Marleen Waffler, M.A.

Research interests

The Interrelation of Literature, Religion, and Science in the Early 18th Century; Physicotheology; The Age of Reason;  Detective Story; Aestheticism; Art and Reality; Identity; Queer Studies

Short CV

• Since 2017: member of academic staff/wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at FAU
• Currently: PhD project “Catastrophe in Eighteenth Century Literature: Theology, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy” (WT)
• 2018/2019: Mentee in the ARIADNEphil mentoring program for young female academics (Office for Gender and Diversity, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• M.A. English Studies, Anglo-Irish Literature and Early Modern History at FAU Erlangen and University College Dublin (2017)

Member

• 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)

Grants

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

Teaching

• Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (GS Literature)
• Introduction into English and American Literary Periods (L-UF Lektüreseminar Literature)
• Introduction to Literary Theory (AS Literature)
• The Fable (PS L-UF)