PD Dr. Anya Heise-von der Lippe
Assistant Lecturer
* In the summer term of 2024, I am on leave from the University of Tübingen and taking over the position of interim professor at the English Department of the TU Dortmund.*
Habilitation English Literary Studies and Cultural Studies (University of Potsdam)
PhD English Literature (University of Tübingen)
M.A. English and American Literature, Spanish Literature and Philosophy (Technische Universität, Berlin)
Previously: Media Editor (Cornelsen, Berlin), External Lecturer (Technische Universität Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin)
Research Interests
Climate Change, Critical Posthumanities, Intersectional Feminism, Romanticism, Fin de Siècle, The Gothic, Monsters and the Monstrous, Disability Studies, Dystopias, Cyberculture, Textualities, Adaptation, Materialism, Early Modernism
Publications
Monographs
Writing Romantic Climate Change - Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene. transcript (forthcoming July 2024).
Monstrous Textualities - Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance. University of Wales Press, 2021
Edited Books and Journals
- Co-editor of the CHALLENGES series with Narr, Tübingen
- with Fred Botting (eds): Cambridge Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2026)
- with Gero Bauer, Nicole Hirschfelder and Katharina Luther (eds.): Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Narr (2020)
- with Gina Wisker (eds.): "Entangled Narratives: History, Gender and the Gothic." Special Issue of Humanities (2020)
- with Russell West-Pavlov (eds.): Literaturwissenschaften in der Krise - Zur Rolle und Relevanz literarischer Praktiken in globalen Krisenzeiten. Narr, 2018.
- Posthuman Gothic. University of Wales Press, 2017.
- Dark Cartographies. Interdisciplinary Press, 2013.
Chapters and Articles
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‘“Have you a mind to sink?” – Imagining Liminal and Oceanic Spatiality in King Lear, Hamlet and The Tempest.” In: Russell West-Pavlov (ed.) Heterotropic Theatres: Shakespeare and After. Tübingen: Narr, (forthcoming).
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"The Last of US, fungal entanglements, and theorizations of disability representation". Studies in the Fantastic 17 (2024). Online version.
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'“Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood” – Birds and the Blurring of Boundaries Between Real and Metaphorical Nature in Joel Coen’s Macbeth'. Shakespeare in Southern Africa 35. 2022.
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Roundtable 'Macbeth and Birds on Stage and Screen'. Shakespeare in Southern Africa 35, 2022.
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'Indigenous Gothic in Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018), Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild (2019), and Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster (2017)' In: Butt, Nadia, Ansgar Nünning, and Alexander Scherr (eds.). The Anglophone Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Cultural Contexts - Literary Developments - Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT, 2023.
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'“[F]illed with goddamned soil from the fields of the Black Death”: Tracing the New Materialist Vampire in Murnau’s Nosferatu'. In: Simon Bacon (ed.). Nosferatu in the 21st Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022.
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'James Tiptree, Jr.'. In: Anna McFarlane, Graham Murphy and Lars Schmeinck (eds.). Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture. Routledge, 2022.
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'Cripping the Neoliberal University – We need a Politics of Care', in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10.02.2022, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/33018.
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mit Rebecca Hahn und Nicole Hirschfelder: 'Wissen schafft: Zur feministischen Praxis im universitären Kontext.' In: Gero Bauer, Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann, Lean Haug (Hrsg). Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020.
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'Sublime Whiteouts: Narrative Constructions of Whiteness, Otherness and Terror in the Arctic Gothic.' Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 7:2 (December 2020).
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'"What language do you dream in?" – Re-Imagining the Future of (Post-)Human Kinships.' In: Gero Bauer, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder and Katharina Luther (eds.): Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Tübingen: Narr, 2020.
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'"Brides never fare well in stories": Representations of Authority and (Gendered) Difference in Frankenstein Adaptation.' In: Maria Parrino et.al. (eds.): Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1818-2018. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2020.
- 'Gothicism'. In: Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture. Routledge, 2019.
