Biographical Information

After working in the media for several years, Stefanie Caeners (née Albers) studied English and German Literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In March 2007, she finished her studies with an MA thesis on literary theory in David Lodge's campus novels. In October 2010, she completed her PhD with a thesis entitled "Verbal Visuality - The Visual Arts in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction".

Since 10/2007

Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg – Essen (Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr)

10/2010

Dr. phil. (PhD) in English Literature, University of Duisburg-Essen

04/2007-09/2007

Research assistant in the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg – Essen (Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr)

03/2007

M.A. in English and German, University of Duisburg-Essen

04/2006-03/2007

Student tutor for English literature and linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen

08/2005-03/2007

Student assistant in the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg – Essen

08/2004-12/2006

Freelance writer/photographer for Stadtspiegel Wattenscheid

04/2003-03/2007

Studies of British/American Literature and Culture and German Literature/Medieval Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen

01/1998-03/2003

Clerical assistant (focus on languages) in various fields (e.g. Atlas Air inflight entertainment agency, etc)

09/1997-12/1997

Converse International School, San Diego, USA

08/1995-06/1997

Apprenticeship “Wholesale and Export Trades” at Ekutronic, Bochum

06/1995

Graduated from Höhere Berufsfachschule für kfm. Assistenten Bochum

Areas of Teaching and Research

Stefanie Caeners teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen where she is also responsible for the organisation of tutorials for first-year-students (in collaboration with Melanie Borchers). She has also been involved in the "Literature Online" project, developing an online version of an introductory course to English literature. Her main research interests include Modernist literature, Postmodernism, Literary Theory, Intermediality Studies and Popular Culture.

Classes 

SoSe 2012
PS: A Survey of British Literature
HS: Modernism

WiSe 2011/12
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4)
PS: A Survey of British Literature
HS: Jane Austen meets Mary Shelley - Women Writers in the Romantic  Period

SoSe 2011
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1 and 2)
PS: Classic Myths in Contemporary Literature (Blockseminar)
PS: A Survey of British Literature
HS: Of Ghosts and Doubles - An Introduction to 19th and 20th Century Literature

WiSe 2010/11
PS: "Time is nothing" - Constructions of Temporality in Postmodern Fiction
PS: A Survey of British Literature
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1 and 2)
ÜB: How to Write a Term Paper

SoSe 2010
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1 and 2)
PS: Hot Off the Press - Contemporary British and Irish Voices
PS: A Survey of British Literature
HS: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the Context of Modernism
EX: Excursion to the Edinburgh International Book Festival (with C. Drawe)

WiSe 2009/10
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1, 2, 10, 11, and Blockseminar)
ÜB: How to Write a Term Paper
PS: A Survey of British Literature (Groups 3 and 5)

SoSe 2009
HS: "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." - British Modernism
HS: Art in the Novel - Aesthetic Discourses in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1 and 2)
LC: English for Foreign Students

WiSe 2008/9
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1, 2, 5 and 6)
PS: Making Sense? - Reading Postmodern British Fiction
LC: English for Foreign Students

SoSe 2008
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 1 and 2)
LC: Skills Focused Language Course I Receptive

WiSe 2007/8
ÜB: Introduction to Literary Studies (Groups 3 and 6)
LC: Skills Focused Language Course I Receptive
PS: The Campus Novel

SoSe 2007
LC: Skills Focused Language Course I Receptive (Groups 6 and 7)

WiSe 2006/7
ÜB: Tutorial English Literature/Linguistics

SoSe 2006
ÜB: Tutorial English Literature/Linguistics

Publications


Monographs:

Albers, Stefanie. Verbal Visuality - The Visual Arts in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction. Trier: WVT, 2011.

Essays and articles:

Caeners, Stefanie. "Eine Frage der Fragmentierung? Paul Auster und die Dichotomie des Privaten und Öffentlichen". In: Simone Sauer/Christian Bachmann (eds.). Paul Auster - Werk und Poetik. Bochum: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2012. 117-127.

Albers, Stefanie and Caeners, Torsten. "The Poetics and Aesthetics of Ian McEwan’s Atonement". In: English Studies - A Journal of English Language and Literature. 90:6 (2009). 707-720.

Albers, Stefanie. "'But who is to say what is fake and what is real?' – Spectral and Textual Haunting in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton". In: FORUM - The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts. 7:2 (2008).

*  Accepted for publication:

*  In preparation or currently under review:

"The Locus Amoenus in Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife" (with T. Caeners)

"'Time playing tricks, eh?' – Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet and its Construction of Time and Reality""

"Building the Alternative - Rehearsing Home in the Construction of Identities and Virtual Personalities in Second Life"

Reviews:

Oliver Simons. Literaturtheorien zur Einführung. in: Monatshefte. 102:2 (2010). 228-29.

Sarah Dillon. Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory. in: Anglistik – International Journal of English Studies. 20:2 (2009). 228-229.

Klaus Benesch/Ulla Haselstein. The Power and Politics of the Aesthetic in American Culture. in: Anglistik – International Journal of English Studies. 20:1 (2009). 219-221.

Conference papers:

"The Iconography of the Novel: Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved". at the British Association for American Studies Annual Conference. University of Central Lancashire, UK. 14-17 April 2011.

"Identity, Aesthetics and the Visual Arts: Constructions of 'Self' in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Zadie Smith's On Beauty" at the Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature Conference. Sheffield Hallam University, UK. 3-4 July 2009.

"A Matter of Fragmentation? - The Private and the Public in Selected Works by Paul Auster" at the British Association for American Studies Annual Conference. University of Nottingham, UK. 16-19 April 2009.