Research Foci
- The Rise of the Novel in Britain (1700-1900)
- Charles Dickens and 19th-Century British Literature
- Kazuo Ishiguro and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
- Queer and Gender Studies
- Comedy and Humour Theory
- Law and Literature
- Narrative Theory
CV
Academic Education
- Habilitation zum Thema "Alterity, Authenticity and Anerkennung in Unauthentic Narration"
- Promotion zum Thema "Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare"
- Magisterstudium der Fächer Philosophie und Englische Philologie an der WWU und der University of Exeter, Devon
Positions
- Research Fellow SFB 1385 "Law and Literature" - Project C02: "Literature as 'Equity' in British Literary History"
- Acting Professor for English and Anglophone Literatues at the University of Vienna
- Research Assistant
- Acting Professor for British Studies at the University of Münster
- Acting Professor for British Studies at the University of Münster
- Lecturer
- Research Assistant (British Studies)
External Functions
- Mitglied im Gemeinsam beschließenden Ausschuss der Fachbereich 8 und 9
- Gleichstellungsbeauftragte des Fachbereichs 09
- Mitglied der Gleichstellungskommission des Fachbereichs 9
- stellvertretendes Mitglied im Vorstand des Englischen Seminars
- ordentliches Mitglied im Fachbereichsrat FB 09 (Philologie)
- stellvertretendes Mitglied im Fachbereichsrat FB 09 (Philologie)
- ordentliches Mitglied im Ausschuss für Lehre und studentische Angelegenheiten (ALSA) des FB 09 (Philologie)
Teaching
Vorlesungen
- Vorlesung: Funny Women [098882]
[ | wöchentlich | Do | Audi Max | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
- Vorlesung: Shakespeare's Tragedies [096758]
- Vorlesung: Comedy 2.0 [099040]
- Vorlesung: Comedy [092899]
- Vorlesung: Module Integration Theory [090590]
- Vorlesung: Aspects of the Victorian Novel [094588]
- Vorlesung: 3.5.1.2 Basic Module: Old Testament (Mandatory Module) [092616]
- Vorlesung: 19th-Century British Literature [090659]
- Vorlesung: Shakespeare [096730]
Seminare
- Seminar: Book in Translation: Exploring the Global Circulation [098758]
[ | wöchentlich | Do | ES 226 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck] - Seminar: 19th-Century Feminism [098843]
[ | wöchentlich | Mi | ES 130 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck] - Seminar: Queer Victorians [098886]
[ | wöchentlich | Do | ES 130 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
- Seminar: "Why is that funny?" - Theories of Comedy (Gruppe 2) [094746]
- Seminar: "Why is that funny?" - Theories of Comedy (Gruppe 1) [094699]
- Seminar: Module Spanish for Scientists [097666]
- Seminar: Mad Women [096308]
- Seminar: Lyric Poetry
- Seminar: Sexual Anarchy in the 19th Century [095494]
- Seminar: Lyric Poetry
- Seminar: Lyric Poetry [094978]
- Seminar: Religion and Literature [096360]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer)
- Oberseminar: Postgraduate Class (Literature and Cultural Studies) [096463]
- Proseminar: Shakespeare: The Roman Plays [095799]
- Proseminar: Shakespeare - The Tragedies [095266]
- Proseminar: Oscar Wilde [095281]
Übungen
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe IX) - neu!
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe VIII) - neu!
