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Professor
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann
Building: 23.21Floor/Room: 02.078
+49 211 81-12205
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Selected Publications
- Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
- Anglophone World Literatures
- Postcolonial, Global and Transcultural Studies
- Postcolonial and Material Ecocriticism
- British Empire and Literature
- Gender Studies
- Spatial Turn and Literary Studies
- Literary and Cultural Memory Studies
- Intermediality and Ekphrasis in Postcolonial Literatures
- Intermediality – Ekphrasis – Visuality in Anglophone Literatures (with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl, University Berne)
- Anglophone World Literatures
- Planetary Memory in Anglophone Literatures (with Yvonne Liebermann, née Kappel)
- Creoles in Anglophone Literatures – Vernacular Cosmopolitanism
- Die Sichtbarkeit der Übersetzer_in: Zielsprache Deutsch
- Leverhulme International Network – Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative Perspective
"Contemporary Post-Monolingual Novels: Poetics, Modes of Reading and the Mediating Factor of Production " (September 2022, University of North Bengal, India)
"Re-Membering European Images in Contemporary Transcultural Fiction: 'Learning to See Otherwise" (September 2022, Trinity University Dublin)
"On Not Translating Africa: Jennifer Makumbi and the Production of World Literary Value" (May 2022, HU Berlin; Großbritannienzentrum)
"Re-Membering European Images in Postcolonial Literatures" (May 2022; King's College London, CHLEL Symposium)
"Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Intermedial Configurations in Michael Ondaatje's Novels" (March 2022, University of Brussels)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- The Danish Council for Independent Research
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Fund
- Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD)
- Swedish Research Council / Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS)
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek -Vlaanderen, FWO)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
- FRIAS: Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- Peer Reviews for a.o. De Gruyter (Narratologia); Brill, Routledge (Identities); Das 18. Jahrhundert, 18. Jahrhundert - Supplementa (Wallstein); Journal of Literary Theory; Gender & History; Contributions to the History of Concepts; Mosaic - A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; On_Culture; Word & Image.
- Gutachten für das GCSC für DoktorandInnen- und PostdoktorandInnen-Stipendien im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitiative
- Scientific Committee des European Thematic Network ACUME "Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities" (Travelling Concepts, Metaphors and Narratives, 2011)
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- Centre for Australian Studies
- International Society for Intermedial Studies
- German Association for the Study of British Cultures
- Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts
- European Narratology Network
- Research Unit for Intercultural and Transcultural Studies, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
- Associate Member of Research Network "Landscapes of Realism", The Leverhulme Trust, (2015-2020)
- Member of the Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) "Materiality and Production", German Research Foundation, 2015-2016
- European Thematic Network ACUME "Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities" (2010-2011)