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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

Name: Dr. Gunter Süß

Work Address: TU Chemnitz

Anglistik/Amerikanistik

09107 Chemnitz

Germany

Work Telephone Number: ++49 (0) 3 71-5 31 49 20 or 42 77 Work Fax Number: ++49 (0) 3 71-531 40 53

Email Address: gunter.suess@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de

Website: http://www.guntersuess.de

Private Address: Stollberger Straße 19a

09380 Thalheim

Germany

Private Telephone and Fax: ++49 (0) 37 21-27 09 37

Born: 09 October 1974 in Stollberg

Family Status: married, one daughter

Nationality: German

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DUCATION

2005 PhD in American and British Studies (“summa cum laude”), Chemnitz University of Technology

1995-2000 Master of Arts (American and British Studies, Media Studies), Dresden University of Technology

1997 Studies in American History, Literature and Media Theory, Belmont University Nashville (USA)

1994-1995 Studies in Mathematics, English and Teacher Training, Dresden University of Technology

1991-1993 ‘Abitur’: (general qualification for university entrance), Oelsnitz High School

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XPERIENCE

since 12/2000 Assistant Professor

Department of British and American Studies Chemnitz University of Technology

07-12/2000 Research Associate, “Interaction with fictional hypertexts” Project, funded by the German Research Council (DFG)

American Studies

Chemnitz University of Technology

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2000 Freelance analysis of news websites for mdr Leipzig (regional broadcasting network)

1999-2000 Student Assistant; Department of British and American Studies, Dresden University of Technology

1998-2000 Freelance journalist for the internet magazine Dresden-Neustadt-Online

Dresden

1997-2000 Freelance content manager for the music agency Manic Music Dresden

1995 Freelance journalist Freie Presse Stollberg

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OMPULSORY NATIONAL

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ERVICE

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OURSES

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AUGHT

Courses are part of the M.A. program British and American Studies and the B.A. program Media Communication

Summer term 2006

• Music Video Ambulance (Seminar)

• _{Realism, Naturalism (Seminar)}

Winter term 2005/2006

• _{Music Video Ambulance (Seminar)} • _{Hip Hop, Part II (Seminar)}

• “Please Cry, My Dear”: A History of Melodrama (Seminar) • Hip Hop, Part I (Seminar)

• _{Postmodernism (Seminar)} • _{Computer Games (Seminar)}

• Introduction to Literary Studies: Introduction to Film Studies (Lecture course)

• Multimedia Revisited (Seminar)

• Nothing As It Seems - Contemporary American Cinema II (Seminar)

• All Quiet in the West? – Contemporary American Cinema (Seminar)

• Academic Research and Writing – on- and offline (Seminar)

• Controversial Issues in American Studies (Pro-/Advanced seminar)

• _{Introduction to Literary Studies: Introduction to Film Studies (Lecture course)} • _{More than Beep: Sound and Multimedia (Seminar)}

• Between McJob and Lollapalooza – 90s Youth Cultures (Seminar)

• Academic Research and Writing – on- and offline (Seminar)

• Evil Empires, Iron Ladies and Teflon Presidents: Eighties' Cinema and Ideology (Seminar)

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• Introduction to the Analysis of Film (Seminar)

• Popular Music (Seminar)

• Popular Culture in the Internet Age (Advanced seminar)

together with Evelyne Keitel, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn

• _{Internet and American Studies (Seminar)} • _{Contemporary American Literature (Seminar)}

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UBLICATIONS

Books:

• Sound Subjects: Zur Rolle des Tons in Film und Computerspiel. Trier:

WVT, 2006, 179 pp.

As Editor:

• Literature and the Media (Conference Proceedings “Literature and the

Media“) Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT

(forthcoming).

• Computerspiele - Eine Provokation für die Kulturwissenschaften?

Eds. Evelyne Keitel, Gunter Süß, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2003, 126 pp.

Essays:

• _{“Intermedialität/Intermediality – An Introduction.”}

together with Werner Huber und Evelyne Keitel, Literature and the Media

(Conference Proceedings “Literature and the Media“)Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT (forthcoming).

• “’Did you ever meet a sexier male chauvinist pig?’: Robbie Williams, Irony,

and Englishness.”

Literature and the Media (Conference Proceedings “Literature and the Media”. Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT (forthcoming).

