Queering Narrative: Debates, Concepts, and Examples

For their brand-new Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans Narrative Studies, co-editors Corinna Assmann and Vera Nünning collaborated with eminent and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines who explore connections between new perspectives on gender and sexuality and recent developments in narratology. Based on their ground-breaking research, Assmann and Nünning's guest talk will outline key debates and concepts at the intersection of narrative theory and feminist, queer and trans* theory, and discuss their implications for the study of narrative.

Everyone interested is warmly invited to attend!

Further information on the handbook: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031758638.

When? Dec. 5, 2024, 6pm
Where? ES 203 (Johannisstr. 12-20) & Zoom (registration link)

PhD and advanced MA students will have the opportunity to attend a workshop with Corinna Assmann and Vera Nünning on Dec. 6, 2024, 9AM-1PM. Further information and registration: https://indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3046/.

This event is co-organized with the Chair of American Studies at the English Department.

Biographical Information

Corinna Assmann is postdoctoral researcher and research associate at the English Department at Heidelberg University, where she earned her PhD in English Literature in 2017. She is the author of the monograph Doing Family in Second-Generation British Migration Literature (2018) and co-editor of the volume Promoting Positive Change: The Transformative Power of Literature (2022). She has published book chapters and articles on intersectionality, cultural memory, Black and Asian British literature and film, as well as on women’s football. Her teaching focuses on gender and queer theory, postcolonial theory, nineteenth–twenty-first-century British literature, and cultural theory.

Vera Nünning is professor of English Philology at Heidelberg University, where she also served as vice-rector for international affairs. She has published books on eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and (co-)edited 28 volumes, mainly on contemporary literature and narrative theory, but at least one (and several essays) on gender studies. Her articles also deal with narrative theory, gender studies, cultural studies and British fiction from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Her book Reading Fictions, Changing Minds joins insights from psychology and neurosciences with those of narratology. Vera Nünning was a fellow in two Institutes of Advanced Studies and is associate editor of three book series.