- 'Stranger Things: Remixing Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic.' In: Lorna Piatti-Farnell (ed.): Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Television. Lexington/Rowman&Littlefield, 2019.
- 'Fred Botting - An Introduction'. JFA 30.1 (2019).
- 'Techno-Terror and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic'. In: Jerrold E. Hogle and Robert Miles (eds.): The Gothic and Theory – An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- 'Posthuman Gothic'. In: Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes (eds.): Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- 'Histories of Futures Past: Dystopian Fiction and the Historical Impulse.' ZAA 4/2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0035
- 'Zombie Fictions'. In: Laura Kremmel and Kevin Corstorphine (eds.): The Handbook to Horror Literature. Palgrave, 2018.
- '"I keep saying brains" - Posthuman Zombie Narratives.' Horror Studies 9.1 (2018).
- 'Brave New World'. In: Christoph Reinfandt (ed.): Handbook of the English Novel, 1900-2015. DeGruyter, 2017.
- 'Hypertext and the Creation of Choice: Making Monsters in the Age of Digital Textual (Re)Production'. In: Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien (eds.): New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass. Routledge, 2015
- ‘Black as a Ghost’: Toni Morrison’s Hauntologies. Dissections 9 (2014)
- ‘Dorian Gray’. In: Jeffrey Weinstock (ed.): The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate, 2013
- 'I am the Monster's Mother: Aesthetic Strategies of Monstrous Creation in Contemporary Gothic Narrative’. In: Katarzyna Więckowska (ed.): The Gothic: Studies in History, Identity and Space. Interdisciplinary Press: 2012
- 'Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love.' In: Andrew Smith, Diana Wallace (eds.): The Female Gothic. Palgrave, 2008
- 'Post‐apocalyptic Bodies – The Gothic Dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter'. In: Angela Stock, Cornelia Stott (eds.): Narratives of Disaster. Peter Lang, 2007
Invited Talks, Lectures and Interviews
- Tea Talk "Feministisch Lehren (und) Lernen", Stabstelle Gleichstellung und Diversität, Universität Mainz, Juni 2024
- Introduction to the Exhibition at the dai: 'The Culture of Food & Waste: "7 Days of Garbage" and "Daily Bread" (photographs by Gregg Segal), September 2023.
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"Intersektionaler Feminismus und Behinderung: Zukunftsvisionen aus dem Afrofuturismus", Ringvorlesung Gender und Diversität in der Medizin, Zentrum für Gender und Diversitätsforschung, Universität Tübingen, Sommersemester 2023
- (with Laura Álvarez Trigo): 'Posthuman/Cybergothic - An Interview with Anya Heise-von der Lippe', in: REDEN Vol. 3, No. 2 (2022), https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/issue/view/129.
- 'Automata, Cyber Terror, and Technocratic Realities', POP MEC - 50 Shades of Gothic, Youtube: https://youtu.be/eVI87qlwzYQ.
- 'Twenty-First-Century Gothic - A Retrospective'. Horror Studies SIG BAFTSS. Youtube: https://youtu.be/BvsTzAZc-jg.
- '"I keep saying brains" - Zombie Narratives', 24-Stunden-Vorlesung 2018. TIMMS.
Reviews
- "Andrew Milner and J.R. Burmann: Science Fiction and Climate." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 31.3 (2021).
- "Lester D. Friedman, Allison Kavey: Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives." MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews 2-3/2018.
- "Edwards, Justin D., ed. Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture - Technogothics." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 28.1 (2018).
- "Nadine Farghaly, Hg. - Beyond the Night: Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between." Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung 2/2016.
- "Murali Balaji's Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 27.1 (2016).
- "Shane Denson: Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film and the Anthropotechnical Interface." MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews 1/2016.
- "Xavier Aldana Reyes: Body Gothic - Corporeal Transgressions in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film." Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung 2/2015.
- "Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson: The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood and Gina Wisker: Margaret Atwood: A Critical Introduction to her Fiction." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24/3 (2013)
- "Ruth Bienstock Anolik: Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22.3 (2011).
