Dr. Denise Burkhard

Address

Bonn University
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
Germany

Contact

Room: 2-053
Phone: +49 (0)228-73-7624
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Office Hours

By appointment

Assistantship

Since October 2019: Assistant Editor of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal Neo-Victorian Studies (http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/)

Teaching

Winter term 2017/2018: Exploring Twentieth-Century British Children's Literature (Optionalbereich)
Summer term 2018: Of Children, Hobbits and Explorers: Selected 'Classics' of British Children's Literature (BA 1)
Winter term 2018/2019: Settler Colonial Narratives: Perspectives on Childhood (BA 3)
Summer term 2019: Governesses, Orphans, Lovers: Family and Family Politics in Victorian Literature (BA 1)
Winter term 2019/2020: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (BA 1)
Summer term 2020: Neo-Victorian Fiction: Revisiting and Revising the Victorian Past (MA 1)
Winter term 2020/2021: Home, Sweet Home?: Literary Representations of Houses and Homes in Novels from the Long Nineteenth Century (BA 3)
Winter term 2020/2021: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: The Literary and Cultural Afterlife of a ‘Classic’ (MA 2)
Summer term 2021: The Past Reimagined: Historical Fiction for Young Readers (BA 1)
Summer term 2021: Detecting Sherlock Holmes: Conan Doyle’s Famous Detective in Literature and on Screen (MA 2)
Winter term 2021/2022: Exploring Neo-Victorian Fiction (BA 3)
Winter term 2021/2022: BA Thesis Colloquium (BA 3)
Summer term 2022: And they lived happily ever after?: Fairy Tales and Fairy-Tale Rewritings (MA 2)
Summer term 2022: Haven, Hell or Haunted?: Domestic Environments in Victorian Literature (BA 1)
Winter term 2022/2023: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Ü1) (BA 1)
Winter term 2022/2023: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Ü2) (BA 1)
Summer term 2023: Creating Fantasy Worlds: World Building in the Works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (BA 2)
Summer term 2023: Field Trip Manchester/Liverpool/Lake District (MA 1)
Winter term 2023/2024: Text-Image Relationships in Literature (BA 3)
Winter term 2023/2024: BA Thesis Colloquium (BA 3)

Research Interests

British Literature and Culture from the 19th Century to the Present
Neo-Victorian Literature
Narrative Theory
Postcolonial Studies
Trauma Literature
Adaptation Studies
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Fandom Studies

Publications

Monographs
2023. Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral: (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction. Göttingen: v&r unipress/Bonn University Press (Brill), 2023.

2017. Ancient Dwarf Kingdom or the Hoard of a Fiery Dragon? – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Erebor as a Transformed and Dynamic Place. Baden-Baden: Tectum.

Edited Volumes
2017. “Harry - yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Baden-Baden: Tectum. With Marion Gymnich & Hanne Birk.

2020. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 37 (Flora und Fauna in Fantastischen Welten / Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds). Berlin: Peter Lang. With Marion Gymnich & Dieter Petzold.

Articles
2015. “Have a Fan-tastic 200th Birthday, Lizzy! – Elizabeth Bennet in Recent Fan Fiction.” In: Hanne Birk & Marion Gymnich, Eds. Pride and Prejudice 2.0: Interpretations, Adaptations and Transformations of Jane Austen’s Classic. Göttingen: V&R Unipress/Bonn University Press. 311-322. With Simone Fleischer.

2016. “Between Madness, Malice and Marginalization: Reading the Ghost of Jennet Humfrye in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black in the Context of Trauma Theory.” Supernatural Studies 3.2: 9-20.

2017. “Stepping through the Wardrobe: Is the Secondary Fantasy World Merely an Escape from Reality?” In: Dieter Petzold & Klaudia Seibel, Eds. Inklings:Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 34 (Die Inklings und der Erste Weltkrieg). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 133-144.

2017. “‘Happy Birthday, Harry!’: Celebrating the Success of the Harry Potter Phenomenon.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Baden-Baden: Tectum. 7-9. With Marion Gymnich & Hanne Birk.

2017. “Darkness, Danger and Death: Exploring Gothic Places in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Baden-Baden: Tectum. 61-70. With Julia Stibane.

2017. “Secrets and Forbidden Places in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Baden-Baden: Tectum. 165-178.

2017. “The Ever-Expanding Potterverse: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Pottermore.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Baden-Baden: Tectum. 225-249. With Marion Gymnich & Hanne Birk.

2018. “Agency and Spatial Transformation in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.” In: Feryal Cubukcu & Sabine Planka, Eds. Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 369-384.

2018. “‘I belong in your world’: (Re-)Negotiating the Notion of Home in the First Harry Potter Novels.” In: Dieter Petzold & Klaudia Seibel, Eds. Inklings:Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 35 (Faszination Harry Potter / The Allure of Harry Potter). Berlin: Peter Lang. 53-63.

2019. “Linda Newbery on Writing Historical Fiction and on her Neo-Victorian Novel Set in Stone.” Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1: 119-134.

2020. “Flora and Fauna in Children’s Fantasy.” In: Denise Burkhard, Marion Gymnich & Dieter Petzold, Eds. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 37 (Flora und Fauna in Fantastischen Welten / Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds). Berlin: Peter Lang. 7-33. With Marion Gymnich.

2023. “Filmnarratologische Zugänge.” In:Alexander Künzli & Klaus Kaindl, Eds. Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation: Arbeitsmittel für Wissenschaft, Studium, Praxis. Berlin: Frank & Timme. 87-94. With Marion Gymnich.

Reviews
2020. “Sensational Victorian Afterlives: Review of Jessica Cox’s Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction.” Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1: 280-291.

2020. “Sandra Dinter. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel.” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 20: 229-234.

Papers (unpublished)
“Pleasurable or Frightening? The (De-)Construction of the Other World in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline” (22 September 2017, Wirklichkeiten und Weltenbauen / Realities and World Building, Vienna)

“Children in (Neo-Victorian) Fiction: Towards a Typology” (7 March 2020, International Conference on Children's Studies, London)

“A Feline Messenger from the Past: Buried Secrets and Time Travel in Mary Downing Hahn’s The Doll in the Garden” (12 June 2021, Domestic Cats in Literature, Troy (Alabama) – online due to the Corona pandemic)

“Disempowered, Imprisoned, Defiled: Reading the Library in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith as a Place of Corruption and (Child) Abuse” (29 April 2022, (Re)mapping the Victorian Household: Locating Liminal Spaces and Identities, Hildesheim, Germany - online due to the Corona pandemic)

“A Time of Carefreeness and Innocence?: Representations of Children in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives” (1 September 2022, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference 2022, Mainz, Germany)