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Research Associate

PD Dr. Wieland Schwanebeck

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Chair of English Literary Studies

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Visitor Address:

Fakultätsgebäude SLK, Room 3.16 Wiener Str. 48

01219 Dresden

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.

2018 Habilitation (TU Dresden)
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
2006-2009 Student Assistant/SHK and Tutor (Chairs of English Literature, German Literature and Cultural History)
2005-2006 Foreign Language Assistant in Birmingham (UK)
2003-2009 student of German and English at TU Dresden

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)

Painful Laughter: Media and Politics in the Age of Cringe (funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, forthcoming 2020)
Transcultural Adaptation (funded by TU Dresden / Internationalisierungsmittel, GFF, 2018)
Sabotaging 'Hitchcock' (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the British Council, 2014)
Lüge - Täuschung - Hochstapelei (funded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2013)

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