Information for Students
I am happy to supervise theses at both BA and MA/MEd level, but please note that I cannot agree on any supervision without knowing what you would like to work on. So before reaching out…
1. Make sure that the suggested topic falls within the area of British studies.
2. Before signing up for my office hours, please send me a short abstract of your proposed project (ca. 300 words) that describes the text(s) you would like to work with, sketches a rough theoretical framework, and articulates a tentative research question. We can then discuss your ideas in more detail and make adjustments where necessary.
AR Dr. Marlena Tronicke
Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
Research Areas
- Early modern drama
- (Neo-)Victorian literature and culture
- Contemporary British and Irish theatre
- Adaptation
- Museum theory and cultural memory
- Postcolonial Studies
- Gender and Queer Studies
CV
Education
- NRW-Zertifikat ‘Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule’ am Zentrum für Hochschullehre, Universität Münster
- PhD in English Literary and Cultural Studies
- MA British, American and Postcolonial Studies at the Universities of Münster and Northampton, UK.
- BA English/American Studies and German Studies at the University of Münster
Positions
- Assistant Professor, English Department, Chair of British Studies
- Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford (Host: Prof. Elleke Boehmer)
- Research Associate, English Department, Chair of British Studies
External Functions
- Universität Münster (Forschungsbeirat FB 09/Philologie, Ordentliches Mitglied)
- Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen (BritCult)
- The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)
- European Shakespeare Research Association
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- German Shakespeare Society
- Universität Münster (Fachbereichsrat FB 09/Philologie, Ordentliches Mitglied)
- Universität Münster (Studienbeirat FB09/Philologie, Ordentliches Mitglied)
- Universität Münster (Ausschuss für Lehre und studentische Angelegenheiten FB 09/Philologie, Ordentliches Mitglied)
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Teaching
- Workshop: Research Workshop: "Literatures of Contagion" [094861]
[ | wöchentlich | Mi. | ES 3 | Dr. Marlena Tronicke] - Seminar: Literatures of Contagion [094837]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Do. | ES 227 | Dr. Marlena Tronicke]
- Filmvorführung: Filmscreening Introduction to Literary Studies
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group VI) [092723]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II (Group IV) [092721]
- Workshop: Research Workshop zum Seminar "British Abolitionist Literature" [096880]
- Übung: Reading Class (Literary and Cultural Studies) [096812]
- Seminar: British Abolitionist Literature [096861]
- Übung: Advanced Academic Writing (polyvalent PGC 4. FS) HYBRID [095102]
- Seminar: The Irish Literary Revival - HYBRID [095059]
- Seminar: Museums, Archives, and the Curation of Memory [092922]
- Vorlesung: Hotspots in Literary and Cultural Studies, Book Studies, and Linguistics [096810]
- Übung: Advanced Academic Writing/Postgraduate Class (Literary Studies) [090754]
- Seminar: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Tragedy [090649]
- Workshop: Research Workshop zum Seminar "Writing Brexit" [098747]
- Informationsveranstaltung: BAPS Info-Veranstaltung
- Seminar: Writing Brexit [098715]
- Grundkurs: Historical Basics of China [096623]
- Seminar: Contemporary British Drama: Staging the Nation [096708]
- Sitzung: Fachbereichsversammlung Mittelbau
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe IX [092657]
- Übung: Communicating Texts and Theories: Gruppe II [092679]
- Seminar: Narratives of Partition [092706]
- Sprachpraktische Übungen: Academic Skills I: Gruppe V [090649]
- Seminar: Neo-Victorian Literature and Film [090707]
- Übung: M.Ed. Gym/Ges, BK - LZV account (E3 LZV 14 and E4 LZV 14) [096747]
- Seminar: Shakespeare's Roman Plays [096733]
- Informationsveranstaltung: Master of Arts BAPS: Informationen zum Studiengang
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe VIII [094726]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies II: Gruppe IX [094727]
- Workshop: Research Workshop: "Literatures of Contagion" [094861]
Projects
- Domestic Elsewheres: Neo-Victorian Narrations of Empire and Domesticity ( – )
Own resources project - Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter ( – )
Own resources project - COHAB – Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging ( – )
EU-project hosted at University of Münster: EC FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks | Project Number: 289672
- Domestic Elsewheres: Neo-Victorian Narrations of Empire and Domesticity ( – )
Publications
- . . ‘Critique and Contestation.’ In Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by . Brill. [accepted / in press (not yet published)]
- . . ‘Critical Race Theory.’ In Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by . Brill. [accepted / in press (not yet published)]
- . . ‘“Keep the secrets of the past buried”:*Taboo*’s Salt Water Hauntings.’ In Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, edited by , 397–413. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
- . . ‘Precarious Bodies: Locating Spectatorship in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival Series.’ Theatre Research International 48, No. 1: 52–66.
- . . ‘Stephen Guy-Bray, Shakespeare and Queer Representation.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 159: 191–192.
- . . ‘Heterotopian Disorientation: Intersectionality in William Oldroyd’s *Lady Macbeth*.’ Humanities 11, No. 1. doi: 10.3390/h11010013.
- . . Trial Scenes in Anglophone Theatre Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. Münster.
- . . ‘Review of Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama, by Kate Aughterson and Ailsa Grant Ferguson.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2022, No. 158: 226–228.
