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: Semester Break: Wed., 4 March at 12:00 pm; Thurs., 12, 19, & 26 March at 12:00 pm. From April 1st, 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)

    External Functions

    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. Preprint. 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)
    Review (Journal)
    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • . . “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 Thaler Engelbert. 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, .