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

Consultation Hours

SFB "Recht und Literatur"
Domplatz 6
Raum 226

  • 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: Darwin and the Victorians [090590]
      [ | wöchentlich | Mo | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
    • Vorlesung: Funny Women [098882]
      [ - | Audi Max | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
      [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: Bears and Other Strangers [090588]
      [ | wöchentlich | Di | ES 226 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
    • Seminar: Bears and Other Strangers [090587]
      [ | wöchentlich | Mo | ES 130 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
    • Seminar: Queer Victorians [098886]
      [ | wöchentlich | Do | ES 130 | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
    • 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: "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: Lyric Poetry
    • Seminar: Mad Women [096308]
    • Seminar: Lyric Poetry
    • Seminar: Sexual Anarchy in the 19th Century [095494]
    • 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

    • Mündliche Prüfungen Dr. Quabeck (01.03.2021)
      [10.02.2025 | | wöchentlich | Mo | Dr. Franziska Quabeck]
    • 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]
    • Academic Skills I: Gruppe VII [095411]
    • Communicating Texts and Theories: Gruppe IV [095703]
    • 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
    • Postgraduate Research Skills [096649]
    • Communicating Texts and Theories (Gruppe V) [096099]
    • Übung "Academic Skills I" (Gruppe VII) [095752]
    • 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]

  • Project

  • Publications

    • . Forthcoming. “Blood on the Continent or What is a Gentleman? Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*.” in Europe in Law and Literature, Literatur und Recht, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . Forthcoming. “Witches and Outlaws - Female Stereotypes in Dickens's *Dombey and Son*.” in Feminist Perspectives in Law and Literature, Law and Literature, edited by Hannah Kroll, Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura Wittmann and Laura Zander. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “"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 Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. London: Routledge.
    • . . “"The Yellow Leaf - Age and the Gothic in Dickens".” Connotations, № 33: 1–17.
    • . Forthcoming. “"'A most heinous crime' - Debauchery in Henry Fielding's *Tom Jones*.” in Verbrechen wider die Natur, Literatur und Recht, edited by Eric Achermann and Gideon Stiening. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . Anglistische Forschungen, Vol. 476, Not I – Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition, 500. edt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
    • . . “Just War Theory and Shakespeare.” in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War, edited by David and Paul Stevens Loewenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • . . “"In Defense of Mr Micawber - Symbolic Equity in Dickens".” Symbolism, № 21: 197–215.
    • Quabeck, Franziska, ed. . Symbolism, Vol. 21, Symbolism Special Focus: Law and Literature, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . Law and Literature, 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 Ratheiser Ulla Baumbach Sibylle. 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, Law and Literature, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus Carpi Daniela. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Gocke, Rainer, and Quabeck, Franziska, eds. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 2, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts - Teachers' Book, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • Gocke, Rainer, and Quabeck, Franziska, eds. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 2, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • , and . . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 1, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book,, edited by Rainer Gocke and Franziska Quabeck. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
    • . . “Oddity Magnified - In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's *When We Were Orphans*.” Symbolism, № 14: 149–162.
    • Gocke, Rainer, and Quabeck, Franziska, eds. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 1, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • . . Polyptoton, Vol. 3, John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the *Essays on the Law of Nature* to the *Second Treatise of Government*, Münster: LIT Verlag.
    • . . Law and Literature, Vol. 6, Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • , and . . Discover, Discover...William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Teachers' Book, Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
    • , and . . Discover, Discover... William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice,, edited by Thaler Engelbert. 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, Vol. 18 of Contemporary Drama in English, edited by Reitz Bernhard Berninger Mark. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • . . “Rezension zu: The Cambridge Companion to War Writing.” Symbolism, № 11: 279–282.
    • , and . . Discover, Discover … William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Teachers’ Book, Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
    • , and . . Discover, Discover ... William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing, Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
    • . . “Queen Elizabeth I.” in Much Ado About Nothing, Discover, edited by Rainer Gocke and Franziska Quabeck. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • . . “Shooting Up and Coming Home – Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Porno.” contribution to the Constructions of Home. Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law and Literature, Münster , edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.

  • 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, .