PD Dr. phil. habil. Nora Pleßke

Senior Lecturer

PD Dr. phil. habil. Nora Pleßke

Faculty of Humanities (FHW)
Department III - Anglophone Studies
Zschokkestraße 32, D-39104 Magdeburg, Building 40, Room 270   vCard
Vita

Responsibilities

Professional Vita

April 2023 - February 2024 Interim Professor, Chair of English Literary Studies, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
since March 2017 Senior Lecturer, Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2014 - 2017 Senior Lecturer, Department for English and American Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Technical University Brunswick
2008 - 2014 Lecturer, Chair of English/Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau
2007 - 2014 Lecturer, Chair of English Literature and Culture, Chair of Political Science, Centre for Key Qualifications, University of Passau

 

Academic Vita

2022 Research stay, empirical urban research ald field research, Transcultural, Colonial and Indigenous Heritage, Sydney and Newcastle, Australia
2020 Habilitation, English Studies / English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Passau
2016 Research stay, Metropolitan Archives and Port of London Authority Archives, London, Great Britain
2015 Visiting Lecturer, L'Unité de Formation et de Recherche des Langues, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
2014 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
2013 Research stay, British Library and British Museum, London, Great Britain
2012 Doctoral degree, English Literary Studies, University of Passau
2008 Research stay, Empirical Urban Research and British Library, London, Great Britain
2001 - 2006 Studies (Languages, Economic and Cultural Area Studies), specialisation: Anglophone cultural area, University of Passau
2003 - 2004 Study abroad, University of Leeds, Great Britain
2002 Cultural Area Studies, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
2001 Cultural Area Studies, Alcalá University Granada, Spain
2000 - 2001 Studies (English and American Literary Studies), University of Konstanz

 

Scholarships, Awards, Third-Party Funding

2024 - 2027 BMBF funding T!Raum – TransferSpaces for the future of regions for "transSCAPE: Cultural Spaces of Knowledge" project
2023 - 2027 BMBF funding "Networking - Exploring - Researching. Alliance for University Collections II for the joint project "Sleep - Pain - Stress - Cultures and Techniques of Biofeedback Systems 1960 to 1990: Material Culture Reseach in the OVGU's Medical Technology Collection" with Prof. Dr. Susanne Peters and Prof. Dr. Christian Kehrt
2021 - 2024 Federal State Saxony-Anhalt funding for project "Material and Cultural Heritage of the OVGU: Developing and Integrating University Collections as Infrastructures for Research" with Prof. Dr. Susanne Peters
2021 - 2025 DFG funding Scientific Network "Methodologies of Economic Criticism" with Prof. Dr. Ellen Grünkemeier and Prof. Dr. Joanna Rostek
2018 - 2021 Funding for Innovations in Studies and Teaching "Student Project University Collection OVGU" with Prof. Dr. Susanne Peters
2018 DAAD-funded travel allowance to St Petersburg (USA); journey scholarship for young researchers of the VolkswagenFoundation, Symposium Humanities at Technical Universities, Hannover
2016 Travel allowance of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Scientific Funding to London; DAAD-funded travel allowance to Cardiff
2014 Helene Richter-Award for Doctoral Degree, German Association for the Study of English
2013 - 2014 Scholarship for Female Postdocs, Bavarian Promotion of Equality, University of Passau
2012 Travel allowance to Basel, Bavarian Promotion of Equality, University of Passau
2011 Proposal for the establishment of the DFG Research Training Group "Privacy", University of Passau
2009 DAAD-funded travel allowance to London
2008 DFG-funded travel allowance to London
2002 - 2006 Scholarship holder of the Gifted and Talented, Konrad-Adenauer Foundation
2003 - 2004 Erasmus-Scholarship
2003 Prize for Pilot Study, History Competition, Körber Foundation
2000 2. Prize of the Federal President, History Competition, Körber Foundation
Research

Research Foci

  • Anglophone Cultures, Media and Literatures (18th to 21st centuries)
  • Urban Studies, Material Culture Studies, Economic Criticism
  • Transcultural and Postcolonial Theory
  • History and Theory of Mentality
  • Material, medial and cultural history of the British Empire
  • London and city literature; theory of city and space

Current Projects

Publications and Talks

Monographs

  • The Intelligible Metropolis: Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels. 1st ed. Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. Print. Lettre.
    • Review by Stefan Eick (Universität Bamberg), in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 253.2 (2016).
    • Review by Bettina Jansen (TU Dresden), in: Literary London Journal 12.1-2 (2015). Web.

