Laura Handl
Curriculum Vitae
since 2022 | Research Assistant at the Chair of American Studies | Diversity Studies at TU Dresden in the research project "The Upsurge of the Manifesto in Contemporary Debates on Diversity in the United States" | TU Dresden, funded by the German Research Foundation (GRF) |
since 2022 | PhD Candidate, Project: "Narrating Anger in Contemporary Queer-Feminist Manifestos" (WT) | TU Dresden |
2020-22 | Master of Arts in American Studies | TU Dresden |
2017-20 | Media Consultant & Planner | Mediaplus GmBH, Munich |
2016-17 | Trainee Media Consulting & Planning | Mediaplus GmBH, Munich |
2012-16 | Bachelor of Science in Media Communication | Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Wuerzburg |
Publications & Talks
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/.
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 2013.
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. "'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)
Research Interests
- (queer/feminist) manifestos
- cultural politics of anger
- queer studies and gender studies in popular discourse
- pop culture and marginalization