Marleen Waffler, M.A.
Research Summary and Profile
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)