PD Dr. Franziska Quabeck

ENGLISCHES SEMINAR
Chair of British Studies
Room ES 313
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
T: +49 (0)251-83 24610
fquabeck@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours: Thursdays at 12:00 pm.
Research Foci
  • The Rise of the Novel in Britain (1700-1900)
  • Charles Dickens and 19th-Century British Literature
  • Kazuo Ishiguro and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
  • Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
  • Queer and Gender Studies
  • Comedy and Humour Theory
  • Law and Literature
  • Narrative Theory
Postdoctoral AbstractThesis

Oddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration

Supervisors
Venia Legendi
Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Awarded by
Department 09 – Philologies
CV

Academic Education

Habilitation zum Thema "Alterity, Authenticity and Anerkennung in Unauthentic Narration"
Promotion zum Thema "Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare"
Magisterstudium der Fächer Philosophie und Englische Philologie an der WWU und der University of Exeter, Devon

Positions

Research Fellow SFB 1385 "Law and Literature" - Project C02: "Literature as 'Equity' in British Literary History"
Acting Professor for English and Anglophone Literatues at the University of Vienna
Acting Professor for British Studies at the University of Münster
Research Assistant
Acting Professor for British Studies at the University of Münster
Lecturer
Research Assistant (British Studies)

Functions and Memberships

Mitglied im Gemeinsam beschließenden Ausschuss der Fachbereich 8 und 9
Gleichstellungsbeauftragte des Fachbereichs 09
Mitglied der Gleichstellungskommission des Fachbereichs 9
ordentliches Mitglied im Fachbereichsrat FB 09 (Philologie)
stellvertretendes Mitglied im Vorstand des Englischen Seminars
ordentliches Mitglied im Ausschuss für Lehre und studentische Angelegenheiten (ALSA) des FB 09 (Philologie)
stellvertretendes Mitglied im Fachbereichsrat FB 09 (Philologie)
Project
Publications

Books

Books (Monographs)
  • . . Anglistische Forschungen, Vol. 476, Not I – Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition 500. edt. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
  • . . Law and Literature, The Lawyer in Dickens Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
  • . . Polyptoton, Vol. 3, John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the *Essays on the Law of Nature* to the *Second Treatise of Government* Münster: LIT Verlag.
  • . . Law and Literature, Vol. 6, Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare Berlin: De Gruyter.
Books (Edited Collections)
  • Quabeck, Franziska, ed. . Symbolism, Vol. 21, Symbolism Special Focus: Law and Literature Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
  • Gocke, Rainer Quabeck Franziska, ed. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 2, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts - Teachers' Book Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
  • Gocke, Rainer Quabeck Franziska, ed. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 2, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Macbeth* in Excerpts Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
  • Gocke, Rainer Quabeck Franziska, ed. . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 1, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
  • . . “"The Yellow Leaf - Age and the Gothic in Dickens".” Connotations 33: 1–17.
  • . . “"In Defense of Mr Micawber - Symbolic Equity in Dickens".” Symbolism 21: 197–215.
  • . . “Dickens and the Comedy of Camp.” Anglistik 31 (2): 77–91.
  • . . “Shakespeare's Unjust Wars.” Critical Survey 30 (1): 67–80.
  • . . “'A Kind of Shadow' - Mirror Images and Alter Egos in Zadie Smith's *Swing Time*.” ZAA 66 (4): 461–477.
  • . . “'That's more than we know' - The Principle of Responsibility and the Common Soldier in Shakespeare's Plays.” Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 7: 38–52.
  • . . “Dirt and Dickens's Symbolic Realism in *Bleak House*.” Symbolism 18: 181–196.
  • . . “Oddity Magnified - In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's *When We Were Orphans*.” Symbolism 14: 149–162.
Review (Journal)
  • . . “Rezension zu: The Cambridge Companion to War Writing.” Symbolism 11: 279–282.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
  • . . “Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go*.” in Diaspora, Law and Literature, Law and Literature, edited by Daniela Carpi and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
  • . . “Just War Theory in Gregory Burke’s The Straits and Black Watch.” in Annual Proceedings of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 18 of Contemporary Drama in English, edited by Mark Berninger and Bernhard Reitz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
  • . . “Shooting Up and Coming Home – Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Porno.” contribution to the Constructions of Home. Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law and Literature, Münster , edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. New York: American Mathematical Society.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
  • . . “"The Comfort of the Male Gaze in Dickens's *Our Mutual Friend*".” in Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality. New Directions in Gothic Studies., edited by Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. New York: Routledge.
  • . in Kürze. “"'A most heinous crime' - Debauchery in Henry Fielding's *Tom Jones*.” in Verbrechen wider die Natur, Literatur und Recht, edited by Eric Achermann and Gideon Stiening. J.B. Metzler Verlag.
  • . in Kürze. “Blood on the Continent or What is a Gentleman? Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*.” in Europe in Law and Literature, Literatur und Recht, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. J.B. Metzler Verlag.
  • . in Kürze. “Witches and Outlaws - Female Stereotypes in Dickens's *Dombey and Son*.” in Feminist Perspectives in Law and Literature, Law and Literature, edited by Hannah Kroll, Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura Wittmann and Laura Zander. De Gruyter.
  • . . “Just War Theory and Shakespeare.” in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War, edited by David and Paul Stevens Loewenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • . . “Dickens's Dirty Children.” in Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Skin, Silk, and Show , edited by Sibylle Baumbach and Ulla Ratheiser. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • . . “Queen Elizabeth I.” in Much Ado About Nothing, Discover, edited by Rainer Quabeck Franziska Gocke. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.

