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  • Venia legendi in English Literature
    Last week my postdoctoral dissertation, the Habilitationsschrift, was accepted by the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at LMU Munich and I was awarded the degree of Dr. phil. habil.! This qualifies me to teach English Literature as an associate or full professor in German-language academia (the so-called venia legendi, or right to teach). The manuscript…
  • Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility: Special Issue of ZAA out now
    Special issue on Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility out now!
  • Habilitationsschrift submitted
    This week I submitted my manuscript In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Modern Narratives of Invisibility to LMU’s Faculty of Languages and Literatures as my Habilitationsschrift. The manuscript offers readings of authors from eighteenth-century novelists and poets Eliza Haywood, Susanna Rowson, and Anna Letitia Barbauld to nineteenth-century writers John Keats, James Forbes Dalton, Fitz-James O’Brien, and…
  • Artikel über unsichtbare literarische Figuren erschienen
    Mit dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Philosophie und Rhetorik im Zeichen der Unsichtbarkeit setzt sich ein neuer Aufsatz auseinander: “Compound Invisible Objects”: Moralischer Charakter, literarische Figur und die Gyges-Problematik bei Adam Smith und Eliza Haywood. Herausgegeben ist er von Wolfgang G. Müller und Rainer Thiel als Teil von Band 5 (2022) der Internationalen Zeitschrift Kulturkomparatistik mit…
  • New book chapter on Poe
    The chapter is on Poe’s “The Devil in the Belfry” and “William Wilson” in particular, and it’s part of a great handbook of The American Short Story, edited by Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding: please click here for the abstract
  • New article on Surveillance
    This article by Isabel Kalous and me on the visualisation of surveillance on scholarly book covers has just come out with On_Culture: https://www.on-culture.org/journal/perspectives/covering-surveillance/
  • Paper on „The Invisible Author, Then and Now“ this Thursday
    As part of the international lecture series on „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“, I’m very happy to be speaking about „The Invisible Author, Then and Now“ in the session on „Invisible Writers“ this Thursday on 9 December, 6pm. In the same session, Christine Reynier will be speaking about „Invisible Novels of the Interwar Period: The Case…
  • Visiting Scholarship at UC Berkeley in 2022
    Great news: I have been granted LMUexcellent funding to go to UC Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar as part of the LMU-UCB exchange programme, thanks to the fantastic support of Professor Dorothy Hale. Covid-permitting, I’ll be spending one month at UCB in the fall semester 2022 to present and continue my work on invisible characters…
  • Looking for proposals for „The Agency of Invisibility“ at ESSE 2022
    Alice Borrego, Héloïse Lecomte and I are looking for proposals for a seminar on „The Agency of Invisibility in Contemporary Fiction and Theory“. The deadline for proposals of 250 words plus short CV is 31 January, 2022. Please see the description of the panel and a link to the general Call for Papers below. ESSE…
  • Article out: „Unseeing People“
    My article on „Unseeing People: Towards a Clear View of Invisible Characters in Narrative Fiction“ has just come out in Études britanniques contemporaines: https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.11098. The article is connected to an ongoing conversation about invisibility and silence: check out the programme for the international seminar „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“, organised by Alice Borrego, Guillaume Le Blanc,…