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Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag

Florian Freitag received his PhD in American Studies from the U of Konstanz (Germany) in 2011 and has been professor of American Literary and Media Studies at the U of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) since 2019. He also taught at Johannes Gutenberg U Mainz (Germany), New York City College of Technology (CUNY), the U of Pécs (Hungary), and Jilin U (China). He has founded and participated in interdisciplinary research groups on theme parks, periodicals, and immersion. Further research interests include theories of cultural transfer, tourism, and performances.

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Research interests

  • Popular culture (theme parks, periodicals)
  • Theories of cultural transfer
  • Tourism
  • Performance

Selected publications

  • Freitag, Florian. Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875-2015. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Freitag, Florian, und Antje Dresen (eds.). Crossing: Über Inszenierungen kultureller Differenzen und Identitäten. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017.
  • Freitag, Florian, und Jutta Ernst (eds.). Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.

Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 S04 H11
Phone
+49 201 183 3412
E-Mail
florian.freitag@uni-due.de
Website
https://www.uni-due.de/amerikanistik/freitag_florian.php
Office hours
nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail

Functions

  • Professor/in, Anglistik: Nordamerikastudien I - American Literary and Media Studies

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Freitag, Florian
    Eine amerikanische Vorstadt im Herzen Frankreichs : Suburbanität und Thematisierung von „travelling concepts“
    In: Unikate: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre (2024) Nr. 61: Travelling Concepts : Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, pp. 44 - 53
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Oasen der Ruhe : Religion und Kirche im Europa-Park
    In: transformatio; Vol. 3 (2024) Nr. 1, pp. 148 - 162
    Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    The American Western in Canadian Literature
    In: The American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 53 (2023) Nr. 2, pp. 276 - 278
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    Theme Park Imitations : The Case of Happy World (Happy Valley Beijing)
    In: Cultural History Vol. 11 (2022) Nr. 2, pp. 181 - 198
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    "This Way or That? Par ici ou par là?” : Language in the Theme Park
    In: Visions in Leisure and Business Vol. 23 (2021) Nr. 1, 7
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian; Molter, Céline; Mücke, Laura Katharina; Rapp, Helena; Schlarb, Damien B.; Sommerlad, Elisabeth; Spahr, Clemens; Zerhoch, Dominic
    Immersivity : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spaces of Immersion
    In: Ambiances Vol. 6 (2020)
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Theme Park Metatexts : An Aesthetics of Inclusion and Exclusion
    In: Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (JFLC) Vol. 3 (2019) Nr. 1, pp. 1 - 10
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    Critical Theme Parks : Dismaland, Disney, and the Politics of Theming
    In: Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol. 31 (2017) Nr. 6, pp. 923 - 932
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    “Like Walking into a Movie" : Intermedial Relations between Disney Theme Parks and Movies
    In: The Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 50 (2017) Nr. 4, pp. 704 - 722
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    Ancient Greek Culture and Myth in the Terra Mítica Theme Park
    In: Classical Receptions Journal Vol. 7 (2015) Nr. 2, pp. 242 - 259
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    The Labyrinthine Ways of Myth Reception : Cretan Myths in Theme Parks
    In: Journal of European Popular Culture (JEPC) Vol. 6 (2015) Nr. 2, pp. 145 - 159
  • Freitag, Florian; Schwarz, Ariane
    Thresholds of Fun and Fear : Borders and Liminal Experiences in Theme Parks
    In: OAA Perspectives Vol. 2015/16 (2015) Nr. Winter, pp. 22 - 23
  • Freitag, Florian
    Rencontres américaines : English-French Relations in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories and the Cultural Work of Local Color Fiction
    In: Amerikastudien / American Studies Vol. 58 (2013) Nr. 3, pp. 409 - 426
    Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    "Weltgeschichte" as "Heilsgeschichte" : Typology in Mary Rowlandson’s and Jérôme Lalemant’s Captivity Narratives
    In: Canadian Literature Vol. 213 (2012) pp. 100 - 115
  • Breitbach, Julia; Freitag, Florian; Krüger, Anja; Petermann, Emily
    Introduction : Crossroads – Canadian Cultural Intersections
    In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 59 (2011) Nr. 2, pp. 105 - 108
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    Naturalism in Its Natural Environment? : American Naturalism and the Farm Novel
    In: Studies in American Naturalism Vol. 4 (2009) Nr. 2, pp. 97 - 118
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    New World Demeters : Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Louis Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine
    In: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Vol. 54-55 (2009) pp. 68 - 85
    Online Full Text

