Elisabeth Haefs

Biographical Information

Elisabeth Haefs received her B.A. from the University of Siegen, and an M.A. in Anglophone Studies as well as Literature and Media Practice from the University of Duisburg-Essen (2018). She finished her studies with a thesis on narrativity in texts from scientific journals. Her dissertation project is titled "Scripts of Community Gardening: The Inclusive Green City Plot in Portland (Oregon) and Essen" as part of the graduate research group Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions (UA Ruhr). In 2021, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oregon in Portland.

M.A. Elisabeth Haefs

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Address
Universitätsstraße 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 S04 H02
Phone
+49 201 183 3500
E-Mail
elisabeth.haefs@uni-due.de
Website
http://www.cityscripts.de/

Functions

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Britische und Anglophone Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft - British and Anglophone Literature and Culture

  • British Literature and Culture
  • American Studies
  • Urban Studies
  • Science and Literature
"'Another World is Plantable': Community Gardening and Urban Planning." Utopia, Ideology and Equity in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities. Eds. Michael G. Kelly and Mariano Paz. [Literary Urban Studies Series]. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming, 2023)
 
"'Long ago, deep in space': Narrating Gravitational Waves." Narrative and Cognition in Literature and Science. Eds. Michael Sinding, Aura Heydenreich, and Klaus Mecke. [ELINAS Series]. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Forthcoming, 2023)
 
(with Jens Martin Gurr): "Narrative Path Dependencies in Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Planning: Portland's Albina Neighborhoods." City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures. Eds. Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma. The Ohio State University Press. (Forthcoming, 2023)
 

"'#Gameüse': Planting the Digital Garden." Playing the Field II: American Studies, Video Games, and Space. Ed. Dietmar Meinel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 241-252.
 

"Does Gardening Build Communities?" Transatlantic Rust Belts: Scripting Urban Futures (Online Symposium of the City Scripts Research Group). 10 Sep. 2021.

“Scripts and Emplotment: A Theoretical Approach to Narrative in Urban Planning.” Narrative 2020 (International Society for the Study of Narrative). New Orleans, 6 March 2020.

“‘Another World is Plantable’: Urban Planning and Utopian Gardening.” (Un)Fair Cities: Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts. 2nd International ALUS Conference (Association for Literary Urban Studies). University of Limerick, 12 December 2019.

“The Pursuit of Truth: Quest Narratives in Scientific Journals.” Great Responsibility: Heroism in Anglophone Cultures. Lecture Series. University of Duisburg-Essen, 2 July 2019.

“Loops, Circles, Cycles: The Story of Time Crystals.” Spacetime SLSAeu (European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts). National Hellenic Research Foundation Athens, 26 June 2019.

“#Gameüse: Planting the Digital Garden.” Playing the Field II: Video Games, American Studies, and Space. KWI Essen, 18 May 2019.

“Narrative in Scientific Writing.” Where Science and Rules Break Down: Science in Contemporary Fiction. Seminar taught by Lioba Schreyer. Ruhr University Bochum, 24 April 2018.

2022    Promos/DAAD Scholarship for PhD Course "Environmental Storytelling and Narrative" at NTNU Trondheim, Norway

2020    Graduate Student International Travel Award (International Society for the Study of Narrative)