- . . ‘“Through the pen to begin with”: Anticolonial Resistance in Tanika Gupta’s Adaptation of *Great Expectations*.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10, No. 2: 283–301.
- . . ‘Review of The Dark Theatre: A Book about Loss, by Alan Read.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10, No. 2: 397–400.
- . . Gerichtsszenen im englischsprachigen Theater Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur.
- (Eds.): . Black Neo-Victoriana. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150.
- . . ‘A "Natural Tint": *Red Velvet* and the Archive of Black Victorian Theatre.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by , 96–119. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- . . ‘Review of Othello (dir. Michael Thalheimer), Berliner Ensemble, 2019.’ Shakespeare Bulletin 38, No. 1: 121–125. doi: 10.1353/shb.2020.0007.
- . . ‘England.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, edited by , 144–146. 3rd Ed. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler Verlag.
- . . ‘London.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, edited by , 373–375. 3rd Ed. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler Verlag.
- . . ‘'I Have Shown You Milk': Performing Legal Truths in Nina Raine's *Consent* and Lucy Kirkwood's *The Welkin*.’ In Law and Literature, edited by , 135–152. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110756456-008.
- . . ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, edited by , 1–8. Routledge: Abingdon.
- . . ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, edited by , 78–91. Abingdon: Routledge.
- (Eds.): . Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abingdon: Routledge.
- . . ‘Blackness and Neo-Victorian Studies: Re-Routing Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by , 1–30. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150_002.
- . . ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5: 662–675. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818441.
- , edited by . ‘Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440.
- , edited by . ‘Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters.’ Neo-Victorian Studies 13. doi: http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/13-1-2020/default.htm.
- . . ‘"What are you doing?" Re-Claiming Juliet's Agency in the YouTube Series *Sassy Gay Friend*.’ Shakespeare en Devenir 14.
- . . ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56 (5): 582–592. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440.
- . . ‘Review of Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures, edited by Christina Flotmann-Scholz and Anna Lienen.’ Journal for the Study of British Cultures 27, No. 1: 101–104.
- . . ‘For other than for dancing measures: Jigs at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Politics of Shakespearean Performance.’ Shakespeare Seminar Online 17: 59–71.
- . . ‘Neo-Victorianism’s Queer Potentiality: Livability and Intersectional Imaginaries.’ Neo-Victorian Studies 13, No. 1: 1–43. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4317164.
- . . ‘Terror by Candlelight: The Affective Politics of Fear in Tanika Gupta's *Lions and Tigers*.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7, No. 1: 58–71. doi: 10.1515/jcde-2019-0005.
- . . Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge.
- . . ‘Review of Die Fremden/Der Kaufmann von Venedig (dir. Stefan Otteni), Theater Muenster, 2018.’ Shakespeare Bulletin , No. 36.2: 345–349. doi: 10.1353/shb.2018.0031.
- . . ‘Review of Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women, by Antonija Primorac.’ Symbolism 18: 213–217. doi: 10.1515/9783110580822-018.
- . . ‘What Condition of England? Re-Imagining the ‘Two Nations’ in David Lodge’s *Nice Work* .’ Neo-Victorian Studies 10:1: 110–132.
- (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Romeo and Juliet* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
- (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Romeo and Juliet* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
- (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Othello* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
- . . ‘The Pain of Others: Silencing Lavinia in *Titus Andronicus*.’ Shakespeare Seminar Online 13: 39–49.
- (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Othello* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
- . . ‘‘A Bootless Inquisition?’ Searching for Imaginary Homelands in *The Tempest*.’ In Symbols of Diaspora, edited by , 184–197. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110407990.183.
Talks
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Twenty-First-Century Victorians: Neo-Victorian Adaptation and Appropriation’. Gastvortrag, Department of English and American Studies, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Imperial Hunger: Neo-Victorian Afterimages of the Irish Famine’. Lecture series "Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics", WWU Münster, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Lives under Lockdown: Negotiations of Precarity in the National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC’s Scenes for Survival Series’. Post-COVID-19 Art Worlds, Hannover, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Jigs at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Politics of Performance’. Shakespeare and Dance, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Neo-Victorian Spaces of Resistance in William Oldroyd's *Lady Macbeth*’. Guest lecture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Neo-Victorianism and the Troubled Memory of Empire: *Taboo’s* Imperial Surfaces’. Guest lecture, Universität Augsburg, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘“Keep the secrets of the past buried”: Salt Water Hauntings in the BBC’s *Taboo*’. Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water, Universität Bremen, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Terror by Candlelight: Tanika Gupta's *Lions and Tigers* at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse’. CDE Conference 2018: Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance, Universität Hildesheim, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘'Is This Well Done?' - Gendering Shakespeare's Suicides’. Cultures of Mortality: Death on the Shakespearean Stage, Shakespeare's Globe, London, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Digitalizing Agency: Shakespeare on YouTube’. Lecture series "Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics", WWU Münster, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Screaming Silence: Lavinia in *Titus Andronicus*’. Shakespeare Tage: Shakespeare’s Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Berlin, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Re-Imagining Holmes in the 21st Century: BBC’s *Sherlock*’. Lecture series "Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics", WWU Münster, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Shakespeare’s Comic Suicides’. Lecture series "Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics", WWU Münster, .
- Tronicke, Marlena (): ‘Female Comic Side-Kicks in Shakespeare’. Guest Lecture, University of Mumbai, .