PD Dr. phil. habil. Martin Holtz
Privatdozent
Lehrstuhl für Anglophone Literatur und Kultur
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
17489 Greifswald
Telefon +49 3834 420 3351 (Sekretariat)
martin.holtzuni-greifswaldde
03/2022 | Umhabilitation, Graz University (Venia legendi: Amerikanistik) |
03/2020 – | Assistant Professor, American Literature and Film, Department for American Studies, University of Graz, Austria |
04/2010 – 03/2018, 08/2018 – 02/2019 | Assistant Professor, Anglophone Literature and Culture, Department for British and American Studies at the University of Greifswald |
04/2018 – 07/2018 | Stand-in Professor, Anglophone Literature and Culture, Department for British and American Studies, Greifswald University |
12/2017 | Habilitation, Greifswald University, Thesis: “War as Action: Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence, 1775-1860” (Venia legendi: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) |
10/2008 – 03/2009 | Lecturer, American Studies, Department for British and American Studies, Jena University |
10/2007 – 09/2008 | Teaching assignments, Department for British and American Studies, Greifswald University |
09-10/2007, 09-10/2014, 09–10/2016 | Guest lecturer at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania (USA) |
10/2006 – 11/2009 | PhD student at Greifswald University, Thesis: "American Cinema in Transition: The Western in New Hollywood and Hollywood Now" (summa cum laude), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lutz |
10/2001 – 06/2006 | Student of British/American Studies and Mathematics at Greifswald University, M.A. Thesis "Hollywood at the End of the 20th Century: The Matrix, Fight Club, and American Beauty" |
11/2000 – 8/2001 | Compulsory Military Service |
1994 – 2000 | Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium (High School), Greifswald |
1988 – 1994 | Erwin-Fischer-Schule (Elementary School), Greifswald |
1982 | Born in Greifswald |
Books
- Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence: War as Action, 1775-1860. London, New York: Routledge, 2019.
- American Cinema in Transition: The Western in New Hollywood and Hollywood Now. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011.
Articles
“The Sounds of War: Reflections on WWI Films of 1930”. Aesthetics of Early Sound Film. Daniel Wiegand (ed.). Amsterdam UP, 2023. 243-260.
“Mad Max and the Western”. Studies in Australasian Cinema (2023). Advance article. <https://doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2023.2256610>.
“Environmental Change in Poetic Documentary Film”. The Place of Poetics Within Documentary Filming: The Art of Fact. Keith Marley (ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. 154-170.
“Adaptation as Emancipation in Edward Albee’s Lolita”. Adaptation (2023). Advance article. <https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad022>.
“The ‘Corkscrew’ Journey of an Adaptation: Cultural Mobility in Hammett, Kurosawa, Leone, and Hill”. Adaptation 15.3 (2022): 348-365. (first published as advance article 2021). <https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apab021>.
“The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns”. Women in the Western. Sue Matheson (ed.). Edinburgh UP, 2020. 223-241.
“Sheila Heti”. Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Sebastian Domsch et al. (Hg.). 111. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik, 2020. 24 S. Nachdruck in Kanadische Gegenwartsliteratur. Sebastian Domsch (Hg.). München: edition text + kritik, 2020. 97-120.
„Edward Albee“. Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Sebastian Domsch et al. (Hg.). 107. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik, 2019. 24 S.
“The Relationship between Nature and Technology in Three New Deal Documentaries: The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River, and The City”. Modernities and Modernization in North America. Ruth Mayer, Ilka Brasch (eds.). Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 289-305.
- “Machines in the Garden: Technology and the Western in the 1960s and 70s”. A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western. Sue Matheson (ed.). Jefferson: McFarland, 2017. 198-212.
- “Westerns and War Films: American Sniper as a Genre Hybrid”. Studia Filmoznawcze (Film Studies) 38 (2017). 105-119.
- “The Western in Times of War: Open Range and Seraphim Falls as Post-9/11 Films”. Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. Stefanie Müller, Christa Buschendorf, Katja Sarkowsky (eds.). Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 93-105.
- “Adaptation: Interpretation”. Film. Bild. Wirklichkeit.: Reflektion von Film – Reflexion im Film. Hg. Thomas Metten und Michael Meyer. Köln: Herbert von Halem, 2016. 246-264.
- “‘You Must Pay for Everything in This World One Way or Another’: The Economics of Justice in True Grit”. The Post-2000 Film Western. Marek Paryz, John Leo (eds.). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 36-50.
- “The ConMan and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood”. Fake Identity?: The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Caroline Rosenthal, Stefanie Schäfer (eds.). Frankfurt: Campus, 2014. 177-191.
- “The Pathological Protagonist in Recent Films by Martin Scorsese”. American Lives. Alfred Hornung (ed.). American Studies: A Monograph Series 234. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 507-520.
