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.
Geisteswissenschaften
45141 Essen
Functions
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Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Schulkooperationen
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Privatdozent/in, Anglistik allgemein
Current lectures
Past lectures (max. 10)
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2024 SS
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2023 WS
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2023 SS
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2022 WS
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2022 SS
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.
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Horst Mühlmann, Werner Schneider (eds), ‘South Africa - Land of Good Hope?In: Anglistik Vol. 2 (2004) pp. 180 - 184
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’Skyline’ – a South African panorama of violence, sorrow and hopeIn: Violence and transgression in world minority literatures / Ahrens, Rüdiger (Eds.) 2005, pp. 319 - 336
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Leaving diasporas behind – a chance of re-entering the ‘virgin territory’?In: Proceedings / Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth 2003
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Discovery of the extraordinaryIn: Englischsprachige Literaturen Afrikas Essen Vol. 15 (2009) 387 S.
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Romancing alterity : zeitgenössische englische Romane im Spannungsfeld von Feminismus und PostmoderneIn: Anglistik in der Blauen Eule Essen Vol. 24 (2001) 243 S.
Journal articles
Reviews
Book articles / Proceedings papers
Books, Collections, Proceedings
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)