Dr. phil. Jana Nittel (Universitätslektorin)

Werdegang

Teaching Positions

• Since October 2011 Lecturer in Literary and Media Studies ( English-Speaking Cultures/Englisch)
• Joined Bremen University Bremen in April 2010 as Lecturer in Literary Studies and Cultural History ( English-Speaking Cultures/Englisch)
• 2002-2010, German Language Tutor, “Languages for All”, School of Arts, Roehampton University London
• 2007-2009, Literature Tutor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2006-2008 Literature Tutor, School of Arts, Roehampton University London
• 1999-2000 teaching assistant, Institut für Anglistik (Kulturstudien), Universität Leipzig

Education

• 2007, Ph.D., School of Arts, Section: Literature, Creative Writing and Media, Roehampton University London
• 1999, M.A. English & American Studies and Psychology, Universität Leipzig

Schwerpunkte in der Lehre

Teaching

• Literary and Media Studies (English-Speaking Cultures)
• Erasmus teaching staff exchange with İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
• Previously taught at departments of English & American Studies at Roehampton University London, UK and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Courses scheduled for the summer term 2013

• BA ESC A: Introduction to English Literatures 2 (2 groups)
• BA ESC D2 and WD2: Contemporary Crime Fiction and Film
• BA ESC D2 and WD2 : Media Aesthetics
• BA ESC D2 and WD2: Monsters, Homunculi and Cyborgs: Understanding Science Fiction and Film
• BA ESC P: Literaturwissenschaftliche Begleitveranstaltung/ BA Thesis Colloquium – Literary studies
• MA TNL year 2/ BA ESC D2 and WD 2 : Reading Cinematic (Self) Representations of the Orient

Courses scheduled for the winter term 2012/13

• BA ESC A: Introduction to English Literatures (2 groups)
• BA ESC D1 and WD1: Critical Media Studies
• BA ESC D1 and WD1: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Genre and Gender
• BA ESC D1 and WD1: Detective Fiction and Crime Novels 1840 – 1951
• BA ESC D1 and WD1: Shakespeare’s London: Literature Meets Culture
• MA TNL year 1/ BA ESC D1 and WD 1: Reading Travel Writing as a Transnational Genre
• MA TNL year 1/ BA ESC D1 and WD 1: Shaping Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in Early Modern English Drama

Courses Taught

• BA thesis colloquium: Literary Studies
• The classical detective story in English (BA ESC) – Guest lectures: PD Dr. Ian Watson “A Creative Writing Workshop with Dr. Watson”, 10th May 2012 and Dr. Michel Feith, Assistant Professor at the University of Nantes, France “The Gangster Film from Scarface to Touch of Evil“, 21st June 2012
  
• The Romantic Imagination (BA ESC)
• Orientalism in British and American films (BA ESC)
• Masculinity in contemporary British and American films (BA ESC) Guest lecture: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Starck , University of Koblenz-Landau “Masculinity and Beer Ads”, 17th July 2012

WiSe 2011/2012

• The History of the English Sonnet from Wyatt to Auden (BA ESC)
• Visiting the Harem: Women Travel Writing and Orientalism (BA ESC and MA TNL)
• Writing Men – Representing Masculinities (BA ESC)
• Canadian Women Filmmakers (BA ESC)
• Critical Media Studies (BA ESC)
• Media Aesthetics (BA ESC)

• BA thesis colloquium: Literary Studies (BA ESC)
• BA thesis colloquium: Cultural Studies (BA ESC)
  
• Travel Writing (BA ESC and MA TNL)

• Cinematic Shakespeare Adaptations (BA ESC)
• Dickens’ Little Dorrit on Screen: Poverty and Riches (BA ESC)
• Key Moments in the Cultural History of the English Speaking World (BA ESC)
• Science Fiction (BA ESC)
• Shakespeare’s London (BA ESC)

• British and American Crime Fiction (BA ESC)
• Literary Modernism: 1900 – 1930 (BA ESC)
• Reading the Metropolis: Transcultural Flows in Contemporary British Film (BA ESC)
• Traditions of Violence in American Literature and Culture (BA ESC)