- “The Proposition”. Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture 3: Film Part II. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke, Laurenz Volkmann (eds.). Trier: WVT, 2013. 527-541.
- „Die Frontier als Konfliktraum im Western“. Störungen im Raum – Raum der Störungen. Christoph Gansel, Pawel Zimniak (Hg.). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 267-288.
- “Genre Pastiche and Gender Performance in Contemporary Hollywood Westerns: Cold Mountain, Deadwood, and Brokeback Mountain”. Explorations and Extrapolations: Applying English and American Studies. Alexander Brock, Uwe Küchler, Anne Schröder (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, 2011. 55-78.
- “John Ford’s Indians and Their Relevance for Today”. North America in the 21st Century: Tribal, Local, and Global. Kerstin Knopf (ed.). Trier: WVT, 2011. 305-322.
- “Guter Cowboy, schlechter Cowboy”. Filmkalender 2010. Mark Stöhr (Hg.). Marburg: Schüren, 2009. n.p.
- “Deadwood: Amerika zwischen Wildnis und Zivilisation”. Was bisher geschah: Serielles Erzählen im zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Fernsehen. Sascha Seiler (Hg.). Köln: Schnitt – Der Filmverlag, 2008. 68-79.
Reviews
Rev. of Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography: Cinema, Automediality and Grammatology with Film Portrait and Joyce at 34. Nadja Gernalzick. Amerikastudien 64.1 (2019). < https://amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst/2019/1/19/display/html >.
“Western Masculinities Past and Present” (Rev. of Masculinities in American Western Films: A Hyper-Linear History. Emma Hamilton). Papers on Language and Literature 54.1 (2018). 109-113.
- Rev. of Spoiler Alert!: Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film. Cornelia Klecker. Amerikastudien 61.3 (2016). < http://dgfa.de/cornelia-klecker-spoiler-alert-mind-tricking-narratives-in-contemporary-hollywood-film-heidelberg-winter-2015-172-pp/>.
- Rev. of Über Hochstapelei: Perspektiven auf eine kulturelle Praxis. Wieland Schwanebeck (Hg.). Anglistik 27.1 (2016). 193-195.
- „A bloody normal bloke who likes a bit of torture“ (Rezension des Films Chopper). Schnitt Online. 2.Dez.2011. < http://www.schnitt.de/231,6976,01>.
- „Night and the City“ (Rezension des Films Asphalt-Dschungel). Schnitt Online. 2.Jun.2011. < http://www.schnitt.de/236,6777,01>.
- „Für eine Handvoll australische Dollar“ (Rezension des Films Red Hill). Schnitt Online. 9.Mar.2011. <http://www.schnitt.de/231,6634,01>.
- „All that Cinema Allows“ (Rezension des Films All that Heaven Allows). Schnitt Online. 30.Sep.2010. < http://www.schnitt.de/236,6380,01>.
- „Birthday of the Dead“ (Rezension des Buches George A. Romero und seine Filme). Schnitt – Das Filmmagazin 58. 2/2010. 88. <http://www.schnitt.de/232,6170,01>.
- „Is That You, John Wayne? Is This Me?” (Rezension des Films Der schwarze Falke). Schnitt Online. 6.Apr.2010. < http://www.schnitt.de/236,6107,01>.
- „Come Back, Shane!“ (Rezension des Films Mein großer Freund Shane). Schnitt Online. 31.Mär.2010. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,6104,01>.
- „Take ‘Em to Missouri, Matt” (Rezension des Films Red River). Schnitt Online. 31.Mär.2010. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,6103,01>.
- „Ride the Low Country“ (Rezension des Films Bring mir den Kopf von Alfredo Garcia). Schnitt Online. 30.Mär.2010. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,6100,01>.
- „Ballern um des Ballerns Willen“ (Rezension des Films Predator). Schnitt Online. 13.Jan.2010. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,5991,01>.
- „Filmlektüre als Pastiche“ (Rezension des Buchs Sergio Leone – Es war einmal in Europa). Schnitt – Das Filmmagazin 57. 1/2010. 72. <http://www.schnitt.de/232,5986,01>.
- „Hollywood greift an, und seit 5.45 Uhr wird zurückgeschossen“ (Rezension des Buchs Hollywood greift an!). Schnitt Online. 23.Dez.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/232,5968,01>.
- „Logos statt Pathos“ (Rezension des Buchs Kinopathos). Schnitt Online. 23.Dez.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/232,5957,01>.
- „Essentielles Kino“ (Rezension des Films Vertigo). Schnitt Online. 16.Dez.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,5964,01>.
- „‘It’s all a game anyway‘“ (Rezension des Films Leoparden küsst man nicht). Schnitt Online. 9.Dez.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,5955,01>.
