AR Dr. Marlena Tronicke

Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
AR Dr. Marlena Tronicke

Johannisstr. 12-20, room 323
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-24642

Consultation Hours

Mo, 24 July: 4-5pm

Mo, 14 August: 4-5pm

We, 6 September: 4-5pm



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  • 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

  • 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]

  • 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

  • Publications

    Books

    Books (Monographs)
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge.
    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Espinoza Garrido, Felipe, Marlena Tronicke, and Julian Wacker (Eds.): . Black Neo-Victoriana. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Malreddy, Pavan, Tronicke, Marlena (Eds.): . Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abingdon: Routledge.
    • Gocke Rainer, Tronicke Marlena (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Romeo and Juliet* in Excerpts. Teachers' Book. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • Gocke Rainer, Tronicke Marlena (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Romeo and Juliet* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • Gocke Rainer, Tronicke Marlena (Eds.): . Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: *Othello* in Excerpts. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    • Gocke Rainer, Tronicke Marlena (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)
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Precarious Bodies: Locating Spectatorship in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival Series.’ Theatre Research International 48, No. 1: 52–66.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Heterotopian Disorientation: Intersectionality in William Oldroyd’s *Lady Macbeth*.’ Humanities 11, No. 1. doi: 10.3390/h11010013.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘“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.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5: 662–675. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818441.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘"What are you doing?" Re-Claiming Juliet's Agency in the YouTube Series *Sassy Gay Friend*.’ Shakespeare en Devenir 14.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Pavan Malreddy, Marlena Tronicke. . ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56 (5): 582–592. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘For other than for dancing measures: Jigs at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Politics of Shakespearean Performance.’ Shakespeare Seminar Online 17: 59–71.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Neo-Victorianism’s Queer Potentiality: Livability and Intersectional Imaginaries.’ Neo-Victorian Studies 13, No. 1: 1–43. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4317164.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘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.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘What Condition of England? Re-Imagining the ‘Two Nations’ in David Lodge’s *Nice Work* .’ Neo-Victorian Studies 10:1: 110–132.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘The Pain of Others: Silencing Lavinia in *Titus Andronicus*.’ Shakespeare Seminar Online 13: 39–49.
    Reviews (Journals)
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Stephen Guy-Bray, Shakespeare and Queer Representation.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 159: 191–192.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘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.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Review of The Dark Theatre: A Book about Loss, by Alan Read.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10, No. 2: 397–400.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Review of Othello (dir. Michael Thalheimer), Berliner Ensemble, 2019.’ Shakespeare Bulletin 38, No. 1: 121–125. doi: 10.1353/shb.2020.0007.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘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.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘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.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘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)
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘“Keep the secrets of the past buried”:*Taboo*’s Salt Water Hauntings.’ In Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, edited by Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Kerstin Knopf, 399–415. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. [accepted / in press (not yet published)]
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘A "Natural Tint": *Red Velvet* and the Archive of Black Victorian Theatre.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by Espinoza Garrido, Felipe, Marlena Tronicke, Julian Wacker, 96–119. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘'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 Quabeck, Franziska, 135–152. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110756456-008.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Pavan Malreddy, Marlena Tronicke. . ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, edited by Koegler, Caroline, Pavan Malreddy, Marlena Tronicke, 1–8. Routledge: Abingdon.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, edited by Koegler, Caroline, Pavan Malreddy, Marlena Tronicke, 78–91. Abingdon: Routledge.
    • Espinoza Garrido, Felipe, Marlena Tronicke, and Julian Wacker. . ‘Blackness and Neo-Victorian Studies: Re-Routing Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by Espinoza Garrido, Felipe, Marlena Tronicke, and Julian Wacker, 1–30. Leiden and Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150_002.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘‘A Bootless Inquisition?’ Searching for Imaginary Homelands in *The Tempest*.’ In Symbols of Diaspora, edited by Florian Kläger, 184–197. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110407990.183.
    Entries in Encyclopedia (Book Contributions)
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘England.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, edited by Günther Butzer, Joachim Jacob, 144–146. 3rd Ed. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler Verlag.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . ‘London.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, edited by Günther Butzer, Joachim Jacob, 373–375. 3rd Ed. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler Verlag.

    Special issues of Journals

    Review Articles in Digital Collections

    • Tronicke, Marlena. . Trial Scenes in Anglophone Theatre Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. Münster.
    • Tronicke, Marlena. . 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, .