Moritz Ingwersen holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (2018) from Trent University, Ontario, Canada (Cotutelle with University of Cologne). He has held teaching positions at the University of Cologne, the University of New Brunswick, and Trent University. His dissertation “All Things Fusible: Media, Science, Mythology in the Fiction of Neal Stephenson” presents an intervention into the fields of American Literary Criticism, Science Fiction Studies, and Literature and Science. He finished his M.A. (Staatsexamen) in English and Physics at the University of Cologne in 2012.

• North American Literature and Culture (19th-21st century)
• Literature and Science
• Science Fiction
• Weird Fiction
• Transatlantic Modernisms
• Environmental Humanities
• Ecocriticism
• Media Theory
• Science Studies
• Critical Posthumanisms
• Critical Disability Studies
• Postmodernisms
• Indigenous Literatures and Criticism
• History and Philosophy of Science
  
  Memberships:

  SLSA - Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

  BSLS - British Society for Literature and Science

  ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

  SFRA - Science Fiction Research Association

  DGFA - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien

Contemporary North American Indigenous Literatures. Mittelseminar (BA, MA). . University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Fall/Winter 2018/19.

Modernism and the Avantgarde. Undergraduate Online Seminar. Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada. Winter 2018.

“We Ate Sand for Dinner:” The Posthuman in Science Fiction. B-Seminar. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Fall/Winter 2015/2016.

Back to the Future: Time Travel in American Literature and Film. B-Seminar. Co-taught with Björn Sonnenberg. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Fall/Winter 2015/2016.

Introduction to World Literature. Undergraduate Seminar. Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada. Winter 2015.

Introduction to the Integrated Arts. Undergraduate Seminar. Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada. Fall 2014.

Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture. Undergraduate Seminar. Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, Canada. Fall/Winter 2013/14.

The Two Cultures: American Literature at the Interface of Hard and Soft Sciences. B-Seminar. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Summer 2013.

Introduction to American Studies. A-Seminar. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Winter/Fall 2012/13.

Literary Theories, Cultural Practices. North American Studies M.A. Tutorial. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Summer 2011.

Media/Ecologies. North American Studies M.A. Tutorial. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Fall/Winter 2010/11.

Introduction to Literary Theory. Undergraduate Tutorial. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Summer 2010.

Growing Up with the Brat-Pack. North American Studies M.A. Tutorial. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Fall/Winter 2009/10

BorderLives: Images, Music and Texts from the Mexican-American Border. North American Studies M.A. Tutorial. University of Cologne, English Department, Institute for American Literature and Culture. Summer 2009.

Introduction to Physics. Undergraduate Tutorial. University of New Brunswick (Saint John Campus), Department of Physics. Winter 2008.

“Of Earth-Beings and New Estrangements: Sentient Landscapes in Indigenous (Science) Fiction.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 32nd Annual Conference. Toronto (Canada): November 15–18, 2018.

“Science Fiction as Science Studies: Epistemological and Material Confusions in the Work of Neal Stephenson.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference 2018. University of Milwaukee (USA): July 1–4, 2018.

“‘This is the Way the World Ends:’ Weird Geology in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.” The American Weird: Ecologies and Geographies. University of Göttingen (Germany): April 12–14, 2018.

“Solid-State Fiction: Reflections on the Science of Crystals in the Work of J.G. Ballard.” J.G. Ballard and the Sciences. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK): November 25, 2017.

“‘Geological Insurrections:’ The Weird Return of Rust and Dust in Two Short Stories by China Mieville.” Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): 12th Biennial Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit (USA): June 20–24, 2017.

“‘All things fusible:’ Neal Stephenson, Science Studies, and the Baroque.” The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS): 12th Annual Conference. University of Bristol (UK): April 6–8, 2017.

“Trickster Science: Creativity and Disruption in Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 30th Annual Conference. Atlanta (USA): November 3–6, 2016.

“Trickster Science: Creativity and Subversion in Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices. University of Cologne (Germany): November 20–21, 2015.

"Visual Technologies and the Machine Gun in Western Modernity." Guest lecture in first-year lecture Introduction to the Integrated Arts. Trent University (Canada), Cultural Studies Department: September 29, 2015.

“From Site Analysis to Analysis Situs: Mapping Architecture in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” International Conference on Critical Topography. Trent University, Peterborough, and Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada): May 20–22, 2015.

“Varieties of Posthumanism in Science Fiction: Reading Shariann Lewitt’s ‘A Real Girl’ through Posthumanist Disability Studies.” Disability Studies | Science Fiction: An International Workshop. Invited Keynote Lecture. University of Cologne (Germany): November 28–29, 2014.

“‘Time with the Midas Touch’: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life.” Life, in Theory: Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAeu) Conference 2014. University of Torino (Italy): June 3–6, 2014.

“Non-Euclidean Geometry in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” The Common Denominator: A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies. University of Leipzig (Germany): March 21–22, 2014.

“Postmodernity and Posthumanism: McLuhan and Stelarc.” Guest lecture in first-year lecture Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture. Trent University (Canada), Cultural Studies Department: February 10, 2014.

“What is Posthumanism?.” Guest lecture in fourth-year seminar Advanced Studies in Science Fiction Studies: Science Fiction and Technoculture. Trent University (Canada), Cultural Studies Department: October 31, 2013.

