CV
Education
- PhD. English. Graduate School Practices of Literature. WWU Münster.
- First State Examination. Philosophy. WWU Münster.
- MA (Magistra Artium). English, German, and Communication Studies. WWU Münster. MA Thesis "Memoirs of the Abject: Herculine Barbin and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex."
- First State Examination. English and German. WWU Münster.
- Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. English, French, and Spanish. Ball State University, IN, USA.
Positions
- Coordinator of the Graduate School Practices of Literature. School of Philology. WWU Münster.
- Visiting Scholar. Literature Program. Duke University, NC, USA.
- Research Assistant. Department of Anglophone Studies. University of Duisburg-Essen.
- Research Assistant. German Department/Graduate School Practices of Literature. WWU Münster.
- Research and Teaching Assistant. English Department. WWU Münster.
- Graduate Assistant. Department of Modern Languages and Classics. Ball State University, IN, USA.
Publications
Books
Books (Monographs)
- . Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination. New York: Routledge, .
Books (Edited Collections)
- (Hrsg.): Ethik in der Medizin: Literarische Texte für den neuen Querschnittsbereich GTE - Ein Studienbuch. Münster: mentis Verlag, .
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- . “Homology, Analogy, and Metaphor in Kenny Fries’s The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory.” Symbolism 18 (): 29–42.
- . “Reflexivity and (Ex-)Change: New Perspectives from the Postgraduate Forum for German Americanists .” COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 10 ().
Review (Journals)
- . “Review of Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation, by Jesús Blanco Hidalga.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 64, No. 4 (): 631–634. doi: 10.33675/AMST/2019/4/16.
- . “Review of “I am because you are”: Relationality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt, by Christine Marks.” Anglia 134, No. 3 (): 580–584. doi: 10.1515/ang-2016-0067.
- . “Review of Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction, by Edward Ragg.” Symbolism 11 (): 289–294.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- . “Reversing the Commodification of Life? Rebecca Skloot's Narrative Science Writing.“ In Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings, edited by , 202–203. Trier: WVT, .
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- . “Postmodernity.“ In Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction, edited by , 778–803. Berlin: De Gruyter, .
- . “Portraits of the (Post-)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt’s Fiction.“ In Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works, edited by , 311–25. Berlin: De Gruyter, .
- . “Autism and the American Dream: Progress and Recovery in the American Autie-Biography.“ In Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, edited by , 15–32. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, .
- . “Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French's The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady.“ In The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture, edited by , 119–35. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, .
- . „Limitless freedom - a civil religion? Glaube und Politik in Jonathan Franzens The Corrections (2001) und Freedom (2010).“ In Autorschaft im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Politik, herausgegeben von , 189–209. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, .
- . “Reversing the Commodification of Life? Rebecca Skloot's Narrative Science Writing.“ In The Writing Cure: Literature and Medicine in Context, edited by , 191–210. Münster: LIT Verlag, .
- . “Shaking Patterns of Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.“ In Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine, edited by , 365–86. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, .
- . „Slavoj Žižek und Der Fundamentalist, der keiner sein wollte: (De-)Konstruktionen der amerikanischen Nation nach dem 11. September 2001.“ In Das Imaginäre der Nation: Zur Persistenz einer politischen Kategorie in Literatur und Film, herausgegeben von , 221–244. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, .
- . “Metaphor and (Dis)Embodiment: Inside the Autistic Mind.“ In REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, edited by , 215–231. Berlin: De Gruyter, .
Dr. Anna Thiemann
Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
T: +49 251 83-24439
amthiemann@wwu.de
Consultation Hours
By appointment.