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Dr. Deborah de Muijnck

De Muijnck
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Dr. Deborah de Muijnck ist wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin des European PhD Network „Literary and Cultural Studies“ an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. In dieser Position ist sie für die Organisation und Leitung nationaler und internationaler Forschungsveranstaltungen wie Konferenzen, Summerschools und Symposien verantwortlich und vertritt das GCSC bei diesen Veranstaltungen. Darüber hinaus unterstützt sie das strategische Management des GCSC und ist verantwortlich für die Internationalisierung des Zentrums, insbesondere im Kontext binationaler Studiengänge.
Von 2019 - 2023 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Englische Literaturwissenschaft der RWTH Aachen, wo sie 2022 ihre Dissertation abschloss. In dieser Arbeit mit dem Titel Cultural Models of Narrative Identity: The Case of Military Autobiographical Writing setzt sie an wie britische Soldaten und Veteranen ihre narrativen Identitäten nach Kriegserfahrungen durch nicht-fiktionales autobiografisches Geschichtenerzählen rekonstruieren, indem sie kulturelle Modelle narrativer Identitäten sowie narrative Methoden der Trauma-Inkorporation und narrative Neutralisierungstechniken verwenden. Ihre Lehrschwerpunkte sind britische und anglophone Literaturwissenschaft, insbesondere kanonische und postkoloniale Literatur. Andere bemerkenswerte Publikationen wie Pandemic Storytelling (Brill, im Erscheinen) thematisieren die wechselseitige Beeinflussung von Pandemien und Narrativität sowie den Einfluss nicht-normativer Lebenserfahrungen auf das Erzählen (Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Brill, bevorstehend.). Im Wintersemester 2022/23 war sie zudem als Gastdozentin im Studium Fundamentale an der Universität Witten/Herdecke tätig.

Ihre zweite Monographie konzentriert sich auf alternative Epistemologien und Seinsformen aus einer ökokritischen narratologischen Perspektive. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen neben Ökokritik, kognitiver Narratologie und medizinischen Geisteswissenschaften zeitgenössische Literatur und Literaturgeschichte sowie postkoloniale/indigene Literatur.

Dr. de Muijnck arbeitete als Online-Redakteurin in Köln, Berlin, Dortmund, München und Aachen und reiste von 2015 bis zu ihrer Ansiedlung in der Wissenschaft im Jahr 2019 als analoge Fotografin und Künstlerin rund um den Globus.
ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-7863-2011

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Publikationen

Monographs:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. Cultural Models of Narrative Identity: The Case of Military Autobiographical Writing. Aachen: RWTH Aachen Publications, 2022 (dissertation)

Edited Volumes:

  •  de Muijnck, Deborah, Jan Alber, Jessica Jumpertz. Pandemic Storytelling. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
  • de Muijnck, Deborah, et. al. Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Ansgar Nünning. Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture. Trier: WVT (in progress)

Articles in peer reviewed edited volumes:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Imke Polland. 'Introduction' (working title). Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture. Trier: WVT (in progress)
  • de Muijnck, Deborah.'Salutogenesis and the Trope of the Dying Girl: Cognitive and Affective Strategies in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction.' New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies (eds. Nünning/Pfalzgraf). Tübingen: Narr 2024 (forthcoming)

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Jan Alber, Jessica Jumpertz. "Introduction" (Working Title)’. Pandemic Storytelling, Brill, forthcoming.

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, et. al. ‘Introduction: 4E Cognition, Phenomenology, and the Body-Mind-Nexus (Working Title)’. Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies, Brill, forthcoming.

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Francesca Wessing, Nalin Camur, and Linda Wetzel. ‘Plot’. Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel, vol. 24, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 119–42.

  • Schneider, Ralf, and Deborah de Muijnck. ‘Methods of Reception Theory and Cognitive Approaches - From Reception Aesthetics to Cognitive Poetics’. Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies - Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning, vol. 23, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag trier, 2020, pp. 251–72.

Articles in peer reviewed journals:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. ‘Narrative, Memory and PTSD. A Case Study of Autobiographical Narration After Trauma’. European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 11, Apr. 2022, pp. 75–95
  • de Muijnck, Deborah. When Breath Becomes Air: Constructing Stable Narrative Identity during Terminal Illness. Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique (38), 2019, p. 44-69.

Articles in handbooks and encyclopedias:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. 'Narrative, Culture, and Identity'. Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies, edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. Routledge (in progress)
  • de Muijnck, Deborah. 'Piranesi'. Kindler's Literaturlexikon, edited by Vera Nünning. springer (in progress).

