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
- PhD in English Literary and Cultural Studies
- MA British, American and Postcolonial Studies at WWU Münster/University of Northampton, UK.
- BA English/American Studies and German Studies at WWU 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
- 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
- Faculty Council, Department of Philology, WWU
- German Shakespeare Society
- Study Avisory Council, Department of Philology, WWU
- Research and Young Scholars Committee, Department of Philology, WWU
- Committee for Teaching and Student Affairs, Department of Philology, WWU
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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]
- Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies I [090711]
- Seminar: Queer Shakespeare [099043]
- 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]
- Seminar: Shakespeare on Screen [094697]
- 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]
- Grundkurs: Module Praxissemester [098662]
- Seminar: British Modernism [098689]
- 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]
- Seminar: Adaptation(s) [092731]
- Vorlesung: Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics [092836]
- Seminar: Shakespeare's Late Plays [096708]
- Seminar: Oscar Wilde [095650]
- Seminar: Shakespeare's Tragedies [094832]
- Seminar: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gothic Writing [094299]
- Seminar: Shakespeare's Comedies [096025]
- Seminar: British Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present [096027]
- 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 WWU: EC FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks | Project Number: 289672
- Domestic Elsewheres: Neo-Victorian Narrations of Empire and Domesticity ( – )
Publications
Books
Books (Monographs)
- . . Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge.
Books (Edited Collections)
- 10.1163/9789004469150. (Eds.): . Black Neo-Victoriana. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi:
- (Eds.): . Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abingdon: Routledge.
- (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.
- (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Othello* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research articles (Journals)
- . . ‘Precarious Bodies: Locating Spectatorship in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival Series.’ Theatre Research International 48, No. 1: 52–66.
- . . ‘Heterotopian Disorientation: Intersectionality in William Oldroyd’s *Lady Macbeth*.’ Humanities 11, No. 1. doi: 10.3390/h11010013.
- . . ‘“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.
- . . ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5: 662–675. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818441.
- . . ‘"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.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘What Condition of England? Re-Imagining the ‘Two Nations’ in David Lodge’s *Nice Work* .’ Neo-Victorian Studies 10:1: 110–132.
- . . ‘The Pain of Others: Silencing Lavinia in *Titus Andronicus*.’ Shakespeare Seminar Online 13: 39–49.
Reviews (Journals)
- . . ‘Stephen Guy-Bray, Shakespeare and Queer Representation.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 159: 191–192.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘Review of The Dark Theatre: A Book about Loss, by Alan Read.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10, No. 2: 397–400.
- . . ‘Review of Othello (dir. Michael Thalheimer), Berliner Ensemble, 2019.’ Shakespeare Bulletin 38, No. 1: 121–125. doi: 10.1353/shb.2020.0007.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘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.
Book Contributions
Research articles (Book Contributions)
- . . ‘“Keep the secrets of the past buried”:*Taboo*’s Salt Water Hauntings.’ In Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, edited by , 399–415. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. [accepted / in press (not yet published)]
- . . ‘A "Natural Tint": *Red Velvet* and the Archive of Black Victorian Theatre.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by , 96–119. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- . . ‘'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.
- . . ‘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.
- . . ‘‘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.
Entries in Encyclopedia (Book Contributions)
- . . ‘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.
Special issues of Journals
- , edited by 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440. . ‘Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56. doi:
- , edited by http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/13-1-2020/default.htm. . ‘Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters.’ Neo-Victorian Studies 13. doi:
Review Articles in Digital Collections
- . . Trial Scenes in Anglophone Theatre Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. Münster.
- . . Gerichtsszenen im englischsprachigen Theater Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur.
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, .
AR Dr. Marlena Tronicke
Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