    • Prefaces/Postfaces

  • Freitag, Florian; Liu, Chang
    Introduction: Cultural History and Heritage in Chinese Theme Parks
    In: Cultural History Vol. 11 (2022) Nr. 2, pp. 121 - 129
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian
    Intersectionality : Introduction Theories, Policies, Practices
    In: Themenheft : Intersectionality: Theories, Policies, Practices / Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian (Eds.) (2020) pp. 9 - 14
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Mittermeier, Sabrina; Schwarz, Ariane
    The Complex Temporalities of Theme Parks
    In: Time and Temporality in Theme Parks / Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Mittermeier, Sabrina; Schwarz, Ariane (Eds.) (2017) pp. 9 - 16
  • Freitag, Florian; Dresen, Antje
    Vorwort : Über Inszenierungen kultureller Differenzen und Identitäten
    In: Crossing: Über Inszenierungen kultureller Differenzen und Identitäten / Dresen, Antje; Freitag, Florian (Eds.) (2017) pp. 7 - 9
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian
    Transkulturelle Dynamiken : Entwicklungen und Perspektiven eines Konzepts
    In: Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien / Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian (Eds.) (2015) pp. 7 - 30
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian; Sandrock, Kirsten
    Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism
    In: Themenheft: Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism / Freitag, Florian; Sandrock, Kirsten (Eds.) (2014)
    Online Full Text (Open Access)

    • Interviews

  • Freitag, Florian;
    Tolley, David (Interviewpartner)
    Scoring the Future That Never Was : An Interview with David Tolley
    In: Time and Temporality in Theme Parks / Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Mittermeier, Sabrina; Schwarz, Ariane (Eds.) (2017) pp. 259 - 263

