Dr. phil. Katalina Kopka (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)
Literary Studies, Media Studies
Dr. phil. Katalina Kopka
Büro: GW 2, A 3.660
Telefon: +49 (0)421 218-68147
Sprechzeiten: Dienstags, 15:00 – 16:00 Uhr
E-Mail: kopkaprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de
Werdegang/Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023
PostDoc position and lecturer in English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen (Research group of Prof. Dr. Norbert Schaffeld)
2017-2023
Research Assistant and lecturer in English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen (Research group of Prof. Dr. Norbert Schaffeld)
PhD project affiliated to interdisciplinary work group Fiction Meets Science (FMS); Dissertation title: Caring Machines. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Films about Posthuman Companions
2013 to 2016
M.A. Transnational Literary Studies, University of Bremen and National University of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland); Thesis: “‘Unfinished Business’ – Representations of Trauma in Contemporary Films about the Iraq War”
2010 to 2013
B.A. English-Speaking Cultures and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen and Dickinson College (USA); Thesis: “‘The most elegant arabesques that fancy could devise’ – Historicizing Representations of the Orient in William Beckford’s Vathek”
Lehre
Classes
- Winter term 2023/24: Victorian Horror Fiction (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / M.A.)
- Winter term 2022/23: Frankenstein and Its Legacy (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2022: The Robot on Film (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Winter term 2021/22: The Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Imagination (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2021: Introduction to English Literatures Part II (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Winter term 2020/21: Introduction to English Literatures Part I (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2020: Introduction to English Literatures Part II (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2019: London in Literature - Literary London: A Literary and Cultural Journey across the Centuries (Excursion, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A. and M.A.)
- Winter term 2018/19: A Cultural History of the Artificial Human (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2018: Introduction to English Literatures Part II (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Summer term 2017: Screening America at War: Filmic Representations of Armed Conflict in US Culture (Seminar, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
- Winter term 2015/16: Tutorial to the Introduction to Transnational Literary Studies (Tutorial, Transnational Literary Studies / M.A.)
- Winter term 2015/16: Tutorial to Introduction to English Literatures (Part I) (Tutorial, English-Speaking Cultures / B.A.)
Talks/Guest Lectures/Public Outreach
“‘I’m Talking to an Appliance’: Speculative Cinematic Visions of Posthuman Eldercare.” AAAS Conference: Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures, U Klagenfurt, October 20-22, 2023.
“Love Machines? Filmic Representations of AI Care Technologies” Guest lecture at lecture series “Gender, Culture, Feminism”, U Bremen, January 11, 2023.
“The JOI of Sex? Gender and Technology in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.” Guest lecture as part of Vertr.-Prof. Dr. phil. Jennifer S. Henke’s seminar „Cyborgs and Gender“ at U Greifswald, Online, May 31, 2022.
"KI in Justiz und Polizei." Guest lecture at public lecture series "Künstliche Intelligenz - Was hat das mit mir zu tun?" organized by Stiftung Leben und Umwelt (Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Lower Saxony) and the theater collective Büro für Eskapismus, Online, December 9, 2021.
"KI & Gender - Was hat KI mit Geschlecht zu tun?" Guest lecture at public lecture series "Künstliche Intelligenz - Was hat das mit mir zu tun?" organized by Stiftung Leben und Umwelt (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Niedersachsen) and the theater collective Büro für Eskapismus, Online, September 14, 2021.
"Beyond the Frankenstein Complex? Pop Culture Representations of Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age." Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture, Madrid/Online, November 15, 2021.
"AI Narratives and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century." NEPCA Annual Conference, Online, October 22, 2021.
"Who Wants to Live Forever? Pop Culture Responses to the Transhumanist Project of Digital Immortality." Science and its Applications: Negotiating Human Enhancement across Media, Fiction Meets Science Workshop, January 28-29, 2021.
"Love, Death, and Robots: Exploring the Uncanny Valley in Black Mirror’s 'Be Right Back' (2013)." 51st NeMLA Convention, Boston (MA), March 5, 2020.
"Cine Science EXTRA: Soziale Künstliche Intelligenz im amerikanischen Spielfilm.“ Guest lecture at Essener Wissenschaftssommer 2019, Glückauf Filmstudio Essen, June 18, 2019.
Participation at “Cardiff ScienceHumanities Summer School,” Cardiff U Wales, 20- 24 May, 2019.
“The Girlfriend Experience: (Ro-)Bots, Gender and Technology in Ex Machina (2015) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).” Guest lecture at lecture series “Gender, Culture, Feminism”, U Bremen, November 21, 2018.
(with Jana Nittel) “Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Exploring the Historical Context of this Middle English Masterpiece.” Lecture series „Literary Histor(ies) in English: Texts and Issues”, U Bremen, November 3, 2015.
Forschung
Research Interests
Speculative Fiction, the Gothic, Gender Studies, Film Studies, War and Culture, Trauma Studies
Publikationen
Kopka, Katalina and Norbert Schaffeld. “Turing’s Missing Algorithm: The Brave New World of Ian McEwan’s Android Novel Machines Like Me.” Journal of Literature and Science, No. 13, Vol. 2, 2020, pp. 52-74, DOI: 10.12929/jls.13.2.04
Kopka, Katalina. “Cultural Hauntings: Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Films about the Iraq War” Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No. 2, 2018, pp. 103-120.
Kopka, Katalina. “A Blog of One’s Own: British Feminism and Social Media in the 21st Century.” Hard Times, No. 2, 2018, pp. 136-145.