Vorträge und Mitgliedschaften
Interviews / Vertretung des Faches in den Medien
Buch der Woche: Maria Edgeworth, Belinda. Beiträge zur Sendung „Kultur am Morgen“ mit Annett Mautner . Radio MDR Kultur am 5. Juli 2022.
Zwischen Konkurrenz und literarischer Emanzipation: die Bronte-Schwestern. Beiträge zur Sendung mit Katrin Engelhardt. Radio MDR Kultur am 17. Dezember 2020.
Zum 200. Geburtstag von Emily Brontë: Gespräch mit PD Dr. Katrin Berndt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg). Radio MDR Kultur am 27. Juli 2018.
„Sie schafft es, in einem einzigen Satz eine ganze Welt lebendig werden zu lassen.“ Interview mit PD Dr. Katrin Berndt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) im Rahmen der Sendung Faszination Jane Austen. Special zum 200. Todestag der Autorin. Radio MDR Kultur am 18. Juli 2017.
„Frauen in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft.“ Interview mit Dr. Katrin Berndt (Universität Bremen) und Artikel in Abi – Dein Weg in Studium und Beruf. Magazin der Bundesagentur für Arbeit 8/2008. Web. http://www.abi.de
Vorträge (Auswahl)
“In the Middle of Elsewhere: Central German Retrotopias in British ‘Second World’ Fiction.” The Second World in Contemporary British Writing. International Conference, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 18 September 2022.
Katrin Berndt and Mirka Horová (Charles University, Prague). “Courage and Cowardice in British Women’s Writing of the Romantic Period.” Co-convened Seminar ‘Literature and Culture’. 16th European Society for the Study of English Conference . Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 29 August to 2 September 2022.
“How to Believe in Gravity, or, Scottish Science Novels as Contact Zones of the Sciences and the Literary Imagination.” Third World Congress of Scottish Literatures . Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 25 June 2022.
„Die ‚zweite Welt‘ in der britischen Literatur der Gegenwart.“ Workshop Massenphänomene: Perspektiven. Projektvorstellung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 6. Mai 2022.
“Narrating Europe: Eighteenth-Century British Women’s Writing between Colonial Conquest and Anti-Imperial Enlightenment Thinking.” Gastvortrag im Forschungskolloquium des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Pietismusforschung. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, 26. Januar 2022 (auf Einladung).
“‘Speak, Mnemosyne’: The Poetics and Performance of Genre in Petinah Gappah’s Memoir-Novel The Book of Memory.” Metagenre. 16th International Connotations Symposium. University of Tübingen 26 July 2021.
“The ‘Alluring Freedom’ of Friendship: Virtuous Ideals and the Cultural Formation of Early Enlightenment Identities.” Enlightenment Identities. ISECS 15th International Congress on the Enlightenment. University of Edinburgh, 18. Juli 2019.
“The ‘Second World’ and Its Aftermath: Eastern Europe as a Retrotopia in Contemporary British Novels.” Aftermath. The Fall and the Rise after the Event. Seventeenth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 26. Oktober 2018.
“‘A Temple to Love and Friendship’: Enlightened Sociability as Virtuous Ideal and Cultural Practice in Frances Brooke’s The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763).” Sociable Encounters. British Sociability in Enlightenment Europe. Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg, Universität Greifswald, 31. Mai 2018 [auf Einladung].
“The Impact of Protestantism on the Regional Identity of Ontario in Alice Munro’s Short Fiction.” Sektion “The Reformation in the English-Speaking World”, Anglistentag 2017, Universität Regensburg, 22. September 2017.
“Poverty in Alice Munro’s Short Fiction.” Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World. Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS). Universität Bonn, 25. Mai 2017.
“‘An Idea, not Derived from Experience’: The Narcissistic Impotence of Friendship in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).” Friends, Allies and Enemies. Jahrestagung der British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6. Januar 2017.
“Last Dance: Love and Age in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’ (2001) and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (2006).” Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Center for Inter-American Studies, 30. November 2016 [auf Einladung].
“The Civilizing Impact of Friends: Male Friendship in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Persuasion (1817).” Politics and Poetics of Friendship, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 27. Oktober 2016.
“‘How Refrain from Love?’: The Inclusive Idea of Scottish Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry.” 13th conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Galway, Ireland, 24. August 2016.
