Elizabeth (Liz) Schoppelrei
Education
Professional Bio
Liz Schoppelrei is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature and German. In August 2023, they received their dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a graduate minor in German. In their dissertation, they examine textual representations of trans/queer identities and communities and how taxonomies of gender and sexuality undergird speculative community formation. Their research interests include: trans/queer community formation, trans/queer periodicals of Weimar-era Germany, speculative and science fiction, comics, queer ecologies, and Black feminist thought.
Their article “‘Full Body Intersection’: Fat Positive Activism, Poetry Slam, and Rachel Wiley” appeared in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society in 2018. During the 2019-2020 academic year, they were a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at the Universität Potsdam, completing research on their project: "Contested Communities: Lesbian and Transvestite Poetry in Die Freundin (1924-1933).” Their second article “The Queer Intimacies of Roses in Louise Aston’s ‘Wilde Rosen’ (1846) and ‘Die wilde Rose’ (1850)” was published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking in 2020. They have forthcoming chapters in Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature: New Perspectives and Doing Queer History: Written Media Landscapes in the German-Speaking World.
Classes Taught:
- CMLIT 406: Women in World Literature, "Germanophone Voices"
- CMLIT 191: Video Game Cultures
- CMLIT 153/005: Literature and Film of the Americas
- CMLIT 122: Global Science Fictions, "Gender and the Future"
- CMLIT 101: Race, Gender, and Identity in World Literature
- CMLIT 10: Introduction to World Literature
- WMNST 106: Representing Women and Gender in Art, Literature, and Popular Culture
- WMNST 105: Living in a Diverse World
- GER 302: Intermediate Writing and Grammar
- GER 3: Intermediate German
- GER 2: Elementary German 2
- GER 1: Elementary German 1
Areas of Specialization:
- Trans Studies
- Weimar Trans/Queer Culture
- Speculative and Science Fiction
- Comics Studies
- Poetry