• Popular Culture, esp. Hipster Culture
• Popular Music
• Fashion Studies
• Black Studies
• Gender Studies, esp. Intersectional Feminism
• Performance Studies
• Cultural Memory
• Transnational American Studies
• 19th Century American Literature

• Since 2025: Akademische Rätin a.Z./Assistant Professor at TU Dortmund
• February 2020: Visiting Research Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
• 2018-2025: Research Associate and Lecturer at University of Regensburg
• 2025: PhD „Performing Hip(sters): Race and the Discourse of Hip in Twenty-First-Century Popular Music,“ University of Regensburg (summa cum laude)
• 2017: MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (1,21)
• 2014: Double-BA English and American Studies and Book Science, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and University College Dublin (1,56)

At TU Dortmund

• The Hipster’s Dead, Long Live the Hipster! Hipness in Literature, Music, Fashion, and Film (HS, WiSe 2025/26)
• Female Voices in Literature and on the Screen: Representations of Sisterhood from the 19^th to the 21^st Century (PS, WiSe 2025/26)

At University of Regensburg

• Music, Fashion, and Hipster Culture (undergraduate seminar)
• Performing (as) Hipsters: Multiperspectival Approaches to Hip (undergraduate seminar)
• Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (undergraduate seminar, multiple times)
• American Literature I: From the Beginnings through the 19th Century (undergraduate seminar, multiple times)
• American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Century (undergraduate seminar, multiple times)
• Review American Literature (undergraduate seminar, multiple times)

• Dissertation: „Performing Hip(sters): Race and the Discourse of Hip in Twenty-First-Century Popular Music,“ University of Regensburg (2018-2025)

Edited Journals:

• Co-edited with Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu (eds). Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. Special issue of Current Objectives of American Studies [COPAS], vol. 24, no. 1, 2023. Online: https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/issue/view/46.

Book Chapters:

• “Appropriation as Participation: A 21^st-Century Reshaping of the Cultural Memory of Hip.” Participation in American Culture and Society, edited by Philipp Löffler, Margit Peterfy, Natalie Rauscher, and Welf Werner. Winter, 2024, pp. 301-322.
• “‘Fem the Future’ of Hipness: Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First-Century Popular Music.” Hipster Culture. Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives, edited by Heike Steinhoff. Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 253-71.

Journal Articles:

• With Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu. “Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. The 2022 Postgraduate Forum.” Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. Special issue of Current Objectives of American Studies [COPAS], vol. 24, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-8. Online: https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.384
• “Hipster Racism – What’s Irony Got to Do With It?” ForAp, vol. 3, 2020, pp. 9-26. Online: https://forap.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/slk/article/view/44/45.

Conference Reports:

• With Jelena Schryro. “Obsolete. Resilient. Resurgent. The Nation-State in a Globalized World.” H-Soz-Kult, 2 Oct. 2019. Online: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127034.

Conference Organisation

• Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS/DGfA): “Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies,” Co-Organized with Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu. 10-12 Nov. 2022, University of Regensburg, Concentration Camp and Memorial Site Flossenbürg.

Keynote

• 21 Nov. 2024: “‘Invisible’ and Public Hipsters: (Re-)Claiming Hip through Performance” (Keynote Lecture, Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum [PGF] of the German Association of American Studies [GAAS/DGfA], FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Invited Presentations

• 18 June 2024: “‘White Like Me’: Racial Identity in the Discourse and Performances of Hip” (Research Colloquium of the Chair of American Literary Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• 26 Feb. 2020: “The Diversification of the Hipster: Recalling the Origins of Hipness in Contemporary Music Performances” (Brown Bag Lunch Talk at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University)

Conference Papers

• 13 June 2025: “Eating Away at Cultures? Hipsters, Nostalgia, and Transnational Culinary Performances” (71^st Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies [GAAS/DGfA], Siegen)
• 18 Oct. 2024: “Unlearning What You Know: Reframing—and Learning About—Hipster Culture” (51^st Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies [AAAS], Pädagogische Hochschule Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Austria)
• 20 Sept. 2024: “Performing Hip(sters): Racial Identities in the Discourse and 21st-Century Performances of Hip” (2^nd Austrian-Bavarian Postgraduate Workshop “American Studies in Times of Democratic Crises,” Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria)
• 25 Jan. 2022: “‘Fem the Future’ of Hipness: Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First-Century Popular Music” (Lecture Series “Hipsters and Gentrifiers Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Culture,” Ruhr-University Bochum/University of Duisburg-Essen/online)
• 18 June 2021: “‘What Would Jack Kerouac Do?’ or ‘What Would Miles Davis Do?’: Hipster Icons, Collective Memory, and the Return to Black Hipness” (67^th Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies [GAAS/DGfA], Heidelberg/online)
• 2 May 2021: “Hipster Heterotopia: Constricting and Liberating Spaces of Hipness” (Biannual Conference of the European Association of American Studies [EAAS] “20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal,” Warsaw, Poland/online)
• 19 February 2021: “Hip Hop and Hipness: Representations of Environmental Awareness and Nature in Childish Gambino’s Music Performances” (International Conference “Hip Hop Ecologies,” University of Konstanz/online)
• 12 Oct. 2019: “The Diversification of the Hipster – A Blipster Performance: Solange at the Elbphilharmonie” (Workshop, Co-Organized by the University of Regensburg and the University Masaryk, Telč, Czech Republic)
• 31 May 2019: “Hipster’s Retrotopian Pursuit of Happiness and Blipsters’ Reinterpretation of Patriotic Cultural Speech Acts” (DAI [Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut/German American Institute] Nuremberg, Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Regensburg)
• 22/23 June 2018: “Reinventing and Restoring Masculinity: Hipsters’ and Blipsters’ Hybrid Lifestyles” (International Conference “De/Constructing Masculinities? Critical Explorations into Affect, Intersectionality, and the Body,” FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• 8 June 2018: “The Diversification of the Contemporary Hipster: Nostalgia and Irony in Postmodern Music and Aesthetics – The Pop Archive in Female Hipsters’ Performances” (Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy, Wolfsonian Institute/Florida International University, Miami, USA)

Media

• “Lena Gotteswinter on ‘Black Hipster Culture in Music and Fashion and the Potential of Political Activism.’” Podcast Slavery and Its Legacies. Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Yale University. 11 January 2021. https://macmillan.yale.edu/glc/podcasts/resources/lena-gotteswinter-black-hipster-culture-music-and-fashion-and-potential

• Feb. 2020: Yale University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship 2019 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Director: Prof. Dr. David W. Blight), Yale University; Bavarian American Academy, sponsored by Yale Club Germany, e.V.
• 25 May – 8 June 2019: Summer Academy “State Narratives in Comparative Perspective” in Nuremberg, Berlin, and Regensburg. Organized by the Bavarian American Academy, Munich (including travel stipend)
• 2-10 June 2018: Summer Academy “Questions of the Archive“ in Miami, Florida, USA. Co-organized by the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, and Florida International University (FIU), Miami (including travel stipend).
• 2013: Travel Stipend of the Dr. Arthur-Grün-Stiftung for a semester abroad at University College Dublin, Ireland (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

• German Association of American Studies
• American Studies Association