Edited Volumes

  • with Clarisse Godard Desmarest. Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity. Edited Issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.6491.
  • with Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts. Transforming Cities: Discourse of Urban Change. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. Print. Anglistik und Englischunterricht 85.
    • Review by Dragoş Manea (University of Bucharest), in: English Studies 100.7 (2019): 937-38. Print.
    • Review by Anni Lappela (University of Finland), in: Literary London Journal 15.1 (2019). Web.
    • Review by Lucy Hamilton (University of Sheffield), in: European Journal of English Studies 22:3 (2018). 336-38. Print.

Articles

  • with Clarisse Godard Desmarest and Hanna Westermann. "Video Introduction to Issue 16." Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.6505.
  • with Clarisse Godard Desmarest. "Coda - Scotland’s Urban Heritage and National Identity." Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.7185.
  • "'Illustrations of Cheapness': Charles Knight's Popular Political Economy and the Emerging Ethics of Mass Consumption." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.2 (2022): 175-91.
  • "In-Between the Elements: Water Matters and Metaphors in Joseph Conrad's Sea Writing." Akteur Wasser: Betrachtungen aus den Rechts-, Geo-, Kunst, Musik- und Literaturwissenschaften. Ed. Sonja Fielitz. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022. 97-114.
  • "Transkulturelles Erbe und der epochale Sturz kolonialer Denkmäler." Kulturwirtschaft: Themen – Methoden – Perspektiven. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Passau: Schuster, 2021. 333-60. Patavensia.
  • "The Materiality of Britain's Empire Mentality: Colonial Commodities in Elizabeth Gaskell's Domestic Novels." Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Eds. Philip Jacobi and Anette Pankratz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 61-75.
  • "Empire – Economy – Materiality." Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900. Eds. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. New York: De Gruyter, 2020. 146-67. Handbooks of English and American Studies 9.
  • "Mary Wollstonecrafts republikanische Stimme in der Menschenrechtsdebatte: Von Frauenrechten und Gemeinschaftserziehung zu staatlicher Gleichstellungs- und Bildungspolitik." Politisches Denken in der Britischen Romantik. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. 89-120. Staatsverständnisse 121.
  • "Improvements and Amusements: Urban Geographies of Entertainment in Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century London." Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change. Ed. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, and Eckart Voigts. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 211-40. Anglistik & Englischunterricht 85.
  • with Ellen Grünkemeier and Joanna Rostek. "The Value of Economic Criticism Reconsidered: Approaching Literature and Culture through the Lens of Economics." Anglistentag 2017 Regensburg: Proceedings. Ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein et al. Trier: WVT, 2018. 117-26.
  • with Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts. "Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change from Victorian London to Global Megacities An Introduction." Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change. Ed. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, and Eckart Voigts. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 7-26. Print. Anglistik & Englischunterricht 85.
  • "Konsumieren: Koloniale Güter im viktorianischen Zeitalter." Sammlungsökonomien: Vom Wert wissenschaftlicher Dinge. Ed. Nils Güttler and Ina Heumann. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016. 155-86.
  • "The Liminality of Underground London." London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City. Ed. Nick Hubble and Philip Tew. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 161-76. Bloomsbury Studies in the City.
  • "Curiosities from Paradise: The Materiality of Cook's Explorations in the South Pacific." Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Birgit Neumann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015. 553-71. Supplementa.
  • "Making Sense of Sensibility: Die Umdeutung gender-spezifischer Empfindsamkeit in Mary Wollstonecrafts Die Verteidigung der Frauenrechte und Jane Austens Stolz und Vorurteil." Gender - Frauen - Wissenschaft: Beiträge von einem interdisziplinären Forschungssymposium. Ed. Susanne Günther, et al. Passau, 2015. 13-25. <https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-uni-passau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/246>.
  • "'New Sources of Wealth and New Channels of Commerce': The Economic Dimensions of Mungo Park's Travels into the Interior of Africa (1799)." Real and Imaginary Travels 16th-18th Centuries/ Voyages réels, voyages imaginaires XVIE-XVIIIE siècles. Ed. Anne Bandry-Scubbi and Rémi Vuillemin. Strasbourg: Les Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2015. 129-41.
  • "'Sambo' and 'Snowflake': Race and Race Relations in Love Thy Neighbour." British TV Comedy: Cultural Concepts and Contexts. Ed. Jürgen Kamm and Birgit Neumann. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 83-98.
  • "Visual Objectifications of the 'Hottentot Venus' Sarah Baartman." Romantic Bodyscapes: Embodied Selves, Embodied Spaces and Legible Bodies in the Romantic Age. Ed. Gerold Sedlmayr. Trier: WVT, 2015. 145-65. Studien zur Englischen Romantik 17.
  • "The Object(ivity) of Imperial Thinking." Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz: Proceedings. Ed. Silvia Mergenthal and Reingard M. Nischik. Trier: WVT, 2014. 59-70. Print.
  • "HMY Britannia: The Spatial Semantics of the Royal Yacht." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 20.2 (2013): 171-88.
  • with Joanna Rostek. "Rubble or Resurrection. Contextualising London Literature by Polish Migrants to the UK." The Literary London Journal 10.2 (2013).<http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/autumn2013/plesskeandrostek.html>.
  • "'London Underground.' Der Grenzraum einer Metropole." Grenzen. Konstruktionen und Bedeutungen. Ed. Dennis Gräf and Verena Schmöller. Passau: Stutz, 2009. 185-210. Medien, Texte, Semiotik 2.

