Englisches Seminar

Dr. Raphael Zähringer

Raphael Zähringer studied German and English at Tübingen University and Leeds University, UK. He received his Ph.D. from Tübingen University (summa cum laude and awarded with the Prof.-Dr.-Friedrich-Schubel-Stiftung Advancement Award) and is now a postdoctoral researcher in English Literatures and Cultures. Since 2015, he also is the assistant editor of the ZAA (Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik). His major areas of research are English and Irish contemporary literature and culture, Science Fiction and dystopian fiction, space/maps and/in literature, and popular culture (graphic narrative and adaptation). His current research project called 'Writing Moments of Crisis: Ireland, 1596-2018' focusses on the interplay between representations of crises and crises of representation in Irish literature.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Monographs

2017

 

Journal Articles

2023

2021

2018

  • “Tweets, postfaktische Politik und Literatur.” Faktor14 12 (2018): 24-29.

2017

Book Chapters

2024

  • “Processes of Transformation in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809).” Stand, Beruf(ung), Geschlecht, Körperlichkeit: Umbrüche und Transformationsprozesse im neuzeitlichen und modernen Europa. Ed. Michaela Bill-Mrziglod and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus. Heidelberg: Winter [forthcoming 2024].

  • “The Heterogeneous Epistemic Field of Comic Adaptation and Medievalism: Different Versions of ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci.’” Vom Spruchband zur Sprechblase. Comics des Mittelalters – Mittelaltercomics. Ed. Marion Darilek and Matthias Däumer. Bielefeld: transcript [forthcoming 2024].

  • “Temporalizing the Troubles: Anna Burns’s Milkman.” Temporalities in/of Crises. Ed. Sybille Baumbach and Birgit Neumann. New York: Routledge, 2024, 41-60.

2020

  • “Markus Söders Kreuzerlass – eine postfaktische Erzählung aus der Politik.” Postfaktisches Erzählen?
    Post-Truth – Fake News – Narration Ed. Antonius Weixler, Matei Chihaia, Matías Martínez, Katharina
    Rennhak, Michael Scheffel, and Roy Sommer. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 103-123.

2018

  • “Alternative Fakten und postfaktische Politik als Narrativ.” Literaturwissenschaften in der Krise: zur Rolle und Relevanz literarischer Praktiken in globalen Krisenzeiten. Ed. Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Russell West-Pavlov. Tübingen: Narr, 2018: 93-105.

2017

  • “China Miéville, Embassytown (2011).”Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Christoph Reinfandt. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2017: 518-535.

2015

  • “’Strange Tricks of Cartography’: The Map(s) of Perdido Street Station.” China Miéville: Critical Essays. Ed. Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia. Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015: 61-87.

2010

  • “Sprachproduktivität im Chat und Linguistik in der Schule.” Linguistische Inhalte im Deutschunterricht. Studentische Stimmen zu einem umstrittenen Thema. Ed. Björn Rothstein. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2010: 53-63.

Edited Volumes

2021

The Short and the Weird: Perspectives on the New Weird Short Story. Thematic Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69:2 (2021).

Lectures

2023

  • “Black Mirror, ‘Nosedive’ (S3E1): Seriality, Community, ‘Complex TV’”. Ringvorlesung “Introduction to Literary Studies.” Tübingen, 26.01.2023.
  • “Black Mirror, ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ (S1E2): Reading Television?” Ringvorlesung “Introduction to Literary Studies.” Tübingen, 19.01.2023.

2022

  • “Grundzüge der Comic-Narratologie am Beispiel von Asterix bei den Briten.“ Ringvorlesung “Wissenschaft liest Asterix.“ Tübingen, 06.12.2022.
  • “Drüber, drauf, daran entlang: raum- und Grenzerfahrungen in Literatur und Fantastik.“ Guest lecture in the course “Phantastik als literarischer Diskurs.“ Tübingen, 18.05.2022.

2017

  • “Victorian Fiction: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883).” Ringvorlesung “Introduction to Literary Studies.” Tübingen, 26.01.2017.

