Priv.-Doz. Dr. Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz

Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz

Room: R12 V03 D17
Phone number: 0201/183-2135
Email:
kerstin.hamacher-lubitz@uni-due.de

Biographical Information

Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz studied English, Comparative Literature (AVL) and History at the University of Essen. In 1994 she wrote her MA thesis on four novels by British writer Angela Carter (Angela Carters Reiseromane: Postmodernes Spiel mit sozialen Fiktionen). From 1995 – 2001 she worked in the M.A. Office, University of Essen. Romancing Alterity, her doctoral thesis on contemporary English novels between feminism and postmodernism, was published in 2001. From 08/2001 to 09/2009 she was a lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin; Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, specializing in contemporary English literature and postcolonial literature. Her post-doctoral research project dealt with new developments in recent South African novels. As part of her research she spent some time at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. The title of her post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation thesis, published in 2009) is 'The Discovery of the Extraordinary’ – Magischer Realismus in englischsprachigen südafrikanischen Romanen der Post-Apartheid.

Kerstin Hamacher-Lubitz currently works for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen, as the Faculty's Liaison with thirteen regional partner schools (Referentin für Schulkooperationen). Please visit her homepage.
She also teaches courses for the English Department.

Areas of Teaching and Research

Literature and Culture in general
Contemporary British Literature
Anglophone Literature
South African novels
Post-Colonialism
Poststructuralism, Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Magic Realism
Questions of Identity and Gender
Alterity
Feminism(s)
Women’s writing
Constructions of ‘Reality’
Fantastic creatures...
Authors: Angela Carter, Kate Atkinson, André Brink, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, J.K. Rowling, to name but a few.

Classes

SS 2013

PS2 Pop(ular) Poetry - Lyrics of Love (Module III)

WS 2012/2013

PS2 Short Stories - Narratives in a Nutshell (Module III)

WS 2011/2012

PS2 Pop(ular) Poetry - Lyrics of Love (Module III)
HS2 Workshop Science Fiction - Colonising the Other (Module IX)

WS 2010/2011

PS2 Contemporary Anglophone Writers (Module III)
PS2 Chick Lit, Lad Lit & Flicks (Blockseminar; Module III)

WS 2009/2010

PS2 Fantastic Creatures - Neo-Gothic Tendencies in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction? (Module III)
HS2 Postcolonial Poetry (Blockseminar; Module IX)

SS 2009

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Contemporary Anglophone Writers (Module III)
HS2 Female Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and Films (Module IX, Module VIII Cultural Studies)

WS 2008/2009

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Harry Potter and (literary) friends (Reloaded) (Module III)
HS2 Sara Baartman - a.k.a. 'Hottentot Venus' (Module IX, Module VII Cultural Studies)

SS 2008

HS2 London - Portraits of a Metropolis (Module IX/VIII Cultural Studies)
HS2 Postmodern Fiction (Module IX)
PS2 Harry Potter and (literary) friends (Module III)
PS2 Narratives in a Nutshell - A Collection of Recent Anglophone Short Stories (Reloaded) (Module III)

WS 2007/2008

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
HS2 The Eternal Struggle between Good and Evil as exemplified in four Anglophone Novels (Coelho, Okri, Schonstein, Zadok) (Module IX) (Reckwitz/Hamacher-Lubitz)

SS 2007

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Contemporary British Women Novelists (Module III)

WS 2006/2007

ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
ÜB1 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Narratives in a Nutshell: A Collection of Recent Anglophone Short Stories (Module III)

SS 2006

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 Identities in Postmodern Fiction: Brink (SA), Malouf (AUS), Winterson (UK) (Module IX)

WS 2005/2006

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
PS2 British Women Writers after 1945 (Module III)

SS 2005

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies (Module II)
HS2 Magic Realism in Recent British and South African Novels (Module IX)

WS 2004/2005

parental leave

SS 2004

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Magic Realism

WS 2003/2004
ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
HS2 Recent South African Novels

SS 2003

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Kate Atkinson

WS 2002/2003

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Angela Carter’s Fiction

SS 2002

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
PS2 Recent Postfeminist Fiction

WS 2001/2002

ÜB2 Introduction to Literary Studies
HS2 Violence in South African Literature (Reckwitz/Lubitz)

Publications

Monographs:

Lubitz, Kerstin, 2001. Romancing Alterity. Zeitgenössische englische Romane im Spannungsfeld von Feminismus und Postmoderne. Anglistik in der Blauen Eule, vol. 24. Essen: Die Blaue Eule.

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin, 2009. The Discovery of the Extraordinary’ – Magischer Realismus in englischsprachigen südafrikanischen Romanen der Post-Apartheid. Englischsprachige Literaturen Südafrikas, vol. 15. Essen: Die Blaue Eule.

Essays:

Lubitz, Kerstin, 2003. “Leaving diasporas behind – a chance of re-entering the ‘virgin territory’?“ in Ewald Mengel, Hans-Jörg Schmid & Michael Steppat (eds), Landesanglistentag 2002, Bayreuth. Proceedings, vol. 24. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp.229-237.

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin, 2004. "Horst Mühlmann, Werner Schneider (eds), ‘South Africa - Land of Good Hope?’" [review] in Rüdiger Ahrens & Heinz Antor (eds), Anglistik. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Anglistenverbandes, vol. 2, September 2004, pp. 180-184.

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin, 2005. ’Skyline’ – a South African panorama of violence, sorrow and hope”, in: Rüdiger Ahrens, María Herrera-Sobek, Karin Ikas et. al. (eds), Violence and Transgression in Contemporary Minority Literatures. International Conference at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA (UCSB), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 319-336.

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin. "'The historicity of texts and the textuality of history' as shown by an example from the Middle Ages (Edward Grim's "Narrative of the Murder of Thomas Becket") (forthcoming)

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin. "Sara Baartman a.k.a. 'Hottentot Venus'" (forthcoming)

Hamacher-Lubitz, Kerstin. "Neo-Gothic tendencies in Contemporary Anglophone Novels" (forthcoming)