- „Mit dem Sarg nach Westen“ (Rezension des Films Django). Schnitt Online. 2.Okt.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,5839,01>.
- „Heil Hollywood“ (Rezension des Films Starship Troopers). Schnitt Online. 17.Sep.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/236,5806,01>.
- „The True Story of Wyatt Earp“ (Rezension des Films Tombstone). Schnitt Online. 15.Sep.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/231,5804,01>.
- „The Law and the Land“ (Rezension des Films Appaloosa). Schnitt Online. 14.Sep.2009. <http://www.schnitt.de/231,5768,01>.
- „Was das Kino erlaubt“ (Rezension des Buchs Das Gefühl der Gefühle: Zum Kinomelodram). Schnitt Online. Jan.2008. <http://www.schnitt.de/232,5278,01>.
- „Eine ganz normale Familie“ (Rezension des Films Mein Schatz, unsere Familie und ich). Schnitt Online. 4.Dez.2008. <http://www.schnitt.de/202,3617,01>.
- „Alles für die Familie“ (Rezension des Films Helden der Nacht). Schnitt – Das Filmmagazin 49. 1/2008. 46. <http://www.schnitt.de/202,3170,01>.
- „Alles nur Fassade“ (Rezension des Films Tödliche Versprechen). Schnitt Online. 24.Dez.2007. <http://www.schnitt.de/202,3119,01>.
- „Reprint the Legend“ (Rezension des Films Die Ermordung des Jesse James durch den Feigling Robert Ford). Schnitt Online. 22.Okt.2007. <http://www.schnitt.de/202,3044,01>.
- „Warten auf den Zug“ (Rezension des Films Todeszug nach Yuma). Schnitt – Das Filmmagazin 48. 4/2007. 48. <http://www.schnitt.de/202,3106,01>.
"The Meta-Cinema of Paul Verhoeven's Hollywood Films". Paul Verhoeven@85. Bangor (UK). 8.Sep.2023.
“Recovering Edward Albee’s Lolita”. Reconnecting and Recovering: the second virtual joint conference of the Literature/Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies. 16.Feb.2023.
“The Limits of Empowerment: The Woman in Arms in Kayla Williams’s Memoir Love My Rifle More Than You (2005)”. Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture. Wien. 19.Oct.2022.
“‘All Is Clear, Open, Fluent’: The Sea in Revolutionary War Fiction”. Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea: ASANOR Conference 2022. Bodø. 30.Sep.2022.
“Flying over a Lynching: Constructions of Group Identity in Ralph Ellison’s ‘A Party Down at the Square’”. Flyover Fictions. Innsbruck. 27.May.2022.
“Mad Max and the Western”. Distant Shores: International Perspectives on the Australian New Wave. London (Online). 30.Oct.2021.
“Between Reverence and Rejection: Age and Youth in the Vietnam Era Western”. Lonely Are the Brave: The Western and Post-War America. Norwich (Online). 17.Jun.2021.
“The ‘Corkscrew’ Journey of an Adaptation”. Journeys: Memory and Migration: Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference. Edinburgh (Online). 10.Jun.2021.
“The Sounds of War: Reflections on American War Films of 1930”. Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change Around 1930. Zürich (Online). 4.Jun.2021.
“Order vs. Chaos in Spartacus”. Spartacus@60: An Online Symposium. 21.Dec.2020.
“Constructions of Agency in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods (1835)”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Webinar. 28.Aug.2020.
- “Environmental Change in Poetic Documentary Film”. Cultural Responses to Environmental Change. Greifswald. 8.Nov.2019.
- “The Soldier Group in the Combat Film: Agency and Ideology”. U.S. Culture as Popular Culture: 66. Jahrestagung der DGfA. Hamburg. 14.Jun.2019.
- “The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns”. Guest lecture in seminar „How the West Was Won – and Lost“. Jena. 14.Jan.2019.
- “Grenzüberschreitung als Kriegsmetapher in Sicario”. Grenzüberschreitendes Kino: 23. Internationales Bremer Symposium zum Film. Bremen. 28.Apr.2018.
- “When Camp Takes Over: Two Musical Numbers in Strictly Ballroom and The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and What They Tell Us About Australian Cinema”. When the Music Takes Over: Musical Numbers in Film and Television. Salzburg. 9.Mar.2018.
- “The Relationship between Nature and Technology in Three New Deal Documentaries: The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River, and The City”.Modernities and Modernization in North America: 64 Jahrestagung der DGfA. Hannover. 10.Jun.2017.
- “Der Western seit 9/11”. Guest lecture for Nordamerikafreunde e.V. Greifswald. 7.Okt.2015.
