Prof. Dr.
Jens
Temmen
Chair of American Studies
E-mail jens.temmen@ku.de
Building
Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek
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Room: UA - 201
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
During the summer term 2025: Wednesdays, 14-15h
To arrange an appointment please sign up for an office hours slot using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y5xn9v6s
During the summer term 2025: Wednesdays, 14-15h
To arrange an appointment please sign up for an office hours slot using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y5xn9v6s
Research Interests
- Astroculture
- U.S. imperialism
- Posthuman studies
- Environmental humanities
- Transpacific studies
Teaching (summer term 2025)
- North American Astroculture
- Life Writing
- Graphic Novels
Upcoming Talks and Events
06/2025
“Planetary Archives in the Anthropocene.” Workshop co-host, Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA), Siegen, Germany.
04/2025
“A Infinitely Dark Legacy: The Fascists Roots of Modern Space Exploraiton.” Panel Discussion and Exhibition Vernissage, Haus der Universität Düsseldorf.
For more information go to: https://www.hdu.hhu.de/programm/einzeltermin/vernissage-ein-unendlich-dunkles-erbe-die-faschistischen-wurzeln-der-modernen-weltraumforschung
04/2025
tbd; Conference: “Exploring Otherness on Earth and beyond: Bridging the gap between natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.” Einstein Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
Recent Talks and Events (selection)
01/2025
“Today, Space is Virgin Territory!”: The Frontier and the Second Space Age in American Studies.” Guest Lecture: Seminar: Frontier Imaginations in American Literature from the late 19th to the 21st century. TU Dresden.
11/2024
“Outer Space is a Cultural Construct: Outer Space and the Humanities in the Second Space Age.” Keynote UNIVERSEH General Meeting, Namur, Belgium.
10/2024
““We’re selling the experience of being an astronaut!”: Hospitality and Space Tourism in the Second Space Age.”
10/2024
““Make humanity a multiplanet species!”: Astrocultural Imaginaries in the Second Space Age.” Guest Lecture; Université Toulouse, France.
06/2024
“'In Space, No One Can Hear You Stream’: Acoustic Placemaking in North American Astroculture.” Conference Paper, Annual Conference of the German American Studies Association (DGfA), Oldenburg, Germany.
04/2024
“Outer Space is a Cultural Construct: Outer Space and the Humanities in the Second Space Age.” Invited Panelist; Panel Discussion “Humanities in Space: Challenges and Opportunities”, State Representative Office of North Rhine Westfalia, Brussels.
01/2024
“Today, Space is Virgin Territory!”: U.S. Imperialism Among the Stars.” Guest Lecture: Seminar: The History of US Imperialism, University of Leipzig.
10/2023
“The Final Frontier: Gegenwart und Zukunft des US-Weltraumtourismus.” Guest Lecture: Atlantische Akademie, Kaiserlautern.
Current Research Projects
- Discourses of Multiplanetarity in North American Astroculture
- The Second Space Age and the Anthropocene (with Alexandra Ganser)
- Critical Outer Space Studies (with Claire Cazajous-Augé)
- Unpacking Black Boxes? Technological Imaginaries from Outer Space to Artificial Intelligence (with Regina Schober)
Selected Publications
Monographs
The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s): Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territoriy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Forthcoming
mit Alexandra Ganser. North American Astrocultures. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. In Produktion. 2025
mit Claire Cazajous-Augé. Critical Outer Space Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. Special Issue of Caliban. In Produktion. 2025.
mit Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke and Regina Schober. Critical Futures. (WT) transcript. In Produktion, 2025.
mit Davina Höll. Populäre Wissenschaft in der Polykrise. Tagungsband. In Vorbereitung. 2025.
Published
mit Nicole Waller. Eds. American Territorialities. Special Forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). 11.1 (2020). Web. https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas/11/1
mit Nicole Poppenhagen. Eds. Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Abdingdon: Routledge. 2018. Print.
mit Nicole Poppenhagen. Eds. “Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies“. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. 2018. Print.
Articles, Essay, Book Chapters
Forthcoming
Handbook North American Literatures and the Legal Humanities. DeGruyter. Forthcoming 2025.
mit Alexandra Ganser. “Globalization Goes Outer Space.” Handbook U.S. and Globalizations. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. In Produktion.
“(Multi)planetary, Astroculture, Terralectics.” Critical Futures. (WT) Eds. Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober, and Jens Temmen. Transcript. In Produktion.
mit Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke and Regina Schober. “Introduction: Critical Futures”. Critical Futures: A Treatise. Eds. Moritz Ingwersen, Solvejg Nitzke, Regina Schober, and Jens Temmen. Transcript. In Produktion.
“Extraterrestrische Planeten/Terraforming.” De Gruyter Handbuch Literatur & Ökologie. Eds. Frederike Middelhoff and Solvejg Nitzke. De Gruyter. Forthcoming 2025.
“From Continental to Overseas Expansion: US Imperialisms through the Lens of Indigenous Resistance.” Handbook U.S. Empire. Forthcoming 2025.
Published
mit Alexandra Ganser. “A Sea of Stars? An Archipelagic Reading of Outer Space.” Archipelagic Imperial Spaces and (Im)Mobilities. Special Forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). 14.1(2023): 273-301.
“From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization.” Maritime Mobilities in Literature and Culture: Critical Perspectives. Alexandra Ganser, Charne Lavery, and Meg Samuelson. Eds. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. 119-142.
“Scorched Earth: Discourses of Multiplanetarity, Climate Change, and Martian Terraforming in Finch and Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars.” Z Literaturwiss Linguistik 52 (2022): 477–488.
“Writing Life on Mars: Imaginaries of Extraterrestrial Colonization and Discourses of Planetarity and the NASA Mars Rover Missions.“ Posthuman Life Writing in the Anthropocene. Eds. Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza, Linda Hess. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. 205-224.
“Passing on the Torch to Light Out the Territory Ahead: Conflicting Temporalities of (Arrested) Mobility in Geronimo’s Story of His Life.“ The Minor on the Move: Doing Cosmopolitanisms. Eds. Kylie Crane, Sara Morais Dos Santos Bruss, Lucy Gasser. Edition Assemblage, 2021. 154-170.
mit Nicole Waller. “Introduction: Mapping American Territorialities.“ American Territorialities. Eds. Jens Temmen and Nicole Waller. Special Forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). 2020: 5-31. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3js9b5td
“The Imperial Grammar of Jurisdictional Incongruence.“ Charting the Minor Cosmopolitan. Ed. Zairong Xiang. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. 9-11. Print.
mit Nicole Poppenhagen. “Introduction: Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies.“ Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. Nicole Poppenhagen and Jens Temmen. Eds. 2017. Print.
“’So it happens that we are relegated to the condition of the aborigines of the American continent’: Disavowing and Reclaiming Sovereignty in Liliuokalani’s Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and the Congressional Morgan Report.” Postcolonial Justice. Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann. Ed. Cross/Cultures 191 Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2017. 333-356. Print.
“Overriding/Overwriting the Reservation: John Rollin Ridge‘s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit.“ Rural America. ed. Antje Kley and Heike Paul. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015. 131 – 148. Print.
Academic Service and Positions
- Fellow Young Academy, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
- Co-Editor Book Series “Critical Futures” with transcript
- Member “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien“ (DGfA)
- Member “American Studies Association” (ASA)
- Member “German Association for Postcolonial Studies” (GAPS)