Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies
Chair for English Literature and Gender Studies
Contact
Room: 506
No need to pre-register.
Office Hours during the Winter Semester 2024/25
The office hour on Tuesday, 10 December, has to be cancelled due to an urgent other engagement.
Tuesdays, 15-17
Please note that for the preparation or supervision of any kind of thesis (BA, BEd, MA, MEd) students need to come to the office hour.
Thesis registration or supervision is not possible via e-mail.
Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-75254
Fax: +49-(0)7071-29-5760
email:
ingrid.hotz-daviesspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Department of English
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstraße 50
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Staff:
Ruvindra Sathsarani (M.A.)
Room: 462a
Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-76081
lehrstuhl.hotz-daviesspam prevention@es.uni-tuebingen.de
- For a list of current Ph.D. students, please scroll down or visit their individual webpages.
Fields of Interest and Research
- Gender/Queer Studies
- Women's Literature from the Renaissance to Today
- Early Modern Literature
- Communicating under conditions of (self)-censorship and interdiction
Academic Pathway:
- Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies in Tübingen since 2001
- Habilitation in Munich (2000)
- PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada
- MA/State Examination at the University of Munich
Additional Appointments and Functions:
- since Nov. 2023 : Gender Eqaulity Representative for Academic Staff and Students. Gender Eqaulity Office of University of Tübingen.
- since 2017: Academic Coordinator for the International Erasmus Mundus MA Program "Crossway in Cultural Narratives" ( Tübingen section website ).
- since 2013: Co director (with Prof. Dr. Marion Müller) of the Tübingen Center for Gender and Diversity Studies (ZGD)
- since 2014: Equal Opportunities Officer University of Tübingen (also from 2002-2006)
- since 2010-2018: Academic Coordinator for the International Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Program "Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones" (Tübingen).
- 2008-2012: Spokesperson State Conference of Equal Opportunities Officers at the Baden-Württemberg Scientific Universities (LakoG)
- 2008-2012: Academic Coordinator for the International Erasmus Mundes MA Program "Crossways in European Humanities (Tübingen).
- 2009: Spokesperson doctoral group "Demarcation-exclusion-delimitation: Gender as a process and result of border drawing".
Selected Recent Seminars (HS/OS, since 2007):
- Jacobean City Plays: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
- Nabokov (with Schamma Schahadat, Slavistik)
- Dreams, Hallucinations, Visions: The Languages of the Unconscious in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature
- A Sly Modernism: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Stevie Smith (with Tutor Rebecca K. Hahn)
- Postmodern Realism: Theory and Experiments (with Tutor Rainer Schelkle)
- Camp Theory and Camp Literature (with Fabio Cleto, University of Bergamo)
- The Didactics of ‘Landeskunde’: Canada (with Ellen Butzko, Teacher Training Seminar)
- Women’s Experimental Fiction and Poetry in the 20th Century
- Die Literatur der Exzentrik (with Stefanie Gropper, Skandinavistik)
- Modern Fiction and the Problem of Masculinity
- Konstrukte des Bösen in Literatur und Kriminologie (with Prof. Kerner, Kriminologie)
- Queer Theatre of the 1990s and Beyond (with Tutor Franziska Bergmann)
- Byron: Gender, Irony and Melancholy
- Transgressionen. Theorien der Grenzsetzung und der Grenzverletzung (with Schamma Schahadat, Slavistik)
- Theories of the Novel
- Politics of Identities (with Tobias Matzner, IZEW)
- Queer India
- Fictional Characters in Theory and Practice
- Queer Reniassance
- Cultural Construction of Heterosexuality in Literature and Film/Die kulturelle Herstellung von Heterosexualität in Literatur und Film (with PD. Dr. Katja Kauer)
- Iris Murdoch: Philosopher and Novelist
- Contemporary Science Fiction
- From the Margins: The Novels and Short Stories of Jean Rhys
- The Jacobean "Gothic"
Lecture Seminars (Vorlesungen):
- A Series of Lectures that explore Women's Writing throughout the ages: Early Modern, Early to Mid-Eighteenth Century, Late Eighteenth Century/ Romanticism, Early to Mid-Victorian, Late Victorian, Modernism, Between 1945 and 1970, Between 1970 and 2000, 2000 and today
- Early Modern Prose Cultures
- Gender around 1800
- The Historicity of Gender
- Introduction to Cultural Studies: Theoretical Foundations
List of Publications:
Books:
Adversarial Stances: Strategies of Resistance in Selected Renaissance Writers (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995).