“Longing for Recognition: Global Citizens and the Urban Community in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For (2005).” Gastvorlesung am Englischen Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 6. Juli 2016 [auf Einladung].
“The Absence of Culture: Somatic Imagery, Sentimental Sensationalism, and the Diasporic Gaze in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005).” The Postcolonial and the Material. Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS). Universität Augsburg, 5. Mai 2016.
“This Side of the Event Horizon: Metaphorical Appropriations of Science in the Writing of Pippa Goldschmidt.” Authorship and Appropriation – An International Conference at the University of Dundee, 9. April 2016.
“Citizens and the Community: Dimensions of Democratic Justice in Contemporary Black Canadian Writing.” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien, Grainau, 13. Februar 2016 [auf Einladung].
“Fiction Meets Science. Die Welt der Wissenschaften aus literarischer Sicht.” Projektvorstellung im Rahmen der Veranstaltung „Aktuelle Forschungsthemen im Bereich English-Speaking Cultures“, Open Campus Universität Bremen, 11. Juli 2015.
“Love in Winter: Perspectives on Loyalty and Commitment in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’ (2001) and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (2006).” Gastvorlesung am Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds, 4. März 2015 [auf Einladung].
“The Importance of Being Funny: Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) and the Problem of Satirizing Science.” Fiction Meets Science: The World of Science under the Literary Microscope. Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. Universität Bremen und Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, 21. November 2014.
“A Romance Subversion: Representations of Aristocratic Power in Thomas Holcroft’s Anna St Ives (1792).” Anglistentag 2014. Leibniz-Universität Hannover, 23. September 2014.
“Comic Strategies and the Communication of Science in Contemporary British Novels.” Communicating Science. 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon, 6. September 2014.
“‘A Loving Economy’: Nursing, Scientific Progress, and Totalitarian Ideology in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992).” World Congress of Scottish Literatures. University of Glasgow, 3. Juli 2014.
“‘The Spark of Life’ – Love and Age in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came
over the Mountain’ (2001).” Being Young and Growing Old in Canada / Être jeune et vivre vieux au Canada et au Québec. Interdisziplinäre Tagung des Bremer Instituts für Kanada- und Québec Studien. Universität Bremen, 1. Februar 2014.
“Eine Frage der Liebe? William Shakespeares König Lear und seine Töchter.” Ringvorlesung in der Reihe “Mythen des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit” des Instituts für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung, Universität Bremen, 12. Dezember 2013.
“Repercussions of Loss. The Continuing Presence of the Past in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005) and Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones (2006).” What is Africa to me now? The Continent and Its Literary Diasporas. Université de Liège, 21. März 2013.
“‘Laughing Mice’: Humour as an Epistemological Strategy in Contemporary Science Novels.” Fiction Meets Science. The World of Science under the Literary Microscope. Workshop des Hanse-Wissenschaftskollegs in Kooperation mit der Universität Bremen und der University of Guelph. Bremen, 12. Oktober 2012.
“The Significance of the Form: Paradigmatic Friendship in Helen Maria Williams’s Julia (1790).” Chawton House Library Afternoon Seminars in Kooperation mit dem Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southampton. Chawton, 21. März 2012.
“‘These would have been all my friends’: Structural Significance and Referential Qualities of Male Friendship in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Persuasion (1817).” Landscapes & Environments. Jahrestagung der British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6. Januar 2012.
“A.L. Kennedy’s short story ‘Edinburgh’ or, Does the Postmodern hide an epic heart?” Seminarvortrag, Scottish Literature Course, Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS), University of Edinburgh, 5. August 2011.
“Sir Walter Scott’s Vision of Britishness in Redgauntlet (1824).” Seminar der Stipendiaten des Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS) Saltire Scholarship 2011, English Literature Department, University of Edinburgh, 3. August 2011.
“The Egalitarian Appeal of Romance in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary. A Fiction (1788) and in Thomas Holcroft’s Anna St. Ives (1792).” Emotions. Jahrestagung der British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 5. Januar 2011.
“The ‘Battle of Sensibilities’ in Thomas Holcroft’s Anna St. Ives (1792): Radical Egalitarianism and the Epistemological Claim of Romance.” Forschungskolloquium, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, 13. Oktober 2010.
