Englisches Seminar

Dr. Anya Heise-von der Lippe

Assistant Lecturer

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, The Gothic, Monsters and the Monstrous, Disability Studies, Embodiments, Dystopias, Cyberculture, Textualities, Hypertext

Publications

Monograph

Monstrous Textualities. University of Wales Press, 2021

Edited Books and Journals

  • Co-editor of the CHALLENGES series with Narr, Tübingen
  • 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

  • '“[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 (forthcoming).

  • "James Tiptree, Jr.". In: Anna McFarlane, Graham Murphy and Lars Schmeinck (eds.). Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture. Routledge, 2022 (forthcoming).

  • 'Cripping the Neoliberal University – We need a Politics of Care', in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10.02.2022, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/33018.

  • 'Sublime Whiteouts: Narrative Constructions of Whiteness, Otherness and Terror in the Arctic Gothic.' Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 7:2 (December 2020).

  • 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.

  • '"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.

  • '"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

Lectures and Interviews

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

  • North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
  • International Gothic Association (IGA)
  • International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
  • Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF)
  • Cyberpunk Culture Research Network (CyRN)

Other Functions and Engagements

Teaching

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - English Department

PS II (Post-)Apocalypse and the Romantic Imagination (Summer Term 2022)

PS II Literary Mushrooms (Summer Term 2022)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, online, Winter Term 2021/22)

PS II - Climate Poetry (online, Summer Term 2021)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (online, Summer Term 2021)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2 online, 2020/21 Winter Term)

PS II - Feminist Dystopias (online 2020 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2019/20 Winter Term)

PS II - Monsters and the Monstrous (2019 Summer Term)

PS II - Climate Fictions (2019 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2018/19 Winter Term)

PS II - Frankenstein Adaptations (2018 Summer Term)

PS II - Cyberpunk (2018 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2017/18 Winter Term)

PS II - Fin de Siècle (2017 Summer Term)

PS II - Zombie Culture (2017 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2016/17 Winter Term)

PS II - Imagining the Post-apocalypse (2016 Summer Term)

PS II - Visual/textual Culture - Reading Graphic Novels (2016 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2015/16 Winter Term)

PS II - Meta-Literature (2015 Summer Term)

PS II - Freak Culture (2015 Summer Term)

PS I - Introduction to Literary Studies (2, 2014/15 Winter Term)

PS II - Beyond the Book - Reading New Textualities (2014 Summer Term)

PS II - Who's Next? - Imagining the Post-Human (2014 Summer Term)

PS II - Gothic Culture(s) (2013/14 Winter Term)

PS II - 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)