Reviews:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah.‘Lena Linne. 2019. Unlived Lives in English Literature: A Typological Study. Anglia, vol. 138, no. 4, Nov. 2020, pp. 730–33. 
Vorträge

01/2023
"How to productively work on your dissertation in challenging times". Invited guest speaker at the PhDnet Induction Week. 27.01.2023

10/2022
"How to finish your dissertation under extreme time constraints". Invited guest speaker to the conference Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig Universität, Gießen (Germany). 28.10.2022

06/2022
"A Story of War and All That Follows - Time and Temporality in Post-Trauma Narratives". Narrative2022 Conference, University of Chichester, Chichester (United Kingdom). 29.06.2022

06/2021
"Narratives of Displacement - Altruistic Sense-Making through Autobiographical Storytelling in (Former) Refugees". Konferenz der International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), University of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdoms). 23.06.2021

05/2021
"Cultural Models, Narrative Identity and Literary Genre - Narrative Life Through Culturally Conventionalized Plots". Narrative2021 Konferenz, Ohio State University, Online-Konferenz. 27.05.2021

03/2021
“Cultural Models and Narrative Identity: The Case of Military, Autobiographical Writing“. Invited Guest Speaker at the Aston Literary Linguistics Research Seminar Series, Aston University, Birmingham (United Kingdom, held online). 03.03.2021

03/2020
"Autobiographical Storytelling: Constructing Relatively Stable Narrative Selfhood During Terminal Illness". Narrative 2020 Conference, Mississippi State University, New Orleans. 06.03.2020

10/2019
"Mission Narratives: Creating Purpose-Driven Narrative Identity through Autobiographical Storytelling after War-Experience". Narratives of Displacement Conference, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. 26. October 2019

07/2019
"Stable Narrative Selfhood - Creating an Interdisciplinary Model for Literary Analyses", Summerschool in Narrative Studies (SINS), Aarhus Universitet, Dänemark, 28. July - 2nd of August 2018



Forschungsinteressen

Cognitive Narratology

Ecocriticism

The Medical Humanities

Victorian Literature

Postcolonial/Indigenous Literatures

Contemporary Black British Writing

Lehre

Summer Term 2023
Academic Writing

Winter term 2022/23
Guest Lectureship: An Exploration of Fear: Gothic and Horror Literature of the 18th-20th Century (University of Witten-Herdecke, Studium Fundamentale)
Applications of Periods of English and American Literature

Summer term 2022
Contemporary Black British Writing
Practical Introduction to Literary Studies

Winter term 2021/22
“If you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain”: Contemporary Maori Literature
Applications of Periods of English and American Literature

Summer term 2021
Practical Introduction to Literary Studies

Winter term 2020/21
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Applications of Periods of English and American Literature

Summer term 2020
The Gothic Novel: Cognitive Approaches to Horror in Literature
Practical Introduction to Literary Studies

Winter term 2019/20
Dickens and the Victorian Era
Applications of Periods of English and American Literature

Summer term 2019
Practical Introduction to Literary Studies

Mitgliedschaften

International Society for the Study of Narrative

IGEL - International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

Deutscher Anglistenverband

Organisation von Konferenzen, Workshops, Summerschools, etc.

  • 05/2023: Organization and co-coordination of the 1st PhDnet doctoral Symposium, University of Helsinki. Guest speakers: Jan Rupp (JLU Gießen), Anna Ovaska (Tampere University), Natalya Bekhta (Tampere University)
  • 03/2023: Co-organization and coordination of the PhDnet alumni event, Bergamo University, Italy. Guest speakers: Angela Locatelli (emeriti, Bergamo University), Raul Calzoni (Bergamo University), Heta Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki ), Elisabeth Hermann (University of Warwick - online), Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Stockholm University, online), Emmanuel Stelzer (University of Verona)
  • 01/2023: Organization and coordination of the PhDnet Induction Week, Justus-Liebig University, Germany
  • 04/2021: Organization and coordination of the young researcher's Conference Narrattives of Body and Mind. Keynote Speakers: Leanne Dodd (School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University), Lieven ameel (Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University). April 2021
  • 11/2020 - 04/2021: Organization and management of the Pandemic Storytelling Event Series. Guest speakers: Erica Charters (Faculty of History, Oxford Univesity), Rita Charon (Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University), Elena Semino ((Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University), Jarmila Mildorf (Department of English and American Literature and Culture, Paderborn University), Stefan Iversen (Department for Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University), Molly Andrews (Department of Social Sciences, University of East London), Christoph ernst (Department of Media Studies, Bonn University) , Jens Schröter (Department of Media Studies, Bonn University), Ansgar Nünning (Department of English and American Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen), Vera Nünning (English Department, University of Heidelberg), Jim Phelan (Department of English, Ohio State University), Marina Grishakova (Professor, Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu), Anneke Sools Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente
    and the Research group on Narrative, Culture, and Cognition at the University of Tartu, Estonia. November 2020 - June 2021
  • 10/2020: Organization and coordination of the workshop The Study of Literature, Reading, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Concepts, and Terms. Participants: Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University), Alexander Bergs (Universität Osnabrück), Marisa Bortolussi (University of Alberta), Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris), Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University), Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia), Peter Dixon (University of Alberta), Richard Gerrig (Stony Brook University), Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University), Melanie Green (University at Buffalo), Chloe Harrison (Aston University), Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo), Moniek Kuijpers (University of Basel), Brian Schiff (The American University of Paris), Paul Sopčák (MacEwan University), Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham), Lieven Vandelanotte (University of Namur)
  • 10/2019 - 01/2020: Organization of the lecture series Empirical Approaches to Literature: Chances and Challenges. Guest Speakers: Chloe Harrison (Aston University), Melanie Green (University at Buffalo), Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University), Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (Universität des Saarlandes), Olivia da Costa-Fialho (Utrecht University), Riel Willems (Radboud University Nijmegen), Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen), Berenike Herrmann (Universität Bielefeld), Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon (University of Alberta),