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Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane

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Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane
Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane
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Year Function

Since 01/09/2022

Chair holder of the Chair of Comparative European Culural Studies: Theories and Methods, University of Passau

2016-2022

Junior professor of Intercultural Competency, specialisation in interculural digital practices and transnational relations, Chemnitz University of Technology

2014-2016

Substitute junior professor of Intercultural Training, Chemnitz University of Technology

2012

PhD in Intercultural Communication. Dissertation: “Collective Identities in the Contemporary Italian Historical Novel” (summa cum laude), Chemnitz University of Technology

2009-2014

Lecturer in Social and Cultural Theory at the chair of Social Theory and Social Psychology, faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bochum

2006-2008

Contract lecturer in Intercultural Communication and Contract lecturer in Romance Cultural Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology

2003-2009

Language lecturer for French, Italian and Russian at Language Centre of Chemnitz University of Technology

2001

MA in Philology, specialisation in Italian Studies, second language: French, State University of St. Petersburg

2000

Study stay at Università per Stranieri di Siena

1999

Study stay at Istituto Trentino di Cultura

Year Function

2020-

Referee for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

2019-

Advisory board member of IATIS – International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies

2014-

Membership in research network Middle Ages and Renaissance in Romance Countries

2012-

Peer reviewer for New Media & Society, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, California Italian Studies, Culture & Psychology, Psychosozial, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

2009-2014

Chief academic executive of Hans Kilian Award Co-ordination Bureau, Köhler Foundation / University of Bochum

Year Scholarship

2017-2018

Scholarship from the Mercator Foundation for participation in the vocational training programme "Leadership in the digital age" at the LEAD Academy of Berlin

February 2015

1st Award in the competition “Your idea for Chemnitz University”, Project „Come + Stay. Promotion of sustainable welcoming culture at university” (with F. Colombo; Chemnitz University of Technology)

Summer 2009

Postdoc research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen / Mercator Foundation. Research project “Emotivity in the contemporary European cinéma d’auteur

Summer 2008

Postgraduate scholarship for Summer School „Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity“ of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Gießen

2006-2009

PhD research scholarship in the international postgraduate programme „New Humanism in the era of globalisation“ at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen and the Mercator Foundation

Summer 2000

Scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a study stay at Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy

Summer 1999

Scholarship from Istituto Trentino di Cultura for a study stay at Levico Terme, Italy

Monographs

Emojis. Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft einer digitalen Bilderschrift [Emoji. Past, Present, and Future of a digital iconic script]. Book Series Digitale Bildkulturen [Digital Visual Cultures]. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2021.

Akademische Kulturen. Abschlussschrift zum Projekt Akademische Integration internationaler Studierender. [Academic Cultures. Final Report on the Project ‘Academic Integration of International Students’].Chemnitz: Chemnitz Universitätsverlag, 2020, online: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-729785.

Re-making the Italians. Collective Identities in the Contemporary Italian Historical Novel. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, 2012.

Edited Volumes

(with Heidrun Friese et al.): Handbook of Social Practices and Digital Everyday Worlds / Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und digitale Alltagswelten. Berlin etc.: Springer, 2020 (e-book 2016)

(with Ralf Junkerjürgen): Multilingualism in Film. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, 2019.

(with Jürgen Straub & Pradeep Chakkarath): Interdisziplinäre Kulturpsychologie im Dialog. Hans-Kilian-Vorlesungen zur sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Psychologie und integrativen Anthropologie [Interdisciplinary Cultural Psychology in a Dialogue. Hans Kilian Lecture Series in Social and Cultural Psychology and Integrative Anthropology]. Gießen: Psychosozial, 2019.

(with Christine Stadler): Impulse. Studentische Untersuchungen zu Kultur und Gesellschaft [Incentives. Students‘ Research Papers on Culture and Society]. Chemnitz: Universitätsverlag, 2018.

Identität und kulturelle Praktiken im digitalen Zeitalter [Identity and Cultural Practices in the Digital Age]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018.