Reviews and Conference Reports

  • "Rev. of De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire: Preliminary Perspectives, ed. by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.1 (2022): 124-29.
  • "Rev. of The Alchemy of Empire: Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism, by Rajani Sudan." Anglistik 29.1 (2018): 162-64.
  • "Rev. of The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York, by Nicholas Daly." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 23.1 (2017): 78-82.
  • "Rev. of Neo-Victorian Cities: Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics, ed. by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben." Neo-Victorian Studies 9.1 (2016): 167-86.
  • "Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts: Internationale Tagung in Kooperation mit der DGEJ, 9.-11. Sept. 2013 an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel." Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert 37.2 (2013): 170-72.
  • "Rev. of Jenseits des Raums: Zur filmischen Topologie des Urbanen, by Laura Frahm." MEDIENwissenschaft 2 (2011): 215-18.
  • "Rev. of Lost in the Postmodern Metropolis, by Martina Deny." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 58.4 (2010): 408-09.
  • with Sarah Heinz. "Rev. of Australian Film: Cultures, Identities, Texts, by Adi Wimmer." MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2009): 452-54.
  • Australian Film. Cultures, Identities, Texts, by Adi Wimmer." MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2009): 452-54.

Talks

2024
  • "'TransScape - Cultural Spaces of Knowledge': Meeting the Challenges of Contemporary Culture-Led Regeneration." The Street and the City V: Challenges. Centre for English Studies, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. 6 December.
  • "Cultural Regeneration in Scotland's Post-Industrial Cities." Audition Lecture, British Cultural Studies. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. 29 November.
  • "City Branding: Reading the City through Economic Criticism." Lecture Series, City. Culture-led Regeneration: Space – Knowledge – Participation. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 28 June.
  • with Christian Kehrt and Susanne Peters. "Einblicke und Ausblicke in das 3ioS-Forschungsprojekt." I. Collection Show: Collection of Historical Medical Technologies. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 6 June.
  • "'The Great Victorian Collection' and the Translocation of Colonial Objects." Lecture Series, The World of Things: Insights into Science, History, Theory and Practice. One University - One Book. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 18 April.
  • "Introduction: Urban Literary and Cultural Studies." Lecture Series, City. Culture-led Regeneration: Space – Knowledge – Participation. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 9 April.
  • "Contesting the Colonial Urban Architext – A Contrapuntual Analysis." Audition Lecture, British Culture and Literature. University Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany. 19 January.
2023
  • "Contesting Architextual Memory: Urban Heritage in Anglophone Literatures." Audition Lecture, Anglophone Literature. TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. 26 October.
  • "Visionen für den Wissenschaftshafen: Wohlfühlen und Kultur." Neue Impulse für den Wissenschaftshafen, 1. Transfer-HAFEN-Conference, Research Campus STIMULATE, Magdeburg, Germany. 11 October.
  • "Transfigured Commemoration: Literary Heroes from Text to Architext to AI Algorithm." Audition Lecture, English Literature and Culture. Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany. 23 June.
2022
  • "Transkulturelles Erbe und der epochale Sturz kolonialer Denkmäler." KTW Lecture Series, Von den Dingen: Material, Stoff, Rest und Ressource. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 28 November.
  • "Literature, Culture, the Economy, and Space: Reading the City through Economic Criticism." Lecture, Literature and the Economy. LMU München, Munich, Germany. 13 July.
  • with Ellen Grünkemeier. "Introducing Economic Criticism." 15th Workshop of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, Economic Criticism. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 6 May.
2021
  • "Diversity in the Public Realm." Master Seminar, Reading Race. University of Bielefeld, Germany. 9 June.
  • "BrexLit - Contemporary British Literature and the EU Referendum." Lecture Series, Europe - Continent, Society, Dominion. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. 27 April.
2020
  • "The Juwel in the Crown: Objects of Imperial Empowerment." Lecture Series, Victorian Materialities. University of Vienna, Austria. 11 November.
  • "Falling Statues and Transcultural Heritage." Audition Lecture, Transcultural Studies. University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. 30 October.
  • "Palimpsest." KTW Lecture Series, Kernbegriffe für die Stadt der Zukunft. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 30 June.