- Tutorium: 1.5 Economics and Law
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe VI)
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe V)
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe IV)
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe III)
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe II)
- Tutorium: Tutorium Literaturwissenschaft (Gruppe I)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe X)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe II)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe I)
- Tutorium: Lecture course Book Studies: Text, book and culture
- Tutorium: Module Interdisciplinary Studies
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe XI)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe XII)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe III)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VII)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe V)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe IV)
- Tutorium: Intermediate Module: Basics of Chinese History
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe I)
- Tutorium: 3.5.3.4.2 - Elective module II
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe X)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VIII)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VII)
- Tutorium: Module Atomic and Quantum Physics
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe V)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe IV)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe III)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe XII)
- Tutorium: Module 14000: Research Methods of Social Sciences II: Statistical Data Analysis and Interpretation Techniques
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe II)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe V)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe III)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe IV)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe II)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VI)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VII)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe VIII)
- Tutorium: Tutorium (Gruppe I)
Kolloquien
- Kolloquium: Examenskolloquium [094742]
- Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [090772]
- Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [096835]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar alle Studiengänge [096854]
- Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class [095060]
- Kolloquium: Postgraduate Class (Literature and Cultural Studies) [096742]
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltungen
- Workshop: Research Workshop: "Literatures of Contagion" [098866]
[ | wöchentlich | Mi | ES 3 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck] - Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
[12.08.2024 | | wöchentlich | Mo | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
- Independent Study: Gruppe II, 6. Sem. (Literature & Culture)
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Theory and Literature (Group II) - Shakespeare and Theory [096770]
- Reading Class: Group II, 6. Sem. (Literature & Culture) [096817]
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Theory and Literature (Group III) - Sex and the Victorian Novel [092772]
- Theory and Literature (Group II) - Sex and the Victorian Novel [092771]
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
- Einzelveranstaltung: Anglistik: Begrüßungsveranstaltung für alle Erstsemester Bachelor - ENTFÄLLT!!! -
(in cooperation with Silja Fehn, Jun.-Prof. Julia Reckermann)
- Sitzung: Mitarbeiterbesprechung SFB Recht und Literatur
- Communicating Texts and Theories: Gruppe I [094731]
- Academic Skills II: Gruppe II [092661]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe IV [098657]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [098655]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I [096710]
- Workshop: Independent Study Group (Literary Studies) [096835]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe IV [094722]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [094720]
- Sitzung: Mittelbauversammlung Englisches Seminar
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I [092711]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [096029]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe IV [096048]
- Communicating Texts and Theories: Gruppe IV [095703]
- Academic Skills I: Gruppe VII [095411]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe II [094536]
- Communicating Texts and Theories (Gruppe IV) [094341]
- Übung "Academic Skills I" (Gruppe VII) [094007]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Gruppe VI) [095765]
- Übung "Academic Skills II" (Gruppe I) [095770]
- Postgraduate Research Skills
- Übung "Academic Skills I" (Gruppe VII) [095752]
- Communicating Texts and Theories (Gruppe V) [096099]
- Postgraduate Research Skills [096649]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II [095854]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II [095840]
- "Academic Skills II" [095873]
- "Academic Skills II" [095907]
(in cooperation with Silja Fehn)
- Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs II : Gruppe III [094894]
- Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs II: Gruppe IV [094909]
- Vorlesung: Funny Women [098882]
Project
- CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C02: Literature as Equity in British Cultural History ( – )
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, C02
- CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C02: Literature as Equity in British Cultural History ( – )
Publications
- . . ‘"The Comfort of the Male Gaze in Dickens's *Our Mutual Friend*".’ In Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality. New Directions in Gothic Studies., edited by , 35–47. London: Routledge.
- . . ‘"The Yellow Leaf - Age and the Gothic in Dickens".’ Connotations 33: 1–17.
- . . ‘"'A most heinous crime' - Debauchery in Henry Fielding's *Tom Jones*.’ In Verbrechen wider die Natur, edited by . Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
- . . ‘Blood on the Continent or What is a Gentleman? Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*.’ In Europe in Law and Literature, edited by . Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
- . . ‘Witches and Outlaws - Female Stereotypes in Dickens's *Dombey and Son*.’ In Feminist Perspectives in Law and Literature, edited by . Berlin: De Gruyter. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
- . . Not I – Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition. 500th Ed. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- . . ‘Just War Theory and Shakespeare.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War, edited by , 19–34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- . . ‘"In Defense of Mr Micawber - Symbolic Equity in Dickens".’ Symbolism 21: 197–215.
- Symbolism Special Focus: Law and Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Eds.): .
