Notice
In the Winter Term 2022-23 I will be Interim Professor of English literature and culture at the Department of English at Giessen University. During this time, I cannot supervise any BA or MA theses - except the ones already agreed upon. Students can contact me via me Landau email address. Have a good winter term!
Literaturwissenschaft
Westring 2
Gebäude: Westring
Raum: W.201
76829 Landau
E-Mail: liedke@uni-landau.de
- Betreuung der ERASMUS+-Austauschprogramme mit Bournemouth University und UJ Krakau
- Studienberatung
- Akademische Mitarbeiterin
Externe Plattformen für Publikationen
Monographs
- (with Tobias Keiling). Faultiere: Ein Portrait. [A Cultural History of Sloths]. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2021.
- The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Rezensiert in: Journal of Tourism History 11.3 (2019); Victoriographies 9.3 (2019); BAVS Newsletter 19.3 (2019); Victorian Studies 63.4 (Summer 2021)
Editing work
- Muße und Moderne. (mit Tobias Keiling und Robert Krause). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2018.
- Muße. Ein Magazin. www.mussemagazin.de (E-Journal, seit 2015)
- 14Magazin Freiburg. (Chefredaktion 2015 - 2017)
Articles/Chapters
A Special Issue (in Theatre Research International) on viral theatre, co-edited with Prof. Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Dr. Tamara Radak is in preparation.
“The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature.” In: Lieven Ameel, ed. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. Routledge. (forthcoming July 2022).
“Transmediality and Theatrical Experience in Nineteenth-Century Live Theatre Broadcasting.” In: Ch. Meyer and M. Pietrzak-Franger, eds. Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century. Routledge (forthcoming February 2022)
“On Being Pulled: Spectator Engagement and Spectacle in the Context of Live Theatre Broadcasting and NT At Home.” Ed. M. Barker and S. Turnbull, Special Issue ‚On Engagement’. Participations Journal 18.2 (2021): 294-317.
(with M. Pietrzak-Franger). “Viral Theatre: Preliminary Thoughts on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Theatre.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE) 2021.1: 128-144.
“The Semantics of Surfaces: Victorian Panoramas, the Panoramic Gaze and Thereness.“ In: Sibylle Baumbach & Ulla Ratheiser, eds. Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 25-41.
“The Female Hipster as Emancipated Spectator: The Emancipatory Aspects of Representations of Female Hipsters in Girls and Frances Ha.” In: Heike Steinhoff, ed. Hipster Media, Aesthetics and Identity Politics. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 235-252.
“’These Seats Are So Comfy’: Livecasting and the Notion of Comfortable Theatre.” In: Dorothee Birke and Stella Butter, eds. Comfort in Contemporary Culture. The Challenges of a Concept. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. 209-230.
- “Against the ‘Myth of Non-Mediation’: The Materiality of Live Theatre Broadcasting.” In: Making Matter Matter: Literary Materialisations on Page and Stage, eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt. (in preparation)
- 2019. “In Appreciation of ‘Mis-’ and ‘Quasi-’: Quasi-Experts in the Context of Live Theatre Broadcasting.” Platform, Special Issue ‘On Criticism’ 13.1: 86-102.
- 2019. “Herodias’ Story, Herstory – Kazimiera Zawistowska’s Poetry, Young Poland, and Female Decadence.” In: Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies 2.1: 39-56.
- 2019. “Emancipating the Spectator? Livecasting, Liveness, and the Feeling I.” In: Performance Matters. Special Issue on 21st-century Shifts in Spectatorship and Audience Research 5.2: 6-23.
- 2019. “Female Idling and Social Critique in Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy, 1840, 1842, 1843 (1844).” In Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 15.3. ncgsjournal.com/issue153/liedke.html
- 2017. Muße. Ein Magazin. Issue 5. (co-edited withMartin Büdel) www.mussemagazin.de.
- 2018. "Walking the (Open) City – Vom viktorianischen München ins postmoderne New York.“ In: Tobias Keiling/Robert Krause/Heidi Liedke (eds.): Muße und Moderne. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 202-220.
- 2018. "'The Sheepish Fear of Deserting the Common Track is Upon Us' – The Emotional Assessment of Space and Time in Victorian Guidebooks and Travel Literature.“ In: Barbara Franchi / Elvan Mutlu (eds.): Victorian Spaces and Imperial Travel. Cambridge Scholars. 132-149.
