Kontakt
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70174 Stuttgart
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Sprechstunde
15 August: 16-18 Uhr
29 August: 16-18 Uhr
19 September: 16-18 Uhr
Current Calls for Papers
Call
for Papers - "The 'Ordinary Magic' of Resilience in Anglophone Literatures: Past, Present,
Futures" - Deadline: 29 September 2023
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Academic Appointments
Since April 2019 |
Postdoc (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), University of Stuttgart |
October 2016 -March 2019 | Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Cologne |
January 2014 -September 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Group 'Transformations', University of Cologne |
October 2015 - June 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh |
September 2013 - December 2013 |
Career Development Fellow in English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
September 2012 - September 2013 | Postdoctoral Tutor in English Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
2013 and 2014 | Tutor at the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS) |
September 2009- June 2011 |
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in English Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
Education
November 2012 |
PhD in English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
2008 |
MSc in English Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh |
2007 |
BA in English Literature and Comparative Literature, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich |
September 2005 - February 2006 |
Erasmus exchange, Université Paris – Sorbonne (Paris IV) |
Awards and Honours
2021-2023 |
Member of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation’s Elite Program with the project "Negotiating Tolerance: Literature and Tolerance in the Victorian Era“ |
2020 |
Publication Award, University of Stuttgart For: Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics. Edinburgh University Press, 2018 |
2008-2011 |
College of Humanities and Social Science Research Studentship, University of Edinburgh |
Literature and science (particularly mathematics) |
Literature and tolerance |
Cognitive literary studies |
Victorian literature |
Modernist literature |
Monographs and Editorships
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Reviews: a) Pulsifer, Rebecah, Journal of Modern Literature (JML) 43.2 (2020). 186-189. DOI: 10.2979/jmodelite.43.2.12 b) Johann A. Makowsky, Notices of the American Mathematical Society (2020). 1589-1595. c) Sascha Pöhlmann, Anglistik 1 (2019). 186-188. d) Dirk Vanderbeke, Anglia; Journal of English Philology 2 (2019). 363-369. e) Sergej Macura, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 1 (2019). |
Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken (ed. with Johannes Schick). Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming 2021). |
Handbook of Literature and Mathematics (ed. with Robert Tubbs and Alice Jenkins). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. |
Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities (ed. with Julia Hoydis). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. |
Above. Degrees of Elevation. (edited with Nicoletta Asciuto and Susanne Schregel). Space and Culture (2019). |
Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices. (edited with Julia Hoydis). Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3 (2017). |
Articles
'What – and How – Form Knows: Form, Formalism, and Mathematics in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction’. Anglistik (2019). 31-46. |
“Real flight and dreams of flight go together” – High Technology and Imaginary Heights in Early Modern and Postmodern Science Fiction’ . Space and Culture (2018). 1-12. |
With Harald Engelhardt. ‘The Momentum of Pynchon’s Secret Formula: Gravity’s Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Fiction’ . Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 6.1 (2018). 1-27. |
‘Scientific Metafiction and Postmodernism’. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Special Issue: Aspects of the Science Novel 64.2 (2016). 189-205. |
‘Gravity in Gravity’s Rainbow – Force, Fictitious Force, and Frame of Reference, or: Sloth and the Principle of Equivalence’. Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 2.2 (2014). 1-26. |
‘Formulas between Authority and Freedom – Mathematical Views from Modernity to Modernism’. Variations 21 (2013). 131-144. |
Book Chapters
‘Representing Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature’. A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Tom Archibald and David E. Rowe. (= Vol. 6 A Cultural History of Mathematics. Hg. David E. Rowe und Joseph W. Dauben). London: Bloomsbury. Forthcoming 2021. |
With Johannes Schick. ‘Einleitung: Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken’. Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken'. Ed. Nina Engelhardt and Johannes Schick. Bielefeld: transcript. Forthcoming 2021. |
With Robert Tubbs. ‘Introduction: Relationships and Connections between Literature and Mathematics’. Handbook of Literature and Mathematics. Ed. Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins and Nina Engelhardt. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 1-20. |
‘Mathematics and Modernism’. Handbook of Mathematics and Literature. Ed. Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins and Nina Engelhardt. London: Palgrave, 2020. 281-298. |