Conference Papers

2023

  • “The ‘Border People’: Mapping Community in Garrett Carr’s The Rule of the Land.” Anglistentag 2023, Section “Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives.” Siegen, 24.-26.09.2023.

2022

  • “Wenn Politiker Kreuze aufhängen: Gedanken aus der Erzählforschung.“ Conference “Politik und Religion in Europa und der Europäischen Union: immer noch das Christliche Abendland?“  Kloster Banz/Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and online, 04./05.10.2022.
  • “Modernity Disrupted? Processes of Transformation in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui.” Workshop “Umbrüche: Transformationsprozesse in Europa (ca. 1450-1830). Stand – Beruf(ung) – Geschlecht – Körperlichkeit.“ Online, 25.02.2022.

2021

  • “Temporalizing the Troubles: Anna Burns, Milkman (2018).” Workshop “Temporalities in/of Crises in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures.” Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, and online, 10.12.2021.

2019

  • “Scheitern, wieder scheitern, besser scheitern: was zukünftige Lehrer*innen vom Improtheater lernen können (und was nicht).” Didactic Workshop “Umwege erhöhen die Ortskenntnis: Kollegiale Weiterbildung für Lehrende.” Tübingen, 26.06.2019.
  • “Processuality, Metagaming, and ‘Theory’ in Doki Doki Literature Club!” Symposium “Animation and Science.” Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film/Literaturhaus Stuttgart, 01.05.2019.
  • “Adapting Medievalism in Different Versions of ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci.’” Workshop “Vom Spruchband zur Sprechblase. Comics des Mittelalters – Mittelaltercomics.” Tübingen, 26.-27.04.2019.

2017

  • “The Narrativity of Post-truth Politics.” Symposium PNS 3 “‘Post-truth’ and a Crisis of Trust?” Tübingen, 25.-26.09.2017.
  • “Cartographic Place-Making: Strategies of Realisation and Fictionalisation.” Conference “Realities and Worldbuilding.” Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung 2017, Wien, 20.-23.09.2017.
  • “Beyond Onomatopoeia: Sounds, Words, and Metafiction in Hunt Emerson’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Symposium “Sound in Animation, Comics, and Illustration.” Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film/Literaturhaus Stuttgart, 03.05.2017.

2016

  • “Aspects of Worldedness: Weird Fiction’s Agenda of Describing the Indescribable in China Miéville’s This Census-Taker.” Workshop “Worlds In Process II,” Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 28.-29.10.2016.

2013

  • “Der Körper in der Stadt, die Stadt als Körper: materielle und diskursive Aneignung in Perdido Street Station.” Workshop “Räume räumen. Vom Aneignen, Verändern und Verlassen des literarischen Raums.” Tübingen, 25.-26.07.2013.

2012

  • “’Strange Tricks of Cartography’: The Map(s) of Perdido Street Station.” Conference “Weird Council: An International Conference on the Writings of China Miéville.” Birkbeck, University of London/University of Lincoln, 14.-15.09.2012.

Conferences Organised

2023

  • “Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe.” Tübingen, 20.-22.06.2023. Co-organised with Christoph Reinfandt and Maurice Fitzpatrick. Funded by the Irish Embassy in Berlin and Thyssen Stiftung.

Interviews

2020

Reviews

2023

  • Merle Tönnies and Eckart Voigts, eds. Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Anglistik 34:3 (2023), 279-80.

  • Paul Fagan, Dieter Fuchs and Tamara Radak, eds. Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation. Trier: WVT, 2021. Literarisches Jahrbuch 63:1 (2023),
  • Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger, eds. Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2021. Anglistik 33:2 (2022), 277-279.
  • Non-scholarly reviews and short essays on comics and other topics related to graphic narrative for the Allesfresser comics blog.

2022

  • Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger, eds. Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2021. Anglistik 33:2 (2022), 277-279.

2020

  • Reviews and short essays on comics and other topics related to graphic narrative for Allesfresser comics blog.