Anglophone

Studies

Research Foci

• English Literature and Culture of the 'Long' 18th Century
• Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-Knowledge, Ignorance
• Couriosity and Discourses of Science
• Contemporary English Literature and Culture
• Digital Humanities
• Transfer processes between literature and other media: popular culture
• Alterity, parallel and alternative social formations, utopia/dystopia

Projects

• "Limits of Knowledge – Knowledge of Limits: Re-Thinking Ignorance, Non-Knowledge, and Agnotology in English Literature and Culture from the Enlightenment to an Enlightened Present" (with Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg), https://limitsofknowledge.eu
• Symposium (November 2022, Hanover): "The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on the Limits of Research", Volkswagen Foundation, Thematic Week "The Ethics of Science"
• DFG Scientific Network ParaSocieties: Parallel and Alternative Social Formations in Contemporary Cultures and Literatures (Prof. Dr. Teresa Hiergeist, Roman Studies, University of Vienna)
• DFG Project Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Complete Works (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg, Dr. Wolfram Benda)

Monographs

• The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. ANGLIA 72, De Gruyter, 2021. [Habilitation]
• "As if a building was being constructed": Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes. Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 10, LIT, 2008. [Dissertation]

English Studies Textbooks

• Academic Skills: An Introduction for English and American Studies. Fink/UTB, 2020. DOI: 10.36198/9783838553313.
• Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Fink/UTB, 2015.

Editorships

• Selected Papers from the 2021 Conference of the German Association for the Study of English. Anglistik vol. 33, no. 2, 2022, edited by Daniela Wawra und Jonathan Rose, in collaboration with Anna Auguscik, Simone Broders, Maria Fleischhack, Charlotte Hahn, Ilka Mindt and Jonatan Jalle Steller. Open Access: https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2022/2.
• with Teresa Hiergeist, Agnes Bidmon and Katharina Gerund, editors. Parallelgesellschaften. Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen. De Gruyter, 2021. Open Access: DOI: 10.1515/9783110707489.
• with Susanne Gruß and Stephanie Waldow (hgg.). Phänomene der Fremdheit: Fremdheit als Phänomen. Focus: Gegenwart 1, Königshausen & Neumann, 2012.
• with Rudolf Freiburg, Susanne Gruß, and Katharina Lempe, editors. But Vindicate the Ways of God to Men: Literature and Theodicy, Stauffenburg, 2005.

