvortrag an der Universität zu Köln (J.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher, American Literature and Culture)
• 06/2023: "Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt's Poetry." Vortrag im Rahmen der 69. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Universität Rostock.
• 03/2023: "Star Trek und die Kulturen der Galaxis." Star Trek und die Politik, Webcast der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 23. März, 2023. YouTube.com, https://www.youtube.com/live/2O0uMBTtV6E?feature=shared.
• 11/2022: “Women Writing War: Gender and Imperialism in Home Before Morning and Rule Number Two.” Gastvortrag an der Universität Mannheim. (Dr. Katharina Motyl, Amerikanische Literatur- und Kultur­wissenschaft)
• 11/2022: "Counterpedagogy in Sarah Piatt‘s 19th-Century Magazine Poetry." Vortrag im Rahmen des 32. Postgraduierten Forums (PGF) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Universität Regensburg.
• 10/2022: "Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes: Female Superheroines in The Old Guard (2020)." Vortrag im Rahmen der internationalen Konferenz "Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture", Universität Wien.
• 07/2022: "Nostalgia, Masculinity, and Real Person Fiction: The Obama Biden Mysteries Series." Vortrag im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der International Crime Fiction Association (ICFA), and der Universität Bamberg.
• 07/2022: "Bürgersoldat*in und trans Frau: Transgender Life Writing in Kristin Becks Warrior Princess." Queer Geforscht - Veranstaltung der Antidiskriminierungsstelle der Universität Bamberg.
• 04/2022: “What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Jahrestagung der Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA). Online.
• 06/2021: “Military Femininities in Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More Than You.” Vortrag im Rahmen des Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, USA. Online.
• 01/2021: “War Posters and Propaganda.” Gastvortrag im Proseminar “Experiencing, Remembering and Processing the Great War in British Literature” (Dr. Münderlein, Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bamberg).
• 05/2020: “’visions of war:’ Resisting the Iraq War in Laila Halaby’s Post-9/11 Poetry” - Gastvortrag im Hauptseminar "Contemporary Arab American Literature" (Prof. Dr. Gerhardt und Prof. Dr. Behzadi, Universität Bamberg). 
• 06/2019: "Images of War: U.S. Popular Culture as Militainment." Workshop im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft in Amerikastudien (DGfA) zusammen mit Dr. Katharina Gerund, Universität Hamburg. 
• 04/2019: "Transgressing Gendered Boundaries: Kristin Beck’s Autobiography
  Warrior Princess." Jahrestagung der Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Washington, D.C., USA. 
• 12/2018: "'The Witch of Wurna Minor:' Gender, Sexuality, and the Mirror Universe in the Star Trek Franchise." Worlding SF. Kalr-Franzens-Universität Graz, Österreich.
• 11/2018: "Honor Flights, Veterans, and Military Pilgrimages in American Popular Culture." 45th Austrian Association for American Studies Conference: American Im/Mobilities. Universität Wien, Österreich. 
• 10/2018: "The Canon and its Discontents - Questions of Genre, Canon, and Narrative in Star Trek: Discovery." Screening and Discussion. University of Birmingham, Großbritannien.  
• 09/2018: "Illustrating War: Gender, Violence, and War in Photographs in Female Veterans' Autobiographies." Writing Her/Self in Text and Image in Anglophone Women's Life Writing. Université Paris Nanterre, Frankreich.
• 09/2018: “Judging a Book by its Cover: Gender, Violence, and War on the Covers of Female Veterans' Autobiographies.” War, Literature, and the Arts Conference: Representing and Remembering War, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA).
• 03/2017: “’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” Century of Conflict: Dialogues on Women, Gender, Intersectionality and Militarism – 2017 Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
• 10/2016: "From Vietnam to Iraq - Female Veterans' Writing About War." Postgraduate Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Universität Hamburg.
• 06/2016:  "American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Kolloquium  „FORSCHEnde Frauen" organisiert von den Frauenbeauftragten der Universität Bamberg.
• 03/2016: "Gender in the Auto/Biography of the Iraq War and Popular Culture.“ Jahrestagung der Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Seattle, Washington (USA).
• 01/2014: "We only think we're American": Being an American Jew in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. Präsentationauf der Studierendenkonferenz "Connect the Dots: Structure-Networks-Systems", Universität Bayreuth.