  • "Colours of Purification: The Crystal Palace and Material Appropriation." Audition Lecture: British Cultural Studies. TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 16 January.
2019
  • "From Cabinet of Curiosities to Metropolitan Storehouse of Knowledge: The Translocation of the Horniman Museum to the London City Council." Symposium 'Dinggeschichten der Neugierde: Objekte als Kulturträger und Wissensspeicher.' Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany. 19 February.
2018
  • "Selling Skin: The Whiteness of Colonial Commodities." Looking Outward. Annual NAVSA Conference 2018. University of Florida, St. Petersburg, United States of America. 11-14 October.
  • "Vorstellung des neuen Studiengangs 'Cultural Engineering' an der OVGU Magdeburg." Summer Meeting of the Cultural Studies Working Group. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 30 June.
  • "Victorian Literature and Material Culture. Thackeray's 'May Day Ode' on the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations." Lecture, Key Concepts: British Literature from Realism to Modernism. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. 23 April.
  • "The Fifth Nation: London and Brexit." Lecture, Introduction to Cultural Studies. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. 16 January.
2017
  • with Ellen Grünkemeier and Joanna Rostek. "Introduction The Value of Economic Criticism Reconsidered: Approaching Literature and Culture through the Lens of Economics." Anglistentag 2017. University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. 20-23 September.
  • "Island Treasures, Curiosities, and Junk: Material Culture in R.L. Stevenson's South Sea Writing." 'Robert Louis Stevenson: New Perspectives', International Robert Louis Stevenson Conference. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5-8 July.
  • "The Capital Remains: London as the Gateway to Europe and the World." Lecture Series, Britain before / after Brexit: Cultural and Historical Contexts. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany. 21 June.
  • "About Transforming Cities." The Street and the City Conference, 'Thresholds'. Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. 5 April.
2016
  • "EXPO 1851. The Great Exhibition." Studium Generale. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 19 October.
  • "Celebrations of Cheapness: Mass Consumption and the Wealth of the Nation." Consuming (the) Victorians, Annual BAVS Conference 2016. Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. 31 August - 2 September.
  • "London Bridge: The Chief Abode of Commerce." Literary London 2016, An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of London, London, United Kingdom. 6-8 July.
2015
  • "Freddy Chinaman' and the Making of Britain's National Beverage." Audition Lecture: British Cultural Studies. University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany. 21 December.
  • "Horniman's Pure Tea. Always Good Alike': The Making of a National Drink." Audition Lecture: English Literature and Culture. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany. 14 December.
  • "Colonial Objects: The Materiality of Britain's Empire Mentality." Advanced seminar, Modern German Literature/Media Semiotics. University of Passau, Passau, Germany. 23 November.
  • "The Great Exhibition 1851: Subjects and Objects." 19th-Century British Culture. Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. 12 October.
  • "The Merry Dance of Death and Trade' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Audition Lecture: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. 23 July.
  • "Urban Geographies of Entertainment in 19th- and 21st-Century London." Transforming Cities: Narratives of Urban Change in the 19th and 21st Centuries. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 3-4 July.
  • "Projektfinanzierung für den Wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in den Kulturwissenschaften." 9th Workshop of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 15 May.
  • "Colonial Objects: The Materiality of Britain's Empire Mentality." Colloquium: Theories and Methods in Literary Studies. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. 5 February.
2014
  • "Objects in Colonial Travel Writing: Scottish Accounts from the Interior of Africa." Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1 October.
  • "New Sources of Imperial Wealth: Accounts from the Interior of Africa by James Bruce and Mungo Park." Travels in the Marketplace: The Materiality of Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century. Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom. 17-18 September.
  • "Zwischen Vigilanz und Apathie: Geschlechterkonstruktionen des Privaten im zeitgenössischen Londonroman." Interdisziplinary Doctoral Symposium Privatheit & Gender, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1681 Privatheit, Formen, Funktionen, Transformationen. University of Passau, Passau, Germany. 27-28 June.