The Creation of Religious Identities by English Women Poets from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: Soulscapes (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2001).
Ingrid Hotz-Davies and Anton Kirchhofer eds., Psychoanalytic-ism: Uses of Psychoanalysis in Novels, Poems, Plays and Films (Trier: WVT Trier, 2000); darin: “What Freud Did for H.D.: The Story of an Appropriation”.
Ingrid Hotz-Davies and Schamma Schahadat, eds., Ins Wort gesetzt, ins Bild gesetzt: Gender in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur (Bielefeld: transcript, 2007), darin „Scham in den Romanen Jane Austens, oder: wie die Gender Studies auf den Affekt gekommen sind“, S. 181-206.
Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, Sirpa Leppänen eds., Internet Fictions (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Darin: “Mirror Fictions: Babylon 5 and Its Dreamers” 84-104.
Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Stefanie Gropper eds., „Off Centre: Eccentricity and Gender”, Special Edition von Gender Forum 27 (2009). http://www.genderforum.org/issues/
Ed. with Georg Vogt and Franziska Bergmann, The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina (London: Routledge, 2017).
Ed. with Gero Bauer and Regina Ammicht Quinn, Die Naturalisierung des Geschlechts: Zur Beharrlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. (Bielefeld: transcript, 2018).
Articles/Essays:
“A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Women Beware Women: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and the Limitations of Satire,” Cahiers Elisabéthains 39 (1991): 29-39.
“‘My Name is Finis’: The Lonely Voice of Stevie Smith,” In Black and Gold: Contiguous Traditions in Post-War British and Irish Poetry, ed. C.C.Barfoot, DQR Studies in Literature 13 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994): 219-234.
“‘Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord’: Das Problem der Untertänigkeit der Frau bei William Gouge, Rachel Speght und Margaret Fell”, In Text und Geschlecht: Mann und Frau in der frühen Neuzeit, ed. Rüdiger Schnell (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1997): 197-213.
“Die Romanzen,” In Shakespeare-Handbuch, ed. Ina Schabert (Stuttgart: Kröner, 2000): 460-91.
“‘Nobly lighted while she sleeps’: Images of Desire in the Poetry of ‘Michael Field’,” In Bi-Textualität: Inszenierungen des Paares, eds. Annegret Heitmann, Sigrid Nieberle, Barbara Schaff, Sabine Schülting (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001): 57-76.
“Feministische Literaturwissenschaft und Gender Studies,“ In Literaturwissenwschaft in Theorie und Praxis, ed. Ralf Schneider (Tübingen: Narr, 2004)117-140.
“Microtextual Cruelties and the Subversive Imagination in Ronald Firbank’s Novels,“ In Critical Essays on Ronald Firbank, English Novelist, 1886-1926, eds. Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons (Lewiston: Mellen, 2004): 61-80.
“'Plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible': Mary Shelley’s The Last Man und die Grenzen der symbolischen Ordnung“, In Krisen des Verstehens um 1800, eds. Sandra Heinen und Harald Nehr (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2004): 277-296.
“Shakespeare Theology: A Polemic,“ Wissenschaftliches Seminar Online 2 (2004) publ. Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft.
“Dark Doors: The Exchange of Dangerous Knowledge Between Classes in Jacobean Drama”, In Realigning Renaissance Culture: Intrusion and Adjustment in Early Modern Drama, eds. Enno Ruge and Stephan Laqué (Trier: wvt, 2004).
“’No use Spoiling One’s Trip Worrying about Imaginary Police Men’: The Pleasures of the Closet in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels", In Anglistentag Proceedings 2004, eds. Lilo Moessner und Christa M. Schmidt (Trier: wvt, 2005): 183-193.
