Address

Universität Duisburg-Essen
Historisches Institut
Universitätsstraße 2
45117 Essen

E-Mail

elisabeth.haefs@uni-due.de

Research Interests

British Literature and Culture
American Studies
Urban Studies
Literature and Science

Qualifications

• Since 2023 Postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary research project “Cultures of Compromise”, Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Münster and Bochum, responsible for science communication and research management
• 2023 PhD, Anglophone Studies
• Since 2022 Lecturer and doctoral researcher in British and Anglophone Literature and Culture, University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2018-2022 Doctoral researcher in the research group “American Models, Transatlantic Interventions: Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures” and lecturer at the Department of Anglophone Studies
• 2014-2018 M.A. Anglophone Studies / Literature and Media Practice, University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2009-2013 B.A. Literature, Culture, Media, University of Siegen

Publications

Cultivation Builds Community: Narrative in Urban Planning for Community Gardens. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2024.

“’Long ago, deep in space’: Narrating Gravitational Waves.” Narrative and Cognition in Literature and Science. Eds. Michael Sinding, Aura Heydenreich, and Klaus Mecke. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Forthcoming, 2024)

“’Another World is Plantable’: Community Gardening and Urban Planning.” Utopia, Ideology and Equity in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities. Eds. Michael G. Kelly and Mariano Paz. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 135-156.

(with Jens Martin Gurr): “Narrative Path Dependencies in Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Planning: Portland’s Albina Neighborhoods.” City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures. Eds. Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma. The Ohio State University Press, 2023. 87-102.

“’#Gameüse’: Planting the Digital Garden.” Playing the Field II: American Studies, Video Games, and Space. Ed. Dietmar Meinel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 241-252.

Conference Papers (Selection)

“Does Gardening Build Communities?” Transatlantic Rust Belts: Scripting Urban Futures (Online Symposium of the City Scripts Research Group). 10 Sep. 2021.

“Scripts and Emplotment: A Theoretical Approach to Narrative in Urban Planning.” Narrative 2020 (International Society for the Study of Narrative). New Orleans, 6 March 2020.

“‘Another World is Plantable’: Urban Planning and Utopian Gardening.” (Un)Fair Cities: Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts. 2nd International ALUS Conference (Association for Literary Urban Studies). University of Limerick, 12 December 2019.

“The Pursuit of Truth: Quest Narratives in Scientific Journals.” Great Responsibility: Heroism in Anglophone Cultures. Lecture Series. University of Duisburg-Essen, 2 July 2019.

“Loops, Circles, Cycles: The Story of Time Crystals.” Spacetime SLSAeu (European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). National Hellenic Research Foundation Athens, 26 June 2019.