PD Dr. Franziska Quabeck

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Teilprojekt C02 "Literatur als 'Equity' in der britischen Literaturgeschichte"

SFB 1385 "Recht und Literatur"
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstr. 12-20, room 323
Tel.: +49 251 83-24642
fquabeck@uni-muenster.de

  • Forschungsschwerpunkte

    • Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
    • Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Charles Dickens and 19th-Century British Literature
    • Comedy and Humour Theory
    • Law and Literature
    • Narrative Theory
    • Theories of Authenticity
    • Just War Theory in Literature

  • Vita

    • seit 2019: Wissenschaftliche MItarbeiterin am SFB 1385
    • 2019: Acting Professor for English and Anglophone Literatures, Universität Wien
    • 2018-2019: Acting Professor for British Studies, WWU Münster
    • 2015-2019: Research Assistant
    • 2016-​2017: Acting Professor for British Studies, WWU Münster
    • 2012-2015: Lecturer
    • 2008-​2012: Research Assistant (British Studies)
    • 2012-2017: Habilitation Alterity, Authenticity and Anerkennung in Unauthentic Narration
    • 2007-2012: Dissertation Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare
    • 2001-​2007: Magister Philosophie und Anglistik, WWU Münster/University of Exeter, Devon

  • Publikationen

    1. The Lawyer in Dickens. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2021.
    2. Symbolism 2021: Special Focus: Law and Literature. Hg v. Franziska Quabeck et al. Berlin: de Gruyter 2021.
    3. "In Defense of Mr Micawber – Symbolic Equity in Dickens." In: Quabeck et al. (Hgg.): Symbolism 21: Special Focus: Law and Literature. Berlin: de Gruyter 2021.
    4. "Symbolism, Law and Literature – Introduction." In: Quabeck et al. (Hgg.): Symbolism 21: Special Focus Law and Literature. Berlin: de Gruyter 2021.
    5. "Dickens and the Comedy of Camp." Anglistik 31.2 (2020).
    6. "Just War Theory and Shakespeare." In: David Loewenstein u. Paul Stevens (Hgg.): The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
    7. "Shakespeare's Unjust Wars." Critical Survey 30.1 (2018): 67-80.
    8. "'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 (2018): 38-52.
    9. "'A Kind of Shadow' - Mirror Images and Alter Egos in Zadie Smith's Swing Time." ZAA 66.4 (2018): 461-477.
    10.  "Dirt and Dickens's Symbolic Realism in Bleak House." Symbolism 18 (2018): 181-196.
    11.  "Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." In: Daniela Carpi u. Klaus Stierstorfer (Hgg.): Diaspora, Law and Literature. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2016. 205-222.
    12. "Oddity Magnified - In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans." Symbolism 14 (2014): 149-162.
    13. Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Macbeth in Excerpts - Teachers' Book. Hg. mit Rainer Gocke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2014.
    14. Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Hamlet in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Hg. mit Rainer Gocke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2014.
    15. Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare. Berlin: de Gruyter 2013.
    16. John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government. Münster: LIT 2013.
    17. "Just War Theory in Gregory Burke's The Straits and Black Watch." In: Mark Berninger u. Bernhard Reitz (Hgg.): Annual Proceedings of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2012.
    18. Discover...William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2012 (gemeinsam mit Rainer Gocke).
    19. Discover... William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2012 (gemeinsam mit Rainer Gocke).
    20. Rezension zu: "The Cambridge Companion to War Writing." Symbolism 11 (2011): 279-282.
    21. Discover ... William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2010 (gemeinsam mit Rainer Gocke).
    22.  "Queen Elizabeth I." In: Rainer Gocke u. Franziska Quabeck (Hgg.):  Much Ado About Nothing. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2010. 103-105.
    23. "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 2010.
    24.  Discover … William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch 2010 (gemeinsam mit Rainer Gocke).

  • Vorträge

    1. "Blood on the Continent or What is a Gentleman? – Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities." Tagung Law and Literature in Europe, SFB 1385 Münster, 10/2022.

    2. "'I forgive her' – The Ghost in Great Expectations." Tagung Victorian Resurrections, Wien, 09/2022.

    3. "The Yellow Leaf – Age and the Gothic in Dickens." ESSE 2022, Mainz, 08/2022.

    4. "Comic Women and Theories of Humour." ESSE 2022, Mainz, 08/2022.

    5. "'A very heinous crime' – Debauchery in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones." Tagung Literatur und Strafrecht im 17. und 18. Jh: Verbrechen wider die Natur, SFB 1385 Münster, 04/2022.

    6. "Dickens and Equity." Literature as Equity in the Long 19th-Century – Workshop, Münster, 04/2022.

    7. "Literature as Equity in British Cultural History." DACH Victorianists – An Online Workshop, Zoom, 12/2021.

    8. "Königinnen im Krieg." Shakespeare und Politik – Jahrestagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, 11/2021.

    9. "'He borrows nothing from fever' – Humour and Comedy and Women." Funny Women – An International Symposium, Mainz/Zoom, 05/2021.

    10. "Dickens and the Camp Aesthetic." Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig, 23.09.2019.
    11. "Told and Not Told - Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go." Gastvortrag, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 03.07.2019.
    12. "Dickens' Dirty Children." Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, 24.09.2018.
    13. "'The Silent Witness to Unauthentic Narration'." Complicity and the Politics of Representation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 18.06.2017.
    14. "Just War Theory in Shakespeare." 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, 03.04.2015.
    15. "'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, 21.06.2014.
    16. "'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, Wien, 20.05.2014.
    17. "Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition." Vigoni Talks on Diaspora, Law and Literature, Villa Vigoni, Mailand, 07.05.2013.
    18. "Shakespeare in Law-and-Literature Studies." Can Literature Learn from the Law? - Round Table Discussion with Richard Weisberg, Münster, 20.05.2012.
    19. "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, 03.06.2011.
    20. "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, 17.09.2010.
    21. "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, 18.11.2008.