- 2016. "W. H. Hudson and Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia – The Phantasy of Disappearance.“ In: Fréderic Regard / Nicoletta Brazelli (eds.): Textus. English Studies in Italy 29.2 (At the End of the World: Extreme Places of the British Imagination), 95-107.
- "Von der Berechenbarkeit der Muße – George Orwells Books v. Cigarettes.“ In: Muße. Ein Magazin 4. www.mussemagazin.de.
- 2016. "Oisiveté et écriture dans Un flâneur en Patagonie de W. H. Hudson (1893).“ Translated by Ann Pevoski and Clara Schwarze. In: Thomas Klinkert (ed.): Otium et écriture dans la littérature du xixe et du xxe siècles. Grenoble: Ellug, 107-127.
- "Idling in London. Zwischen Muße und Kommerz.“ (with Henrike Manuwald) In: Muße. Ein Magazin 2. www.mussemagazin.de.
- Muße. Ein Magazin. Ausgabe 2. (co-edited with Kerstin Fest) www.mussemagazin.de.
- 2014. "'...and now is the time I want it.' Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey read as Romantic Ramble versus Ego Trip.“ In: Bandry-Scubbi, Anne & Rémi Vuillemin (eds.). Real and Imaginary Travels. 16th-18th Centuries. 57-67.
Reviews
- Review of Anthony and Cleopatra (NT At Home). Shakespeare Bulletin 39.1 (2021): 151-155.
Review of Marisa Palacios Knox’s Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification. Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 21 (2021): 281-285.
Review of Stephanie E. Pitts’ and Sarah M. Price’s Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (September 2021): 1-2.
Review of Split Britches’ Last Gasp (WFH). Theatre Journal 73.2 (2021): 225-227.
Review of Alice - A Virtual Theme Park. Platform 14.1&2 (2020): 179-182.
Review of Adrian S. Wisnicki’s Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature. BAVS Newsletter 20.3 (2020): 5-6.
Review of The Tempest (Creation Theatre). Miranda (Oct. 2020): http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/28323
- 2020. Review of Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age by Anna Blackwell (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 68.1: 96-99.
- 2019. Review of Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury by Matthew Ingleby (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) In: BAVS Newsletter 19.3: 2-3.
- "Jim Jarmuschs Paterson (2016) – Dichter der eigenen Angelegenheiten.“ In: Muße. Ein Magazin 5 (2017). www.mussemagazin.de.
- "Lana del Rey: Der fahrige Narco Swing einer faulen Frau.“ In: Muße. Ein Magazin 3. www.mussemagazin.de.
- "Ida und Wanda – Und es wurde still.“ In: Muße. Ein Magazin 2. www.mussemagazin.de.
- "Der Klang der ‚primitiven’ Muße. Deichkind – Arbeit Nervt.“ In: Muße. Ein Magazin 1. www.mussemagazin.de.
- 17.12.2021 – Habilitationskolloquium. Venia Legendi für Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft.
- 04/2018 - 03/2020 Feodor Lynen-Stipendiatin (Postdoc) der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung an der School of Languages, Linguistics and Film der Queen Mary University of London (Link zum Forschungsprofil: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/modern-languages-and-cultures/people/research-fellows/profiles/liedke.html)
- Seit 04/2017 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Postdoktorandin an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien, Fach Anglistik – Literaturwissenschaft bei Prof. Dr. Stella Butter
- Habilitiationsprojekt mit dem Arbeitstitel: Livecasting in the Context of 21st Century British Theatre. Spectacle, Materiality, Engagement
- 01/2017 – 03/2017 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bzw. Hilfskraft im Teilprojekt von Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik am SFB 1015 „Muße“ der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- 16.11.2016 – Disputation (Gesamtnote „summa cum laude“)
- Dissertationsschrift: There Is No Joy But Calm – Idleness, Travel and Idle Travelling in the Victorian Age (Erstbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte, Zweitbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker)
- Ausgezeichnet mit dem Dissertationspreis des Deutschen Anglistenverbands 2018
- Veröffentlicht als
The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 (https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319958606)
- Dissertationsschrift: There Is No Joy But Calm – Idleness, Travel and Idle Travelling in the Victorian Age (Erstbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte, Zweitbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Sabina Becker)
- 09/2013 – 12/2016 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Promotionsstudentin (Englische Philologie) im Teilprojekt „Prekäre Muße im Schatten des Tourismus“ von Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte am SFB 1015 „Muße“ der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; in dieser Zeit mehrere Lehraufträge am Englischen Seminar
- Fall Term 2012: Teaching Fellow am Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures an der Yale University, New Haven, USA
