Dr. Bettina Jansen (Former Research Assistant)

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      1. Scientific Career
      2. Research Foci
      3. Association Memberships
      4. Publications
      5. Courses (Selection)
Bettina Jansen © Ulrike Kohn

Former Research Associate

Name

Dr. Bettina Jansen

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Organization Name

Chair of English Literary Studies

Chair of English Literary Studies

Scientific Career

  • Study of English and German studies (state examination) at the University of Leipzig

  • Foreign Language Assistant (6th Form College, York)
  • 2010 - 2019 Research Assistant at the Chair of English Literatures (TU Dresden)
  • Ph.D. project of the contemporary british short story

Research Foci

  • postcolonial theories and postcolonial literatures
  • community theories
  • black British literature & british contemporary literature
  • the british Short Story

Association Memberships

Publications

  • Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research. Ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

  • Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Ed. with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler, 2016.
     
  • "'We Are Cyborgs': Technology in Hari Kunzru's Short Fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 8.1 - 2: 53 - 67.
  • "Vom verarmten Außenseitertum zur orientierungslosen
    Mittelschicht: Männlichkeitsentwürfe in der black British short story". Armut:
    Gender-Perspektiven ihrer Bewältigung in Geschichte und Gegenwart    . Ed. Maria Häusl, Stefan Horlacher, Sonja Koch, Gudrun Loster-Schneider and Susanne Schötz.
    Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016. 313 - 331.
  • "'What is a man?' The Representation of Masculinity in Hanif Kureishi's Short Fiction." Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice. Ed. Stefan Horlacher. Leiden: Rodopi, 2015. 217 - 250.
  • "Come Together? The Deconstruction of Community in the Contemporary Black British Short Story." Anglistik 26.1 (2015): 69 - 79.
  • "The Exploration of Community in Hanif Kureishi's Short Fiction." Literary London Journal 10.2 (Autumn 2013): n.pag. Web
  • [with  Sebastian Jansen] "Sabotaging 'Hitchcock' (Tagungsbericht)." H-Soz-u-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften vom 26. September 2014. Link to article
  • [with Ulrike Kohn] "Armut: Gender-Perspektiven ihrer Bewältigung in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tagungsbericht)." H-Soz-u-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften from March 25, 2014. Link to article
  • [with Wieland Schwanebeck] "Bodies - Systems - Structures: Masculinities in the UK and the US, 1945 to the Present (Tagungsbericht)." H-Soz-u-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften vom 24. August 2012. Link to article

Courses (Selection)

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