Dorothee Birke
Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Chair of Anglophone Literatures
Room: 40333
Office hours: Monday, 14.30 - 15.30 and by appointment
Please register for a slot by writing an email to anglistik@uibk.ac.at
Research and teaching interests
- History of the Novel (especially 18th century and 20/21st century)
- Reading and Book Culture
- Literature in the Digital Age
- Narrative Theory
- Reception Studies
- Economic Criticism
- Memory Studies
- Political Drama
Administration
- Vorsitzende des Fakultätsrats der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
- Mitglied des QV-Beirats der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
CV
2024: Second Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
since 2021: Full Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Innsbruck
2020-2021: Associate Professor for Modern and Contemporary English Literature at NTNU Trondheim, Norway
2015-2018: Marie Curie Fellow at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Denmark
Selected Publications
1) “The Poetics and Politics of We-Narration on the Contemporary British Stage.” Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 12.1 (2024, with Janine Hauthal).
2) "‘Doing‘ Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube.” In Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Literary Media. London/New York: Routledge, 2023. 468-478.
3) “Chrononarratology: Modelling Historical Change for Narratology”, Narrative 30.1, 26-46 (2022; with Karin Kukkonen and Eva von Contzen).
4) “Social Reading? On the Rise of a 'Bookish' Reading Culture Online.” Poetics Today 42.2 (2021). Special issue Modes of Reading (eds. Tore Rye Andersen, Stefan Kjerkegaard and Brigitte Stougaard Pedersen). 149-172.
5) Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2016.
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