Dr. Laura A. Zander

Research Associate in Subproject C02 "Literature as 'Equity' in British Literary History"
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CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Domplatz 6
Room 227
Phone: +49-251-83-24814
lzander@uni-muenster.de

  • Research areas

    • Law and Literature
    • Narratology and literary aesthetics
    • International and European law and comparative law
    • Postcolonial Studies
    • British Studies
    • South African and Caribbean literatures
    • Shakespeare

  • Vita

    • since 2019: Research assistant at the CRC 1385

    • 2016-2019: Research assistant and lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

    • 2015-2018: Doctoral dissertation with Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode (Writing Back / Reading Forward: Reconsidering the Postcolonial Approach), LMU

    • 2014-2019: Research fellow at the third-party funded research project "Digital Forensics," LMU (2014-2015), Goethe-University Frankfurt (2016-2018), Saarland University (2019)

    • 2013-2015; Conceptualization dissertation project & funding

    • 2009-2013: Magister Artium in English Literary Studies and Linguistics with a minor in Law, LMU

    • 2011-2013: Judicial legal traineeship at the District Court of Munich I; Second state examination in law

    • 2005-2011: First state examination in law, LMU

  • Publications

    Book

    1. Writing Back / Reading Forward: Reconsidering the Postcolonial Approach (MUSE: Munich Studies in English 43). Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2019.

    Editorship

    1. Europe in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation. Berlin: de Gruyter 2023 (with Nicola Kramp-Seidel, forthcoming).
    2. Wirtschaftskriminalität, 7th. ed. Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen 2018 (with Dominik Brodowski et al.).

    Papers

    1. "A Host(ile) Union? Writing in Solidarity against a Hostile Environment. " In: Laura A. Zander and Nicola Kramp-Seidel (eds.): Europe in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation. Berlin: de Gruyter 2023 (forthcoming).
    2. "Blank Spaces and Hidden Figures – Rewriting the Gendered History of Science." In: PhiN 94 (2022).
    3. "Legal Fictions." In: Thomas Gutmann, Eberhard Ortland and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.): Encyclopedia of Law and Literature Online.
    4. "No Time Like the Present – The Ambiguous Aesthetics of Nadine Gordimer's Late Style." In: Current Writing 34.1 (2022): 42-54.
    5. "Visions of Citizenship: 'The Strangers' Case' or 'What Would You Think to Be Thus Used?'" In: Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.): Citizenship, Law and Literature. Berlin: de Gruyter 2021. 153-176.
    6. "Taking Center Stage: Performance as Substance in Earl Lovelace's Is Just a Movie." In: Christoph Bode et al. (eds.): East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. MUSE: Munich Studies in English 46. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2021. 69-95. DOI: 10.3726/b17690.
    7. "Bridging the Gap? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and André Brink's States of Emergency as/on Literary Contact Zones." In: Christoph Bode et al. (eds.): East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. MUSE: Munich Studies in English 46. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2021: 287-308. DOI: 10.3726/b17690.
    8. "The Search for Identity in Recent German Productions of Twelfth Night." In: Shakespeare in Southern Africa 29 (2017): 61-72.
    9. "Anlauf für ein europäisches Zivilgesetzbuch." In: JuS Magazin 6 (2008): 17 (with Jael Mühlstein).

  • Talks

    1. "Migrancy Experience and Human Rights Imaginaries: Globalized Narratives of Migration and the Legal Formation of Subjects 'on the Move'." HRRC Salon, Working Group Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Human Rights Research Consortium, 06.10.2022 (with Peter Schneck).

    2. "Migrancy Networks and Human Rights Imaginaries: Globalized Narratives of Migration and the Legal Formation of Subjects 'on the Move'." Anglistentag 2022, Mainz University, 03.09.2022 (with Peter Schneck).

    3. Workshop Interdisciplinarity (with Marco Wan). Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law No Trespassing? Property/Theory between the Disciplines, University of Osnabrueck, 18.07.2022.

    4. "Universal Rights – Global Literature. Re-Figuring the Universal Subject of Rights in the Literature and Laws of Migration." Workshop, Working Group Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Human Rights Research Consortium, University of Tuebingen, 07.07.2022.

    5. Conference Human Rights & Global Challenges: Geopolitics, Environment, Migration. Human Rights Research Consortium, University of Connecticut, 11.-12.05.2022.

