Prof. Dr. Gala Rebane
Chair Holder
Room LS 101
Tel.: +49(0)851/509-3440
Gala.Rebane@uni-passau.de
Curriculum Vitae
| 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 |
Further Academic Service (Selection)
| 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 |
Scholarships and Awards
| 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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