- 2011 – 2013: M.A.-Studium in English Literatures and Literary Theory:
- 2011/2012 an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg und
- 2012/2013 an der Yale University, New Haven, USA
- 2009 – 2012: studentische bzw. wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of Language and Literature, bei PD Dr. Dorothee Birke
- 2008 – 2011: B.A.-Studium in English and American Studies und Psychologie an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; in dieser Zeit Praktika u.a. in der Auslandsdokumentation (‚fact checking department’) des SPIEGEL, Hamburg, und der Kulturredaktion der Braunschweiger Zeitung
- 2007 – 2008: Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Orientierungsprüfung absolviert)
Auszeichnungen / Stipendien
- 2018: Dissertationspreis des Deutschen Anglistenverbandes
- 2017: Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (24 Monate, Zeitraum April 2018-März 2020) für einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der School of Literature, Linguistics and Film an der Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- 2017: Brückenstipendium Stay! für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen der Neuen Universitätsstiftung Freiburg und der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (nicht angenommen wegen des Stellenantritts an der Universität Koblenz-Landau)
- 02/2015 – 12/2016: Promotionsstipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (ideelle Förderung)
- 2015: Reisestipendium der University of Canterbury, UK, für Konferenz „Victorian Travel and Imperial Spaces“
- 2014: Stipendium für einmonatigen Archivaufenthalt an der Bodleian Library/Jesus College, Oxford, UK (Global Exchange Programme Freiburg)
- 2012: Fulbright Travel Grant for Graduate Studies an der Yale University, USA
- 2012: Full Tuition Waiver for Graduate Studies an der Yale University, USA (Baden Württemberg – Connecticut Exchange)
- 2007-2013: Stipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
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- Victorian travel writing
- "idling“ and mobility studies
- decadent women writers
- Virginia Woolf
- steampunk
- 21st century British theatre and performance and transmediality
- 'liveness’, spectacle, event
- adaptation theory
- performance philosophy
- the 21st century feminist essay
- “The Value of Critique: Economies of Distraction and Attention in the Context of Live Theatre Broadcasting”, Paper at the Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of English at the University of Passau/online, 20-21 September 2021.
- „Moved by Inertia: Readerly Detachment and Disorientation in Odessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation“, Paper at the Online Workshop on „Moved by Movement in Novels: Phenomenological Approaches“, JGU Mainz/Zoom, 9-10 September 2021.
- “The Electrophone as the Piper of Hamelin: Transmediality and Theatrical Experience in Early Forms of Live Theatre Broadcasting”, Paper at the international conference on “Modern Visuality and 19th-Century Performance”, University of Exeter/Zoom, 31 August-3 September 2021.
- “Masks, Vulnerabilty and Distance(s) in the Context of Covidian Theatre”, Invited Lecture as Part of the Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies, Book Studies, and Linguistics lecture series at the University of Münster/Zoom, 12 January 2021.
- “The digital and the live: Three in one? On NT Live audiences and communality”, Paper co-presented with Dr Bernadette Cochrane at the virtual Annual Conference of the Australasian Drama Studies Association (ADSA), UNSW Sydney/Zoom, 01-04 December 2020.
"Transmediality and Theatrical Experience in Early Forms of Live Theatre Broadcasting." Paper at the international conference on "Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices", University of Vienna, 30/01 – 01/02/2020.
"Crossing Borders - The Pursuit of Natural History and the Dynamics of Idling in Margaret Fountaine's Travel Writing." Invited Lecture as Part of the "Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfer Seminar Series" Queen Mary, University of London, UK., 22/01/2020.
- “Idling in the Context of Victorian Travel.” Invited Lecture as Part of the “Transport and Mobility History Seminar” at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of London, UK. 14/11/2019.
- “(Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders.” Invited Paper at the International conference on “Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain” at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. 4-5 October 2019.
- “‘Be Part of the Conversation’: Theatre Livecasting and the Sharing of Experiences”. Paper at the international conference on “The Age of Sharing? Practices of Sharing in Contemporary Media, Literature and Culture” at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau. 20-22 March 2019.
