Corina Wieser-Cox (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)

North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies

Corina Wieser-Cox

Büro: GW 2, A 3.710
Telefon: +49 (0)421 218-68331
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Doctoral Student | University of Bremen - North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Master of Arts | January 2021 | University of Bremen - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Media, Text
  • Bachelor of Science | May 2017 | Troy University - English Literature and Creative Writing

Awards & Scholarships

  • Troy University Chancellor’s Scholarship | Aug. 2013 – May 2017
  • Troy University Track and Field Scholarship Aug. 2013 – May 2017
  • PhD fellowship by Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. | Jan. 2022 – Jan. 2023
  • GAPS Graduate Award May 2021
  • Bremer Studienpreis | March 2022

Academic Functions

  • PhD Student & Research Assistant since January 2022
  • Coeditor of COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies) since August 2022
  • Executive Director of INPUTS - Institute for Postcolonial and Transnational Studies

Teaching

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

  • Speculative Queer Fiction in Contemporary US Literature (SOSE 2021)
  • Key Moments in the Cultural History of the English-Speaking World (WISE 2021/22)
  • Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Fiction and Poetry in North America (SOSE 2023)
  • Of Women and Nature - Ecofeminist Literature in North America (WISE 2023/24)
  • Environmental Dystopias in Postcolonial Film and Literature (SOSE 2024)
  • Chicanx Literature and Poetry (WISE 2024/25)
  • Edgar Allan Poe: Then and Now (SOSE 25)

M.A. English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen

  • Postcolonial Studies: Histories, Theories, Key Concepts (WISE 25/26)

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

Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS): May 29–31, 2025, University of Bielefeld 

  • Mythological, Monstrous Motherhood and the Critique of Heteropatriarchal Capitalism in Violet Castro’s The Haunting of Alejandra

Exploring Contradictions Beyond Contradiction - 1st International Conference on Contradiction Studies: February 11–14, 2025, University of Bremen

  • Re-Centering the Lesbian Indigenous Body and Desire: Contradicting Heteropatriarchy with Decolonial Conceptions of Gender and Sex in ?ngeles Cruz's Filmography

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Thirteenth Annual Conference: June 6-8, 2024, Bod?, Norway

  • Critiquing Heteropatriarchal Mexican Cinema with Decolonial Representations of Gender and Sex in ?ngeles Cruz’s Nudo Mixteco (2021)

Invited Guest Lecture - Aware Together: University Action Day Against Discrimination: April 24th, 2024, University of Bremen

  • We're Trans, We're Queer, and We're Here: Decolonizing Mexican and Chicanx Queer Cinema

Invited Presentation - Grenzu?berschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativita?t: March 14-15, 2024, University of Bremen

  • The Bracero Program, Migrant Workers, and Chicana Rage in V. Castro’s Queen of the Cicadas

Invited Guest Lecture - Bremen Blue Humanities Lecture Series: December 20, 2023, University of Bremen

  • Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative Futures in The Deep

Imagining Queer Ecologies - The British Society for Literature and Science: December 1, 2023, University of Oxford 

  • Desire and Intimacy During Doomsday: Indiqiqueer & 2Spirit Apocalyptic Literature

Invited Guest Lecture - Gender, Culture, Feminism: November 22, 2023, University of Bremen

  • Chicana Feminism, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Myth of La Llorona in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra

PGF 2023 - Spaces of Affect in the Americas:November 9-11, 2023, University of Hannover

  • Desire and Intimacy During Doomsday: Indiqiqueer & 2Spirit Apocalypses in Love After the End (2020)


Science goes PUBlic: November 9, 2023, Kono Bar, Bremen

  • Indigiqueer & Two-Spirit Futurisms In North America


Conference Co-Organizer of Queering Postcolonial Worlds - Postgraduate Conference:October 6 & 7, 2023, University of Bremen


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 DeathOctober 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

Invited Guest Lecture - 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’

Invited Guest Lecture - 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

Books

Blackmore, Ernie, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson, and Corina Wieser-Cox, eds.(2024). Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. London: Routledge.

 


Edited Collections

  • Maricocchi, Rita, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox (Eds.). Queering Postcolonial Worlds. Gender Forum 23.1 (2025). https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/issue/view/286
  • Maricocchi, Rita, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox (Eds.). Envisioning Queer Racialized Self-Representations in the Americas. Special Issue, Am Lit, Vol. 6 No. 2. Forthcoming. 

Articles

  • Maricocchi, Rita, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox. "Queering Postcolonial Worlds: An Introduction." Gender Forum 23.1 (2025). https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/article/view/3165
  • Ernie Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Pearson and Corina Wieser-Cox. "Introduction: Indigenous Filmmaking Throughout the World—Making Film Mino-Bimaadiziwin." Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. London: Routledge, 2024. 
  • 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, September 2024. 
  • Wieser-Cox, Corina. "Spectacle of the Demonic Other: Transcoding Evil in American Horror Story: Apocalypse." Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 60-77.
  • 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/