Universität Bonn

English Literatures and Cultures

Eine Wissenschaftlerin und ein Wissenschaftler arbeiten hinter einer Glasfassade und mischen Chemikalien mit Großgeräten.
© Constanze Wessel, 2024

Constanze Wessel, M.A.

Lecturer

cowessel@uni-bonn.de

Office Hour

By appointment

Research Interests

British Literature and Culture from the 19th Century to the Present

Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Speculative Fiction

Literature and Art

Crime Fiction


Entertaining, Instructing, Moralising and Disillusioning: Images and Concepts of Parents and Parenting as Presented by Advice Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century reflected in British Novels of that Time

Wessel, Constanze. "Creations Myths as Part of Fantasy World-Building: The Case of Tolkien's Powers of Arda in The Silmarillion." Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind. Edited by Julia A.B. Hegewald & Marion Gymnich. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. pp. 475-502.

Wessel, Constanze. "Reading Between the Brushstrokes of 18th-Century Children’s Portraiture: Hugh Douglas Hamilton’s portrait of Frederick Hervey." Australian Art Education 45.1 (2024): 17-28. 


Teaching

Winter term 2020/2021: Dark and Secretive Places: Gothic Houses in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Summer term 2021: Parks, Gardens and Landscapes: Nature in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Winter term 2021/2022: Helpless and Beautiful or Mysterious and Facinating? Female Charactes in Selected Gothic Texts
Summer term 2022: Murders, Mysteries and Suspense: From Sherlock Holmes to the 'Golden Age' of Crime Fiction
Winter term 2022/2023: Goblins, Elves and Talking Animals: Magical and Fantastic Creatures in Children's Literature
Summer term 2023: Perfect Role Models? Parents and Parenting in Selected Texts from the Long Nineteenth Century
Winter term 2023/2024: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
Summer term 2024: "Many a Strange Tale": Magical Beings and Fantastic Creatures in Children's Literature
Winter term 2024/2025: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
Summer term 2025: Gothic Style Icons and Places of Mystery, Romance and Scandal: Abbeys in Litterature


Strukturiertes Promotionsprogramm der Philosophischen Fakultät

Laufzeit:

2020-2023



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