Dr. Ellen Dengel-Janic

Ellen Dengel-Janic received her Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen. She previously taught English literature at the University of Stuttgart and is now a lecturer in English literature and cultural studies at the University of Tübingen. Her primary interests include British drama, gender and performance studies, postcolonial theory, Indian-English literature, and British film and television studies. Her current research concentrates on eighteenth-century British drama, humor, and affect theory.

Publications

Monographs

2011

Dengel-Janic, Ellen. Home Fiction: Narrating Gendered Space in Anita Desai's and Shashi Deshpande's Novels. ZAA Monograph Series, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2011.

2010

with Gerhard Stilz, eds. Postcolonial Literatures: Sources and Resources South Asia. Trier: WVT, 2010.

Articles

2026

“Acting as Art and Craft in Eighteenth-Century British Theatre.“ Madeline Brook and Kristin Eichhorn, eds. Die Techniken des 18. Jahrhunderts. Metzler, 2026 (forthcoming).

2023

“Humour As Affect in Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife.“ Studia Philologia, vol.3, 2023: 35-52.
“The Female Body in Indian Women Writers’ Short Stories.“ Cecile Sandten, Indrani Karmakar, Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz, eds. Contemporary Indian Literature. Narr/Franke, 2023: 103-120.

2017

”The Postcolonial Writer as Commodity.” Christoph Reinfandt and Amrei Katharina Nensel, eds. The Literary Market in the UK. E-pub. University of Tübingen, 2017.

2014

“Precarious Geographies: Amitav Ghosh’s Spatial Narratives.” Barbara Korte and Frederic Regard, eds. Narrating “Precariousness”: Modes, Media, Ethics. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014: 71-84.

2013

“Voice and Perception in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled.” Ellen Dengel-Janic and Christoph Reinfandt, eds. Voice and Perception in Transcultural Realities: The Case of India. ZAA Special Issue. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2013: 73-85.

2012

“Danny Boyles Slumdog Millionär – Die Popularisierung der Armut.” Paraplui – Zeitschrift für Kultur, 2012.
“Diaspora and its Romanticism(s): The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.” Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell, eds. Romantic Legacies: Literature, Aesthetics, Landscape. London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 231-244.

2011

“Elizabeth I and Shakespeare as Postcolonial Media Icons.” Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker, eds. Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken Proceedings. Trier: VWT, 2011: 183-196.

2009

“Githa Hariharan's In Times of Siege (2003): Challenging New Nationalisms.” Muse India 23 (March-April 2009).
with Johanna Roering. “Re-Imaging Shakespeare in Second Generation (2003): A British-Asian Perspective on Shakespeares King Lear.” Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker, eds. Drama and Cultural Change: Turning Around Shakespeare. Trier: WVT, 2009: 211-219.

2008

“East is East and West is West: A Reading of Nirpal Dhaliwal's Tourism (2006).” Barbara Korte and Christoph Reinfandt, eds. Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in British Literature, Film and Art. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008: 341-354.
with Lars Eckstein. “Bridehood Revisited: Disarming Gender and Culture in Recent British-Asian Film.” Barbara Korte and Christoph Reinfandt, eds. Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in British Literature, Film and Art. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008: 45-63.

2007

“South Asia.” Lars Eckstein, ed. Literatures in English Across the Globe: Colonial Legacies and Transcultural Perspectives. Tübingen and Basel: UTB, 2007: 133-157.
“Contesting Private Space in Shashi Deshpande's Novels.” Gerhard Stilz, ed. Territorial Terrors: Contested Spaces in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2007: 25-38.

2004

“Constructions of Femininity in Cornelia Sorabji's Greater Love (1901) and Githa Hariharan's Revati (1993).” The Atlantic Literary Review, 5.3-4 (2004): 1-13.
“Exile as a Gendered Space in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, 4.1-2 (2004): 117-126.