    • Reviews

  • Freitag, Florian
    Juliane Braun. 2019. Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. Writing the Early Americas 4. Charlottesville, VA/London: The University of Virginia Press
    In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology = Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Vol. 140 (2022) Nr. 3-4, pp. 660 - 664
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Daniel O’Quinn, Alexis Tadié (eds.): Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018
    In: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Vol. 70 (2020) pp. 230 - 232
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    David K. Johnson: Buying Gay. How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. New York: Columbia University Press (2019)
    In: Invertito: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten Vol. 22 (2020) pp. 167 - 170
  • Freitag, Florian
    Antje Kley, Heike Paul, eds.: Rural America, Heidelberg: Winter, 2015
    In: Amerikastudien = American Studies Vol. 63 (2018) Nr. 2,
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    Jason Arthur: Violet America. Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction since the Great Depresssion, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013
    In: Journal of American Studies Vol. 50 (2016) Nr. 1, pp. 270 - 272
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    Thomas Dikant: Landschaft und Territorium. Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784–1866, Paderborn 2014
    In: Amerikastudien = American Studies Vol. 61 (2016) Nr. 1, pp. 105 - 105
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    New Approaches to the South
    In: Amerikastudien = American Studies Vol. 60 (2015) Nr. 2-3, pp. 233 - 234
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller
    In: Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen Vol. 248 (2011) Nr. 2, pp. 452 - 453
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Freitag, Florian
    Intermediality in Theme Parks
    In: The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality / Bruhn, Jørgen; López-Varela Azcárate, Asun; de Paiva Vieira, Miriam (Eds.) 2024, pp. 1089 - 1114
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian
    Enlisting the Farmer for the Socialist Cause : The Pionier’s Translation of Frank Norris’s The Octopus
    In: Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses / Ernst, Jutta; von Hoff, Dagmar; Scheiding, Oliver (Eds.) 2022, pp. 255 - 279
  • Freitag, Florian; Liu, Chang
    Introduction : Complementary Perspectives on Chinese Theme Parks
    In: Themenheft: Chinese Theme Parks / Freitag, Florian; Liu, Chang (Eds.) 2019
  • Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Mittermeier, Sabrina; Schwarz, Ariane
    “Here You Leave Today" : Ästhetische Eigenzeiten im Themenpark
    In: Ästhetische Eigenzeiten: Bilanz der ersten Projektphase / Bies, Michael; Gamper, Michael (Eds.) 2019, pp. 133 - 154
  • Freitag, Florian; Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
    “Theme Park Imitations: The Case of ‘Happy World’ (Happy Valley, Beijing).”
    In: Themenheft: Chinese Theme Parks / Freitag, Florian; Liu, Chang (Eds.) 2019, pp. 409 - 473
  • Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    (Not So) Dangerous Journeys : The Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Mythological Sea Travelers in European Theme Park Attractions
    In: Thalassokratographie: Rezeption und Transformation antiker Seeherrschaft / Kopp, Hans G.; Wendt, Christian (Eds.) 2018, pp. 283 - 300
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    “Who Really Lives There?" : (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot
    In: Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies / Gruber, Eva; Rosenthal, Caroline (Eds.) 2018, pp. 161 - 178
  • Freitag, Florian; Rosbach, Annika
    Literarische Crossings : Sprachliche Kreuzungen in der amerikanischen Dialektliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts
    In: Crossing: Über Inszenierungen kultureller Differenzen und Identitäten / Dresen, Antje; Freitag, Florian (Eds.) 2017, pp. 89 - 116
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Autotheming : Themed Spaces in Self-Dialogue
    In: A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces / Lukas, Scott A. (Eds.) 2016, pp. 141 - 149
  • Freitag, Florian
    Movies, Rides, Immersion
    In: A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces / Lukas, Scott A. (Eds.) 2016, pp. 125 - 130
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Grice, Gordon; Lukas, Scott A.
    Research Dialogue : The Ways of Design, Architecture, Technology, and Material Form
    In: A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces / Lukas, Scott A. (Eds.) 2016, pp. 107 - 112
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Grice, Gordon; Lukas, Scott A.
    Research Dialogue : The Place of the Future
    In: A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces / Lukas, Scott A. (Eds.) 2016, pp. 301 - 304
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian; Mittermeier, Sabrina; Schwarz, Ariane
    Zur Formierung der komplexen Zeitlichkeit von Themenparks
    In: Zeiten der Form: Formen der Zeit / Zeiten der Form, Formen der Zeit, Erste Jahrestagung des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 1688: Ästhetische Eigenzeiten, 5.-7. Februar 2015, Hannover / Gamper, Michael; Geulen, Eva; Grave, Johannes; Langenohl, Andreas; Ralf, Simon; Zubarik, Sabine (Eds.) 2016, pp. 317 - 341
  • Freitag, Florian
    'Scribner’s Illustrated New Orleans' : Convergence Culture and Periodical Culture in Late 19th-Century America
    In: Convergence Culture Reconsidered: Media – Participation – Environments / Georgi, Claudia; Glaser, Brigitte (Eds.) 2015, pp. 95 - 110
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Amerikanisierung, Glokalisierung, Branding : EuroDisney, 1992
    In: Transkulturelle Dynamiken: Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien / Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian (Eds.) 2015, pp. 165 - 197
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian
    Displacement and Dispossession : The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story’s Wading Home (2010)
    In: Ten Years after Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm’s Effect on American Culture and Identity / Marotte, Mary Ruth; Jellenik, Glenn (Eds.) 2015, pp. 129 - 151
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    Geschichtstransformationen in Themenparks
    In: Geschichtstransformationen: Medien, Verfahren und Funktionalisierungen historischer Rezeption / Tagung Geschichtstransformationen - Transformations of History, 28.02.2013 - 02.03.2013, Mainz / Georgi, Sonja; Ilgner, Julia; Lammel, Isabell; Sarti, Cathleen; Waldschmidt, Christine (Eds.) 2015, pp. 131 - 149
  • Carlà, Filippo; Freitag, Florian
    Strategien der Geschichtstransformationen in Themenparks
    In: Geschichtstransformationen: Medien, Verfahren und Funktionalisierungen historischer Rezeption / Geschichtstransformationen - Transformations of History; 28.02 - 02.03 2013; Mainz / Georgi, Sonja; Ilgner, Julia; Lammel, Isabell; Sarti, Cathleen; Waldschmidt, Christine (Eds.) 2015, pp. 131 - 150
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/ Online Full Text (Open Access)
  • Freitag, Florian; Vanderbeke, Dirk
    The Treachery of (Local) Colour : Representations of Skin in Illustrated Louisiana Local Colour Stories
    In: Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone / Rosenthal, Caroline (Eds.) 2015, pp. 12 - 39
  • Freitag, Florian
    Regionalism in American and Canadian Literature
    In: The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature / Nischik, Reingard M. (Eds.) 2014, pp. 199 - 218
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Kaiser, Georg A.; Freitag, Florian
    Antonine Maillets La Sagouine : Interdisziplinäre Begegnungen in der Akadie
    In: America Romana in Colloquio Berolinensi: Beiträge zur transversalen Sektion II des XXXII. Deutschen Romanistentages (25. - 28.09.2011) / XXXII. Deutscher Romanistentag, 25. - 28.09.2011, Berlin / Felbeck, Christine; Hammerschmidt, Claudia; Klump, Andre; Kramer, Johannes (Eds.) 2012, pp. 43 - 57
  • Freitag, Florian
    Ladies in the Bush and Paternal Soils : Gender and Space in Early Canadian Farm Novels
    In: Space and Gender: Space of Difference in Canadian Women's Writing ; Espaces de différence dans l'écriture canadienne au féminin / Eibl, Doris G.; Rosenthal, Caroline (Eds.) 2009, pp. 23 - 39

