Uncanny Environments: Material World-Making in Contemporary North American Gothic Literature

FB 05: Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding

Poster on the dissertation project

Scientific career
Since 12/2021Doctorate at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
10/2020 – 09/2021Interdisciplinary study program Q+
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
10/2018 – 04/2021Master of Education, English, German and Educational SciencesJohannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
10/2017 – 09/2020certificate study Geography
10/2014 – 06/2018Bachelor of Education, English, German and Educational SciencesJohannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
08/2016 – 05/2017English Studies
Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland
Professional experience
01/2022 – 01/2023Teacher at the Grundschule am Gleisberg, Mainz
10/2019 – 01/2021Course instructor “Writers’ Club” and “Fiction Podcasting” Campus Mainz e. V., Mainz
03/2019 – 07/2020Student assistant in gender linguistics
FB05, German Institute, with Anne Rosar and Damaris Nübling
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
10/2014 – 08/2016; 11/2018 – 09/2021Reporter for regional news
Radio Regenbogen, Mannheim
04/2011 – 10/2015Freelance journalist, local news department, Lampertheimer Zeitung, Lampertheim
Scholarships and awards
Since 02/2024Accepted as a junior member of the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Since 08/2022Dissertation Scholarship of the German Research Foundation Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Since 08/2022Full member of the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS)
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
03/2022 – 04/2022Scholarship for a Research Stay at the American Studies
Center under the mentorship of Dr. Agnieszka Kotwasińska
University of Warsaw, Warsaw
07/2021 – 12/2021Research Scholarship of the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences
10/2019 – 10/2020Funding through the Deutschlandstipendium
01/2016Full scholarship to study at Washington College
Direct Exchange Program of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Publications
Jesussek, Carolin. “Archive of the Unspeakable: Unsilencing Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019).” Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality: New Directions in Gothic Studies. Edited by Sarah Faber and Kerstin Anja-Münderlein, Routledge, 2024, pp.187-203. DOI: 10.4324/9781003375562-14.
Jesussek, Carolin. “Gothic Inheritances: Shirley Jackson’s Legacy in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House and ‘A Hundred Miles and a Mile.'” Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives, special issue of Monstrum, edited by Emily Banks and Alexis Finc, vol. 6, no. 2, 2023, pp. 67-86.
Jesussek, Carolin. “The Gothic Fairy Tale and Bluebeard’s Insistent Legacy in Carmen Maria Machado’s Memoir In the Dream House and the Short Story ‘The Husband Stitch.'” Severed Limbs and Monstrous Appetites: (Re)Defining Fairy-Tale Horror, special issue of MDPI Literature, edited by Alessandro Cabiati and Laura Tosi, vol. 3, no. 3, 2023, pp. 327-341.
Lectures and conference contributions
08/2023Conference presentation “Gothic Inheritances: Shirley Jackson’s Legacy in Carmen Maria Machado’s “A Hundred Miles and a Mile” and In the Dream House.”
The Year of Gothic Women Conference, University of Dundee
06/2023Conference presentation “The Gothic Fairy Tale and Bluebeard’s Insistent Presence in Carmen Maria Machado’s Work.”
Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings, Brown University
04/2022Conference presentation “Rethinking the Non-Human in Carmen Maria Machado’s Autobiographical In the Dream House (2019).”
New Queer Gothics Conference, Cambridge University
03/2022Lecture “Queer Ecosystems: Gothic Materialism in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House”
Lecture series “Weird Fictions”, University of Warsaw