Susana Rocha Teixeira

Susana Rocha Teixeira is a postdoctoral research associate in the DFG Research Training Group “Authority and Trust” (GKAT). She completed her PhD in American Literature and Culture at the University of Heidelberg “summa cum laude” in 2019 with a thesis entitled “The American Makeover Culture and Masculinities: Roots, Connections and Representations.” From 2017-2021 Susana worked as a (postdoctoral) research associate for the DFG-funded collaborative research project “Practices of Comparing” 1288 at Bielefeld University, where she completed a project on “Practices of Comparing in the Context of the Harlem Renaissance in a Hemispheric Perspective.” In 2015 she was a visiting scholar in residence at the History Department at the American University in Washington DC and in 2017 at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences/Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In her postdoctoral research project “Re-Imagining the New Negro Renaissance: The Black Renaissance in Baltimore and Beyond”, Susana Teixera uses Baltimore as a case study to explore the formation of (literary or artistic) recognition, canon formation, and reading and reception practices in the context of the New Negro Movement. 

• American Studies, with particular focus on US-American Literature and Culture (C19-C21)
• History of Self-Improvement, Makeover Culture, Fashion, and the Body (C18-C21)
• History of American Masculinities (C18-21) 
• Film, TV, and Media Studies (incl. social media, reality TV) 
• Inter-American Studies 
• Black American Literary and Cultural Production 

2024: Research Stay Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Center for History and Culture 
Since 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG Research Training Group “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics” (GRK 2244), Heidelberg University 
2019-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher Associate, Department of British and American Studies/ SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing, University of Bielefeld
2019: DAAD Research Stay, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 
2019: Research Stay, Johns Hopkins University, Library of Congress
2019: PhD, University of Heidelberg 
2018: Research Stay, Harvard University, Yale University, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Library of Congress
2017: Visiting Scholar in Residence Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
2017-2019: Research Associate, American and Interamerican Studies, Department of British and American Studies/ SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing, University of Bielefeld 
2015: Visiting Scholar in Residence, History Department, American University
2014: Adjunct Lecturer, English Department, University of Heidelberg

Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas. Ed. with Wilfried Raussert, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 
„The Makeover Genre, Life Writing, Men, and Masculinities,” in: Wilfried Raussert and Susana Rocha Teixeira (eds.), Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, S. 69-94. 
„‘Unprecedented‘: Trumps Präsidentschaft und das Vergleichen in aktuellen politischen Debatten in den USA." Blog Die Praktiken des Vergleichens/Practices of Comparing, University of Bielefeld, 22.10.2020.
“Das Beste, das ein Mann werden kann: Männer in den USA zwischen Selbstschöpfung und ‚Krise.‘“ Positionen des Verbandes Baden-Württembergischer Wissenschaftlerinnen 34 (2019).
„Doing and Undoing Comparisons in the Americas,” ed. with Pablo Campus, Olaf Kaltmeier und Wilfried Raussert. fiar. forum for inter-american research 11.2 (2019).
„Bodies in the Americas”, ed. fiar. forum for inter-american research 10.2 (2017).

• Since 11/2023: Treasurer/ Member of the steering committee, Verband Baden-Württembergischer Wissenschaftlerinnen 
• Since 04/2020: Liason Lecturer, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• Since 08/2018: Editor fiar: forum for inter-american research
• Since 04/2017 (Associated) Member of the Center for Inter-American Studies, Bielefeld University 
• Since 04/2017 Member of the Black Americas Network, Bielefeld University 
• Since 04/2017 (Associated) Member of the Collaborative Research Project SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing, Bielefeld University