- “Quasi-Experts and the Paradocumentational Brim in the Context of Live Theatre Broadcasting.” Platform Journal’s Symposium “On Criticism” at the Royal Central School of Drama and Speech, University of London, UK. 23 November 2018.
- “The Semantics of Surfaces, Victorian Panoramas and the Panoramic Gaze.” Paper at the Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of English at the University of Bonn, 23-26/09/2018.
- “Herodias’ Story, Herstory – Kazimiera Zawistowska’s Poems in the Context of Symbolist and Decadent Writing.” Paper at the international conference on “Women Writing Decadence - European Perspectives, 1880-1920” at the University of Oxford, UK. 07-08/07/2018.
- “A Semiotics of Theatre in the Age of Live Broadcasting – Livecasts as Heteromedial Thresholds”. Project Presentation at the CDE Postgraduate Forum at the Annual Conference of the German Society for the Study of Contemporary Drama in English at the University of Hildesheim, 31/05–03/06/2018.
- „‚Giving Life the Slip’ – The Potentiality of Modernist London and Woolf as Psychogeographer.“ Vortrag auf der First International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies zu „(Im)possible Cities“ an der Universität Tampere, Finnland. 23.-24.08.2017.
- „Walking the (Open) City – Idling as a Spatial Practice.“ Vortrag auf der internationalen Konferenz zu „Shifting Grounds: Literature, Culture and Spatial Phenomenologies“ an der Universität Zürich, English Department. 25.-27.11.2016.
- „Mary Shelley in Italien: Muße und Trauer in Rambles in Germany and Italy 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844).“ Gastvortrag im Masterseminar „Reisen und Schreiben. Italienreisen um 1800“ von Prof. Dr. B. Wehinger an der Universität Potsdam. 27.10.2016.
- „Walking the (Open) City.“ Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Muße und Moderne“ an der Universität Freiburg. 21.07.2016.
- „Claude Glas und Instagram.” Vortrag auf der Tagung zu „Glas. Materielle Kultur zwischen Zeigen und Verbergen” am Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. 10.-12.12.2015.
- „‚If you tomb at all, you must tomb wisely and boldly’—Accounts of Tomb Visits in Victorian Periodicals.” Vortrag auf der Tagung der Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference, Ghent University, Belgien. 10.-11.07.2015.
- „The Emotional Conquering of Space and Time in Victorian Travel Literature.” Vortrag auf dem Symposium „Victorian Travel and Imperial Spaces and der University of Kent, UK. 15.-16.05.2015.
- „Traveling is Something One Wants to Master, to Be Good at: A Discussion of Three Guidebooks from 1820 to 1862.” Vortrag auf der internationalen Tagung zu „Travel in the Marketplace“ an der Bangor University, UK. 17.-18.09.2014.
- „Of Living Lights and Golden Lights: The Role of Color and Light in Anna Mary Howitt’s and Isabella Bird’s Travel Writing.“ Vortrag auf der internationalen Tagung zu „Theories and Uses of Light in British Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries“ an der Université Diderot Paris-7. 20.-21.06.2014.
- „She Stoops not to Conquer but to Sit: Idle Voices in George Eliot’s and Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing.“ Vortrag auf der Postgraduate Conference zu „Female Voice/s in the Long Nineteenth Century“ an der University of Durham, UK. 15.05.2014.
- „Mittelbare Raumwahrnehmung über Claude Glass und Instagram als Raumreduktion.“ Vortrag auf dem Workshop zum Thema ‚Raum/Räumlichkeit’ des SFB 1015 ‚Muße’, Universität Freiburg. 17.-18.01.2014.
- „She Stoops not to Conquer but to Sit: Idle Voices in George Eliot’s and Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing.“ Vortrag auf dem EARS/EUCOR Meeting an der Universität Freiburg. 06.-07.12.2013.
- „Exploring the Nature of Genius. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.“ Gastvortrag im Seminar zu „Genius“ bei Professor Craig Wright, Department of Music, Yale University, New Haven, USA. 05.09.2012.
- „‚The Lady Is Ugly!’: Subverting Gender Identities in The Woman in White.“ Vortrag auf der einer M.A.-Konferenz über Sensation and Gothic Fiction an der Universität Amsterdam. 03.-04.05.2012.
- „Morris Bober – A Poor Jew’s Way From a Grocery Store to the Hall of Fame of American Heroes.“ Vortrag auf der Student Conference in American Studies zu „American Heroes“ an der LMU München. 04.-05.11.2011.