“Sir Walter Scott’s Vision of Britishness in Redgauntlet (1824).” Time and Space. Jahrestagung der British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6. Januar 2010.
“Manifestations of Blackness: Intertextual Approaches to Canadian History in Selected Novels by George Elliott Clarke and Lawrence Hill.” Vorlesung. Connecting Cultures, 9. Summer School der GNEL – Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen Leibniz Universität Hannover, 18. September 2009. [auf Einladung]
“‘[O]ne kind heart to throb in unison with my own’: Friendship as a Narrative Device in Sir Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet (1824).” Forschungskolloquium, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, 8. September 2009.
“Enlightened Vices: Charlotte Lennox’ Euphemia (1792) in the Context of Anti-Imperialist Thinking of the Eighteenth Century.” Anglistentag 2008. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 6. Oktober 2008.
“Alice Munro and the Canadian Gothic.” Öffentliche Vorlesungsreihe The Canadian Summer – L’été canadien. Universität Bremen, 6. Juli 2008.
“Alice Munro’s ‘Runaway’”, Gastvortrag, M.A. / M.Ed. Seminar “Alice Munro,” Prof. Burkhard Niederhoff, Universität Bochum, 27. Juni 2008 [auf Einladung].
“‘Someone Knows My Name:’ Commodifying African-Canadian History in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes.” Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism. 19. Jahrestagung der GNEL – Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen, Universität Regensburg, 24. Mai 2008.
“‘Ever so Vivid a Challenge’: Freedom as a Temptation Denied in Alice Munro’s ‘Runaway’ (2004).” Try Freedom. Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures. Triennial Conference of the EACLALS – European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Venice International University, 29. März 2008.
“Friend or Foe? Traps of Loyalty and Friendship in Maria Edgeworth’s Helen.” Friends and Foes. School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy & Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 17. November 2007.
“Squinting at the European ‘Other’: Ironic Distance as Postcolonial Resistance Strategy in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy.” The African Presence in Europe/Présence africaine en Europe. Universiteit Antwerpen und Université de Liège, 14. November 2005.
“Diesseits von Afrika. Afrikanische Literatur in Englisch.” Öffentliche Vorlesung am Tag der offenen Tür, Universität des Saarlandes, 2. Juli 2005.
“Der weibliche Körper als Schauplatz postkolonialer Debatten. Beispiele aus der simbabwischen Gegenwartsliteratur.” Ringvorlesung des Zentrums für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Universität Leipzig, 22. Juni 2005 [auf Einladung].
“The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning.” Sharing Places: Searching for Common Ground in a World of Continuing Exclusion. University of Malta, Triennial Conference of the EACLALS – European Asociation for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 23. März 2005.
“‘I have a lot of words’: Eloquent Silence as Mode of Identity Construction in Chenjerai Hove’s Novel Bones.” Inside the Whale: The Postcolonial and Globalisation. University of Northampton, 11. Juli 2003.
“Neuere Ansätze in der postkolonialen Identitätskonstruktion, am Beispiel von Alexander Kanengoni’s Roman Echoing Silences und Farida Karodia’s Kurzgeschichte ‘The Red Velvet Dress’.” Forschungskolloquium des Internationalen Promotionsstudiengangs “Transnationalization and Regionalisation from the 18th Century to the Present.” Universität Leipzig, 28. Juni 2003.
“Frauenbilder und weibliche Identität in der zeitgenössischen anglophonen Literatur Simbabwes.” Jahrestagung des Internationalen Promotionsstudiengangs “Transnationalization and Regionalisation from the 18th Century to Present.” Europäische Akademie, Wrocław und Krzyzόwa, Polen, 22. Februar 2003.
“Beyond the Post-Mark. New Approaches to ‘Other’ Literatures.” Versions/Subversions. International Conference on African Literatures. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 3. Mai 2002.
“English as a Language of Self-Defining in Yvonne Vera’s Novels.” The Politics of English as a World Language. 12. Jahrestagung der GNEL – Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen, Freiburg/Breisgau, 7. Juni 2001.
Mitgliedschaften
Muhlenberg Center for American Studies
DHV – Deutscher Hochschulverband
Deutscher Anglistenverband
IASSL – International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
BARS – British Association for Romantic Studies
DGEJ – Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts
GKS – Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien
EACLALS – European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
GAPS – Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (vormals GNEL / ASNEL)