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.
Publications
Monographs
2017
- Hidden Topographies. Traces of Urban Reality in Dystopian Fiction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2017.
Journal Articles
2021
- "Introduction: The Short Story, the New Weird, and the Litrary Market." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69.2 (2021): 109-128.
2018
- “Tweets, postfaktische Politik und Literatur.” Faktor14 12 (2018): 24-29.
2017
- "X Marks the Spot – Not: Pirate Treasure Maps in Treasure Island and Käpt’n Sharky und das Geheimnis der Schatzinsel." Children’s Literature in Education 48.1 (2017): 6-20.
Book Chapters
2023
- “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 2023].
2022
- “Temporalizing the Troubles: Anna Burns’s Milkman.” Temporalities in/of Crises. Ed. Sybille Baumbach and Birgit Neumann. Routledge [forthcoming 2023].
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.
Lectures & Conference Papers
2022
- “Wenn Politiker Kreuze aufhängen: Gedanken aus der Erzählforschung.“ Conferene “Politik und Religion in Europa und der Europäischen Union: immer noch das Christliche Abendland?“ Kloster Banz/Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, 04./05.10.2022.
- “Drüber, drauf, daran entlang: raum- und Grenzerfahrungen in Literatur und Fantastik.“ Guest lecture in the course „Phantastik als literarischer Diskurs.“ Tübingen, 18.05.2022.
- “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 der Mittelalters - Mittelalterscomics." 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.
- “Victorian Fiction: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883).” Ringvorlesung “Introduction to Literary Studies.” Tübingen, 26.01.2017.
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 discursive 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.
Interviews
2020
"Our truth standards are anything but given". Interview with Tübingen Research Alumni Network TRACe. Tübingen, 07.09.2020.
Reviews
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.