Research Foci
Anglophone Literatures & Cultures, 16th to 21st Century
Medical Humanities & Material Cultures
Literature & Science
Gender & Film Studies
Publications
I am the author of two single-authored monographs, situated in Shakespeare, gender and film studies (WVT 2014) on the one hand, and in eighteenth-century literature, culture and the medical humanities (Routledge 2025) on the other. I have also co-authored two anthologies on Hollywood films (Schüren 2013) and psychopharmacology in British literature and culture (Palgrave 2020). Currently, my research focuses on medicine, gender, and (popular) media as well as on the intersections between the medical humanities and environmental studies.
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Since 10/25 Interim professor, English literature, Institute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana University Lüneburg (O'Sullivan) 04/25-09/25
Project manager, English and American studies department (IAA), University of Hamburg (AG Prof. Meyer) Adjunct professor ('Privatdozentin'), English literature and culture, department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn 10/21-09/23 Interim professor, Anglophone Gender Studies, department of British and North American Studies, University of Greifswald 04/21-09/21 Interim professor (LS Prof. Fludernik), English literature and culture, English department, University of Freiburg 10/20-03/21 Lecturer, Institute of English and American Studies, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg 11/16-03/21 Independent post-doc position, M8_04 project "Monstrous Medicine - Obstetrics in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century", University of Bremen (resulting habilitation thesis submitted in November 2022) Since 04/16 Lecturer, Institute for Ethics in Technology, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 11/13-11/16 Postdoc position, research group "Fiction Meets Science", funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, in collaboration with the University of Bremen, Oldenburg, Bielefeld, Hamburg, Guelph, Sydney and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst 11/12-11/13 Research assistant, faculty 10, Linguistics and Literary Studies/English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen 10/10-04/11 Lecturer, faculty 10, Linguistics and Literary Studies/English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
11/22 Habilitation thesis Bodies of Knowledge – (Re)Production in British Literature and Culture, 1726-1818 (Routledge 2025), submitted 11/2022, Venia Legendi: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies, awarded 01/2024, University of Bonn 02/13 PhD certificate “Dr. phil.“ for Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen 11/08-04/12 Dissertation Unsex Me Here – Gender und Raum im zeitgenössischen Shakespeare-Film (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014) 11/08-12/11 Postgraduate and scholarship holder of the interdisciplinary doctoral group “Textuality of Film“, University of Bremen 04/07 Magistra Artium, University of Bremen, Thesis: “Die Darstellung der Figur Guinevere in ausgewählten Erzählungen des Mittelalters und des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts“ 10/03-03/04 Study of English Literatures and Cultures at the London Metropolitan University, UK 10/01-04/07 Study of English and German Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bremen
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs (peer-reviewed) 24. Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1726- 1818. Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities. London/New York: Routledge, 2025. (peer-reviewed) 23. Unsex Me Here – Gender und Raum im zeitgenössischen Shakespeare-Film. Studien und Handbücher zur Medienkulturwissenschaft. Eds. Knut Hickethier, Ansgar Nünning and Martin Zierold. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014.
Anthologies International (peer-reviewed) 22. Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900. Eds. Natalie Roxburgh and Jennifer S. Henke. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins and Catherine Belling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (peer-reviewed) National 21. Hollywood Reloaded. Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende. Eds. Jennifer Henke, Magdalena Krakowski, Benjamin Moldenhauer and Oliver Schmidt. Schriftenreihe zur Textualität des Films. Eds. John Bateman, Heinz-Peter Preußer and Sabine Schlickers. Marburg: Schüren, 2013.