“Monstrous Geometries in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” The Second Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity. Prague (Czech Republic): May 15–17, 2013.

“Amanda Baggs and Cybernethics: A Response to Margrit Shildrick’s ’Border-Crossings: Technologies of Disability and Desire’.” Contact-Zones: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. University of Cologne (Germany): October 25–27, 2012.

“The Text, the Void and the Vortex: Turbulent Topologies in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” The First Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity. Oxford University (UK): July 18–20, 2012.

“Zampano, Escher, Krach: A Metaphorical Fluke on Noise and Mad Schemes in the Spirit of Mark Z. Danielewski.” Virtual Futures 2.0. University of Warwick (UK): June 18–19, 2011.

“‘This is not for you:’ Perception and Dis/ability in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” The Fifth International Disability Studies Conference. Lancaster University (UK): September 7–9, 2010.

“Smooth Transactions: Let’s Tackle Quantum Orthodoxy with Rhizomes - Some Deleuzian Thoughts on John G. Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Connect-Deleuze: The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference. University of Cologne (Germany): August 10–12, 2009.

Volume:

Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, edited by Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, Anne Waldschmidt, Transcript, 2017.

Articles

“Towards a Trickster Science/Fiction: Complexifying Boundaries with Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 42, no.3, special issue “Doing Science,” edited by Julia Hoydis and Nina Engelhardt, 2017, pp. 255-268.

“Analysis Situs: Topology and Topography in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image, edited by Jonathan Bordo and Blake Fitzpatrick. McGill-Queens University Press, 2018, forthcoming.

“Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: J.G. Ballard, edited by Lawrence Trudeau, Gale Cengage Learning, 2018, reprint, forthcoming.

“Pluralizing Climate Fiction: From Hybrids to Earth-Beings.” Science Fiction Studies, special issue “Climate Crisis,” edited by Veronica Hollinger and Brent Bellamy, 2018, forthcoming.

“CybernEthics: Thinking Bodies and Boundaries Through Science - A Response to Margrit Shildrick.” Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, edited by Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, Anne Waldschmidt, Transcript, 2017, pp. 160-169.

“Foreword: Culture, Theory, Disability.” With Hanjo Berressem and Anne Waldschmidt.  Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, edited by Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, Anne Waldschmidt, Transcript, 2017, pp. 11-15.

“Der Stumme Schrei in der Maschine [On Harlan Ellison and Deleuze].” off topic: Journal of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, vol. 6, 2016, n. p.

“Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life.” Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art, edited by Elisabeth Friis, Stefan Herbrechter, Brill/Rodopi, 2016, pp. 71-91.

“Monstrous Geometries in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” Places and
Spaces of Monstrosity, edited by Craig Douglas and Rosalea Monacella, Interdisciplinary
Press, 2014, pp. 45-55.

“The Text, the Void and the Vortex: Turbulent Topologies in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier, edited by Niculae Liviu-Gheran and Ken Monteith, Interdisciplinary Press, 2013, pp. 41-50.

Reviews and Reports:

“‘I’ comes After: Critical Posthumanism and the Literary Imagination.” Review of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman, edited by Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. Science Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, 2018, pp. 361-364.

“Conference Report: ‘Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery’: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, June 2017.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017, pp. 635-637.

“Review of The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the
Information Age,” by Ronald R. Kline. The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.

“Review of Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War
and After,” by Peter Middleton. The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.

Translations:

Eckehart Velten Schäfer. “From Record to Ritual: Outlines of an ’Effective History’ of
Skateboarding,” translated by Moritz Ingwersen. Skateboard Studies, edited by
Konstantin Butz and Christian Peters, Koenig Books, 2018.

Conferences:

The Second Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity. Prague (Czech Republic): May 15–17, 2013. Member of selection committee.

Contact-Zones: Culture, Disability, Theory - Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. International Conference. Keynote speakers included Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Robert McRuer, Lennard Davis, Tobin Siebers, Margrit Shildrick, and Dan Goodley. University of Cologne (Germany): October 25–27, 2012. Conception and Coordination.

CONNECTdeleuze: Transdisciplinary Perspectives - The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference. University of Cologne (Germany): August 10–12, 2009. Co-organization.

Guest Lectures:

“‘Why should Our Bodies End at the Skin?:’ Technologies, Boundaries and Embodiment.” Guest lecture by Dr. Margrit Shildrick (Linkoeping University, Sweden). Salon Seminar Series, Trent University (Canada): February 12, 2015.

“Safety Pins and Swimming Pools: Skateboarding and Punkrock in 1980s California.” Guest lecture by Dr. Konstantin Butz (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany). Inaugural lecture of Salon Seminar Series, Trent University (Canada): September 9, 2014.

Panel:

“Planetary Sentience.” Co-organized with Pierre-Louis Patoine (Sorbonne). Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 32nd Annual Conference. Toronto (Canada). November 15–18.

Moderation:

Bodies|Motion: Disabilities in Literature, Theory and the Arts. International Workshop. University of Cologne (Germany): January 29, 2012.

“Science Fiction and the Project of Posthumanist Science.” Guest lecture by Dr. Colin Milburn (UC Davis, USA). John F. Fekete Lecture Series at Trent University (Canada): November 5, 2015.