Judith Neder, M.A.

© Judith Neder

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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Ms Judith Neder M.A. / StEX.

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• British Chinese and ESEA cultures and literatures 

• Childhood and adolescence

• Visual culture of the British Empire and its legacies in postcolonial contexts

• British imperialism and its afterlives in East and Southeast Asia

• Chinese popular culture and fandom from a transnational perspective

• Conspiracy theories in British and transnational contexts

PhD Project

"'Roots Nourished in a Different Soil': Childhood and Coming of Age in Contemporary British Chinese Writing"

Publications

Edited Volumes

• Empire in View: British (Post)Colonial Visual Discourses and Their Legacies, edited by Srishti Guha and Judith Neder. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 

• Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media, edited by Eva-Maria Windberger and Judith Neder. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-032-25375-0. (forthcoming in September 2026)

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: Identities, Belongings, Plurality, edited by Judith Neder and Eva-Maria Windberger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. ISBN 978-3-032-10052-8.

Book Chapters

• “From ‘Poppy Skirmishes’ to the ‘Logic of the Wound’: Negotiating Sino-British Relations in Chinese Opium War Films.” Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture and Media, edited by Eva-Maria Windberger and Judith Neder. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

• (with Eva-Maria Windberger) "Introduction: Sketching Exchanges between East Asia and the Anglosphere.” Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture and Media, edited by Eva-Maria Windberger and Judith Neder. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 
• (with Eva-Maria Windberger) "'British Chinese History Is British History': Situating Contemporary British Chinese Identities, Belongings, and Plurality." Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: Identities, Belongings, Plurality, edited by Judith Neder and Eva-Maria Windberger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.
• forthcoming

Journal Articles

• forthcoming

Academic Talks

Guest Lectures

• "Humanising the 'Boxer' War: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints (2013)" (Guest lecture, Université de Luxembourg, 14.11.2024)

Conference Papers

Upcoming

• “Searching for a ‘True Hongkonger’: Conflicted Belongings and Parental ‘Homelands’ in Angela Hui’s Takeaway (2022)” (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE), Living Transnationally: Chinese Migration to Europe in Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives, 3–4 December 2026)
• “We’ll tell you exactly how bad it is": Conspiratorial Populism in The Liz Truss Show (2025–)” (University of Würzburg, BritCult 2026: Populism and Cultural Studies, 19–21 November 2026)

Past

• “Diasporicising the Bildungsroman through British Chinese Takeaway Memoirs”  (Osnabrück University, Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation, 14–16 May 2026) 

• “The Pleasures of Invisibility: Travels to the Parental Homeland in The Life of a Banana (2014) and Takeaway (2022)" (University of Amsterdam, Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility, 23–24 April 2026)

• “‘Chinas of the Mind’: Diasporic Identity and ‘Imaginary Homelands’ in British Chinese Children’s Literature” (Universität Trier, China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE), Chinese On the Move: Migrations and Representations Across Time in Europe and Beyond, 27.-29.11.2025)

• “Postmigrant Identity and Empowerment in Contemporary British Chinese Children’s Literature” (UC Louvain, From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration: Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies, 17-19.09. 2025)

• "The Taste of Vinegar: Chinese Popular Culture, Fan Translation and the Establishment of Transnational Fan Identities" (Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry, Panel: Global Dimensions of Asian Media, Popular Culture, and Intellectual Production, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, 23.-25.07.2025)

• "Ambiguous Laughter: Humour as Resistance to and Reproduction of Racism in Sue Cheung’s Chinglish (2019)" (University of Gothenburg, Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Creative Perspectives for Researching Mental Health and Social Problems, 11.-12.02.2025)

• "'In the mountains, there you feel free'?: Mountainscapes in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land" (TU Dresden, Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering, 20-22.03.2024)
• "Playful Subversion: Po-Chih Leong's Ping Pong (1986)" (TU Dresden, Uncovering British Chinese Cultures, 02.-03.12.2023)
• "Challenging Fundamentalism: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints" (Sapienza Università di Roma, Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination, 21.-22.09.2023)
• "Of Drugs, Humiliation and National Identity – Renegotiations of Anglo-Chinese Relations in Chinese Opium War Films" (Trier University, Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture and Media, 28.-30.06.2023)
• "Tales of Opium – British-Chinese Relations and Film Adaptations of the First Opium War" (Singapore University of Management, SGNCS World Congress: Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914, 19.-22.06.2023)
• "'The Necessity of Violence’: Complicity with and Resistance against Empire in Rebecca Kuang’s Babel" (TU Dresden, Global Complicities, 05.-06.06.2023)
• "The Waste Land, the Capital and the Anthropocene" (Innsbruck University, Artistic Practices of (Un-)Making Place, 23.-24.09.2022)
• "Naturally (in)compatible?: Reflections on the Relationship between Ecocriticism and Posthumanism" (TU Dresden, Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, 01.-02.07.2022)
• "What about your Carbon Footprint? Corporate Use of Individual Complicity Narratives" (TU Dresden, Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings (2nd workshop), 07.-08.04.2022)

Memberships

Research Networks

• 2022-2024: Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Associations

• GAPS: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
• IACS: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
• Brit Cult: German Association for the Study of British Cultures
• Anglistikverband (associated member): The German Association for the Study of English

Teaching

• Summer 2026: "Not Just Child's Play: A Critical Exploration of Childhood"
• Winter 2025/26: "What no class ever teaches you...: A Critical Introduction to Conspiracy 'Theories'"
• Summer 2025: "Introduction to British Cultural Studies"
• Winter 2024/25: "The Post/Colonial Eye: Visual Discourses of Empire"
• Summer 2024: "Chewing, Munching, Snacking and Dining: British Cultural Perspectives on Food"
• Winter 2023/24: "British Horror"
• Summer 2023: "Meet the Victorians"
• Winter 2022/23: "Britain and China: From the Opium Wars to Modern British Chinese Identity"
• Summer 2022: "Celebrity Culture"
• Winter 2021/22: "From Deep Ecology to Environmental Justice: Ecocriticism in Theory and Practice"