Contributions to Journals and Edited Volumes National & international, (invited), (peer-reviewed)
20. Henke, Jennifer S. "Vulnerability, Resistance, and the Politics of Reproduction in Fenwick's Secresy and Defoe's Moll
Flanders". Vulnerability of Pregnant Bodies, Motherhood & Mothering from Ancient Times to the Modern World. Eds. Patricia Gwozdz
and Davina Höll. London/New York: Routledge. (accepted, peer-reviewed) 18. Henke, Jennifer S. "Matters of Interest: Entangling the Maternal Body“. Undue Burdens: Reproductive Rights and Bodily Autonomy in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eds. Fiona Brideoake, Ula Lukszo Klein, and Nicole Garret. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025. (accepted, peer-reviewed) 17. Henke, Jennifer S. "'Fruits which that unknown orchard bore': Practices of Abortion in the Nineteenth Century“. Victorian Reproductions. Special Issue. Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2/24). Hrsg. Sarah Wegener and Wolfgang Funk. Heidelberg: Winter, 2024. 219-236. (invited, peer-reviewed) 16. Henke, Jennifer S. „Zur Geschichte der Geburtsmedizin: Ein Exkurs." Chirurgie und Schwangerschaft. Hrsg. Beate Rau, Costanza Chiapponi, Doreen Richard, Ute Seeland und Rebecca Sänger. Heidelberg: Springer, 2023. (invited, submitted) 15. Henke, Jennifer S. „Shakesqu(e)er intersektional: Vom Film zur Webserie“. Fachzeitschrift Schultheater. Hrsg. Christoph Lutz-Scheurle, Sabine Kündiger und Max Weig. Sonderausgabe 54: Shakespeare Querdenken. Hannover: Friedrich Verlag, 2023. 38-41. (invited) 14. Henke, Jennifer S. „Contesting Spaces of Knowledge: Reproduction, Medicine and Literature”. Contradiction Studies: Exploring the Field. Eds. Kerstin Knopf, Gisela Febel and Martin Nonhoff. Heidelberg: Springer, 2023. 233-257. (invited) 13. Henke, Jennifer S./Gerstner, Jan. „Einleitung: Die Robinsonade – Von Frames zum (Re-)Framing.“ (Re-)Framing the Robinsonade. PhiN – Philologie im Netz. Hrsg. Jennifer S. Henke und Jan Gerstner. PhiN – Philologie im Netz. Hrsg. Paul Gévaudan, Hiltrud Lautenbach, Alexander Nebrig, Peter Schneck und Dietrich Scholler. Sonderheft 30/2023. 1-6. 12. Henke, Jennifer S. "Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)“. Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eds. Katrin Berndt and Alessa Johns. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Eds. Martin Middeke. Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 449-466. (invited) 11. Henke, Jennifer. „The Stepford Syndrome – Zur fiktionalen Verhandlung der Sexrobotik“. ‘Robo Sapiens‘? Roboter, Künstliche Intelligenz und Transhumanismus in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien. Hrsg. Dominik Orth, Ingo Irslinger. Wissenschaft und Kunst. Hrsg. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Dimiter Daphinoff. Heidelberg: Winter, 2021. 141-158. (invited) 10. Henke, Jennifer/Roxburgh, Natalie. "Introduction." Situating Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture. Eds. Natalie Roxburgh and Jennifer S. Henke. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins and Catherine Belling. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 1-22. (peer-reviewed) 9. Henke, Jennifer. „Verloren im Weltall. Ein neues Stereotyp der Wissenschaftlerin im Film am Beispiel von CONTACT (1997) und GRAVITY (2013)”. Genre-Störungen. Schriftenreihe zur Textualität des Films. Hrsg. John Bateman, Heinz-Peter Preußer und Sabine Schlickers. Marburg: Schüren. 2019. 33-54. 8. Henke, Jennifer. “Shakespeare Mangafied: Gender and Japanese Visual Language." Metaphorik.de. Special issue Metaphor and Gender. Vol. 30/2019. 2-22. (invited, peer-reviewed) 7. Henke, Jennifer. „In the Flesh – The Politics of Abortion in Ireland”. Hard Times – Gender Today. Eds. Anke Bartels, Irmgard Maassen and Ingrid von Rosenberg. Issue 102.2 (2018). 114-126. (invited) 6. Henke, Jennifer. ““Ava’s body is a good one”: (Dis)Embodiment in Ex Machina. American, British, and Canadian Studies (ABC). Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017. 126-146. (peer-reviewed) [cited >37x] http://abcjournal.eu/vol-29-2017/ 5. Henke, Jennifer, Norbert Schaffeld and Kati Voigt. “Mathematicians, Mysteries and Mental Illnesses: The Stage-to-Screen Adaptation of Proof”. Adaptation. Oxford: OUP, 2017. 322–337. (peer-reviewed) 4. Berndt, Katrin/Henke, Jennifer. “Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’ (2001) and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (2006)”. Care Home Stories. Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care. Eds. Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017. 203-224. 3. Henke et al. “Genres zwischen Medienkultur und Kulturkritik“. Hollywood Reloaded. Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende. Eds. Jennifer Henke, Magdalena Krakowski, Benjamin Moldenhauer, Oliver Schmidt. Schriftenreihe zur Textualität des Films. Reihen-Hrsg. John Bateman, Heinz-Peter Preußer, Sabine Schlickers. Marburg: Schüren, 2013. 7-18. 2. Henke, Jennifer. “Gender takes place: Geschlechter-Räume im Shakespeare-Film. Zur Interdependenz von Raumsemantik, Performativität und Gender am Beispiel von Much Ado About Nothing“. Rabbit Eye – Zeitschrift für Filmforschung (online). No. 2 (2010). 77-89.