- . . The Lawyer in Dickens. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Dickens's Dirty Children.’ In Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Skin, Silk, and Show , edited by , 117–133. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- . . ‘Dickens and the Comedy of Camp.’ Anglistik 31, № 2: 77–91.
- . . ‘Shakespeare's Unjust Wars.’ Critical Survey 30, № 1: 67–80.
- . . ‘'A Kind of Shadow' - Mirror Images and Alter Egos in Zadie Smith's *Swing Time*.’ ZAA 66, № 4: 461–477.
- . . ‘'That's more than we know' - The Principle of Responsibility and the Common Soldier in Shakespeare's Plays.’ Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 7: 38–52.
- . . ‘Dirt and Dickens's Symbolic Realism in *Bleak House*.’ Symbolism 18: 181–196.
- . . ‘Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go*.’ In Diaspora, Law and Literature, edited by , 205–222. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts - Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. (Eds.): .
- Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. (Eds.): .
- . . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
- . . ‘Oddity Magnified - In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's *When We Were Orphans*.’ Symbolism 14: 149–162.
- Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. (Eds.): .
- . . John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the *Essays on the Law of Nature* to the *Second Treatise of Government*. Münster: LIT Verlag.
- . . Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare. 1st Ed. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- . . Discover...William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
- . . Discover... William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
- . . ‘Just War Theory in Gregory Burke’s The Straits and Black Watch.’ In Annual Proceedings of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, edited by . Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- . . ‘Rezension zu: The Cambridge Companion to War Writing.’ Symbolism 11: 279–282.
- . . Discover … William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Teachers’ Book. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
- . . Discover ... William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
- . . ‘Queen Elizabeth I.’ In Much Ado About Nothing, edited by , 103–105. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
- . . ‘Shooting Up and Coming Home – Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Porno.’ Contributed to the Constructions of Home. Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law and Literature, Münster.
Scientific Talks
- Quabeck, Franziska : “"'I forgive her' - The Ghost in *Great Expectations*"”. Victorian Resurrections, Universität Wien, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “"The Yellow Leaf - Age and the Gothic in Dickens"”. ESSE 2022 - Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of English, Mainz, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “'A most heinous crime' - Debauchery in Henry Fielding's *Tom Jones*”. Verbrechen Wider die Natur - Literatur und Strafrecht im 17. und 18. Jh., Münster, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : „Königinnen im Krieg“. Shakespeare und Politik, Weimar, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “"'He borrows nothing from fever' - Humour and Comedy and Women"”. Funny Women - International Symposium, Amerikahaus München, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Dickens and the Camp Aesthetic”. Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Told and Not Told - Kazuo Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go*”. Gastvortrag an der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Dickens' Dirty Children”. Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “The Silent Witness to Unauthentic Narration”. Complicity and the Politics of Representation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Just War Theory in Shakespeare”. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, Canada, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “'A perfectly innocuous survey' - The Individual as Historical Agent in Brian Friel's *The Home Place*”. Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations. Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, Hamburg, Germany, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “'That's more than we know': The Principle of Responsibility and the Common Soldier in William Shakespeare's Plays”. Moralities of Warfare. The Combatants' View, Vienna, Austria, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition”. Vigoni Talks on Diaspora, Law and Literature, Villa Vigoni, Milan, Italy, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Shakespeare in Law-and-Literature Studies”. Can Literature Learn from the Law? - Round Table Discussion with Richard Weisberg, Münster, Germany, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Just War Theory in Gregory Burke's *The Straits* and *Black Watch*”. Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama - Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, Mainz, Germany, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “"Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictionalisation of Trauma as Pretext"”. Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Trauma, Violence and Loss. International Conference in Association with the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, Mainz, Germany, .
- Quabeck, Franziska : “Shooting Up and Coming Home - Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh's *Trainspotting* and *Porno*”. Constructions of Home. Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law and Literature, Münster, Germany, .
PD Dr. Franziska Quabeck
Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
Johannisstr. 12-20, room 304
48143 Münster
T: +49 251 83-24951
fquabeck@wwu.de
Consultation Hours
SFB "Recht und Literatur"
Domplatz 6
Raum 226