Priv.-Doz. Dr. Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz

Biographical Information

Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz studied English, Comparative Literature (AVL) and History at the University of Essen. In 1994 she wrote her MA thesis on four novels by British writer Angela Carter (Angela Carters Reiseromane: Postmodernes Spiel mit sozialen Fiktionen). From 1995 – 2001 she worked in the M.A. Office, University of Essen. Romancing Alterity, her doctoral thesis on contemporary English novels between feminism and postmodernism, was published in 2001. From 08/2001 to 09/2009 she was a lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin; Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, specializing in contemporary English literature and postcolonial literature. Her post-doctoral research project dealt with new developments in recent South African novels. As part of her research she spent some time at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. The title of her post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation thesis, published in 2009) is 'The Discovery of the Extraordinary’ – Magischer Realismus in englischsprachigen südafrikanischen Romanen der Post-Apartheid.

Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz currently works for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen, as the Faculty's Liaison with thirteen regional partner schools (Referentin für Schulkooperationen). Please visit her homepage.
She also teaches courses for the English Department.

PD Dr. Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz

Geisteswissenschaften

Address
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 V03 D06
Phone
+49 201 183 2135
E-Mail
kerstin.hamacher-lubitz@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.uni-due.de/geisteswissenschaften/mitarbeiter_hamacher_lubitz_index.shtml
Office hours
n. V.

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Schulkooperationen

  • Privatdozent/in, Anglistik allgemein

The following publications are listed in the online university bibliography of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Further information may also be found on the person's personal web pages.

    Journal articles

  • Fiedler, Thomas M.; Ladd (M.), Mark E.; Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    SAR Simulations & Safety
    In: NeuroImage Vol. 168 (2018) pp. 33 - 58
    Online Full Text: dx.doi.org/

    • Reviews

  • Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    Horst Mühlmann, Werner Schneider (eds), ‘South Africa - Land of Good Hope?
    In: Anglistik Vol. 2 (2004) pp. 180 - 184

    • Book articles / Proceedings papers

  • Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    ’Skyline’ – a South African panorama of violence, sorrow and hope
    In: Violence and transgression in world minority literatures / Ahrens, Rüdiger (Eds.) 2005, pp. 319 - 336
  • Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    Leaving diasporas behind – a chance of re-entering the ‘virgin territory’?
    In: Proceedings / Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth 2003

    • Books, Collections, Proceedings

  • Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    Discovery of the extraordinary
    In: Englischsprachige Literaturen Afrikas Essen Vol. 15 (2009) 387 S.
  • Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin
    Romancing alterity : zeitgenössische englische Romane im Spannungsfeld von Feminismus und Postmoderne
    In: Anglistik in der Blauen Eule Essen Vol. 24 (2001) 243 S.

Literature and Culture in general
Contemporary British Literature
Anglophone Literature
South African novels
Post-Colonialism
Poststructuralism, Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Magic Realism
Questions of Identity and Gender
Alterity
Feminism(s)
Women’s writing
Constructions of ‘Reality’
Fantastic creatures...
Authors: Angela Carter, Kate Atkinson, André Brink, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, J.K. Rowling, to name but a few.

SS 2013

PS2 Pop(ular) Poetry - Lyrics of Love (Module III)

WS 2012/2013

PS2 Short Stories - Narratives in a Nutshell (Module III)

WS 2011/2012

PS2 Pop(ular) Poetry - Lyrics of Love (Module III)
HS2 Workshop Science Fiction - Colonising the Other (Module IX)

WS 2010/2011

PS2 Contemporary Anglophone Writers (Module III)
PS2 Chick Lit, Lad Lit & Flicks (Blockseminar; Module III)

WS 2009/2010

PS2 Fantastic Creatures - Neo-Gothic Tendencies in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction? (Module III)
HS2 Postcolonial Poetry (Blockseminar; Module IX)

SS 2009

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Contemporary Anglophone Writers (Module III)
HS2 Female Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and Films (Module IX, Module VIII Cultural Studies)

WS 2008/2009

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Harry Potter and (literary) friends (Reloaded) (Module III)
HS2 Sara Baartman - a.k.a. 'Hottentot Venus' (Module IX, Module VII Cultural Studies)

SS 2008

HS2 London - Portraits of a Metropolis (Module IX/VIII Cultural Studies)
HS2 Postmodern Fiction (Module IX)
PS2 Harry Potter and (literary) friends (Module III)
PS2 Narratives in a Nutshell - A Collection of Recent Anglophone Short Stories (Reloaded) (Module III)

WS 2007/2008

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
HS2 The Eternal Struggle between Good and Evil as exemplified in four Anglophone Novels (Coelho, Okri, Schonstein, Zadok) (Module IX) (Reckwitz/Hamacher-Lubitz)

SS 2007

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Contemporary British Women Novelists (Module III)

WS 2006/2007

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Narratives in a Nutshell: A Collection of Recent Anglophone Short Stories (Module III)

SS 2006

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Identities in Postmodern Fiction: Brink (SA), Malouf (AUS), Winterson (UK) (Module IX)

WS 2005/2006

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 British Women Writers after 1945 (Module III)

SS 2005

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
HS2 Magic Realism in Recent British and South African Novels (Module IX)

WS 2004/2005

parental leave

SS 2004

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Magic Realism

WS 2003/2004
ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
HS2 Recent South African Novels

SS 2003

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Kate Atkinson

WS 2002/2003

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Angela Carter’s Fiction

SS 2002

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Recent Postfeminist Fiction

WS 2001/2002

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
HS2 Violence in South African Literature (Reckwitz/Lubitz)