Lydia Kleinstück

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

 

Research Interests

North American Cultural Studies; Transnational Periodical Cultures; Game Studies; Popular Culture; Translation Studies; Modern and Contemporary North American Literature & Film

Reviews

Rev. of Wong, Angie. Laughing Back at Empire: The Grassroots Activism of The Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2023). Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 75 (2024): 189-190.

Articles

"Playing Resistance without Restrictions: Nazi Germany in Through the Darkest of Times." Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures. Eds. Nick Webber, Ewan Kirkland and René Reinhold Schallegger. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2025. [forthcoming]

Conference Papers and Panels

“Digital Gaming Magazines: Infinite Space with Limited Voices?” Digital Forms: The Long and Short of It (Interdisciplinary Workshop), Mainz, November 22-23, 2024.

"FUNLAND: Rethinking Video Game Magazines for a Queer Audience" 11th ESPRit Conference (Periodicals and Belonging), Leeds, June 27-29, 2023.

"Magazines as a Resource for Literary Studies: A Roundtable" 34th Annual Conference on American Literature, Boston, May 25-27, 2023.

Education & Employment

09/2022 – today Doctoral Student and Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

07/2022 – 08/2022 Student of American Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, VT, USA

07/2021 – 08/2022 Research Assistant in the Department of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

01/2021 – 06/2021 Translator Intern at RWS Munich (remote)

04/2018 – 09/2020 Student of English (M.A.) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)

08/2015 – 12/2015 Exchange Student at the Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada

10/2014 – 02/2018 Student of English (B.A.) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB 06)