Articles

• "'Fearful Symmetry': William Blakes Konzeption des Bösen und die Figur des Serienkillers in der Populärkultur." Populärkultur, edited by Sabine Friedrich and Dirk Niefanger, Focus: Gegenwart, Königshausen & Neumann, 2023. [Forthcoming.]
• with Anna Auguscik. "Introduction: Liwiths of Knowledge – Knowledge of Liwiths: The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge, and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture." Anglistik vol. 33, no. 2, 2022, pp. 77-88. Open Access: DOI: 10.33675/ANGL/2022/2/9.
• "Utopia Gone Mad: Feministische Paragesellschaften in Naomi Aldermans The Power." Parallelgesellschaften: Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen, edited by Teresa Hiergeist, Agnes Bidmon, Simone Broders and Katharina Gerund, De Gruyter, 2021. Open Access: DOI: 10.1515/9783110707489-010/pdf.
• with Teresa Hiergeist, Teresa, Agnes Bidmon and Katharina Gerund "Paragesellschaften: Diskursive Verhandlungen sozialer Kohäsion. Einleitung." Parallelgesellschaften: Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen, edited by Teresa Hiergeist, Agnes Bidmon, Simone Broders and Katharina Gerund, De Gruyter, 2021. Open Access: DOI: 10.1515/9783110707489-001/pdf.
• "Von Hippies und Höllenfürsten: Toxische Glücksversprechen in Kim Newmans Jago (1991)." Glücksversprechen der Gegenwart: Kulturelle Inszenierungen und Instrumentalisierungen alternativer Lebensentwürfe, edited by Teresa Hiergeist and Mathis Lessau, Edition Kulturwissenschaft 237, transcript, 2021, pp. 69-98.
• "The Fast and the Curious: The Role of Curiosity in the Gothic Heroine’s Grand Tour of the Mind." English Studies vol. 98 no. 8, 2017, pp. 917-30.
• "'The Dark Heart of Dystopia': Die Alternativgesellschaft als Spiegelkabinett in Will Self, The Book of Dave." Parallel- und Alternativgesellschaften in den Gegenwartsliteraturen, edited by Teresa Hiergeist, Focus: Gegenwart 4, Königshausen & Neumann, 2017, pp. 317-37.
• "'The Heartbeat of Outsiders': Vampiric Otherness as Female Empowerment in P.C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night." Beyond the Night: Creatures of Life, Death, and the In-Between, edited by Nadine Farghaly, Cambridge Scholars, 2015, pp. 65-94.
• "'No Sex Please, We’re Vegetarians': Marketing the Vampire and Sexual Curiosity in Twilight, True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Novels." Gothic Transgressions: Extension and Commercialization of a Cultural Mode, edited by Ellen Redling and Christian Schneider, Kultur: Forschung und Wissenschaft 19, LIT, 2015, pp. 217-38.
• "Satanisches Wissen? Neugier als Grenzüberschreitung in Science Fiction und Horror." Feststellungen: Dokumentation des 25. Film- und fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums, edited by Thomas Nachreiner and Peter Podrez, Schüren, 2014, pp. 343-51.
• "'A Serpent to Sting You': The Medical Practitioner Caught Between Curiosity and Monstrosity. Frankenstein, Jekyll, Moreau." The Writing Cure: Literature and Medicine in Context, edited by Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich and Jarmila Mildorf, LIT, 2013, pp. 55-76.
• "Der Reisende als Fremder in der englischen Gegenwartsliteratur." Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen, edited by Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow, Focus: Gegenwart 1, Königshausen & Neumann, 2012, pp. 171-90.
• with Susanne Gruß and Stephanie Waldow. "Phänomene der Fremdheit, Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung." Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen, edited by Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow, Focus: Gegenwart 1, Königshausen & Neumann, 2012, pp. 1-9.
• "'Bitten Is the New Black': Images of Women in Canadian and US American Vampire Chick Lit". The Centennial Reader: Current Readings – Reading Currents, Mount Royal University, 2011.
• "Identitätskonstruktion und Ethik im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die narrative Anerkennung der Erinnerung in Adam Thorpes The Rules of Perspective." Ethik – Anerkennung – Gerechtigkeit: Philosophische, literarische und Weltkrieg gesellschaftliche Perspektiven, edited by Alexandra Böhm, Antje Kley, and Mark Schönleben, Ethik, Text, Kultur, Fink, 2011, pp. 253-69.
• "'I must live, or the universe will die': Holocaust and Memory in Adam Thorpe’s The Rules of Perspective." Literatur und Holocaust, edited by Rudolf Freiburg and Gerd Bayer, Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, pp. 159-75.
• "'A True Poet, and of the Devil’s Party': Theodicy and Paradox in John Milton’s Paradise Lost." But Vindicate the Ways of God to Men: Literature and Theodicy, edited by Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruß, Stauffenburg, 2005, 73-84.

Interviews

• Stierhof, Franca. "Vampire-Spezial." BitNewcomer, 29.04.2010. Bitexpress-Radio.
• Schleinzer, Anna. "Das Vampir-Fieber greift auf Germany über: Fachleute aus der Bücher-Branche sagen einen ähnlichen Boom wie Harry Potter voraus." Nuremberger Nachrichten, 14.02.2009, Jugend-Extra, 9.
• Broders, Simone. "'Writing the Book of Life': An Interview with Adam Thorpe." "As if a building was being constructed": Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes, Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 10, LIT, 2008.

Talks (Selection)

2023

• "Non-Knowledge (Il-)Literacy: Negotiating the Limits of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment." with Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg. The ISECS 2023 International Congress on the Enlightenment. University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

2022

• "Introduction: The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on the Limits of Research." with Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg. Einführungsvortrag zum Symposium, Themenwoche Wissenschaftsethik, Volkswagen-Stiftung. Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany.