(with Hartmut Böhme et al.): Der anatomische Akt. Zur Bildgeschichte und Psychohistorie der frühneuzeitlichen Anatomie [The Anatomical Act. On Visual History and Psychohistory of Early Modern Anatomy]. Gießen: Psychosozial, 2012.

(with Katja Bendels & Nina Riedler): Humanismus polyphon. Menschlichkeit im Zeitalter der Globalisierung [Polyphony of Humanism. Humanity in the Era of Globalisation]. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009.

(with Thorsten Mundi & Cornelia Siebeck): Handlung, Kultur, Interpretation. Zeitschrift der Sozialwissenschaften (1) [Action, Culture, Interpretation. Sociological Journal, vol. 1]. Frankfurt a. Main: Humanities Online, 2007.

Articles (Selection)

Food & Drink-Emojis. In: POP-Zeitschrift 22, Spring 2023, 38-44.

(with Christoph Oliver Mayer): Rezeption von Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania [Reception of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the Romania]. In: Handbuch Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania [Handbook on the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the Romania], Hg. Lidia Becker, Elmar Eggert, Susanne Gramatzki & Christoph Oliver Mayer. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023, 733-752.

A luminous network. In: Brigitte Kowanz: ISTR, Hg. Alfred Weidinger, Sabine Sobotka & Adrian Kowanz. Berlin u. Linz: DISTANZ Verlag, 2023, 71-79.

(with Katharina Schmidt, Matthis Altmann, Alexander Clauss, Franziska Schulte-Stocker & Maik Arnold): Über die Mobilität hinausgehen. Lehren aus einer projektbasierten virtuellen internationalen, interkulturellen und interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit [Going beyond mobility. Lessons learnt from project-based virtual international, intercultural and interdisciplinary cooperation]. In: Lessons Learned 2 (2), 2022, online: https://journals.qucosa.de/ll/article/view/57.

YouTube Room tours as the Neo-Victorian ,making of the parlour‘? In: (Neo)Victorian Studies. Post-Conference Volume, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 2022 (accepted; 13 pages).

Visuelle Anthropologien der Fremdheit: Großstadtdarstellungen im zeitgenössischen europäischen Film über Migration [Visual anthropologies of otherness: migration and urban experience in contemporary European cinema]. In: Beutmann, Jens et al. (eds): Die Stadt: Eine gebaute Lebensform zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft [City: A Constructed Form of Life between Past and Future]. Book Series “CHAT: Chemnitz Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today. Trier: WVT, 2022, 227-249.

Videokonferenzen mit externen Expert:innen in Seminaren [Video conferences with professionals in workshop courses]. In: Swidzinski, Anja & Rada, Ulrike (eds): Lösungen für die Lehre. Erprobte Lehrpraxis aus sächsischen Hochschulen [Solutions for Teaching. Best Practice at Saxon Universities]. Dresden/Chemnitz: Lehrpraxis im Transfer Plus, 2021, 30-33.

(with Maik Arnold): ‘Experiment D’ – Serious game for the development of intercultural competence. Concept, content, and experiences. In: Carmo, Mafalda (ed.): Education and New Developments 2021. Conference proceedings. Lissabon: inScience Press, 2021, 376-380.

(with Jean Burgess & Joshua Green): Agency and controversy in the YouTube community. In: Friese, Heidrun, et al. (eds): Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten [Handbook of Social Practices and Digital Everyday Worlds]. Berlin etc.: Springer, 2020, 105-116 (e-version 2016; doi:10.1007/978-3-658-08460-8_10-1).

Sprache, Kultur, Identität: Sprachbasierte digitale Praktiken bikultureller Postadoleszenten [Language, Culture, Identity: language-based digital practices of bicultural postadolescents]. In: Vladu, Daniela-Elena et al. (eds): Werte – Zeiten – Orte. Die Kraft der Multikulturalität in Sprache und Literatur [Values – Times – Places. The Power of Multiculturalism in Language and Literature]. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2020, 47-62.

