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.