Corina Wieser-Cox (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)

Teaching

B.A. English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen:

• Summer Semester 2021: Speculative Queer Fiction in Contemporary US Literature
• Winter Semester 2021/22: Key Moments in the Cultural History of the English-Speaking World 
• Summer Semester 2023: Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Fiction and Poetry in North America
• Winter Semester 2023/24: Of Women and Nature - Ecofeminist Literature in North America

Research Areas

• Borderland & Chicanx Studies
• Queer & Gender Studies
• Horror & Speculative Fiction and Film
• Trans* & Nonbinary Representations within Film
• Native Mexican Literature and Film
• Postcolonial Theories & Concepts
• Indigenous Teachings & Knowledges
• Two-Spirit & Queer Indigeneities in Fiction and Film

Presentations

Disruptive Imaginations: The Association for Research in the Fantastic: August 15-19, 2023, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

• "Femicide and Indigenous Vengeance: Disruptive and Decolonial Rage in V. Castro’s Queen of the Cicadas"

Postcolonial Narrations – Matters of Life and Death: October 20-22, 2022, University of Bonn, Germany

• “Transgressing the Borders of Being: Posthuman Indigenous Resistance in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008)”

Research/er/ed: Navigating, disrupting, and exploring liminal spaces between researcher and researched: October 3, 2022, The London School of Economics and Politics, online

• “Existing and Researching in the Queer Borderlands”

Key Topics in Literature and Cultural History: The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film - the USA: July 18 & 21, 2022, University of Bremen, Germany

• “Analyzing Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008) and Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street”

Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA): March 11-14, 2022, University of Buffalo, Baltimore, MD, USA

• “Queering Dark Academia – Investigating Cultural Expressions of the ‘Other’”

Key Topics in Literature: US Latinx Writing: January 21, 2022, University of Bremen, Germany

• “How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot: And Other Life Lessons”

Speculative Fiction and Ethics: The Association for Research in the Fantastic: September 23, 2021, University of Cologne, Germany

• “This Is the World We Made: Intersectional Representations of Queer Futurism, Neo-Colonial Militarization and Scientific Ethics in The Old Guard (2020)”

Global Gender Nonconformity, Past and Present: June 10, 2021, King's College London & Northumbria University, online

• “The Decolonization of Language in Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet: Investigating Trans* & Neurodivergent Representations in Young Adult Literature”

Publications

Edited Volumes

• Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox, eds. Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. London: Routledge (in preparation).

Articles

• Novak, Stina, and Corina Wieser-Cox. “‘This Is the World We Made’: Queer Allegory, Neo-Colonial Militarization and Scientific Ethics in The Old Guard (2020).” Gender Forum, no. 82, Aug. 2022, pp. 75–98. http://genderforum.org/gender-violence-and-the-state-in-contemporary-speculative-fiction-ii-issue-82-2022/
• Wieser-Cox, Corina. “Transgressing the Borders of Being in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008).” Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film, eds. Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox. London: Routledge (in preparation). 

Film Reviews

• Wieser-Cox, Corina. "Intergenerational Trauma and Absurdist Nihilism in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North, vol 15, issue 2. March 2023, pp. 261-268.