Dr. Abigail Fagan, PhD (sie/ihr)

Since 2019
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover

2017-2019
Lecturer and Research Assistant in American Studies, Leibniz University Hannover

2013-2016
Graduate Instructor in American Studies and First-Year English, University of Connecticut

2011-2013
Graduate Instructor in American Studies and Rhetoric and Composition, University of Cincinnati

2010-2011
English Teaching Assistant, Dientzenhofer-Gymnasium, Bamberg, Germany

2009-2010
Fulbright Teaching Assistant, Berufsbildendene Schulen II, Wolfsburg, Germany

2008
Student Orientation Coordinator, Pacific Lutheran University

2007-2008
Editor in Chief, Saxifrage, a student literary magazine, Pacific Lutheran University

2019
PhD in Englisch, University of Connecticut
Dissertation: "Bloated: Power and the Body in American Temperance Literature"
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies

2013
MA in Englisch, University of Cincinnati
MA Thesis: "Not Just a Devil and a Destroyer: Deconstructing Gender and Reconstructing Subjectivity in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden"
Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2008
BA in English and Political Science, Pacific Lutheran University 
BA Thesis (English, creative nonfiction): "Like Calling Kissinger"
BA Thesis (Political Science): "Columns: Press Freedom and Divided Society in Jordan"

Membership and Offices

Membership

Voices and Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865, a research network funded by the German Research Council
German Association for American Studies/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
American Studies Association
European Association for American Studies Women’s Network
National Women’s Studies Association
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Decolonial Feminisms Reading Group

Offices

Current

Representative for Non-Tenured Teaching Staff, Executive Board for the Leibniz University English Department
Secretary, Grenzmuseum Böckwitz-Zicherie
Advisory Board Member, WiN, Journal of the European Association for American Studies Women’s Network

Previous

Co-Speaker, Diversity Roundtable, German Association for American Studies 
Reading Tour Academic Coordinator, Palm Art Press
Chair, English Graduate Student Association Diversity Committee, University of Connecticut
President, English Graduate Organization, University of Cincinnati
Graduate Mentor and Member of the Advisory Committee, English Composition Program, University of Cincinnati
Executive Board Member, Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company
President, The Mark: A Creative Writing Group, Pacific Lutheran University

Co-organized with Dorothee Marx and Chang Liu: German Association for American Studies’ Diversity Roundtable Biannual Symposium, “Moving toward Collective Action: Activism and Academia.” Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. May 14-15, 2022.

Co-organized with Dorothee Marx, Chang Liu, and the Executive Board of the German Association for American Studies, Digital Town Hall: “What is the GAAS’s responsibility as an academic institution in Germany?” 16 April 2021

Co-organized with Anna-Lena Oldehus, “Sisterhood?!” Workshop, Ladies Lunch on Tour 2019, Pavillon Hannover, 9 March 2019.

“Transnational Islamic Feminisms: A Students' Conference,” Leibniz University Hannover, 27 January 2018.

Roundtable and Workshop, “Critical Race Theory,” University of Connecticut, 28 October 2014.

Co-organized with Janine Morris and Mark Manibusan: University of Cincinnati's Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “Being Undisciplined.” University of Cincinnati. 6 April 2013.

Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

Deutsche Akademisches Austauschdienst (DAAD) Conference Travel Award, 2023
Graduate Academy Grant, “Contacts, Networks, Careers,” Leibniz University Hannover, 2023
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2016
Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Connecticut, 2016
Graduate Student Governance Association Research Fellowship in support of Master’s Thesis Project, University of Cincinnati, 2013: financed two-week archival visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference Graduate Student Scholarship, 2012
Fulbright Grant for English Teaching Assistantship, Germany, 2009-10
Knudsen Scholarship for an Excellent Creative Writing Portfolio, Pacific Lutheran University, 2006                                       

Writing Awards

Honorable Mention for the Best Article Published in Amerikastudien/American Studies in the Year 2020
University of Connecticut CGS/ProQuest Dissertation Award and UConn’s Sole Representative for the National CGS/ProQuest Dissertation Award, 2019
Milton Stern Dissertation Award for the best dissertation defended in the English Department in the academic year of 2018-19, University of Connecticut, 2019
Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, First Place, University of Connecticut, 2015
AETNA Creative Nonfiction Graduate Prize, First Place, University of Connecticut, 2015
AETNA Creative Nonfiction Graduate Prize, First Place, University of Connecticut, 2014
Graduate Playwriting Prize, University of Cincinnati, 2013
Graduate Playwriting Prize, University of Cincinnati, 2012
Academy of American Poets, Graduate Prize, Honorable Mention, University of Cincinnati, 2012

Teaching and Service-Related Awards

Campus Cultur, e.v, Preis (Annual Prize awarded by Campus Cultur, an alumnus group invested in active student culture) for the Student Group, Decolonial Feminisms Reading Group, 2023
Preis der Fakultät für besonderes Engagement in der Lehre (Faculty Prize for Extraordinary Engagement as an Instructor, nominated by students), Leibniz University Hannover, 2021
Departmental Award for Excellence in Graduate-Student Teaching and Service, University of Cincinnati, 2013
Certificate of Accomplishment in Leadership and Service, Pacific Lutheran University, 2008
Humanities Scholarship for Excellent Academic Work, Pacific Lutheran University, 2007