,There is no word for thank you in Dothraki‘. Language ideologies in Game of Thrones. In: Rebane, Gala & Junkerjürgen, Ralf (eds): Multilingualism in Film. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, 2019, 169-196.

Aushandlung und Inszenierung des Privaten in Room Tour-Videos [Negotiation and staging of privacy in room tour videos]. In: Christian Aldenhoff et al. (eds): Digitalität und Privatheit [Digitality and Privacy]. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 283-302, re-printed in POP-Zeitschrift, 24.02.2020, online: http://www.pop-zeitschrift.de/2020/02/24/room-tour-videosvon-gala-rebane24-2-2020/.

,A parlour of one’s own‘? The YouTube room tour genre. In: Continuum. Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 33 (1), 2019, 51-64.

(with Christoph Fasbender): Identität im digitalen Rollenspiel. Tim Staffels Next Level Parzival [Identity in a digital role game. Tim Staffel’s Next Level Parzival]. In: Rebane, Gala (ed.): Identität und kulturelle Praktiken im digitalen Zeitalter [Identity and Cultural Practices in the Digital Age]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, 15-42.

Digitale Praktiken und Identitätsarbeit bikultureller Postadoleszenten [Digital practices and identity construction of bicultural post-adolescents]. In: Rebane, Gala (ed.): Identität und kulturelle Praktiken im digitalen Zeitalter Zeitalter [Identity and Cultural Practices in the Digital Age]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018, 107-128.

Bikulturalität [Biculturality]. In: Kölbl, Carlos & Sieben, Anna (eds): Stichwörter zur Kulturpsychologie [Lexicon of Cultural Psychology]. Gießen: Psychosozial, 2018, 65-70.

Held oder Schurke? Die Staufer im italienischen historischen Roman der Gegenwart [Hero or villain? The Staufer Emperors in the contemporary Italian historical novel]. In: Literaturkritik.de (special issue on Medievalism, no. 8), 2018, online: https://literaturkritik.de/die-staufer-im-italienischen-historischen-roman-der-gegenwart,24713.‌html.

(with Anne-Coralie Bonnaire): Zwischen Objektivität und Interkulturalität. Akademische Kulturen in den MINT-Fächern [Between objectivity and interculturality. Academic cultures in STEM fields]. In: HDS.Journal (2), 2017, 17-23.

Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Frauseins. Die Pro-Ana-Bewegung und mediale Diskurse über Anorexie in Russland [The unbearable lightness of being a woman. Pro-Ana movement and media discourses on anorexia in Russia]. In: Psychosozial 140 (2), 2015, 121-142.

Der weibliche Körper als Speise: Ernährung, Gesellschaft und Geschlecht in Elsa Triolets Rosen auf Kredit [The female body as fare: food, society, and gender in Elsa Triolet’s Roses à crédit]. In: Hollerweger, Elisa & Stemmann, Anna (eds): Narrative Delikatessen. Kulturelle Dimensionen von Ernährung [Narrative Delicacies. Cultural Dimensions of Food]. Siegen: Universi, 2015, 227-244.

The flickering light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo addolorato (1993). In: Annovi, Gian Maria & Ghezzo, Flora (eds): Celestial Geographies: A Critical Mapping of Anna Maria Ortese's Work, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015, 356-384.

The three rays of triskelion: Celtomania in today’s Northern Italy. In: Arnold, Maik & Łukasik, Przemek (eds): Transatlantic and European Images and Realities: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic, and Social Changes and Developments. Kraków: NOMOS, 2012, 183-198

Anorexia nervosa: eine psychische Störung oder Selbstoptimierung? [Anorexia nervosa: a mental disorder or a self-optimisation strategy?] In: Sieben, Anna et al. (eds): Menschen machen. Die hellen und die dunklen Seiten humanwissenschaftlicher Optimierungsprogramme [Making Humans: Light and Dark Sides of Optimisation Programmes in Human Sciences]. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012, 211-234.