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Freitag, Florian; Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Clavé, Salvador Anton
    Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies : Understanding Tourism and Leisure Spaces
    Cham (2023) 361 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Ernst, Jutta; Freitag, Florian (Eds.)
    Intersectionality : Theories, Policies, Practices
    In: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Augsburg Vol. 70 (2020)
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    Popular New Orleans : The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015
    In: Routledge studies in cultural history New York Vol. 95 (2020) 356 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian; Liu, Chang (Eds.)
    Themenheft: Chinese Theme Parks
    In: Huaxia Wenhua Luntan/Chinese Culture Forum Changchun Vol. 22.2 (2019)
  • Freitag, Florian; Dresen, Antje (Eds.)
    Crossing : Über Inszenierungen kultureller Differenzen und Identitäten
    In: Edition Kulturwissenschaft Bielefeld Vol. 107 (2017) 225 Seiten
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian; Carlà, Filippo; Schwarz, Ariane; Mittermeier, Sabrina (Eds.)
    Time and Temporality in Theme Parks
    In: Ästhetische Eigenzeiten Hannover Vol. 4 (2017) 270 Seiten
  • Freitag, Florian; Ernst, Jutta (Eds.)
    Transkulturelle Dynamiken : Aktanten – Prozesse – Theorien
    In: Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften Bielefeld Vol. 19 (2015) 373 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/
  • Freitag, Florian (Eds.)
    Themenheft: Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism
    In: European Journal of American Studies Vol. 9-3 (2014)
    Online Full Text
  • Freitag, Florian
    The Farm Novel in North America : Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
    In: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture Woodbridge (2013) 364 Seiten
    Online Full Text
  • Breitbach, Julia; Freitag, Florian; Krüger, Anja; Petermann, Emily (Eds.)
    Themenheft: Crossroads : Canadian Cultural Intersections
    In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) Berlin Vol. 59.2 (2011) 103 Seiten

    • Encyclopedia entries

  • Freitag, Florian
    Siedlerbericht
    In: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit: 11. Renaissance - Signatur / Jaeger, Friedrich (Eds.) 2010, pp. 1156 - 1157
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/