Special Issues 1. Henke, Jennifer S./Gerstner, Jan (Hrsg.). (Re-)Framing the Robinsonade. PhiN - Philologie im Netz. Hrsg. Paul Gévaudan, Hiltrud Lautenbach, Alexander Nebrig, Peter Schneck und Dietrich Scholler. Sonderheft 30/2023. 1-72.
RESEARCH FUNDING
11/ 16 M8_04 independent project position (4 yrs.), project “Monstrous Medicine – Obstetrics in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth-Century”, financed by the excellence initiative and accompanied by the Central Research Development Fund, University of Bremen 11/13 Project position (3 yrs.) for the sub-project “The role of gender in contemporary fictional depictions of science“, financed by the Volkswagen foundation in the scope of the international and interdisciplinary research group Fiction Meets Science, University of Bremen, Oldenburg, Bielefeld, Guelph and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst 06/13 Printing subsidy for the anthology Hollywood Reloaded. Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende (Schüren, 2013), financed by the Fritz Thyssen foundation 09/10 Grant for the conference “Hollywood reloaded? Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende“, financed by the Fritz Thyssen foundation 10/08 PhD scholarship in the scope of the interdisciplinary doctoral group “Textuality of Film“, financed by the University of Bremen
PhD SUPERVISIONS
Since 2022
two independent PhD projects on:
NOMINATIONS & CERTIFICATES
2023
Nomination for an award for outstanding teaching in the category "diversity-sensitive teaching", University of
Greifswald Certificate “Hochschuldidaktische Qualifizierung“ (qualification in higher education didactics), in cooperation with the University of Bremen, Oldenburg, Osnabrück and the Technical University of Braunschweig 2017 Certificate "Plan m Mentoring in Science“; post-graduate research development and mentoring program for selected social science and humanities scholars, University of Bremen 2015 Nomination of the thesis Unsex Me Here – Gender und Raum im zeitgenössischen Shakespeare-Film (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014) for the Helene Richter dissertation prize 2008 PhD scholarship (3 yrs.) in the scope of the interdisciplinary doctoral group "Textuality of Film", University of Bremen
VISITING SCHOLAR
09/2026 College of Arts, University of Guelph, Canada, in cooperation with Prof. Donald Bruce (pending)
09/2025 College of Arts, University of Guelph, Canada, in cooperation with Prof. Donald Bruce (invited) 02/20-03/20 College of Arts, University of Guelph, Canada, in cooperation with Prof. Donald Bruce and Fiction Meets Science
03/19-04/19
TALKS
Keynotes & Introductions (invited) 56. "The Critical Medical Humanities: Waves and Case Studies", introduction, BritCult WBS, University of Hamburg, May 9, 2025 55. "Material Maternities: Representing Reproduction", keynote lecture, Third International Conference on Design Vanguard, organized by the research group Design Vanguard, Facultad de Hábitat, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, November 23, 2022
Invited (national & international) 53. "Gender and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Fiction", guest lecture, University of Hamburg, June 14, 2024 52. "Narratives of Reproduction – From Maternal Myths to Medical Media“, Fiction Meets Science-Workshop, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, December 14-15, 2023 51. "Science and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture", guest lecture, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, December 8, 2023 50."Literature, Culture and Science“. LitCult Colloquium. University of Freiburg, November 7, 2023 49. "Midnight Labours – Birth, Death and the Obstetrical Machine in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)“. 13. BGECS Jahrestagung Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Ein Text und seine Themen. University of Bonn, October 5, 2023 48. "Power and Pregnancy – Controlling the Female Reproductive Body", guest lecture, University of Rostock, June 29, 2023
