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PD Dr. Simone Broders

Research Summary and Profile

PD Dr. Simone Broders

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Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
Germany
  • Email: simone.broders@fau.de

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Thursday, 13.15-14.00
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  • Research Project "Limits of Knowledge"
  • Personal Website
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Research Interests

Curiosity in English Literature; The ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century; Contemporary Literature and Culture in Britain; Popular Literature and Culture; Historiographic Metafiction; Alterity and Xenophobia; Parallel Societies, Alternative Cultures

 

Short CV

  • Visiting Researcher University of Magdeburg (since April 2023)
  • Visiting Professor University of Cologne (2022)
  • Dr. phil. habil (2018)
  • Membership: Research Network (funded by German Research Fund DFG) ‚Para-Societies‘. Parallel and Alternative Social Formations in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2018-2021),  Interdisciplinary Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • Membership: Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, Deutscher Anglistenverband
  • Dr. phil. (2007), Dissertation: “As if a building was being constructed” – Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes (Münster: LIT, 2008)
  • 2004 Magister Artium (English Studies, Computational Linguistics, Italian Studies), FAU and University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

 

Grants and Fellowships

  • 2019 DAAD Grant “The Curious Self: Identity and the Desire to Know in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals”, ISECS 2019, Edinburgh.
  • 2014  DAAD Grant “Shakespeare in Science Fiction”, Shakespeare 450th Anniversary, Université Paris/Sorbonne
  • 2012 Grant Alfred-Vinzl-Stiftung (with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg, Dr. Susanne Gruß, and PD Dr. Stephanie Waldow)
  • 2007-2008 member of academic staff/ wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, DFG Project Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, FAU
  • 2004-2006 PhD Scholarship / Promotionsstipendium Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Deutsche Graduiertenförderung)
  • 2005-2006 associated member of the Research Training Group “Cultural Hermeneutics Between Difference and Transdifference” / Kollegiatin DFG Graduiertenkolleg “Kulturhermeneutik im Zeichen von Differenz und Transdifferenz”

Media

Pohr, Andreas. “Populärkultur From Hell. Dr. Simone Broders’ Vortrag ‘Fearful Symmetry'”. re>flex Kulturmagazin, 03.07.2014.

Stierhof, Franca. “Vampire-Spezial”. BitNewcomer, Sendung vom 29.04.2010. Bitexpress Online-Radio. [Interview mit Simone Broders]

Schleinzer, Anna. “Das Vampir-Fieber greift auf Deutschland über. Fachleute aus der Bücher-Branche sagen einen ähnlichen Boom wie Harry Potter voraus”. Nürnberger Nachrichten, 14.02.2009, Jugend-Extra, 9. [Interview mit Simone Broders].

 

Peer-reviewer

Blog Qualität in Studium und Lehre, Zentralinstitut für Lehr-Lern-Forschung http://quis.uni-erlangen.de/ and http://www.blog.fbzhl.de/

 

Publications

Authored Books

  • Broders, Simone. The Age of Curiosity. The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110722048/html
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. Academic Skills. An Introduction for English and American Studies. München: W. Fink/UTB, 2020.
    URL: https://www.utb-shop.de/academic-skills-10830.html
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Paderborn / Stuttgart: Fink / UTB, 2015.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "As if a building was being constructed" - Studien zur Rolle der Geschichte in den Romanen Adam Thorpes. Münster: LIT, 2008.
    BibTeX: Download

Edited Volumes

  • Hiergeist, Teresa, et al, Hrg. Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen - Inszenierungen - Interaktionen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone, Susanne Gruß, und Stephanie Waldow, Hrg. Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012.
    BibTeX: Download

Journal Articles

  • Auguscik, Anna, and Simone Broders. ""Limits of Knowledge -- Knowledge of Limits. The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture"." Anglistik 2.33 (2022): 77-88.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "The Fast and the Curious: The Role of Curiosity in the Gothic Heroine’s “Grand Tour of the Mind”." English Studies 8.98 (2016): 917-930.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "'Bitten Is the New Black' – Images of Women in Canadian and US American Vampire Chick Lit." The Centennial Reader Summer (2011).
    URL: http://centennialreader.ca/bitten-is-the-new-black
    BibTeX: Download

