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Biographical Note

Alexander Greiffenstern studied comparative literature, history and computer science at Bielefeld University. His master thesis is entitled "Desiring-Machines and Mechanisms of Control in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch."

Research Interests

• Literary theory & aesthetic theories
• 19th and 20th century American literature
• History of the 20th century
• Literature after 1945
• Cultural studies

Publications

Josef Raab, and Alexander Greiffenstern, ed. Interculturalism in North America: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Beyond. Interamerican Studies/Estudios Interamericanos Vol.8. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier & Bilingual Press, 2013.

Alexander Greiffenstern, and Josef Raab. “Introduction: Interculturalism and Difference.” Raab & Greiffenstern, eds. Interculturalism in North America. 1-23.

Alexander Greiffenstern. “Ballad of the Big Man: The Soundtrack of The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.” Raab & Greiffenstern, eds. Interculturalism in North America. 203-213.

Bryan Mulvihill, and Alexander Greiffenstern. “Interculturalism—Vancouver and the World Tea Party.” Raab & Greiffenstern, eds. Interculturalism in North America. 275-296.

“Kathy Acker – Biogramm und Erzählerisches Werk.” Kindlers Literaturlexikon. 3. Auflage. Stuttgart / Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler, September 2009.

“Douglas Couland.” KLfG. München: Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2009.

Conference Papers

“Beckett asked me to fish in his pond”: Burroughs’ Self-Image as a Writer. European Beat Studies Network 2nd Annual Conference. Aalborg University, Denmark. August 30, 2013.

“Becoming-Animal in the Work of William S. Burroughs.” European Beat Studies Network Inaugural Conference. Middelburg, Netherlands. September 5.-7., 2012.

Courses Taught at the UDE

• "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities": Dreams and Visions in 20th Century Literature
• "The way OUT is the way IN": Reading Naked Lunch
• African-American Literature after 1945: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• American Novels of the 20th Century
• American Tales of the Fantastic and Hyperreal
• Douglas Coupland – Stories from Culture’s Waste Bin
• Fictionalizing History - Writing Memory
• Introduction to Beat Literature
• Meta-Fiction as a Corporeal Experience
• Reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
• Re-Mapping the Modern Metropolis
• You Can't Win: Autobiographies of American Misfits