With Julia Hoydis. ‘Connectivities between Literature and Science in the Twenty-First Century’. Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Ed. Nina Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-17. |
‘Pynchon and Mathematics’. Thomas Pynchon in Context. Ed. Inger Dalsgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 233-238. |
‘Modern by Numbers – Modern Mathematics as Model for Literary Modernism’. Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century. Ed. Robert Bud, Paul Greenhalgh, Frank James and Morag Shiach. London: UCL, 2018. 169-187. |
‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it.’ – Multiple Geschichtsentwürfe und alternative Welten in Thomas Pynchons Against the Day’. Was wäre wenn? Alternative Gegenwarten und Projektionen in die Zukunft um 1914. Ed. Isabel Kranz. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2017. 141-159. |
‘Mathematics between Totalitarian Order and Revolution: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We’. Imagine Math 5; Between Culture and Mathematics. Ed. Michele Emmer, M. Abate, M. Falcone and M. Villarreal. Bologna: Monograf, 2016. 91-101. |
‘Scientific Metafiction and Historiographic Metafiction: Measuring Nature and the Past’. Twentieth-Century Rhetorics: Metahistorical Narratives and Scientific Metafictions. Ed. Giuseppe Episcopo. Napoli: Cronopio, 2015. 145-172. |
‘Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Thomas Pynchon and the (De)vices of Global (Post)modernity. Ed. Zofia Kolbuszewska. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL [John Paul II Catholic UP], 2013. 212-231. |
‘The Role of Mathematics in Modernist Utopia: Zamyatin’s We and Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Alice Reeve-Tucker und Nathan Waddell. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 130-147. |
Editorials, Dictionary Entries, and Reviews
‘10 Things to Count on when Working on Literature and Mathematics’. Edinburgh University Press Blog. 2018. |
‘Degrees of Elevation – Modes of Reflection’ . (with Susanne Schregel and Nicoletta Asciuto; editorial to special issue Above. Degrees of Elevation). 2019. 1-7. |
‘Editorial: Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices’ . (with Julia Hoydis). Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3. 2017. 225-226. |
‘Fourth Dimension’. The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 153. |
‘Mathematics’. The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Eds. Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 227-228. |
‘Review of Reading Divine Nature; Religion and Nature in English Animal Stories’. By Anja Höing. Anglistik. 2019. 182-184. |
'Review of Literature After Euclid. The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment'. By Matthew Wickman. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41.1 (2018). 143-144. |
'Review of Before Einstein; The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture'. By Elizabeth L. Throesch. The Wellsian 40 (2017). 77-79. |
Invited Talks
Keynote Lecture | ‘Mathematics and Literature’. Mathematical Cultures and Practices, University of St Andrews. 8-10 July 2020. (postponed to 2021) |
Guest Lecture | ‘Sources, Meanings and Literary Functions of Formulas in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow’. University of Basel. 3 December 2020 |
Keynote Lecture | ‘Modern Mathematics and Literary Form: Building Bridges from Knowing to Being’. Mathematics and Modern Literature, University of Manchester. 4 May 2018 |
Guest Lecture | ‘The Mathematics and Modernism of Zamiatin’s We: Dystopia or Revolutionary Remedy?’. Russian Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh. 22 February 2016 |
Conference Talk | ‘“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Multiple Geschichtsentwürfe und alternative Welten in Thomas Pynchons Against the Day’. Was wäre wenn? Alternative Gegenwarten und Projektionen in die Zukunft um 1914, Goethe-Institute Prague. 5 December 2014 |
Conference Talk | ‘Face to Face in the Imaginary Domain: Mathematics and Literature in Musil’s The Confusions of Young Törless and Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Face to Face – Encounters between the Arts and the Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. 22 June 2012 |
Guest Lectures | ‘Change, Prediction and Fiction – Mathematics in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow’, University of Antwerp. 18 November 2010 and 10 November 2011 |
Conference Presentations
‘Tolerance and Cognitive Literary Studies: George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda between Flexibility of Perspective and Certainty of Belief’. Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, Osnabrück University. May 2020. (abstract accepted, conference cancelled). |
‘Representing Mathematics – Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature: Between Rationalization and Creative Freedom’. Workshop History of Mathematics: A Global Cultural Approach, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics), 13-19 December 2020. |
‘What Form Knows and How It Is: Form, Knowledge, and Being in Mathematics and Literary Fiction’. Anglistentag 2018, University of Bonn. September 2018. |
With Harald Engelhardt. ‘The Momentum of Pynchon’s Secret Formula: Gravity’s Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Fiction’. International Pynchon Week, La Rochelle. June 2017. |