Memberships
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
- British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
- International Gothic Association (IGA)
- Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF)
- Cyberpunk Culture Research Network (CyRN)
Other Functions and Engagements
- Issues Network (co-organizer with Dr. Rebecca Hahn and Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder)
- Narr CHALLENGES for the Humanities series (series co-editor)
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS - website, newsletters and conference co-organization)
Thesis Supervision
Supervision of BA theses (regularly) and MA theses (on request) in the following thematic areas:
- Climate Change Literature
- Gothic
- Monsters and the Monstrous
- Dystopias
- Posthumanisms
Please contact me well in advance of your projected writing period, as I have limited supervision capacity and may not be able to take on another thesis in a specific semester.
Please also check the department's list of potential supervisors and their thematic areas.
Teaching
Universität Potsdam - English Department (Titellehre)
Block seminar Climate Poetry (Summer 24)
TU Dortmund - Interim Professor for English Literature
HS Techno-Dystopias (Summer 24)
HS 19th-Century Women's Writing (Summer 24)
HS Teaching Climate Literature (Summer 24)
PS Fin de Siècle Gothic (Summer 24)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - English Department
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, online, Winter Term 2023/24)
Focus Module SE Antrhopocene Feminisms (Summer Term 2023)
Advaned Module SE Afrofuturism (Summer Term 2023)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, online, Winter Term 2022/23)
Advanced Module SE (Post-)Apocalypse and the Romantic Imagination (Summer Term 2022)
Advanced Module SE Literary Mushrooms (Summer Term 2022)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, online, Winter Term 2021/22)
Advanced Module SE Climate Poetry (online, Summer Term 2021)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (online, Summer Term 2021)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2 online, 2020/21 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Feminist Dystopias (online 2020 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2019/20 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Monsters and the Monstrous (2019 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Climate Fictions (2019 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2018/19 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Frankenstein Adaptations (2018 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Cyberpunk (2018 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2017/18 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Fin de Siècle (2017 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Zombie Culture (2017 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2016/17 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Imagining the Post-apocalypse (2016 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Visual/textual Culture - Reading Graphic Novels (2016 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2015/16 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Meta-Literature (2015 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Freak Culture (2015 Summer Term)
Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2014/15 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Beyond the Book - Reading New Textualities (2014 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Who's Next? - Imagining the Post-Human (2014 Summer Term)
Advanced Module SE Gothic Culture(s) (2013/14 Winter Term)
Advanced Module SE Welcome to Dystopia (2013/14 Winter Term)
Freie Universität Berlin - English Department
Postgraduate Module Literature and Media in the Classroom: Dystopias (2013/14 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Life After Death – Cultural Representations of the Undead (2013 Summer Term)
Introduction to Literary Studies – Working with Literary Texts (2012/13 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Pimp my …self? – Cultural Representations of the Body in the Age of Body Modification (2012 Summer Term)
Postgraduate Module Literature and Media in the Classroom: The Gothic (2011/12 Winter Term) Introduction to Literary Studies – Working with Literary Texts (2011/12 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Game over – Envisioning Post-Apocalyptic Cultures (2011 Summer Term)
Introduction to Literary Studies – Working with Literary Texts (2010/11 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Freak Show – Reading the Disabled Body in the Age of Visual Manipulation (2010 Summer Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Approaching the End – Fin de Siècle and the Culture of Decadence (2009/10 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Our Monsters Ourselves? Cultural Constructions of the Monstrous (2009 Summer Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Welcome to Dystopia! - Dark Visions of the Future (2008/09 Winter Term)
Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Posthuman Bodies (2008 Summer Term)
Surveying English Literatures II: Epistolary Fiction (2007/08 Winter Term)
Surveying English Literatures II: Transgressive Fictions – An Introduction to the Gothic (2007 Summer Term)
Technische Universität Berlin - English Department
PS Futurebodies (2004/05 Winter Term)
The New Gothic (2003/04 Winter Term)