• “’I've never seen five niggers on Elvis Presley's album cover!’ – Hybridity,

Ethnicity, and Masculinity in Contemporary Crossover Productions”

together with Marcel Hartwig, American Music (Transatlantic and Transnational American Studies). Eds. Wilfried Raussert and John Miller Jones. Münstler: LIT (forthcoming).

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• „Filmstudien und Computerspielanalyse“

Computerspiele - Eine Provokation für die Kulturwissenschaften? Eds. Evelyne Keitel, Gunter Süß, Randi Gunzenhäuser, and Angela Hahn. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2003, 33-48.

• „Fiktionale Texte und Hypertexte im Netz“

together with Evelyne Keitel, Randi Gunzenhäuser, Neue Medien im Alltag: Die Vielfalt individueller Nutzungsweisen. Eds. Nicola Döring und Klaus Boehnke. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2001¸58-76.

• _{„Von Technik zu Kultur und zurück: Berührungspunkte zweier}

Forschungsprojekte im Kontext der Chemnitzer Forschergruppe“ together

with Randi Gunzenhäuser, Annette Henninger, and Andrea Sieber, Chemnitzer Informatik-Berichte Vol. 1 (2001) Eds. Werner Dilger und Evelyne Keitel, 5-20.

• “Integrating the Internet into the English studies programme”

together with Udoka Ogbue, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English, 01 October 2001, <http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic21/kuehn2/

8_2001.html>

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RESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

• „‚Turn your Radio On‘: Intermediality in the Computer Game GTA – San

Andreas“

Multimedia presentation at the Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, planned 09 June 2006.

• “Some Observations on HipHop“

Multimedia presentation at the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Dortmund University, 29/30 October 2005.

• “’You think that I’m strong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong’: Masculinity in

Videos of Robbie Williams”

Multimedia presentation/guest lecture at the department of American Studies, Leipzig University, 28 June 2005.

• “IKEA Boys and Dawgs: Aggressive Masculinities in Fight Club and 8

Mile”

Multimedia presentation at the conference “Intermedialität – Herausforderungen an die Philologien im Medienzeitalter.“ Chemnitz University of Technology, 04 February 2005.

• „My Name is Payne: Sound, Genre und Subjektivität im ’Game-Noir’ Max

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for American Studies (DGfA). Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, 06 November 2004.

• “The Aural in Multimedia Culture“

Multimedia presentation at the Postgraduate Conference “Beyond the Text? Re(Visiting) Hypertextual Phenomena”. English Department. Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, 12 February 2004.

• “’Did you ever meet a sexier male chauvinist pig?’: Robbie Williams, Irony,

and Englishness”

Multimedia presentation at the conference “Literature and the Media”, Chemnitz University of Technology, 16 January 2004.

• „More Than Beep: Zur Rolle des Sound in Computerspielen“

Multimedia presentation at the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Leipzig University, 09 November 2002.

• „There's More to the Picture Than Meets the Eye: Filmstudien und

Computerspielanalyse“

Guest Lecture in the seminar „Die Aneignung von Computerspielen“, Markus Wiemker, Department of Media Communication, Chemnitz University of Technology, 12 June 2002.

• „What 'Clint Eastwood' Can Tell Us – Grundlagen der Analyse

Musikalischer Multimedien“

Multimedia presentation at the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Amerikahaus München, 05 November 2001.

• „Musik digital: Multimedia unter auditiven Gesichtspunkten“

„Hypertexte“ Symposium, University of Tübingen, 02 December 2000.

• „Eine Methode zur Sichtung von Hypertexten“

DFG research group „Neue Medien im Alltag: Von individueller Nutzung zu soziokulturellem Wandel“, Chemnitz University of Technology, 15 November 2000.

• „Integration des Internet in die Englischausbildung“

Humboldt University Berlin, 22 September 2000 (together with Udoka Ogbue).

• „Merkmale kulturellen Wandels”

DFG research group „Neue Medien im Alltag: Von individueller Nutzung zu soziokulturellem Wandel“, Chemnitz University of Technology, 05 July 2000. (together with Randi Gunzenhäuser)

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ONFERENCE ORGANISATION

• HipHop Meets Academia

International Conference at the Chemnitz University of Technology, planned 03/04 August 2006.

• Intermedialität – Herausforderungen an die Philologien im

Medienzeitalter.

International Conference at the Chemnitz University of Technology, 3/4 February 2005.

• _{Literature and the Media.}