‘Techniques between (Corpo)Reality and Flights of Fancy: Literary Negotiations of Bodies in Flight’. a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School, University of Cologne. Research Lecture in lecture series Körpertechniken – Imaginationstechniken. July 2016. |
‘Bodies in Flight in Early Modern Literature: Literary Texts between Science and Flights of Fancy’. Work in Progress Seminar. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. May 2016. |
‘Ascent between Explosion and Grace: High Technology and Imaginary Heights in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day’. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Above. Degrees of Elevation. May 2016. |
‘Modern by Numbers: Modern Mathematics as Model for Literary Modernism’. Institute of Historical Research, London. Being Modern – Science and Culture in the Early 20 th Century. April 2015. |
‘Mathematics as Hope against Dystopia in Zamyatin’s We’. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Matematica e Cultura 2015. March 2015. |
‘From Universal Force to Fictitious Force – Gravity in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow’. University of Erlangen. Inaugural Conference ELINAS; Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science. May/June 2014. |
‘The Imaginary Powers of Imaginary Numbers’. University of Leipzig. The Common Denominator; A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies. March 2014. |
‘Gravity in Gravity’s Rainbow: Force, Fictitious Force, and Frame of Reference’. Durham University – International Pynchon Week 2013. August 2013. |
‘Modernism and Mathematics – Modern Mathematics as the “clearest example” of the “ foundational crisis” of the World’. Cardiff University. Alternative Modernisms: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference. May 2013. |
‘Measuring the Earth and Measuring the Past – Metafictional Reenchantments’. Cardiff University. Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. April 2013. |
‘The Strange Case of Modernist Mathematics and Fiction’. The University of Edinburgh – Modernisms, Histories and Methods; Meeting of the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies. July 2012. |
‘The “New Method of Thought itself”: Mathematics in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities’. University of Oxford – Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. April 2012. |
‘Mathematics in Literature’. Poster and Presentation. University of Berne and Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Berne, Switzerland – Transformations: TransForming Knowledge and Epistemic Cultures. January 2012. |
The Role of (Modernist) Mathematics in Musil’s The Man without Qualities and Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Institute of English Studies, London – New Work in Modernist Studies. December 2011. |
‘The Imaginary Domain as Transition Zone: Mathematics, Language and Reality in Musil’s The Confusions of Young Törless’. University of Glasgow – Colloquium: Literature and Mathematics in the Long Nineteenth Century. May 2011. |
‘Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland – International Pynchon Week; Of Pynchon and Vice. June 2010. |
‘Utopia in Modern Mathematics – Reality, Mathematics and Fiction in Hermann Broch’s The Sleepwalkers and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day’. The Birmingham and Midland Institute – Modernism and Utopia: Convergences in the Arts. April 2010. |
‘Mathematics, Reality, and Fiction in Hermann Broch’s The Sleepwalkers and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day’. Northumbria University, Newcastle – Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. April 2010. |
‘Mathematik in der Literatur – Mathematik, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day’. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany – 4. Studientag Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. June 2009. |
‘Textual Revolution in Mathematics: Mathematics, Reality, and Fiction in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day’. University of Stirling – Textual Revolutions; An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference. May 2009. |
Since 2017 |
Member of Editorial Board of journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews |
2016 |
Workshop ‘Above. Degrees of Elevation’. (with Nicoletta Asciuto and Susanne Schregel). (funding: Royal Society of Edinburgh / Susan Manning Fund) Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Edinburgh, 12 May 2016 |
2016 |
Lecture Series ‘Körpertechniken – Imaginationstechniken’. (with Johannes Schick) University of Cologne, spring 2016 |
2015 |
Conference ‘Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices’. (with Julia Hoydis). (funding: British Society for Literature and Science Small Grant) University of Cologne, 20-21 November 2015 |
2015 |
Workshop ‘Good Academic Practice’, for doctoral students in the humanities University of Cologne, 5 May 2015 |
2014 |
Workshop ‘Transformation – A Conceptual Tool in the Humanities’ (with a.r.t.e.s. Research Lab) University of Cologne, 20-21 November 2014 |
2010 - 2011 |
Work in Progress seminar series University of Edinburgh |
2010 - 2011 |
Professional Development Seminar series University of Edinburgh |
2010 |
Reader for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Biography Award University of Edinburgh |
Since 2014 |
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy |
2014 |
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice University of Edinburgh |