Englisches Seminar

PD Dr. Anya Heise-von der Lippe

Assistant Lecturer

Habilitation with Venia Legendi in English Literary Studies and Cultural Studies (University of Potsdam)

PhD in English Literature (University of Tübingen)

M.A. in English and American Literature, Spanish Literature and Philosophy (Technische Universität Berlin)

Previously: Interim Professor for British Literature (TU Dortmund), External Lecturer (TU Berlin and FU Berlin), Media Editor (Cornelsen)

Research Interests

Climate Change, Critical Posthumanities, Intersectional Feminism, Romanticism, Fin de Siècle, The Gothic, Monsters and the Monstrous, Disability Studies, Dystopias, Cyberculture, Textualities, Adaptation, Materialisms

Publications

Monographs

Writing Romantic Climate Change - Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene. transcript, 2024.

Monstrous Textualities - Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance. University of Wales Press, 2021.

Edited Books and Journals

Chapters and Articles

Invited Talks, Lectures and Interviews

  • Keynote Lecture "Climate Apocalypse and the Legacies of the Romantic Imagination". 2nd Study Group Meeting: Rejecting Futures: Practices of Resistance or Failure, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, October 2024.
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • 'Twenty-First-Century Gothic - A Retrospective'. Horror Studies SIG BAFTSS. Youtube.
  • '"I keep saying brains" - Zombie Narratives', 24-Stunden-Vorlesung 2018. TIMMS.

Conference Papers (before 2019)

“Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love” – Female Gothic Conference, University of Glamorgan, July 2004

“The Monster and its Medium: Monstrosity as Female Autobiographical Narrative in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus” – IGA Conference: Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects, University of Lancaster, UK, July 2009

“Black as a Ghost: Toni Morrison’s Hauntology of Race” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2010

“‘Patchwork’ - On the Difficulties of Translating Monsters” – Gründungskonferenz der GFF: Fremde Welten - Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert, Universität Hamburg, Oktober 2010

“I Am the Monster’s Mother” – 2nd Global Conference on The Gothic, Warsaw, Poland, May 2011

“Aesthetic strategies of monstrous creation in contemporary monster narratives” – Re-Thinking the Monstrous, University of Munich, July 2011

“‘We have a cruel and dreadful task’: Dis-assembling Monsters as Narrative Strategy and Discursive Practice” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2012

“‘My bones … ache like history’ – Re-membering textual bodies and ghostly flesh”  – Talking Bodies, University of Chester, UK, March 2013

“Hypertext and the Creation of Choice: Making Monsters in the Age of Digital Textual (Re)production” – IGA, Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques, University of Surrey, UK, August 2013

“In the Empire of the Living Dead: Gender, Genre, and Narrative Hegemony after the (Zombie) Apocalypse” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2014

“‘Frankenpeople’ – Exploring the Boundaries of (Post)human(ist) Science and Textuality in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2015

“‘Making a spectacle out of herself’: taking up space and identity constructions at the intersections of fat-, feminist- and freak-embodiment”  – Talking Bodies, University of Chester, UK, March/April 2015

“(Post)Human(ist) Textuality in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy” – Approaching Posthumanism and the Posthuman Conference, Université de Genève, Switzerland, June 2015

“‘All it takes … is the elimination of one generation’: Bodies of knowledge and narrative hegemony in post-apocalyptic texts” – GFF Konferenz, Universität Tübingen September 2015

“‘Toast cannot be explained by any rational means’ – Post-human(ist) Wonder Tales, or, Re-membering Humanity after the End” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2016

 “‘a gaunt she-golem [...] spouting wires and blood’ and Panel: “Weird Sisters: Women Writing Horror/Weird fiction” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2017

“‘Brides never fare well in stories’ – Representations of authority and difference in Frankenstein rewritings and adaptations”  – The Bicentenary Conference on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, University of Venice – Cà Foscari, February 2018

Introduction of Guest Scholar Fred Botting at the Guest Scholar Luncheon, and Panel: “Frankenstein, Bodily Assemblages, and Disability” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2018

“Stranger Things’ Remixing of Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic”  – IGA, Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, July/August 2018

“‘Survival is insufficient.’ - Re-imgaining the future of (post-)humanity” – Strata of Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture, University of Tübingen, November 2018

“Sublime Whiteouts – Narrative Constructions of Whiteness, Otherness and Terror in the Arctic Gothic” – ICFA, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2019

Reviews

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

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)

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)

Universität Potsdam - English Department (Titellehre)

Block seminar Climate Poetry (Summer 24)

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)