47. "Teaching Irish Fiction and Film", guest lecture, University of Bremen, July 7, 2022 42. "'You bet she can fuck' - Sexarbeit vs. Prostitution am Beispiel von Ex Machina", student conference "Grenzphänomene der Linguistik I: Porno?", University of Bremen, May 9, 2019 41. "From Flowers to Fluff: Manga and Metaphor", guest lecture, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi (MEX), March 24, 2019 40. “Sexroboter und künstliche Intelligenz – die Apotheose der Verdinglichung?“, interdisciplinary conference “‘Robo Sapiens‘? Roboter, Künstliche Intelligenz und Transhumanismus in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien“, University of Kiel, September 26-28, 2018 39. “Monstrous Medicine – Obstetrics in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century”, work in progress, Arbeitskreis Cultural Studies, University of Braunschweig, June 30, 2018 38. “'it stopped the sensations of new-born life' – Plants, Potions, and Pregnancy“, workshop “Plant Knowledge/Plant Poetics”, University of Siegen, May 24, 2018 37. “The Madwoman in Science – Gender and Stereotypes in Literature and Film”, guest lecture, seminar “Staging Science: Mathematics and Theatre“ (Voigt), University of Leipzig, December 11, 2017 36. “Technik – Körper – Feminismus: Zur filmischen Inszenierung des weiblichen Cyborgs”, guest lecture, seminar “Gesundheit und digitale Medien. Techniksoziologische Einführung für methodische und theoretische Annäherungen an eHealth“, FB11 Public Health, University of Bremen, July 7, 2017 35. “Dea Ex Machina – The Body of the Cyborg Goddess”, workshop “Encoding the Future: Perspectives on the Making of the ‘Human’ in Ex_Machina”, University of Siegen, December 1-2, 2016 34. “’Lost in space’ – Zur Stereotypisierung von Wissenschaftlerinnen im zeitgenössischen Kino”, workshop “Geschlecht und Raum: Imagination und Materialität des (unzugänglichen) Raumes”, University of Mainz, October 22-24, 2015 33. “Monstrous Medicine, Monstrous Bodies – The Culture of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)“, University of Hamburg, January 16, 2015 32. “’Sigh no more, ladies’ - Shakespeare's Women on Screen”, guest lecture, seminar "Shakespeare on Film” (Vanderbeke), University of Jena, November 10, 2014 31. “Dystopian Visions of Technology: Graphic Literature and Genetics”, workshop “Future Visions: Speculation and Anticipation in Graphic Narratives“, University of Bayreuth, July 11, 2014 30. “Kiss me, Kat – Shakespeare im Schulfilm“, lecture series “Schule im Film“ (Pietsch), University of Hildesheim, January 31, 2011
International 29. "Ferocious Fungi, Monstrous Mushrooms? On Fungal Resistance in Contemporary Folk Horror Film", “Join the Orca Uprising!” Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice, 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 14-17 April, 2026 28. „Erased Subjects: Practices of Reproduction during the Eighteenth Century and Beyond“, International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science, University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024 27. „Autonomous Foetuses and the Erasure of the Maternal Body“, American Society for 18th-Century Studies (ASECS), 54th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Kanada, 04.-06. April, 2024 (26.) „Birth as a Crisis? Foucault’s Heterotopia and the Cultural History of Childbirth”, Association for Medical Humanities Conference – Making Space, University of Limerick, Ireland, 17. – 19. Juni, 2020 [cancelled due to the pandemic] 25. "'The baneful and blood-stained Monster' – (The Irish) Frankenstein and Political Cartoons", Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies, Arts University Bournemouth, October 31-November 1, 2018 24. “Violent Medicine: Abortion and the Non-Transfer of Knowledge between the Old and the New World”, EBAAS 2018, 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies, University College London, April 4-7, 2018 23. “Contextualizing the Maternal Body: Obstetrics in Eighteenth-Century Literature”, The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, University of Bristol, April 6-8, 2017 22. “Lonely Heroines, Old Maids, and Babe Scientists: Female Science on Screen”, 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Lisbon, September 4-6, 2014 21. “Disturbing Science: Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species - A Graphic Adaptation”, 8th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS) on Disturbing Adaptations, Linnaeus University, Växjö, September 26-27, 2013 20. “Shakespeare Goes Manga”, 7th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS) on Visible and Invisible Authorships, University of York, September 27-28, 2012 19. “Yet I Am Branded for a Single Fault - The Impact of Feminism on Popular Adaptations of Arthuriana", Conference on Popular Culture, PCA/ACA & SW/TX. San Antonio, Texas, April 20, 2011