2021

• "Introduction: Limits of Knowledge – Knowledge of Limits: The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge, and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture." with Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg. Deutscher Anglistentag 2021. University Passau, Passau, Germany.

2020

• "Prüfen in Zeiten von Corona. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der Hochschullehre." By invitation of the Education Network of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. St. Augustin, Germany.
• "Utopia Gone Mad: Feminist Parasocieties in Naomi Alderman's The Power (2016)." Tagung Paragesellschaften: Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2019

• "The Curious Self: Identity and the Desire to Know in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals." The ISECS 2019 International Congress on the Enlightenment. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• "Von Hippies und Höllenfürsten: Toxische Heilsversprechen in Kim Newmans Jago (1991)." Tagung Glücksversprechen: Inszenierungen und Instrumentalisierungen alternativer Lebensentwürfe in den Gegenwartskulturen. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2018

• "Revolutionär oder 'radikaler Spinner'? Die politischen Utopien von Thomas Spence." Interdisziplinäre Tagung Imaginationen des Sozialen: Narrative Verhandlungen zwischen Integration und Divergenz (1750-1945). University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• "The Neural Wunderkammer: A Network Perspective on the History of Ideas." The Digital in English Philology, Anglistentag 2018. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• "She Broke Your Throne, and She Cut Your Hair: An Iconography of Hair and Masculinity in English Literature and Culture." International Interdisciplinary Conference De/Constructing Masculinities? Critical Explorations into Affect, Intersectionality, and the Body. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2017

• "The Dark Heart of Dystopia: Die Alternativgesellschaft als Spiegelkabinett in Will Self, The Book of Dave. Ringvorlesung Parallel- und Alternativgesellschaften in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2014

• "Fearful Symmetry: William Blakes Konzeption des Bösen und die Figur des Serienkillers in der Populärkultur." Ringvorlesung Populärkultur. Freidrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• "'TaH pagh, taHbe': Shakespearean Heritage in the Postmodern Space Opera." Shakespeare 450 Anniversary Conference. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.

2012

• "And Do What You Will Be the Challenge: Elements of Wicca in House of Night." Tagung Capturing Witches - Histories, Stories, Images: 400 Years after the Lancashire Witches. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
• "Shakespeare as Cultural Constant in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek." Contemporary Shakespeare Conference. University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany.
• "Satanisches Wissen? Neugier als Grenzüberschreitung in Science Fiction und Horror." 25. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2011

• "The Heartbeat of Outsiders: Vampiric Otherness as Female Empowerment in P.C. and Kristin Cast's House of Night“. EUROFAN: New Directions of the European Fantastic after the Cold War. Paris-Lodron-University, Salzburg, Austria.
• "No Sex Please, We're Vegetarians: Marketing the Vampire and Sexual Curiosity." Gothic Liwiths – Gothic Liwithed. International Gothic Association Conference. Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.
• "The Fast and the Curious': Curiosity in Motion in the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe and in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey." The 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. Ohio State University, Columbus, United States of America.

2009

• "'Feigning turned into diabolical untruth'? Robin Hood and the Mnemonic Turn." Kritische Perspektiven: 'Turns', Trends und Theorien. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• "Tourist don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going: Der Reisende als Fremder in der englischen Gegenwartsliteratur." Ringvorlesung Phänomene der Fremdheit, Fremdheit als Phänomen. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

2007

• "Nationale memoria vs. individuelle Ethik im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Geschichts- und Identitätskonstruktionen in Adam Thorpes The Rules of Perspective." Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne: Revisionen der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21. Jahrhundert. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Winter Semester 2023/24

• Cultural Memory
• Gender Studies
• Medicine and Ethics in Dystopia and Science Fiction
• Shakespearean Drama

Summer Semester 2023

• The Culture of Collecting in the Age of Enlightenment
• "In the Heart of the Metropolis": Space and the Modern City
• Terra Incognita: Disaster and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
• Time and Space in Gothic and Horror Fiction

More than 60 additional courses in Anglophone Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies as well as Academic Writing

• at the University of Colgne (2022) and
• at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (2007 - 2023).