Amy Lynne Hill
Education
Joint Ph.D., German and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Dissertation: Death Does [not] Become Her: The Figure of the Lustmörderin and Abject Female Sexuality in Modern German Culture.
M.A, Angewandte Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften (Applied Literary and Cultural Studies), Technische Universität Dortmund
Thesis: Ethnic Empowerment in Transatlantic Detective Fiction: A Figuratively Forensic Study of Power and Knowledge
B.A, German Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Professional Experience
Podcasting Mentor, StudioNPL, Nashville Public Libraries. 2.20222 – present.
Graduate Fellow, The Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University. 8.20222 – present.
Special Projects Coordinator, “Monuments and Memories.” 1.2021— 5.2021
Graduate Fellow for German, Center for Second Language Studies, Vanderbilt University. 8.2020 — 5.2022
Instructor of record, Vanderbilt University, German Russian and East European Studies. 8.2017— present.
Instructor, Technische Universität Dortmund, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Sprachpraxis, Dortmund, Germany. 10. 2012—7.2016
Instructor and Mentor, die HagenSchule, Hagen, Germany. 3. 2015 — 6.2016
Instructor, Fachhochschule für Öffentliche Verwaltung NRW, Außenstelle Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. 1. 2014 — 5. 2015
Instructor, Robert Bosch Berufskolleg, Dortmund, Germany. 1. 2014 — 5. 2015
Publications
With Cynthia D. Porter. “The F Word in German Hip Hop: FTZN Fotzen im Feminismus.” Angry Women and Feminist Anger in German-Language Cultural Production and Activism. Edited by Julia Gruber and Regina Range. Rochester, New York: Camden House. Forthcoming.
“Abjectivity: The Selfie Subjectivity of Trans Social Media Influencers. “ On_Culture. Forthcoming
“Baby Girl.” Infanticide/Mothers who Kill. Edited by Charlotte Beyer and Josephine Savarese. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter. 2021.29-52.
“‘GRWM’: Modes of Aesthetic Observance, Surveillance, and Subversion on YouTube.“ Digitalität und Privatheit: Kulturelle, politisch-rechtliche und soziale Perspektiven. Edited by Christian Aldenhoff, Lukas Edeler, Martin Hennig, Jakob Kelsch, Lea Raabe and Felix Sobala Bielefeld: transcript. 2019. 329-351. Read here.
“Sediment.” The Kudzu Review. Fall, v3.2, 2013.
Digital Projects
Now This Is Monumental!
Project coordinator, student produced podcast for GER/RUSS 3330. 2021.
https://monumentsmemory2021.wordpress.com/
Trans Male Character
Podcast essay which interviews trans and nonbinary authors of fan fiction as a transformative reader response that re-interprets Marvel character Steve Roger’s transformation into Captain America as gender-affirming care. 2017.
1417
A photo essay and storytelling project in response to gentrification in Nashville: images of home juxtaposed with the written aesthetic of the burgeoning restaurant industry. 2017.
https://amylynnehill.com/project1417/
Marginalized Voices
Video essay and academic resource that conceptualizes marginalized German literature as a genre. 2017.
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/amylynnehill/
Get Ready With Me
Performance art and video essay that analyzes beauty cultures in Germany and the U.S through Siegfried Kracauer’s Shop Girls, Michel Foucault’s panopticon, Johnathon Crary’s theory of the observer, and Lev Manovich’s concept of digital socialist realism.
Conferences
“Cross Racial Collaboration as Disciplinary Intervention.” with Cynthia D. Porter. The Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference. Portland, OR. November, 2022.
“Murder, Menstruation, and Masturbation: Investigating Epidemic Injustice through the Medical Humanities.” German Studies Association Annual Conference. Houston, TX. September, 2022.
“The F Word in German Hip Hop: FTZN im Feminismus.” Collaboration with Cynthia D. Porter.
Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Lexington, KY. April, 2022.
“Strategies to Make your World Language Students’ Learning More Inclusive” Southern Conference on Language Teaching. Norfolk, VA. Collaboration with Sahai Couso, Danielle Dorvil, Courtney Rehkamp. April, 2022.
“Handmaidens of the Patriarchy: Antifeminist Complicity across Cultures.” Presider. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention. January, 2022.
“What Vera Can Never Know.” Handmaidens of the Patriarchy: Popular Women’s Culture. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention. January, 2022.
“Sister Insider: Intersectional Collaborations on the Uses of Anger by Women of Color.” Invited Seminar Speaker. German Studies Association Annual Conference. October, 2021.
“Design Your Own Digital Teaching Project.” Second Language Research Forum, Vanderbilt
University. Collaboration with Nathalie Dieu-Porter, Danielle Dorvil, Melanie Forehand, Braden Goveia, Patrick Murphy, Michael Uhuegbu, Bryant White. November, 2020.
“Bridging the Gap: Linking Language Communities Using EdPuzzle and Padlet.” Tennessee Foreign
Languages Teaching Association Annual Conference. Collaboration with Nathalie Dieu-Porter, Danielle Dorvil, Braden Goveia, Patrick Murphy, Michael Uhuegbu, Bryant White. October, 2020.
“Death Does [Not] Become Her: Abject Female Sexuality from Crime Scene to Canvas in Weimar Germany.” German Studies Association Annual Conference. October, 2020.
“Slutty Sluts Who Slut: Sexuality and Promiscuity Through the Ages.” Panel Organizer, Women in German Annual Conference. University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. October, 2020.
“Precarity, Agency, and Menstruation: The Case of Käthe Hagedorn.” Presentation, Women in German Annual Conference. University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. October, 2019.
“Abjectivity: Our Selfie Subjectivity.” Presentation, Popular Culture and American Culture Association National Conference. Washington, D.C. April, 2019.
Co-chair, “Bodies of Work: Gender, Space and Materiality in German Studies.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. March, 2019.
“GRWM: Modes of Aesthetic Observance, Surveillance, and Subversion on YouTube.” Presentation, Digitalität und Privatheit, Research Training Group Passau, University Passau, Germany. October, 2017.
“‘Ich bin schwarz”: Using Christoph Ransmayr’s Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis to Trace the Afro-German Discourse from Anton Wilhelm Amo to Leila Akinyi.” Seminar “Stranger Things: Constructing Difference in German Culture”, German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia. October, 2017.
“Artificial Selfie Girl: Reading Irmgard Keun in the 21st Century.” Presentation. Creating Global Change: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s and Gender Studies. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. March, 2017.
“GRWM: Aesthetic Modes of Observance, Surveillance, and Subversion on YouTube.” Presentation. The Aesthetics of Surveillance: German Perspectives. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. March, 2017.
Workshops and Working Groups
“Social Media Research and Practice.” Working Group. The Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University. September 2018 – May 2019, September 2022 – present. Interested in joining? Contact me.
“Podcasting and Public Humanities.” Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2022, Vanderbilt University. August, 2022.
“Digital Presence: Academic Podcasting.” Digital Commons, Vanderbilt University. October, 2021
Service
Social Media Coordinator, German Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University. 2019—2021.
Conference Co-chair, “Bodies of Work: Gender, Space, and Materiality in German Culture,” German Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University. 2018—2019.
German Graduate Student Association Representative, Vanderbilt University. 2017— 2018 .
Undergraduate Outreach Co-Coordinator, German Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University. 2016— 2019.
Lecture Series Co-Coordinator. German Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University. 2016— 2018.