(with Jürgen Straub) The visionary memory of literature: Collective identity as an imagined community in contemporary Italian historical fiction. In: Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 7:2 (14), 2010, 71-99.

Local histories, global world. Reflections of regionalism in contemporary Italian historical fiction. In: Baumbach, Sibylle (Hg.): Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity. Trier: WVT, 2010, 223-238.

Deconstructing deconstruction. Umberto Eco’s Baudolino (2000) as a critique of postmodernism. In: Rebane, Gala, Bendels, Katja & Riedler, Nina (Hg.): Humanismus polyphon. Menschlichkeit im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009, 215-230.

Von Kelten und anderen Vorfahren: Der zeitgenössische historische Roman in Italien als Spiegel der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Transformation [Of Celts and other ancestors: the contemporary Italian historical novel as a reflection of political and societal transformation]. In: Mundi, Thorsten et al. (eds): Handlung, Kultur, Interpretation. Zeitschrift der Sozialwissenschaften, Handlung, Kultur, Interpretation. Zeitschrift der Sozialwissenschaften (1) [Action, Culture, Interpretation. Sociological Journal, vol. 1], 2007, Frankfurt a. Main: Humanities Online, 69-98.

Michail Bulgakow, Der Meister und Margarita (1928-1940) [Mikhail Bulgakov‘s The Master and Margarita]. In: Junkerjürgen, Ralf (ed.): Klassische Romane Europas in Einzeldarstellungen [Classical European Novels: Selected Analyses], Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2007, 227-246.

Globalizzazione ed emarginazione in Il cardillo addolorato (1993) di Anna Maria Ortese [Globalisation and marginalisation in Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo addolorato]. In: König, Torsten et al. (eds): Rand-Betrachtungen. Peripherien – Minoritäten – Grenzziehungen. Beiträge zum 21. Forum Junge Romanistik [Side Perspectives. Peripheries – Minorities – Demarcations. Proceedings of the 21st Forum of Young Romance Philology Scholars], Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag 2006, 435-450.

Der kleine Unterschied. Henry Lion Oldie: Geroj dolžen byt’ odin [The little difference: Henry Lion Oldie’s The Hero Must Be Alone]. In: Le Blanc, Thomas & Rüster, Johannes (eds): GlaubensWelten: Götter in Science Fiction und Fantasy [Worlds of Belief: Deities in Science Fiction and Fantasy], Wetzlar: Phantastische Bibliothek, 2005, 309-313.

Ein Gott mit psychischen Störungen. Valerio Evangelisti: Cherudek [A God with mental disorders. Valerio Evangelisti’s Cherudek]. In: Le Blanc, Thomas & Rüster, Johannes (eds): GlaubensWelten: Götter in Science Fiction und Fantasy [Worlds of Belief: Deities in Science Fiction and Fantasy], Wetzlar: Phantastische Bibliothek, 2005, 88-91.

Alessandro Baricco, Seta. In: Lentzen, Manfred (ed.): Italienische Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts in Einzelinterpretationen [Interpretations of Selected 20th-century Italian Novels], Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2005, 386-404

Media Contributions (Selection)

Die Emojikalypse :-) (Reg. Lilly Schlagnitweit, 36 Min.). 3sat-Doku, online: https://www.‌3sat.de/kultur/kulturdoku/die-emojikalypse-100.html.

„Emojis – Kommunikation durch Smileys“ [Emoji - Commincation through Smileys], Interview on: Hessischer Rundfunk, 15.07.2022.

„Zeichen der Zeit oder frohe Botschafter? Emojis im Drei-Generationen-Gespräch“. [Signs of the times or tidings of joy? A three-generation chat about emoji]. In: Die Politische Meinung, Nr. 573, March/April 2022, 67. Jahrgang, 58-62.

Eine universelle Sprache? Gala Rebane über den Siegeszug von Emojis [A universal language? Gala Rebane on the emoji’s triumph]. Radio interview on: Deutschlandfunk, 19.11.2021.

