Judith Neder, M.A.

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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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Ms Judith Neder M.A. / StEX.

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• British Chinese & British East Asian Culture
• Childhood and Adolescence
• British Imperialism in China
• Colonialism & Postcolonialism
• Visual Culture
• Popular Culture
• Complicity
• Ecocriticism

PhD Project

"Becoming British Chinese: Childhood and Coming of Age in Contemporary British Chinese Writing"

Publications

Edited Volumes

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures – History, Representation, Diversity, edited by Judith Neder and Eva-Maria Windberger, Palgrave Macmillan, (forthcoming). 

• Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media, edited by Eva-Maria Windberger and Judith Neder, Palgrave Macmillan, (forthcoming).

Book Chapters

• 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

• "The Taste of Vinegar: Chinese Popular Culture, Fan Translation and the Establishment of Transnational Fan Identities" (Walailak University, Thailand, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Panel: Global Dimensions of Asian Media, Popular Culture, and Intellectual Production, 23.-25.07.2025)

Past

• "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
• Brit Cult: German Association for the Study of British Cultures
• Anglistikverband (associated member): The German Association for the Study of English

Teaching

• 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"