About
My name is Léna Remy-Kovach. I am a Ph.D. Student in North American Indigenous Literatures at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, in Germany. I study the notions of healing and (re)conciliation in contemporary Horror and Gothic Indigenous novels.
My current projects include the imagery of hunger and cannibalism in contemporary Native horror literature, the commodification of Native American monsters in Horror television series, and the use of traditional Euro-American creatures and tropes in modern Horror by Indigenous writers from Turtle Island.
Education
2016-Present
Doctorate of Philosophy, North American Studies
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Doctoral Thesis: Healing and (Re)conciliation in Contemporary Gothic Indigenous Fiction
2014-2015
Master of Arts, Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
2011-2013
Master of Arts, English and North American Studies
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Research Thesis: (The) American Indian(s) in Photography
2007-2009
Bachelor of Arts, Italian Studies
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
2005-2008
Bachelor of Arts, English and North American Studies
Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France
Publications
“Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’s Sadie Walela Mystery Series.”
Transmotion
Vol.4, No.2, December 2018.
“Birth, Death, Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of The Fur Queen.”
University of Bucharest Review
Vol. 7, Iss. 1: Birth, Death, and Rebirth: Regeneration as Text, 2018.
“Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture”
U.S. Studies Online, July 4, 2018.
“Insatiable Hunger for Indigenous Flesh, Cultures, and Lands: Colonialism as a Ravenous Monster in ‘Monkey Beach’ and ‘Kiss of the Fur Queen.’”
Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
Iss. 3, Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright, Spring 2018.
“The Artist and ‘Indian Buff’: Frederick Weygold, Artist and Ethnographer of American Indians.”
Transmotion
Vol.4, No.1, Spring 2018.
“Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience, dir. by Audrey Geyer (Review).”
The Middle West Review
Vol.4, No.2, Spring 2018.
“Reconciliation.”
Literature Today
Vol.7, January 2018.
“Hunger.”
the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north
Vol.10, No. 1, December 2017.
Projects
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
(Reviewed, edited, and in printing)
“Alexie, Sherman,” “Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony,” “James Welch: Fool’s Crow,” “Treuer, David,” and “Zitkála-Šá.”
DeRoche, Linda (ed.)
Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context.
ABC-CLIO.
“Something Tells Me This Protest Is Far From Over: The Power Of Indigenous Visual Art In The #NoDAPL Protests”
Kimak, Isabella & Julia Nikiel (eds.)
ExRe(y): Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture. .
New Americanists in Poland, Peter Lang.
“The Commodification of The Windigo, a Traditional Algonquian Monster, In The Television Series Supernatural”
Darowski, Joseph J. & John Darowski (eds.)
Monsters with a Thousand Faces: Adaptations of Literary Horrors.
University of Michigan Press.
Remy-Kovach, Léna. “Elisabeth Bouzonviller: Louise Erdrich: métissage et écriture, histoires d’Amérique”
RANAM (Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines.)
Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
(Abstract/request accepted, in writing)
Remy-Kovach, Léna. “Rosalyn LaPier’s Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet.”
The American Indian Quarterly.
Remy-Kovach, Léna.“Do You Have a Little Native American in Your Story?”
Szanter, Ashley and Jessica K. Richards (eds.)
I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE.
McFarland Publishing.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Sweetest Kulu” by Celina Kalluk
Kids’ Story Time
Carl Schurz Haus, Germany, July 20, 2019
