Research Activity

  • Jule Marei Matzen - "Visual Art in Shakespeare and Joyce: The Interplay of Literature and Contemporary Art" (PhD Thesis, in progress since Oct 2023)
  • Marissa McMahon - "Between Fact and Fiction: The Good Friday Agreement, Land Justice, and Government Housing Policies in Northern Irish Post-Troubles Literature" (PhD Thesis, in progress since May 2023)
  • Kathrin Behrends - "Victorian Spinsters, Bluestockings, and the New Woman: Unmarried Women and Liminality in 19th-century Irish and British Literature" (PhD Thesis, in progress since Nov 2022)

2024

  • Rohleder, Rebekka. "'Another supernatural reference?' Making and Unmaking an Irish Gothic Countryside in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder (2016)." Re-Reading British and Irish Landscapes in the 21st Century: Nature, Networks, Identities. International Workshop. University of Mannheim, 14-15 June 2024
  • Yilmaz, Dilâra. "Presenting the Irish pen-to-publication pipeline: Being a (female) writer in Ireland's contemporary creative economy", Irish Literature and the Global Marketplace, KU Leuven, Belgium, 12-14 June 2024.
  • Yilmaz, Dilâra. "Irish Animals in the Anthropocene: Nonhuman Voices in Contemporary Irish Literature", International Symposium "The Animal in Ireland, Real and Imagined", University of Würzburg, 21-23 February 2024
  • Witen, Michelle. "Ulysses as Irish and Modernist Text." Invited Lecture in Stephanie St John's Survey: Iris Literature. Technische Universität Braunschweig, DE, 23 Januar 2024.

2023

  • Rohleder, Rebekka. "Work, Utopia, and Communal Emotions in Morris and Wilde." Victorian Affects. Fifth Digital DACH Victorianists Workshop. 8 December 2023. Online.
  • Yilmaz, Dilâra. "Der Nordirlandkonflikt im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Irischer Literatur," Irland im Umbruch, Die "grüne Insel" nach dem Brexit, Akademie Sankelmarkt, DE, 1-3 December, 2023
  • McGrory, Marita. "Was bedeutet der Brexit für Irland und Nordirland?", Die "grüne Insel" nach dem Brexit, Akademie Sankelmarkt, DE, 1-3 December, 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "The Irish Vampire: Dracula and Punch," In-between Islands: Intra-relations between Britain and Ireland, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), Kiel, DE, 23-25 November 2023.
  • Yilmaz, Dilâra. "No Britain, no bestsellers? The market dominance of British publishers and the BBC over contemporary Irish novels along with their TV adaptations", In-between Islands: Intra-relations between Britain and Ireland, Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), Kiel, DE, 23-25 November 2023.
  • Yilmaz, Dilâra. "Narratives of no community: Longing for belonging as a female experience and literary mode in contemporary Irish fiction since 2017", Anglistentag, Siegen, 24-27 September 2023.
  • McMahon, Marisa. "Between Fact and Fiction: 25 years post Good Friday Agreement," Unions and Partitions in Ireland, EFACIS International Conference, Belfast, GB-NIR, 24-27 August 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "From ‘Flat’ to ‘Piercing’: The Alterity and Solidarity of Accents in Dubliners," Unions and Partitions in Ireland, EFACIS International Conference, Belfast, GB-NIR, 24-27 August 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Dracula and Victorian Politics," Invited Lecture, Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School, Vienna, AU, 10-14 July 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Banshees of Inishirin: Iconic or Iconoclastic," Invited Lecture, Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School, Vienna, AU, 10-14 July 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "‘Poor old Balfe’: Joyce, Musical Performance, and Popular Music," Invited Lecture, Trieste Joyce School, Trieste, IT, 25-30 June 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Darby O’Gill, Irish Folklore, and the Nonhuman," Guest Seminar, Irish Film Studies, KSM, Flensburg, DE, 18 April 2023. 

2022

  • Witen, Michelle. "James Joyce and Popular Music," Invited Lecture, Lecture Series: "James Joyce: Works, Contexts, Impact," Zürich, CH, 9 Nov 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "The ‘Eastern’ and ‘Irish’ Questions: Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the Periodicals," Invited Research Talk, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, EUF, Flensburg, DE, 27 Oct 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Introducing James Joyce’s Ulysses," James Joyce Lecture Series: "21st-Century Joyce: Ulysses 100 Years On," EUF, Flensburg, DE, 13 Oct 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "‘Cheap, Healthful Literature’: Political Bias and Irish Home Rule in the Strand," British Association of Victorian Studies, Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, 1-3 Sept 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Irish-German Studies Today – Challenges and Chances," Roundtable at Intersectional Irelands: International Association for the Study of Irish literatures (IASIL) Annual Conference, University of Limerick, IE, 25-29 July 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "From Epiphany to Degradation: Intersections of Inner Experience in Joyce and Musil," Musil, Modernism and Europe, Flensburg, DE, 6-9 July 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Irish Border Narratives and Irish Studies in Germany," Final Round Table Panel. Irish Border Narratives. EFACIS Centre for Irish Studies and the Centre for Narrative Research, University of Wuppertal, DE, 16-17 June 2022.
  • Witen, Michelle. "Ulysses at 100," SAUTE Jubilee Invited Talk (Keynote), University of Basel, CH, 20 May 2022.