National 18. "(W)Righting Maria's Wrongs: Gender, Genre and the Body in Eighteenth-Century Fiction", lecture series Gender - Culture - Feminism, University of Bremen, December 11, 2019 17. "Introduction", symposium Reframing the Robinsonades - Ein interdisziplinäres Symposium, University of Bremen, August 30, 2019. 16. “What is Literature? Definitions and Genres”, lecture in the scope of the summer school “Oktoberakademie”, University of Bremen, October 4, 2018 15. “Spaces of Knowledge: Gender, Class, and Medicine”, conference Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field/Inaugural Conference on Concepts of Contradiction in the Humanities, University of Bremen, February 8-11, 2017 14. “Studying the Body in Literature and Film”, lecture series Gender – Kultur – Feminismus, University of Bremen, December 14, 2016 13. “Obstetrics in 18th and 19th Century Literature”, lecture series Key Developments in Literary Theory, University of Bremen, June 9, 2015 12. “Mathematicians, Mysteries and Mental Illnesses: The Stage-to-Screen Adaptation of Proof” (with Prof. Norbert Schaffeld and Dr. Kati Voigt), 2nd international Workshop of the research group Fiction Meets Science: The World of Science under the Literary Microscope, University of Bremen and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst, November 19-22, 2014 11. “Exotisch, erotisch, animalisch: Körperräume in Oliver Parkers Othello (1995)“, interdisciplinary colloquium for post-docs "Postcolonial und Gender Studies“, Centrum für Postcolonial und Gender Studies (CePoG), University of Trier, June 24-26, 2014 10. “'The Spark of Life' - Love and Age in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her” (with Prof. Katrin Berndt), BICQS-conference Being Young and Growing Old in Canada and Québec, University of Bremen, January 31 to February 1, 2014 9. “Zur Popularisierung von Naturwissenschaft in graphischer Literatur“, 8. Medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Nordverbunds, University of Bremen, January 17, 2014 8. “Dynamische Bilder im Kontext“ (with Prof. John Bateman and Dr. Janina Wildfeuer), workshop “Die Kunst der Rezeption“, University of Hamburg, November 28-30, 2013 7. “(R)Evolution im Comic?“ 8th ComFor conference “Comics und Naturwissenschaften“, University of Erlangen, November 15-17, 2013 6. “Die Artussage – Ritterlichkeit und höfische Romanzen“, lecture series Mythen des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, University of Bremen, November 7, 2013 5. “Medientransformationen: Die Graphic Novel”, 6. Medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Nordverbundes, University of Hamburg, January 25-16, 2013 4. “The Textuality of Gendered Spaces in Science Films”, 1st international workshop of the research group Fiction Meets Science: The World of Science under the Literary Microscope, MARUM, University of Bremen and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst, October 12-13, 2012 3. “Die Performanz der Stadt im Film“, section “Text und Stadt transmedial – Urbanität und Film”, interdisciplinary summer school Textualität der Stadt – Urbanität in Literatur, Sprache und Film (ISAB-TeSta), University of Bremen, August 22, 2012 2. “Gender-Räume im Shakespeare-Film“, research colloquium “Textuality of Film“, University of Bremen, November 10, 2011 1. “Much Ado About Space: Spatial Representations and Gender in Cinematic Adaptations of Shakespeare”, conference Rewriting, Remixing, and Reloading – Adaptations Across the Globe, Berlin, Oktober 1, 2010