„Phantasien über das 17. Jahrhundert im zeitgenössischen historischen Roman Großbritanniens“, In Ethik und Ästhetik der Gewalt, eds. Julia Dietrich und Uta Müller-Koch (Paderborn: Mentis, 2006): 101-124.
„Verwerfungen des Closet in Joseph Conrads The Secret Sharer (1912)”, In Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), eds. Cordula Lemke und Claus Zittel (Berlin: Weidler, 2007): 201-226.
“Quentin Crisp und die Kunst der Schamlosigkeit”, In Kulturen der Leidenschaften, Leidenschaften in den Kulturen, eds. Dorothee Kimmich und Schamma Schahadat, spezial edition von arcadia 44 (2009): 94-106.
“Mirror Fictions: Babylon 5 and Its Dreamers”, In Internet Fictions, eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer, Sirpa Leppänen (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009): 84-104.
“Not drowning but waving: On the Problem of Understanding Utterances in Henry James’s ‘The Pupil’”, In Dimensionen der Zweitsprachenforschung - Dimensions of Second Language Research. Festschrift für Kurt Kohn, eds. Michaela Albl-Mikasa, Sabine Braun, Sylvia Kalina (Tübingen: Günter Narr, 2009): 277-288.
„Quentin Crisp, Camp and the Art of Shamelessness“, In Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Gender and Emotion, eds. Willemijn Ruberg und Kristine Steenbergh (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011): 165-184.
“The 'Interzone' as a Place of the Mind”, Charting the Interzone: A Conference, eds. Didier Girard and Ingrid Hotz-Davies, publication “EMJD Programme: Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones”, (2011): 28-41. http://wwwdata.unibg.it/dati/bacheca/676/54571.pdf
“'Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill': Zu William Shakespeares Henry VI", In Willian Shakespeare, König Heinrich VI Teil 3, transl. Frank Günther (Cadolzburg: ars vivendi, 2011): 354-398.
„Flooding Faith: Forgetfulness in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy“, In Forgetting Faith?: Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe, eds. Isabel Karremann, Cornel Zwierlein, Inga Mai Groote (Berlin: de Greuter, 2012): 99-116.
“When Theory is not Enough: A Material Turn in Gender Studies”, In Theory Matters: The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies, eds. Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 135-150.
"Material Spirituality - Spiritual Materialsim: Women and the Problem of Matter", Ethik in den Kulturen - Kulturen in der Ethik. One Festschrift für Regina Ammicht-Quinn, ed. Cordula Brand et als. (Tübingen: Narr, 2017): 203-212.
"Gender: Perfomring Politics in Prose? Performativity - Masculinity - Feminism - Queer", Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, ed. Christoph Reinfandt (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2017): 82-106.
Current PhD Students
Name | Working Title of the Thesis/ Short Abstract | |
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DeMack, Christiane | The Polymigrant Imagination. This dissertation explores the impact of migrations across two or more regional or national borders on literary texts, particularly if these migrations occurred during the author’s formative years. It analyzes author positionality regarding migration and makes observations about a possible polymigrant disposition via the literary texts emerging from such experiences. | |
Osuna Montilla, Isabel Maria | The study is on the configuration of atmospheres in contemporary feminist speculative fiction for her dissertation. It brings together climatological and spatial aspects of a literary atmosphere, putting special emphasis on the constellations formed by emotions, affect, and interdependencies. | |
Sathsarani, Ruvindra | This dissertation is based on the depiction of the commodification of the subaltern female worker and explores answers to Spivak's famous question from 1985,- what are the methods through which the voice-consciousness of the subaltern working classes can be accessed? | |
Schulenburg, Sontje | Posthuman Thought in Contemporary Weird Fiction. This dissertation explores the connection between posthuman theory and a distinct type of speculative fiction, known as ‘Weird Fiction’. Inextricable linked to H.P. Lovecraft and dominated by male writers and theorists, the project’s main aim is to render visible an exclusively female tradition of weird writing, hopeful that this endeavour will not only reveal new aspects of weird fiction but also its importance as literature of crisis. | |
Tollic, Klara | ||