Hieroglyphen der Gegenwart [Hieroglyphs of the present]. In: Weltecho 39, 30.09.2021, 66-67.

Period Description

May 2021

Academic cultures and e-learning (keynote). 2nd National Conference “E-learning experiences in higher education: policies, assessment, and practical courses”, Alhazra University of Tehran (online)

September 2020

 

YouTube room tours as a Neo-Victorian ‘making of the parlour. International Conference on (Neo)Victorian Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research/University of London (online)

September 2020

Otherness and diversity (keynote; in German). Annual conference of Samaritan Telephone Service, Rindern near Kleve, October 2020

May 2019

Fragmentation of individual lifestyles in postmodernity (keynote; in German). Annual conference of Samaritan Telephone Service, Suhl

Februar 2019

‘Experiment D’: a serious game promoting intercultural competence. Concept, contents, and experiences (in German; with Maik Arnold). Conference “Learning by Playing. Serious Games and Gamification in Higher Education and Its Didactics”, Swiss Austrian German Simulation and Gaming Association, Zittau/Görlitz

December 2018

2nd Alumni Conference “Students as Scholars: Graduate Research on Culture and Society”, Chemnitz University of Technology

June 2018

‘There is no word for thank you in Dothraki’: Language ideologies in Game of Thrones (in German). 4th Symposium “Language and Intercultural Communication”, West Saxonian University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau

April 2018

Identity negotiation through languaging: online communication practices of bi- and transcultural post-adolescents (in German). International Conference “Values – Times – Places. Power of Multiculturality in Language and Literature”, Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

December 2017

1st Alumni Conference “Students as Scholars: Graduate Research on Culture and Society”, Chemnitz University of Technology

October 2017

Negotiation and staging of privacy in room tour videos: a socio-cultural perspective (in German). Conference “Digitalisation and Privacy”, University of Passau

October 2017

International Conference “Multilingualism in Film”, University of Regensburg (co-organisation)

November 2016

Negotiating bicultural identity: language-based digital practices of bicultural individuals. 42th Austrian Conference in Language Studies, University of Graz

June 2016

Digital practices of bicultural youth: language, culture, identity (in German). 2nd Symposium “Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication”, West Saxonian University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau

June 2015

Identity construction of bicultural post-adolescents (in German). International conference “Identity and Cultural Practices in the Digital Age”, Chemnitz University of Technology in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen

September 2014

Food as a weapon and the female body as food in Elsa Triolet‘s ‘Roses à credit’, 1959 (in German). Conference „You are what You Eat – Cultural Dimensions of Food“, University of Siegen

June 2013

Symposium “Science and Religion” with the Hans Kilian Award Winner 2013, Professor Hans Joas, University of Bochum (co-organisation)

2011-2013

Hans Kilian International Lecture Series in social and cultural psychology and integrative anthropology, University of Bochum (co-organisation)

May 2011

Symposium “History, Psychoanalysis, und Psychology” with the Hans Kilian Award Winner 2011, Professor Hartmut Böhme, Darmstadt University of Technology (co-organisation)

February 2011

Celtomania in contemporary Northern Italy. International Workshop “Identity, Migration and International Relations: Diagnoses, Symptoms, and Future Prospects in Europe and the U.S.”, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen

November 2009

Construction of collective identities in the contemporary Italian historical novel. A contribution on methods of qualitative sociological research (in German). Sociological Colloquium, University of Bochum

July 2008

Cultural memory and historical regional identities in the contemporary Italian historical novel.Summer School, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Gießen

July 2006

Globalisation, History, and Literature: the contemporary historical novel in Italy as a cultural voice in the process of European integration and collective identity building (in German). Symposium „History and the Present Age in a Dialogue of Social Identities: Tradition, Translation, Future“,Villigst Conference Centre

May 2005

Globalisation and marginalisation in Anna Maria Ortese’s ‘Il cardillo addolorato’, 1993 (in Italian). 21st Forum of Young Romance Philology Scholars, Dresden University of Technology

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