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 (Berlin)

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the intersections of environmental humanities and critical approaches countering different forms of marginalization - focusing on epistemologies, forms of discourse formation and textualities - predominantly in the following literary / cultural periods: Postmodernism and the present, the Fin de Siècle, Romanticism, and Early Modernism. 

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

  • ‘Disability Studies.’ In: Handbook of Interdisciplinarity: Paradigms and Practices in Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker und Marcus Hartner. de Gruyter (forthcoming 2025).

  • ‘"Mothers of Extinction“: Monstrous Ecologies and the non-human Other in Pacific Islander Poetry’. In: Monster Theory 3.0, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.  University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming 2026).

  • ‘Plastiglomerates and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Practice in the Plastic Age.’ In: Posthumanism in Practice Vol.II, edited by Christine Daigle, Danielle Sands and Matthew Hayler. Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming 2026).

  • ‘How Mushrooms Can Save the World’. In: Fungal Futures, edited by Simon Bacon. Roman & Littlefield (forthcoming 2025).

  • ‘Technology’. In: Capitalism and the Gothic, edited by Jeffrey A. Weinstock. Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming 2025).

  • ‘Erasure.' In: No Futures Lexicon, edited by Matthew Wolf-Meyer. Public Books, 2025. Online: https://www.publicbooks.org/no-future-lexicon-erasure/ (and linked from Lit Hub Daily on 25 July 2025).

  • ‘"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 2025).

  • 'Posthuman Ecogothic Aesthetics in Dark. In: The Gothic Age of Television, edited by Joel Hawkes. Palgrave (forthcoming 2025). 

  • ‘Posthuman Zombies’. In: The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie, edited by Simon Bacon. Palgrave (forthcoming 2025)

  • ‘The Last of US, fungal entanglements, and theorizations of disability representation’. Studies in the Fantastic 17 (2024). Online version.

  • '“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.
  • Roundtable 'Macbeth and Birds on Stage and Screen'. Shakespeare in Southern Africa 35, 2022.

  • '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.

  • '“[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.
  • 'James Tiptree, Jr.'. In: Anna McFarlane, Graham Murphy and Lars Schmeinck (eds.). Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture. Routledge, 2022.
  • 'Cripping the Neoliberal University – We need a Politics of Care', in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10.02.2022, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/33018.
  • 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.
  • 'Sublime Whiteouts: Narrative Constructions of Whiteness, Otherness and Terror in the Arctic Gothic.' Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 7:2 (December 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

Invited Talks, Lectures and Interviews

  • "Mycelial Entanglements: Pilze als Theoriemodell in der anglophonen Literatur und Populärkultur", Ringvorlesung “Queer Creatures: Gender, Diversität und das Nichtmenschliche”, Zentrum für Gender und Diversitätsforschung / Studium Generale, Universität Tübingen, Juni 2025.
  • “‘The Arctic is a place where people go to become more of what they are’ – Speculative Arctic Ecologies and Techno-Extractivism in Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley’s Horror Story ‘Lounge’ and Michelle Paver’s novel Dark Matter”, Seventh Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), April 2025).
  • 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
  • “Dreaming AI at the Intersections of Cyberpunk and Afrofuturism“, International Workshop Popular Cultures of Digitalization, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen, April 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.
  • “Sustainable Zombies? Thinking Through Critical Posthumanism and the Climate Catastrophe with the Undead”, “Dead or Alive” - The Current State of Zombie Studies, Universität Frankfurt/Main, September 2023.
  • "Intersektionaler Feminismus und Behinderung: Zukunftsvisionen aus dem Afrofuturismus", Ringvorlesung Gender und Diversität in der Medizin, Zentrum für Gender und Diversitätsforschung / Studium Generale, 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

  • Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
  • Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
  • German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
  • 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 (permission on case-by-case basis) in the following thematic areas:

  • Climate Change Literature
  • Gothic
  • Monsters and the Monstrous
  • Gender Studies (especially intersectional feminist perspectives)
  • Disability Studies
  • 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.

See my Supervision FAQ for more detailed information or come to my office hours to discuss your questions. 

Teaching

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - English Department

Advanced Module SE Early-Modern Creatures (Winter Term 2025/26)

Basic Module SE  Introduction to Literary Studies (Winter Term 2025/26)

Focus Module SE Plastic Poetics (Summer Term 2025)

Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (Summer Term 2025)

Basic Module SE Introduction to Literary Studies (2, Winter Term 2024/25)

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)