CV
Academic 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)
- Thiemann, Anna. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on LiteratureRewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination (London: Routledge, ).
Books (Edited Collections)
- Kern-Stähler, Annette, Schöne-Seifert, Bettina, and Thiemann, Anna, eds. Ethik in der Medizin: Literarische Texte für den neuen Querschnittsbereich GTE - Ein Studienbuch (Paderborn: mentis Verlag, ).
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- Thiemann, Anna. “Homology, Analogy, and Metaphor in Kenny Fries’s The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory.” Symbolism, № 18: 29–42.
- Thiemann, Anna, Oppel, Christina, and Rapp, Anna. “Reflexivity and (Ex-)Change: New Perspectives from the Postgraduate Forum for German Americanists.” COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, № 10
Review (Journals)
- Thiemann, Anna. “Review of Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation, by Jesús Blanco Hidalga.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, № 64 (4): 631–634. doi: 10.33675/AMST/2019/4/16.
- Thiemann, Anna. “Review of “I am because you are”: Relationality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt, by Christine Marks.” Anglia, № 134 (3): 580–584. doi: 10.1515/ang-2016-0067.
- Thiemann, Anna. “Review of Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction, by Edward Ragg.” Symbolism, № 11: 289–294.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Thiemann, Anna. “Reversing the Commodification of Life? Rebecca Skloot's Narrative Science Writing.” in Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings, edited by Monika Fludernik and Benjamin Kohlmann. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, ).
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Thiemann, Anna. “Postmodernity.” in Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction, Vol. 2 , edited by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. (Berlin: De Gruyter, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “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 Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks and Hubert Zapf. (Berlin: De Gruyter, ).
- Thiemann, Anna Kern-Stähler Annette. “Autism and the American Dream: Progress and Recovery in the American Autie-Biography.” in Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Vol. 20 of Studies in Narrative, edited by Gygax, Franziska and Locher Miriam A.. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “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, Vol. 247 of American Studies - A Monograph Series, edited by Sylvia Mayer and von Mossner Alexa Weik. (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “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, Vol. 8 of Religion und Politik, edited by Christian Sieg and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. (Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “Reversing the Commodification of Life? Rebecca Skloot's Narrative Science Writing.” in The Writing Cure: Literature and Medicine in Context, edited by Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich and Jarmila Mildorf. (Münster: LIT Verlag, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “Shaking Patterns of Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” in Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine, edited by Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil. (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, ).
- Thiemann, Anna. “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, edited by Katharina Grabbe, Sigrid G. Köhler and Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, ).
- Thiemann, Anna, and Kern-Stähler, Annette. “Metaphor and (Dis)Embodiment: Inside the Autistic Mind.” in REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, edited by Jürgen Schlaeger and Gesa Stedman. (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.