- “‘You Must Pay for Everything One Way or Another’: The Economics of Revenge in True Grit’”. Reflections on Revenge. Leicester (UK). 4.Sep.2015.
- “War and Agency in Stephen Crane’s and John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage”. Guest lecture in exchange program with Widener University. Chester, PA (USA). 17.Sep.2014.
- “Narrative Situation and Agency in Stephen Crane’s and John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage”. Film Adaptation: A Dialogue Among Approaches: International Conference. Greifswald. 19.Apr.2013.
- “The Western as Transnational Genre”. Popular Culture on the Move: Transnational Aspects of the Popular in America through the Centuries: An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop. Oldenburg. 12.Okt.2012.
- “The Pathological Protagonist in Recent Films by Martin Scorsese”. American Lives: 59. Jahrestagung der DGfA. Mainz. 2.Jun.2012.
- “The ConMan and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood”. Fake Identities?: Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes in North American Culture: An International Symposium. Jena. 26.Apr.2012.
- “The Western since 9/11”. Guest lecture in seminar „How the West Was Won: The American Western“. Jena. 1.Feb.2012. Guest lecture in series „Culture Vultures“. Szczecin. 23.Mai.2012. Guest lecture in exchange program with Widener University. Chester, PA (USA). 15.Sep.2016.
- „Die Frontier als Konfliktraum im Western“. Störungen im Raum – Raum der Störungen: Wissenschaftliche Tagung am Zentrum für Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien. Zielona Gora (Polen). 24.Feb.2011.
- “The Western as a Reflection of Contemporary America”. Guest lecture in exchange program with Widener University. Chester, PA (USA). 17.Sep.2007.
- “David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence: A Canadian’s Look at the USA”. Greifswald Canadian Studies Conference. Greifswald. 4.Mai.2007.
- SS 23: PS "Introduction to Literary Studies I (Poetry)", PS "The American Horror Film"
- WS 22/23: PS "Introduction to Literary Studies II (Prose and Drama)", PS "New Hollywood"
- SS 22: PS "Introduction to Film Studies", PS "Introduction to Literary Studies I (Poetry)"
- WS 21/22: PS "The American Film Musical", PS "Introduction to Literary Studies II (Prose and Drama)"
- SS 21: PS "Introduction to Film Studies", PS "Introduction to Literary Studies II (Prose and Drama)"
- WS 20/21: PS "Introduction to Literary Studies I (Poetry)", PS "Introduction to Film Studies", PS "Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" (alle Graz), S "Adaptations: Literature into Film" (Greifswald)
- SS 20: PS "Introduction to Literary Studies I (Poetry)" (Graz)
- WS 19/20: S "Alfred Hitchcock", HS "Sexualität und Gender im amerikanischen Film"
- WS 18/19: HS “American Feminist Literature”, S “Stanley Kubrick”
- SS 18: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, S “African American Literature”, S “American Renaissance: Literature in the Age of Romanticism”, S “The American Film Musical”
- WS 17/18: PS “American Realism and Naturalism”, S “The American Horror Film”
- SS 17: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, PS “Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, S “Race and Racism in American Literature”
- WS 16/17: Module Course “American Documentary Film” (Widener University), PS “American Poetry”, S “The Western”
- SS 16: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, S “The American Civil War in Literature”, S “Documentary Film”
- WS 15/16: S “Australian Film”, S “The American Revolution in Literature”
- SS 15: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”
- WS 14/15: Seminar “Labor and Class Politics in American Film” (with Rachel Batch, Widener University), PS “The American Dream in Literature”
- SS 14: S “American Literature and Film in the 1960s”
- WS 13/14: S “African American Literature”
- SS 13: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, S “American Literature and Film in the 1950s”, PS “American Realism and Naturalism”
- WS 12/13: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, S “Literature of the American South”, S “Global Shakespeare” (with Conny Loder)
- SS 12: S “American Gothic Fiction”, S “Herman Melville: Moby Dick”, HS “The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Hollywood Cinema”
- WS 11/12: PS “American Poetry”, S “Nature in Canadian Literature”, HS “Race and Racism in American Literature and Film”
- SS 11: S “America’s Wars in Literature and Film”, S “Modernism: American Literature between the World Wars”, S “The City in American Literature and Film”
- WS 10/11: VL “Introduction to Literary Studies”, PS “The Frontier in American Literature and Film”, HS “Adaptations: Literature into Film”
- SS 10: PS “Huckleberry Finn and American Realism”, PS “American Renaissance: Literature in the Age of Romanticism”, HS “New Hollywood”
- WS 08/09: PS “American Woman Writers” (Jena)
- SS 08: PS “American Film Genres”
- SS 07: Module Course “A History of Western Films” (Widener University)
- amerikanische Literatur und Film
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
- Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften