CV
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Publikationen / Publications
Lehrveranstaltungen / Courses
Vorträge / Talks

Research Associate
NamePD Dr. Wieland Schwanebeck
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Chair of English Literary Studies
Chair of English Literary Studies
Visitor Address:
Fakultätsgebäude SLK, Room 3.16 Wiener Str. 48
01219 Dresden
- work Tel.
- +49 351 463-33088
- fax Fax
- +49 351 463-35135
Office Hours:
Office hours during the term break: Wed / July 17 / 14-15 Wed / July 31 / 14-15 Wed / Aug 14 / 14-15 Wed / Aug 28 / 14-15
If you want me to supervise your final thesis (B.A./M.A./Staatsexamen), do get in touch to make an appointment with me.
My latest research projects focus on painful laughter/cringe humour and on the notion of transcultural adaptation.
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang / Background
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2018 Habilitation (TU Dresden)
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2013 Ph.D. (TU Dresden, summa cum laude)
- since 2009 Research Assistant (Chair of English Literature)
- 2009-2010 Teaching Assistant/WHK (Chair of German Literature and Cultural History, TU Dresden)
- 2007-2009 and 2011-2013 Participant Geisteswissenschaftliche Kollegs II and IV (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes/National German Merit Foundation)
- 2010 M.A. with distinction in Literary Studies
- 2009 First State Exam
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2006-2009 Student Assistant/SHK and Tutor (Chairs of English Literature, German Literature and Cultural History)
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2005-2006 Foreign Language Assistant in Birmingham (UK)
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2003-2009 student of German and English at TU Dresden
Auszeichnungen / Awards
- 2013 Adaptation Essay Prize (runner-up)
- 2010 Victor Klemperer Certificate (TU Dresden)
- 2010 Oskar Walzel Award for outstanding final thesis (Institut für Germanistik/Department of German, TU Dresden)
Forschungsinteressen / Research Interests
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Gender & Masculinity Studies
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Adaptation Studies
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Hochstapler / Impostors and Con Men
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Zwillinge in der Literatur / The Twin Motif in Literature
- British Film History, Alfred Hitchcock
Tagungen / Conferences Organised
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Painful Laughter: Media and Politics in the Age of Cringe (funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, forthcoming 2020)
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Transcultural Adaptation (funded by TU Dresden / Internationalisierungsmittel, GFF, 2018)
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Sabotaging 'Hitchcock' (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the British Council, 2014)
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Lüge - Täuschung - Hochstapelei (funded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2013)