Laura Handl
Curriculum Vitae
| seit 2022 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Diversity Studies im Projekt " „Der Aufschwung des Manifests in gegenwärtigen US-amerikanischen Debatten zu Diversität" | TU Dresden, gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) |
| seit 2023 | Doktorandin, Projekt: "Narrating Anger in Contemporary Queer-Feminist Manifestos" (WT) | TU Dresden |
| 2020-22 | Master of Arts in Amerikanistik | TU Dresden |
| 2017-20 | Consultant & Planner | Mediaplus GmBH, München |
| 2016-17 | Trainee Consulting & Planning | Mediaplus GmBH, München |
| 2018 | Bachelor of Science in Medienkommunikation | Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg |
Publikationen und Präsentationen
Handl, Laura. "'Be the red worm in the dirt. Be the honeysuckle on the vine' - Queer Southern Place-making in A Dirty South Manifesto (2020)." American Literatures, vol 4, no. 1. (forthcoming)
Handl, Laura and Carsten Junker. “Gaga Manifestos.” Activist Writing: History, Politics, Rhetoric, edited by Pierre-Héli Monot, David Bebnowski, Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, intercomverlag, 2024, pp. 173–184.
Handl, Laura. “Politics of Anger and Trauma Disclosure in Michelle Bowdler’s Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto (2020)”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, Aug. 2024, pp. 46-64, doi:10.5283/copas.387.
Handl, Laura. “'Go ahead, be a monster. You deserve it.' The Sardonically Angry Voice of Why I am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto (2017).” Panel “Sensing’ Affect: Voice and Tone in US Literature.” DGfA/GAAS Annual Meeting 2024: American Soundscapes, Universität Oldenburg, 25. May 2024.
Junker, Carsten & Laura Handl. "Solidifying Solidarities—Formalizing Self-Reflexivity and Self-Positioning in the Genre of Meta-Manifesto." Panel "Panel 5,: Collaboration, Solidarity and Animal Agency as Affordances of SelfReflexivity." Recentring Form(s) in and of the Margins: The Politics of Self-Reflexivity, VUB Brussels, 26. April 2024.
Handl, Laura. “Affecting from the Margins: Politics of Trauma Disclosure in Queer Manifesto Memoirs” Panel “Queering Affect: Exploring Emotional Landscapes in Queer Studies.” Annual PGF Conference: Spaces of Affect in the Americas, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, 11. November 2023.
Handl, Laura. “Anger without Catharsis: Femme Monsters and Politics of Emotion.” Panel “Feminist SFF in Transformation” in the Category “Feminist & Queer Futures.” Disruptive Imaginations. Joint Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association & Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden, 18. August 2023.
Handl, Laura. “Interview with the Vampire (2022-): Reframing the Queer Vampire,” Panel VI. Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization. International conference of the European Research Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations (DeMarg 5), TU Dresden, 23. June 2023, https://demarg.eu/activities.
Junker, Carsten & Laura Handl. “ Project Presentation: The Upsurge of the Manifesto in Contemporary Debates on Diversity in the United States,” Panel “Research Window: Insights into Current DeMarg-relevant Projects.” Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization. International conference of the European Research Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations (DeMarg 5), TU Dresden, 24. June 2023, https://demarg.eu/activities/.
Forschungsinteressen
- (Queer/Feministische) Manifeste
- kulturelle Politik des Zorns
- Queer Studies and Gender Studies im populären Diskurs
- Popkultur und Marginalizierung