Marleen Waffler, M.A.

Research Summary and Profile

 

Research interests

The Interrelation of Literature, Religion, and Science (esp. in the Early 18th Century); Physicotheology; The Age of Reason;  Detective Story; Aestheticism; Questions and Concepts of Identity; Queer Literature and Theory

 

CV

  • Since 2019: member of academic staff/wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Currently: PhD project “Divine Punishment and Logical Occurence: Catastrophes in Late Seventeenth-Century and Early Eighteenth-Century English Texts” (WT)
  • 2018-2019: Mentee in the ARIADNEphil mentoring program for young female academics (Office for Gender and Diversity, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • 2017-2019: Lecturer at the Chair for English Literature at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • M.A. English Studies, Anglo-Irish Literature and Early Modern History at FAU Erlangen and University College Dublin (2017)

 

Conference Presentations

  • “‘Those Heavenly Lamps’: Ethical Considerations and Restrictions in the Development of Comets from Harbingers of Divine Wrath to Objects of Scientific Study.” Conference: The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on the Limits of Research, Schloss Herrenhausen/Hannover, 02-04 Nov 2022.

 

Miscellaneous:

  • (Editor of) Dr. Kristina Schippling. My anger is white and pure! Ed. Marleen Waffler. Basel/Nürnberg: Seubert Verlag, forthcoming 2023. (A collection of poetry and prose, translated from the German by the author and the editor).

 

Grants

  • Jonathan Swift Travel Grant (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023), granted by the Friends of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies (WWU Münster)

 

Administrative Function

  • since 2019: Webmaster for the Chair of English Literature

 

Teaching

  • Grundseminar Literature: Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (multiple times)
  • Lektüreseminar Literature: Introduction into English and American Literary Periods (multiple times)
  • Aufbauseminar Literature: Introduction to Literary Theory
  • The Fable (PS)

 

Memberships

  • Member of the Friends of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies
  • Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Member of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Member of the German Anglicist Association
  • Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre Gender Difference Diversity (IZGDD)
  • Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture (IZG)