Madeline Becker M.A.
Doctoral Candidate
M.A. Madeline Becker
since April 2021 | Lecturer at University of Rostock |
since January 2018 | Scholarship holder of the graduate funding programme of Saxony-Anhalt |
2018 - 2021 | Lecturer at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
since 2017 | Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
November 2017 | Faculty Award 2016/17 for the best Master Degree of the Fakulty of Humanities |
2015 - 2017 | Research Assistant at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
2014 - 2017 | Master's Degree Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
2012 - 2013 | Study abroad English Literature, Bath Spa University, Great Britain |
2010 - 2014 | Bachelor's Degree Anglistische Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies and European History, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
Research Foci
- Contemporary Anglophone Culture and Literature
- Environmental Criticism
- Human-Animal Studies
- Posthumanism
- Media Studies
- Film Studies
Projects
- Doctoral Thesis: "Screened Encounters: Man, Nature, and Animal in the Documentary of the 21st Century"
Essays
- “Lonely Futures? From the Last Man to Posthuman Collectivity.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, vol. 7, 2020, pp. 51-72. URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-731620.
Reviews
- Rev. of The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, and Wang Chi, and New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetry, and Documentary Theory, by Dara Waldron. MEDIENwissenschaft, no. 4, 2019, pp. 421-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13068.
- Rev. of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction, by Lars Schmeink. MEDIENwissenschaft, no. 2-3, 2018, pp. 208-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/ep2018.2-3.7859.
Lectures
- "Empathetic Encounter or Naive Encounter? Timothy Treadwell in Werner Herzog’s Drama Documentary Grizzly Man." Guest Lecture. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 9 January 2020.
- "Presentation of the Dissertation Project Screened Encounters: The Nature Documentary in the Anthropocene." Post-Graduate Forum of the BritCult. University of Hildesheim, 21 November 2019.
- "Environmental Hollywood: Ecocritical Perspectives on Film." campusdateLIVE. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 2 June 2018.
- "Poster Presentation Documenting the Anthropocene: The Nature Documentary in the 21st Century." Research Fair of the Faculty of Humanities. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 23 May 2018.
Winter Semester 2020/21
- Post-Human, Post-Capital, Post-Apocalypse: The World in Atwoods MaddAddam Trilogy
- Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Cultural Engineering
Summer Semester 2020
Winter Semester 2019/20
Winter Semester 2018/19
Summer Semester 2018
Winter Semester 2016/17
- Tutorium "Introduction to Cultural Studies"