2021

  • Witen, Michelle. "‘Raddled sheep bleating with fear’: Sheepish Developments in Ulysses," Omniscientific Joyce: 2020/21 International James Joyce Symposium, Online, Trieste, IT, June 14-18, 2021. 
  • Witen, Michelle. "James Joyce’s Ulysses," Invited Lecture, Lecture Series: "Großer Bücher: Wie funktioniert der literarische Kanon?" (Big books: How does the Literary Canon Function?), Kiel, DE, 21 Jan 2021.

2020

  • Witen, Michelle. "A Small Island of Great Literature: The Irish Literary Revival," Invited Lecture as part of Schleswig-Holstein’s "Literatursommer Irland 2020," Akademiezentrum Sankelmark, DE, 25 August 2020.

Witen

Semester Course or Event Type Course or Event Title Degree Programme
HS 2019 C Project Work: "The Supernatural in British and Irish Gothic Fiction" BA
  S "Technologies of Identity: Narrative Tactics in 19th-Century British and Irish Literature" KSM
HS 2020 L Literature: History and Theory — "A History of British and Irish Literature" BA
FS 2021 HS "British and Irish Victorian Children’s Literature" MEd
  S Transnational Perspectives on European Cultures: "Staging Irishness" EUCS
HS 2021 PS Cultural Studies: "Key Documents and Concepts in British and Irish History" BA
FS 2022 S "Reading like a Victorian" KSM
  HS "James Joyce’s Ulysses" MEd
HS 2022 PS Cultural Studies: "Key Documents and Concepts in British and Irish History" BA
  C Project Work: "Governesses in 19th-Century Fiction" BA
 

EXC

(Lecture Series)

 James Joyce Lecture Series: "21st-Century Joyce: Ulysses 100 Years On"  
 

EXC

(Reading Group)

 Ulysses Virtual Reading Group  
FS 2023 PS The Irish Modernist Short Story BA
HS 2023 PS Cultural Studies: "Key Documents and Concepts in British and Irish History" BA

Completed

  • Lona Vogt. "‘You are my creator, but I am your master’: The Racial Other in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula" (B.A., English)
  • Helen Radtke. "Chronotopes, the Grotesque and Mythology: Thresholds in Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant novels" (B.A., English)
  • Lena Bahnsen. "Decentering the ‘Centre of Paralysis’ - The Inner and Outer Experience of Wandering in Joyce’s Works" (M.Ed., English)
  • Melanie Gdanitz. "The Current Perception and Usage of Irish in Galway" (M.A., KSM)
  • Jessica Wilhelm. "Vanquishing the Feminine Evil: The Witch and the lady of the Green Kirtle as Portrayals of Dangerous Womanhood in The Chronicles of Narnia" (B.A., English)
  • Witen, Michelle and John Morgenstern, eds. Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "James Joyce and Irish Popular Music." Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts. Ed. Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Keith Williams. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "The ‘Eastern’ and ‘Irish’ Questions: Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the Periodicals." Transnationale Literaturen und Literaturtransfer im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Ed. Matteo Anastasio, Margot Brink, Lisa Dauth, Andrew Erickson, Isabelle Leitloff, Jan Rhein. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2023.
  • Witen, Michelle. "James Joyce, Sylvia Beach, Ulysses, and everything in between," Radio Interview with Ms. Lena Reimers for couchFM, Berlin DE, 9 May 2022 
  • Witen, Michelle. "James Joyce. Ulysses. A Novel." Lexikon Schriften über Musik, Band 2: Schriften zur Musikästhetik. Ed. Hartmut Grimm, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, and Felix Wörner. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2022. 415-18
  • Witen, Michelle. "Object Lessons and Staged Ireland in Darby O’Gill and the Little People." Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation. Ed. Paul Fagan, Dieter Fuchs, and Tamara Radak. Spec. Issue of Irish Studies in Europe 10 (2021): 149-69. 
  • Ebury, Katherine and Michelle Witen, eds. James Joyce and the Non-Human. Spec. Issue of James Joyce Quarterly 58.1-2 (2020- 2021).
  • Witen, Michelle. James Joyce and Absolute Music. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. (Paperback 2019)