Book Contributions

  • Broders, Simone. "Von Hippies und Höllenfürsten. Toxische Glücksversprechen in Kim Newmans Jago (1991)." Glücksversprechen der Gegenwart. Kulturelle Inszenierungen und Instrumentalisierungen alternativer Lebensentwürfe. Hrg. Teresa Hiergeist / Mathis Lessau., Berlin: transcript, 2021. 69-90.
    URL: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5430-1/gluecksversprechen-der-gegenwart/?c=310000051
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. ""'The Dark Heart of Dystopia' – Die Alternativgesellschaft als Spiegelkabinett in Will Self, The Book of Dave"." Parallel- und Alternativgesellschaften in den Gegenwartsliteraturen. Ed. Teresa Hiergeist., Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 317-337.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "'The Heartbeat of Outsiders' – Vampiric Otherness as Female Empowerment in P.C. and Kristin Cast's House of Night"." Beyond the Night Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between. Ed. Nadine Farghaly, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 65-94.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "'No Sex Please, We're Vegetarians' - Marketing the Vampire and Sexual Curiosity in Twilight, True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Novels." Gothic Transgressions. Extension and Commercialization of a Cultural Mode. Ed. Ellen Redling, Christian Schneider, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2015. 217-238.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. ""Satanisches Wissen? Neugier als Grenzüberschreitung in Science Fiction und Horror"." Feststellungen. Dokumentation des 25. Film- und fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums. Hrg. Thomas Nachreiner, Peter Podrez, Marburg: Schüren, 2014. 343-352.
    URL: https://www.schueren-verlag.de/film-und-medien/titel/423.html
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "'A Serpent to Sting You' - The Medical Practitioner Caught Between Curiosity and Monstrosity. Frankenstein, Jekyll, Moreau." The writing cure: literature and medicine in context. Ed. Lembert-Heidenreich Alexandra; Mildorf, Jarmila, Münster: Lit, 2013. 55-76.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone, Susanne Gruß, und Stephanie Waldow. "Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung." Phänomene der Fremdheit - Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hrg. Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, Stephanie Waldow, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 9-24.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "'Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going' - Der Reisende als Fremder in der englischen Gegenwartsliteratur." Phänomene der Fremdheit - Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hrg. Broders Simone; Gruß Susanne; Waldow Stephanie, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 171-190.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. "Identitätskonstruktion und Ethik im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die narrative Anerkennung der Erinnerung in Adam Thorpes The Rules of Perspective." Ethik - Anerkennung - Gerechtigkeit. Philosophische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Hrg. Schönleben, Mark; Kley, Antje, München: Fink, 2011. 253-269.
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  • Broders, Simone. "I must live, or the universe will die' – Holocaust und Erinnerung in Adam Thorpes The Rules of Perspective." Literatur und Holocaust. Hrg. Bayer, Gerd / Freiburg, Rudolf, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2008. 159-175.
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  • Broders, Simone. "'A True Poet, and of the Devil's Party' - Theodicy and Paradox in John Milton's Paradise Lost." But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man: Literature and Theodicy. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg / Susanne Gruss (eds.), Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2004. 73-84.
    BibTeX: Download

Conference Contributions

  • Broders, Simone. "Satanisches Wissen? Neugier als Grenzüberschreitung in Science Fiction und Horror." Präsentiert bei 25. Film- und fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Erlangen Hrg. Thomas Nachreiner, Peter Podrez, Marburg: Schüren, 2014.
    BibTeX: Download
  • Broders, Simone. ""Shakespeare and Science Fiction"." Presented at Shakespeare 450, Paris 2014.
    BibTeX: Download

 

Papers (Selection)

“The Curious Self: Identity and the Desire to Know in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals”. The ISECS 2019 International Congress on the Enlightenment. Edinburgh University, 14.-19.07.2019.

“Von Hippies und Höllenfürsten: Toxische Heilsversprechen in Kim Newmans Jago (1991)”. Glücksversprechen. Inszenierungen und Instrumentalisierungen alternativer Lebensentwürfe in den Gegenwartskulturen. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 19.-21.09.2019.

“Revolutionär oder ‘radikaler Spinner’? Die politischen Utopien von Thomas Spence”. Interdisziplinäre Tagung “Imaginationen des Sozialen. Narrative Verhandlungen zwischen Integration und Divergenz (1750-1945)”. Universität zu Köln, 12,-14.12.2018.

“The Neural Wunderkammer: A Network Perspective on the History of Ideas”. Poster-Präsentation mit Filmbeitrag, Workshop “The Digital in English Philology”, Anglistentag 2018, Bonn, 23.-26.09.2018.

“‘She Broke Your Throne, and She Cut Your Hair’ – An Iconography of Hair and Masculinity in English Literature and Culture”. De/Constructing Masculinities? Critical Explorations into Affect, Intersectionality, and the Body. International and Interdisciplinary Conference. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 22.-23.06.2018.

“The Dark Heart of Dystopia”: Die Alternativgesellschaft als Spiegelkabinett in Will Selfs The Book of Dave.  Ringvorlesung Parallel- und Alternativgesellschaften in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 17.01.2017. Contributions to the ring lecture will be online within two weeks of the presentation at https://www.video.uni-erlangen.de/course/id/515.html

“‘Fearful Symmetry’ – William Blakes Konzeption des Bösen und die Figur des Serienkillers in der Populärkultur”. Ringvorlesung Populärkultur, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.06.2014.

“‘TaH pagh, taHbe” – Shakespearean Heritage in the Postmodern Space Opera”. Shakespeare 450 Anniversary Conference. Paris, Sorbonne, 21.-27.04.2014.

“‘And Do What You Will Be the Challenge’: Elements of Wicca in P.C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night“. “Capturing Witches – Histories, Stories, Images. 400 Years after the Lancashire Witches”. Lancaster University, 17.-19.08.2012.

“Shakespeare as Cultural Constant in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek”. Contemporary Shakespeare Conference. Universität Hildesheim, 14.-16.06.2012.

“Satanisches Wissen? Neugier als Grenzüberschreitung in Science Fiction und Horror”. 25. Film- und fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium Erlangen, 12.-14.03.2012.

“‘The Heartbeat of Outsiders’ – Vampiric Otherness as Female Empowerment in P.C. and Kristen Cast’s House of Night“. EUROFAN: New Directions of the European Fantastic after the Cold War. Universität Salzburg, Österreich, 29.09.-01.10.2011.

“‘No Sex Please, We’re Vegetarians’ – Marketing the Vampire and Sexual Curiosity in Twilight and the Sookie Stackhouse Novels’. Gothic Limits – Gothic Limited. International Gothic Association Conference, Universität Heidelberg, 02.-05.08.2011.

“‘The Fast and the Curious’ – Curiosity in Motion in the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe and in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey“. Curiosities – The 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH, USA (30.03.-03.04.2011). 02.04.2011.

Complete list of papers, organized conferences, workshops, panels

 

 

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