    6. "Wilkie Collins and Equity." Workshop British Literature as Equity in the Long 19th Century (and Beyond), CRC 1385, Münster, 25.04.2022.

    7. "Narrative Borders and Liminal Aesthetics in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet." 17th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English Transmodern Literatures of(f) the Limit, University of Zaragoza, 01.04.2022.

    8. "Hostile Policy? Citizenship and Human Rights in an Age of Global Migration," University of Verona, 24.03.2022        

    9. "Writing Against a Hostile Environment? Post-Brexit Fiction on Citizenship and Human Rights," University of Verona, 22.03.2022.

    10. "Pleasures of Liminality – Fiction(s) in Law and Literature" and Organisation. Mini-Workshop Fictions in Law, Literature, and Philosophy, CRC 1385, Münster, 03.12.2021.
    11. "A Host(ile) Union?" Conference of the Forum "Europe" at the CRC 1385, Villa Vigoni, 15.09.2021.
    12. "Writing Transitional Justice." Conference Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Transitional Justice, Loughborough University, 07.07.2021.
    13. "States of Afterness: In (-Between) a New Transnational Asia." 17. EACLALS Conference Transcultural Mo(ve)ments, Cardiff University, 30.06.2021.
    14. "Blank Spaces and Hidden Figures – Rewriting the Gendered History of Science." 32. GAPS Conference GAPS Science, Culture and Postcolonial Narratives, Oldenburg University, 15.05.2021.
    15. "States of Afterness: In (-Between) a New Transnational Asia." Osnabrück University, 08.07.2020.
    16. Workshop Constitutive and Constitutional Narratives. Augsburg University, 05.-06.072019
    17. "Transnational Island in an Asian Sea – Afterness and the City of Hong Kong."30. GAPS Conference Postcolonial Oceans, Bremen University, 14.05.2019.
    18. "Visions of Citizenship: A Stranger's Case or 'What Would You Think to Be Thus Used?'" Vigoni Symposium Citizenship, Law and Literature, Villa Vigoni, 26.03.2019.
    19. "Liquid Matters? Creation, Disruption and Dissolution of Fictional Worlds across Oral, Print and Digital Literature." Fourth Scientific Forum, Beijing University, 02.05.2018.
    20. "Frankenreads." Anniversary reading of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Organisation, introduction & reading, The Lovelace München, 31.10.2018.
    21. "Bridging the Gap? Dangers, Inherent Paradoxes and Opportunities of Notions of Postcoloniality and Cross-cultural Narrative." CUHK-LMU Conference Narrative and Cross-Cultural Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 02.05.2018.
    22. "Can the Empire Write Forward? An Attempt to Rethink the Postcolonial Approach." Third Scientific Forum, LMU, 28.10.2017.
    23. "Postapartheid Johannesburg - Urban Ambiguity in South African Literature." 15. EACLALS Conference Performing the Urban, Oviedo University, 07.04.2017.
    24. 4. Postcolonial Narrations Forum, Chair and host of the conference Expressing the Postcolonial – Approaches to Verbalize the Unspeakable, Munich, 10/15-10/16.
    25. "Postcolonial Emancipation – Can the Empire Write Forward?" 17. ACLALS Conference Stories that Float From Afar, University of Stellenbosch, 11.07.2016.
    26. "The Search for Identity in Recent German Productions of Twelfth Night." 9. Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 07.07.2016.
    27. "Finding (a) Home in the Writings of Nadine Gordimer." 27. GAPS Conference The Postcolonial and the Material, Augsburg University, 14.05.2016.
    28. "Postimperial Emancipation: Can the Empire Write Forward?" 3. Conference of the Postcolonial Narrations Forum Empire & Neurosis, Duisburg-Essen University, 10.10.2015.
    29. "For Sale? Covering the Postcolonial." 26. GAPS Conference Postcolonial Ideologies, WWU Münster, 14.05.2015.
    30. "Undoing Magic Realism? Polyphonic Caribbean Authenticity in Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace." 2. Conference of the Postcolonial Narrations Forum Reading Across Cultures, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 22.09.2014.
    31. "Passing the Post – Postcolonial Theory Revisited." Literary colloquium of the English Seminar. LMU Munich, 10.07.2014.
    32. "Passing the Post." Interdisciplinary colloquium for (Post)doctoral students of Postcolonial und Gender Studies, Trier University, 24.06.2014.