Dr. Susanne Gruß

Institut:
Raum:	C3A7
Telefon:	85 22029
Email:	Susanne.Gruss@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de
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Informationen:
Prüfungsberechtigung:	Zwischenprüfung, BA
Website:	http://www.susannegruss.de
Interessen/ Forschungsgebiete:	Literatur und Kultur der Renaissance; Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (insbes. Feminismus und Gender Studies); zeitgenössische Literatur; Film und Media Studies, Popular Culture; Kanonisierungsprozesse; Neoviktorianismus
Aktuell:	Brit Lit: Literature Discussion Group – 12.11.2009 und 14.01.2010, jeweils 20:15 Uhr im Wheelers Pub (hier klicken)
	Konferenz: "Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture" mit Dr. Nadine Böhm und Anne Enderwitz 8.-10. April 2010 – (hier klicken)

Kurzvita:

• Studium an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Englische Philologie, Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte und Neuere/Neueste Geschichte, Magister und LAG für Englisch und Deutsch) und am Trinity College, Dublin (DAAD-Stipendium)
• seit Sept. 2001 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Freiburg
• Dissertation: „The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: The (De)Construction of Gender in the Works of Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter“

Publikationen:

Monographie

• (2009) The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter. Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi [GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture, vol. 11].

Sammelband

• (2004) ed. (with Rudolf Freiburg). "But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy. Tübingen: Stauffenburg [ZAA Studies, vol. 20].

Zeitschrift

• (forthc. 2011) ed. (with Nadine Boehm). Neo-Victorian Studies. Special Issue: Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. 4.2.

Aufsätze

• (in prep.) "'But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male': Transgender und Passing im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman."
• (forthc. 2011) "The Fluidity of Genre: The Diffusion of Gothic Conventions in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003/2007)." Heroism in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Eds. Katrin Berndt and Lena Steveker. Farnham: Ashgate.
• (2010) "Sex and the City? Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright and Bernardine Evaristo." Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures. Eds. Laurenz Volkmann, Nancy Grimm, Ines Detmers, and Katrin Thomson. Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi [Cross/Cultures 121, ASNEL Papers 15]. 321-336.
• (2009) "'A few flowery phrases and he thinks I'm his' – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film." High and/versus Popular Culture. Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dorothea Flothow. Heidelberg: Winter. 45-57.
• (2009) "'The Flesh Made Word': Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts." Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings. Eds. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: wvt, 2009. 57-66.
• (2009) "Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara (2006)." Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation. Eds. Sarah Säckel, Walter Göbel and Noha Hamdy. Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi. 223-238.
• (2009) "Spicing up the Austen Cult: Negotiating Bollywood, Hollywood and Heritage Aesthetics in Bride and Prejudice." ZAA 57.1. Special Issue: Bollywood and Beyond: Contemporary Indian Cinemas and Globalization. Ed. Thomas Kühn. 47-57.
• (2004) (with Rudolf Freiburg). "Introduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy." "But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy. Eds. R. Freiburg, S. Gruß. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 13-47.
• (2004) "Megalomaniac Ice-Cream Cone, Sulking Mistress, Sadistic Slacker: God in Postmodern Narratives." "But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy. Eds. R. Freiburg, S. Gruß. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 533-49.

Lexikoneintrag

• (forthc.) „Michèle Roberts.“ Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwarts­literatur. 78. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik. 1-12, A/1-D/2.

Interview

• (2004) "'People confuse relationships with legal structures': An Interview with Margaret Atwood." gender forum 8: Gender Queeries. http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de.

Rezensionen

• (2006) Rez. "Ralf Schneider, Hg. Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis: Eine anglistisch-amerikanistische Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004." ZAA 54.4, 415-17.
• (2003) Rez. "Alexa Alfer, Michael J. Nobel, eds. Essays on the Fiction of A.S. Byatt: Imagining the Real. Westport and London: Greenwood, 2001." ZAA 51.3, 311-12.

Vorträge (Auswahl):

• (2011) "'Whose hand presents this gory spectacle?': Monstrous Rulers on the Early Modern Stage and the Breakdown of the Law." Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society, LMU München, 01.-03. Juli.
• (2011) "Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth's Oscar Wilde-Series." Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism, University of Hull, 26. März.
• (2010) (mit Nadine Böhm) "Introduction." Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 08.-10. April.
• (2009) "'But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male': Transgender und Passing im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman.” Ringvorlesung Phänomene der Fremdheit, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 17. Dez.
• (2009) "Thomas Middleton's Gothic Nightmares: The Revenger's Tragedy, The Bloody Banquet and The Lady's Tragedy." Gothic Renaissance, Universität Kön, 03.-04. Dez.
• (2009) "Carter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns." Angela Carter: A Critical Exploration, University of Northampton, 05.-07. Juni.
• (2008) "The Jane Austen Cult." Gastvorlesung, Universität Basel, 17. Dez.
• (2008) "'The Flesh Made Word' – Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts." Anglistentag 2008, Universität Tübingen, 05.-08. Okt.
• (2008) "Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara." Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation, University of Stuttgart, 17.-20. Juli.
• (2007) "'A few flowery phrases and he thinks I'm his' – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film." 18^th British Cultural Studies Conference – High Culture and/versus Popular Culture, Universität Salzburg, 22.-24. Nov.
• (2007) (mit Nadine Böhm) „Post-Colonial Shakespeares – Ein Unterrichtsexperiment.“ Workshop Anglistische Hochschuldidaktik: Alternative Lehr-/Lernformate, Universität Bielefeld, 04.-06. Okt.
• (2007) "'…into the Shadows': The Frailty of Masculinity in Angela Carter's 'Bristol Trilogy'." Men and Madness: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern and Contemporary Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, 28.-30. Juni.
• (2007) "Sex and the City? (Re)Empowering mistresses, muses and prostitutes." ASNEL – Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 17.-20. Mai.
• (2006) "Jane Austen in Kholiwood? Bride and Prejudice at the Crossroads of Hollywood and Bollywood Aesthetics." Bollywood and Beyond. Contemporary Indian Cinemas and Globalisation, TU Dresden, 23.-24. Juni.
• (2005) "'The trembling earth is God's Herald': Das Erdbeben von Lissabon (1755) und die Theodizeedebatte in der zeitgenössischen Literatur." Collegium Alexandrinum ("Catastrophes"), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1. Dez.
• (2004) "Virtualität im Cyberpunk – Pat Cadigans Tea From an Empty Cup." Netzwelten, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Sektion "Vernetzte Welten: Virtualität und Wirklichkeit in Literatur und Film," 16.-18. April.
• (2003) "Playing the Dane – Shakespeares Hamlet im Film" (with Ina Habermann). Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, FAU Erlangen-Närnberg, 25. Okt.

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