Akademische Mitarbeiterin

• black British and Caribbean cultures, Anglo-Caribbean studies
• masculinity
• aesthetics, politics, and commodifications of authorship
• artistic myths, gender and creativity
• body studies
• speculative fiction
• posthumanism

Academia: https://uni-landau.academia.edu/SilviaGerlsbeck

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SilviaGerlsbeck

Editions

(with Carmen Dexl). The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. (Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender)

Articles and Chapters

“Between Art and Activism: Performing Black Political Masculinities in Caribbean Narratives of Revolution.” European Journal for Gender and Politics (Special Issue: Political Masculinities). Forthcoming.

“‘A World in Flux’: Temporality, Aging, and Environmental Change in V.S. Naipaul’s Late Work.” Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters. Eds. Anna-Christina Kainradl, Julia Hoydis, Nassim Balestrini, and Ulla Kriebernegg. Lanham: Lexington, forthcoming. 2023. 23-40.

“Autoren-Geister und Limbo-Subjekte: Körperlichkeit und literarisches Schaffen in spekulativer karibischer Literatur.” Body Politics: Intersektionale Forschungs-perspektiven auf den Körper. Eds. Victoria Gutsche, Annette Keilhauer, and Renate Liebold. Erlangen: FAU University Press, forthcoming. 2023. 157-180.

“Fragmentations, Phantom Limbs, Re-Memberings: Negotiating Bodies, Representation, and Subjectivity in Caribbean British Writing.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58.2 (2022): 226-239.

(with Carmen Dexl). “Returning to Matter: New Perspectives on the Male Body in Representation.” The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter. Eds. Carmen Dexl and Silvia Gerlsbeck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 1-23.

(with Carmen Dexl). “Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.” The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter. Eds. Carmen Dexl and Silvia Gerlsbeck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 239-261.

(with Carmen Dexl). “Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.” The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter. Eds. Carmen Dexl and Silvia Gerlsbeck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 307-311.

“‘dark strangers crossing the nation’s threshold’: Confinement and Border Crossings in the Fiction of George Lamming and Sam Selvon.” Borders in the English-Speaking World: Negotiations, Subversions, Reconfigurations. Eds. Sandrine Baudry, Hélène Ibata, and Monica Manolescu. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2021. 177-200.

Reviews

Review of The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human, Fabienne Collignon, Routledge, 2023. JSBC –Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30.2 (2023): 257-260.

Review of Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems, Eds. Stefan Horlacher and Kevin Floyd, Palgrave, 2017. JSBC –Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.1 (2018): 103-106.

Employment

Since Oct. 2022: Research associate, Department of English Studies, University Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau), chair: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Starck

2016-2021: Research associate, Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, chair: Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann

2018-2022: Part-time lecturer, interdisciplinary master programme Literaturstudien –intermedial und interkulturell, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2012-2016: Student assistant, Department of English and American Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

2012-2013: Student tutor, chair of English Literary Studies, LMU Munich

2006-2008: Project coordinator Legal Affairs, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

2002-2006: Management assistant, GO Beratung GmbH

Education

2017-2022: PhD (summa cum laude), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; thesis title: New Portraits: Authorship, Masculinity, and the Artist as ‘Other’ in the Anglo-Caribbean Künstlerroman, 1954-1991. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann

09/2021-08/2022: Scholarship recipient FFL-programme, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2011-2016: 1. State exam Lehramt Gymnasium English/German, LMU Munich