Lena Falk, M.A.
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Schmidt-Haberkamp
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PhD Project
Working Title: “Queering Dualisms Past and Future: Posthumanism, Genderqueerness and Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Speculative Fiction”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Schmidt-Haberkamp
Research Interests
- Queer and Gender Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Posthumanism
- Popular Culture
- Speculative Fiction
- Embodiment
Conference Papers
October 2023: “Queer Temporality and Disrupted Dualisms in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts”, presented at Postcolonial Narrations: Queering Postcolonial Worlds, Bremen
October 2023: “Frankenstein’s Body Matters: The Afterlife of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Queer Discourse and Gender Transgressive Rewritings”, presented at BGECS: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Ein Text und seine Themen, Bonn
August 2023: “Disrupting Embodiment and Identity: Transhumanism and Genderqueerness in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story”, presented at Disruptive Imaginations, Dresden
November 2020: “The Female Gaze in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire”, presented at The Realm of Possibility – A Queer and Gender Studies Symposium, online
Other
Co-editor of Matters of Life and Death: The Politics and Poetics of Living and Dying in Postcolonial and Indigenous Narrations (forthcoming)
Co-organiser of the 2022 postgraduate forum Postcolonial Narrations under the title Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death, in Bonn
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