Moderations (national & international) 13. Panel "Female Matters: The Sciences of Pregnancy and Motherhood from the 18th to the Early 20th Century", International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science, University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024 12. Panel "Health, Infirmity, and the Practice of Care", American Society for 18th-Century Studies (ASECS), 54th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Kanada, 04.-06. April, 2024
11. Lecture series Gender, Health and the Deviant Body, University of Greifswald, summer semester 2022 9. Panel "Alternative Spaces and Spheres", 10th annual BGECS-conference The Eighteenth Century in Film and Popular Culture, University of Bonn, October 2, 2019 8. Bremen conference Reframing the Robinsonade - Ein interdisziplinäres Symposium together with Dr. Jan Gerstner (Bremen), August 30, 2019 7. Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Cultural Studies together with Dr. Vanessa Herrmann (Bremen) and Dr. Jana Nittel (Bremen), Centre for British Studies, Berlin, June 22, 2019 6. Bremen workshop Frankenstein’s Legacy: 200 Years of Myths, Monsters and Mysteries together with Kati Voigt (Leipzig), December 21, 2018 5. Panel "Transmedia Storytelling – Frankenstein and Visual Culture", Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies, Arts University Bournemouth, October 31-November 1, 2018 4. Panel "Frankenstein and Film", Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies, Arts University Bournemouth, October 31-November 1, 2018 3. Section/talk "Frankenstein in Baghdad", Postcolonial Knowledges - Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts (BCLL #3), University of Bremen, March 15-18, 2016 2. Section "Graphic and animated adaptations", 8th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies (AAS) on Disturbing Adaptations, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Sweden, September 16-17, 2013 1. Section "Love Modie Reloaded", Hollywood reloaded? Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende, University of Bremen, September 18-19, 2010
Public Outreach 7. Curator of the Bluesky account @ Real Scientists DE (6k follower), December 2024
6. Curator of the Twitter account @ Real Scientists DE (19k follower), April 2022 4. In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (Sarah Ruhl). Public discussion of the play. Bremen English Theatre, Cake & Conflict series, Kulturzentrum Kukoon, November 25, 2018 3. Proof (David Auburn). Public discussion of the play. Bremen English Theatre, Cake & Conflict series, Kulturzentrum Kukoon, October 28 25, 2018 2. “Faszination Frankenstein: Wer ist hier das Monster?“, public talk in the scope of the event series Science Goes Public, Bar Tequila, Bremen-Neustadt, March 8, 2018 1. “Geburtshilfe in der Literatur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts“, section "Fiction Meets Science. Die Welt der Wissenschaften aus literarischer Sicht – Aktuelle Forschungsthemen im Bereich English-Speaking Cultures“, Open Campus Day, University of Bremen, Juli 11, 2015
TEACHING RECORD (PhD, MA, BA, M.Ed.) since 2010 | Bremen, Hamburg-Harburg, San Luis Potosi (MEX), Halle-Wittenberg, Freiburg, Greifswald, Guelph (CAN), Rostock, Bonn, Lüneburg
Comics and Graphic Novels (S) Dystopian Fictions (S)
Introduction to English Literature (VL)
The Gothic as a Literary Mode (S)
Green and Blue Shakespeare (S)
Key Concepts in Critical Theory (S)
Intersectional Shakespeare (S) Canadian Women: Alice Munro (S)
Cyborgs and Gender (S)
Shakesqueer and Embodiment (S)
Gender, Science and Technology in Literature and Film (S) Thesis Writing Workshop (WS) Shakespeare and Gender (S)
Literature on Drugs (S) Imperial Fictions: From Defoe to Edgeworth to Wells (S) Forschungskolloquium IV: Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft IV (with Prof. Norbert Schaffeld) (KO) 'Houston, we have a stereotype!' Analyzing Representations of Science in Fiction (with Dr. Luz Maria Hernandez) (S) Literature, Film, Comics: Humanities for Beginners (Oktoberakademie, with Dr. Janina Wildfeuer) (S) Forschungskolloquium I-III: Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft (with Prof. Norbert Schaffeld) (KO) Introduction to English Literatures (S) Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel (S) Anatomy and Power in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (S) Sex and the Body – Reproduction in Sterne's Tristram Shandy (S) Literatures of Addiction (S) Contextualizing the Gothic Novel (S) Contemporary Canadian Writers (S) Graphic Literature (S) Science and the Media (S) Science and Satire (S) Shakespeare in Film and Popular Culture (S) Shakespeare, Film, and Gender (S)
