Laura Schmitz-Justen

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Thursday, February 6, 3:30-5:00 pm
Thursday, February 13, 3:00-4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 18, 4:00-5:00 pm
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SEMESTER BREAK OFFICE HOURS:
Thursday, February 6, 3:30-5:00 pm
Thursday, February 13, 3:00-4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 18, 4:00-5:00 pm
Please register via Learnweb.
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2024– : Assistant Professor to the Chair of British Studies, English Department, University of Münster
April 2024–Sep 2024: Visiting Scholar, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Oct 2023–Jan 2024: Research associate to the Chair of British Studies, English Department, University of Münster
2020–2023: Research associate at the CRC 1385, University of Münster
2022: Visiting Researcher, Faculty of English, University of Oxford
2020–2024: PhD in English Literary and Cultural Studies (defended January 2024)
2017–2019: Master of Arts in in British, American and Postcolonial Studies, University of Münster (supported through a ProTalent scholarship)
2018: Visiting Student, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (funded by a PROMOS Partial Stipend of the DAAD)
2014–2017: Bachelor’s Degree Programme in English/American Studies and Communicational Sciences, Dual-Subject Bachelor, University of Münster
2012–2014: Bachelor's Degree Programme in English/American Studies and Biology, Teacher Training Programme, University of Münster
Oct 2024– : alternate member of the philology department’s council
Oct 2023– : alternate member of the philology department’s study advisory board
Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature. Ed. with Laura A. Zander, Hanna Luise Kroll and Laura Wittmann. De Gruyter (under contract; forthcoming April 2025).
– “‘And Then I Told You I Fell in Love with a Tree’: Queer Ecologies in Ali Smith’s Short Stories.” Journal of Lesbian Studies (2024), pp. 1-19.
– “‘Art is Seeing Things’: Ekphrastic Dimensions in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet.” English Studies, vol. 103, no. 3 (2022): pp. 317–337.
– with Laura A. Zander, Hanna Luise Kroll and Laura Wittmann.“Introduction,” Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature. Ed. Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura A. Zander, Hanna Luise Kroll and Laura Wittmann. De Gruyter (under contract; forthcoming April 2025).
– (with Frank Reinker) “Die Anfänge (1956 – 1977): Münster hat nun auch ein Zimmertheater.” In Meinhard Zanger and Tanja Weidner (Ed.), Alles verspielt. Das Wolfgang Borchert Theater. Coppenrath, 2018, pp. 9–27.
“Review: Erzählen und Recht. Narrative and Law. Edited by Monika Fludernik and Frank Schäfer. Nomos, 2022.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, vol. 65 (2024): pp. 368-372.