Other Scientific Publications

  • . . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen, Vol. 1, Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Hamlet* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book, edited by Rainer Quabeck Franziska Gocke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
  • . . Discover, Discover...William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Teachers' Book Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
  • . . Discover, Discover... William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, edited by Engelbert Thaler. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
  • . . Discover, Discover … William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Teachers’ Book Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
  • . . Discover, Discover ... William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch.
Scientific Talks

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “"'I forgive her' - The Ghost in *Great Expectations*"”. Victorian Resurrections, Universität Wien, .
  • Quabeck, Franziska : “"The Yellow Leaf - Age and the Gothic in Dickens"”. ESSE 2022 - Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of English, Mainz, .
  • Quabeck, Franziska : “'A most heinous crime' - Debauchery in Henry Fielding's *Tom Jones*”. Verbrechen Wider die Natur - Literatur und Strafrecht im 17. und 18. Jh., Münster, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : „Königinnen im Krieg“. Shakespeare und Politik, Weimar, .
  • Quabeck, Franziska : “"'He borrows nothing from fever' - Humour and Comedy and Women"”. Funny Women - International Symposium, Amerikahaus München, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Dickens and the Camp Aesthetic”. Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig, .
  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Told and Not Told - Kazuo Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go*”. Gastvortrag an der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Dickens' Dirty Children”. Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “The Silent Witness to Unauthentic Narration”. Complicity and the Politics of Representation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Just War Theory in Shakespeare”. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, Canada, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “'A perfectly innocuous survey' - The Individual as Historical Agent in Brian Friel's *The Home Place*”. Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations. Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, Hamburg, Germany, .
  • Quabeck, Franziska : “'That's more than we know': The Principle of Responsibility and the Common Soldier in William Shakespeare's Plays”. Moralities of Warfare. The Combatants' View, Vienna, Austria, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition”. Vigoni Talks on Diaspora, Law and Literature, Villa Vigoni, Milan, Italy, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Shakespeare in Law-and-Literature Studies”. Can Literature Learn from the Law? - Round Table Discussion with Richard Weisberg, Münster, Germany, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Just War Theory in Gregory Burke's *The Straits* and *Black Watch*”. Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama - Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, Mainz, Germany, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “"Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictionalisation of Trauma as Pretext"”. Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Trauma, Violence and Loss. International Conference in Association with the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, Mainz, Germany, .

  • Quabeck, Franziska : “Shooting Up and Coming Home - Heroin as a Substitute for Home in Irvine Welsh's *Trainspotting* and *Porno*”. Constructions of Home. Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law and Literature, Münster, Germany, .