PROJECTS & SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
11/25
Organisation and implementation of the workshop on the medical humanities "Viral!? Gender, Medicine, and the Popular" in cooperation with Dr. Johannes Schlegel, University of Hamburg, November 15, 2025. 10/25
Organisation and implementation of the 20th annual meeting of the German Society for
Comics Studies (ComFor) in cooperation with Prof. Christina Meyer, Prof. Astrid Böger, Prof. Kesper-Biermann,
University of Hamburg, October 8-10, 2025 06/24 Organisation and implementation of the annual meeting of the "Arbeitskreistreffen Cultural Studies" in cooperation with Prof. Mark Schmitt (HU Berlin), Dr. Frauke Hofmeister (U Leipzig) and Dr. Dietmar Böhnke (U Leipzig), University of Leipzig, June 22, 2024 06/24 Organisation and implementation of the workshop "Academic Careers” in the scope of the International ScienceHumanities Summer School in cooperation with the University of Bremen, the University of Cardiff and the HWK Institute for Advanced Study, June 5, 2024
11/22
06/20 08/19 Organisation and implementation of the Bremen event Reframing the Robinsonade - Ein interdisziplinäres Symposium together with Dr. Jan Gerstner (Bremen), University of Bremen, August 30, 2019 06/19 Organisation and implementation of the "Arbeitskreistreffen Cultural Studies" together with Dr. Vanessa Herrmann (Bremen) and Dr. Jana Nittel (Bremen), Centre for British Studies, Berlin 03/19 Organisation and implementation of the interdisciplinary and intercultural seminar "'Houston, we have a stereotype!' Analyzing Representations of Science in Fiction" together with Dr. Luz Maria Hernandez, SLP, Mexico 12/18 Organisation and implementation of the Bremen workshop Frankenstein’s Legacy: 200 Years of Myths, Monsters and Mysteries together with Dr. Kati Voigt (Leipzig), University of Bremen, December 21, 2018 10/18 Organisation and implementation of the panel "Transmedia Storytelling – Frankenstein and Visual Culture" at the international conference Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies, Arts University Bournemouth 12/14-06/15 Coordination of the program for the degree course English Speaking Cultures at the Open Campus Day 2015 07/13-02/14 Organisational support of the BICQS (Bremen Institute of Canada and Québec Studies) for the interdisciplinary conference Being Young and Growing Old in Kanada and Québec (2014) 06/10-11/10 Organisational support of the BICQS (Bremen Institute of Canada and Québec Studies) for the interdisciplinary conference The Far North (2010) 01/10-09/10 Organisation and implementation of the conference Hollywood reloaded? Genrewandel und Medienerfahrung nach der Jahrtausendwende, together with Dr. Magdalena Krakowski, Dr. Oliver Schmidt and Dr. Benjamin Moldenhauer, University of Bremen
COMMITTEE WORK & ACADEMIC AUTONOMY
since 04/2024 | Member of the Travel Grant Committee, ASECS (American Society for 18th-Century Studies) 07/17-07/19 | Member of the faculty council, department 10, U Bremen 06/17-07/19 | Member of the ZKFF (Central Commission for Women’s Issues), U Bremen 01/16-03/21 | Women’s representative, department 10, U Bremen 10/13-06/17 | Module convener (3 modules) for the degree course English-Speaking Cultures, U Bremen 01/13-08/17 | Responsible for the faculty reports to AREAS (Annual Report on English and American Studies) 07/16-08/17 | Responsible for the faculty reports to the GKS (German Society for Canadian Studies)
since 10/12 | BA and MA thesis supervisor
MEMBERSHIPS
German Society for the Study of British Cultures
German Association for the Study of English German Society for the Study of the 18th Century American Society for 18th-Century Studies British Society for Literature and Science Fiction Meets Science Worlds of Contradiction Bremen Institute for Canada and Québec Studies German Association for Canadian Studies German Society for Media Studies British Women’s Study Group 1558 – 1837 |