• The Detective Story in English (Goldsmiths London, 2007-09)
• Key Issues, Big Stories: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory (Roehampton University London, 2008)
• Crime Fiction (Roehampton University London, 2008)
• Detective Fiction in the 1920s (Goldsmiths London, 2008, Lecture)
• Studies in Literature 1900 – 1930 (MA, Goldsmiths London, 2007)
• Crime Fiction (Roehampton University London,2006)
• Visiting the Harem: Women Travel Writing and the Orient (Leipzig, 2006)
• Introduction to British Cultural Studies (Leipzig, 1999/2000)

Schwerpunkte in der Forschung

Research Interests

• 18th – 21st Century British, Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Literatures
• Film and Media studies
• Postcolonial theory/transcultural studies
• Gender Theory/ Literary Masculinity studies
• Travel Writing; Crime Cultures; Science Fiction

Conference Papers and Talks

• “ The Bitch is Dead” – Männlichkeit und Emotionen in Bond 21: Casino Royale (2006)”, Landauer Vorlesungsreihe: Gender in der Popkultur. Cultural Studies/Anglistik. Universität Koblenz-Landau. 10 May, 2012.
• “Arthur Conan Doyle’s Legacy to the World of English-Language Science Fiction.” The Other Conan Doyle. International Conference. Institut für Anglistik. Universität Leipzig. 20 May, 2011.
• “Schwierigkeiten Interkultureller Kommunikation im Kino: Apichatpong Weerasethakuls Uncle Boonmee erinnert sich seine früheren Leben (2010)”. Ringvorlesung „Film-Text-Diskurs“. Literary Studies and Linguistics: FB 10. Universität Bremen. 18 May, 2011.
• “007 Then and Now: Representations of Masculinities in Ian Fleming’s and Sebastian Faulks’s Cold War Espionage Novels”, Fachbereich 7– Institut für Anglistik/ Amerikanistik, Universität Osnabrück. 7 December, 2008.
• “Fragmented Detectives: Masculinity and Mental Disorder in British Post-War and Contemporary Crime Fiction”, The English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. 28.–30.06.2007.
• “Writing Modern and Contemporary Masculinities – The Construction of Gender Identities in Detective Fiction Novels by Agatha Christie and Elizabeth George”, School of Arts, Roehampton University, London, UK. 27 January, 2007.
• “Writing Modern and Contemporary Masculinities–The Construction of Gender Identities in Detective Fiction Novels by Agatha Christie and Elizabeth George”, School of English and Scottish Literature and Language, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. 25 November, 2006.

Publikationen

Books

• Wondrous Magic: Images of the Orient in 18th-and 19th- Centuries’ British Women’s Travel Writing. Glienicke/ Berlin Cambridge/ Massachusetts: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2001.

Book Chapters, Essays, and Journal Articles

• " A Lasting Legacy: An Ecocritical Reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'When the World Screamed'" in inklings - Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 2011. Bd. 29. ed. Dieter Petzold. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012. 31-48.
  
  
• “Polarising Masculinities in a Cold War Culture: Violence and the Male Body in Ian Fleming’s James Bond Series” in Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War , ed. by Kathleen Starck. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 165-78.

Miscellany

• “Communism”, “Monica Enid Dickens” and “Fascism”, Encyclopaedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950 , ed. by Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg and Esme Miskimmin. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 50-1, 72, and 89-91.

Reviews and Annotations

• Rev. “Stefan Welz/Fabian Dellemann (Hgg.), Anglosachsen: Leipzig und die englischsprachige Kultur . Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2010. Elmar Schenkel (Hg.), Englisches Leipzig: Eine Spurensuche von A bis Z . Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2011.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Band 52/2011. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot (in print).
• Rev. ″Carsten Junker und Julia Roth, Weiß sehen. Dekoloniale Blickwechsel mit Zora Neale Hurston und Toni Morrison . Sulzbach/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag. 2010. “Missy Magazine 3/10 (2010), 93.
• “Black Women Walking Zimbabwe: Refuge and Prospect in the Landscapes of Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Its Sequel, The Book of Not”. Lily G. N. Mabura. Research in African Literatures. Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 2010). Annotation for Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES)/Section: Postcolonial Studies. July 2011.
• “A Gift or a Theft Depends on Who is Holding the pen”: Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography and Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt”. Y-Dang Troeung. MFS 56: 2010. Annotation for Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES)/Section: Postcolonial Studies. Februray 2011.
• “Self-starvation in the context of hunger: Health, normalcy and the ‘terror of the possible’ in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. Clare Barker. Journal of Postcolonial Writing , 2008. Annotation for Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES)/Section: Postcolonial Studies. December 2010.