  • "Drittmitteleinwerbung für den Wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs. Förderung während der Promotion und in der Post-Doc Phase." 8th Workshop of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures. University of Passau, Passau, Germany. 23-24 May.
  • "'New Sources of Wealth and New Channels of Commerce': The Economic Dimensions of Mungo Park's Travels into the Interior of Africa (1799)." Real and Imaginary Travels in Anglophone Literature and Culture, Jeunes Chercheurs XVII-XVIII Conference. Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. 4-5 April.
  • "Pressure - Rage - Respect: A History of Black British Film." Lecture, Black Britain: Cultural and Literary Histories. University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 21 January.
2013
  • with Joanna Rostek. "Britain and Migration: History and Recent Trends." United Kingdom Update. Recent Changes in Politics, Society and Culture. In-service training seminar for teachers at secondary schools, grammar schools and vocational schools. Academy for Political Education, Tutzing, Germany. 25 November.
  • "'Bringing the World to Forest Hill': The Colonial Economies of the Horniman Collection." Sammlungsökonomien: Vom Wert wissenschaftlicher Dinge. University of Erfurt, Gotha, Germany. 21-22 November.
  • "The Object(ivity) of Imperial Thinking." Anglistentag 2013. University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. 18-22 September.
  • "Curiosities from Paradise: The Materiality of Captain Cook's Explorations in the South Pacific." Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im 18. Jahrhundert, Jahreskonferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts. Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. 9-11 September.
  • "Making Sense of Sensibility: Die Umdeutung gender-spezifischer Empfindsamkeit in Mary Wollstonecrafts Die Verteidigung der Frauenrechte und Jane Austens Stolz und Vorurteil." Gender - Frauen - Wissenschaft, Interdisziplinäry Research Symposium. University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 21-23 June.
2012
  • "HMY Britannia: The Spatial Semantics of the Royal Yacht." Topographies of Britain, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of British Cultures. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 22-24 November.
  • "Love Thy Neighbour." Lecture Series, British TV Comedy, Cultural Concepts and Contexts. University of Passau, Passau, Germany. 9 November.
  • "Metropolitan Obsessions; Or Why Londoners Don't Have Hobbies." Literary London 2012, Representations of London in Literature, An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of London, London, United Kingdom. 4-6 July.
2009
  • "Interrelations between London Cityscape, Literary Metropolis and Urban Mentality." Literary London 2009, Representations of London in Literature, An Interdisciplinary Conference. Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, 9-10 July.
  • "The Centre of Transit(ion): Postcolonial London in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life (2001) and J.M. Coetzee's Youth (2002)." Paris and London in Postcolonial Imaginary. Oxford Brookes University, London, United Kingdom. 18-19 June.
  • "Re-Presenting the Heart of Darkness: Immigrants in the Contact Zone of the London Underground." Contact Zones in Modern British Culture. University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. 5-6 February.
2008
  • "Reading the Metropolis. London Mentality in Contemporary Urban Fiction." 19th British Cultural Studies Conference, Post-Secular Britain? Religion, Secularity and Cultural Agency. Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany, 20-22 November.
  • "Reading the Metropolis. London Mentality in Contemporary Urban Fiction." GSICS Interdisziplinäres Doktorandenkolloquium, University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 30 October.
  • "The Liminality of Underground London." Literary London 2008, Representations of London in Literature, An Interdisciplinary Conference. Brunel University, London, United Kingdom, 2-4 July.
  • "'London Underground': Der Grenzraum einer Metropole." GSICS Lecture Series "Grenzen: Konstruktionen und Bedeutungen". University of Passau, Passau, Germany. 14 May.
2007
  • "The Palimpsestuous City." Literary London 2007, Representations of London in Literature, An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. 19-20 July.
Courses

Winter Semester 2024/25

Summer Semester 2024

Winter Semester 2022/23

Summer Semester 2022

Winter Semester 2021/22

Summer Semster 2021

Winter Semster 2020/21

Summer Semster 2020

Winter Semster 2019/20

Summer Semster 2019

Winter Semster 2018/19

Summer Semster 2018

Winter Semster 2017/18

Summer Semster 2017

Over 50 additional courses in Anglophone Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies as well as Academic Writing

  • at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg (2023 - 2024)
  • at Technical University Brunswick (2014 - 2017) and
  • at University of Passau (2007 - 2014).
Office hours

tuesdays 3:00pm to 5:00 pm by appointment.

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