Dr Denise Wong
Postdoctoral Researcher for the DFG/AHRC-funded UKRI project ‘Reading Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital: Narrative, Technology, and Cognition in the Twenty-First Century’
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Research Interests
- Intermediality
- Multimodal literature
- Narrative theory
- Affect theory
- Cognitive literary studies
- Contemporary literature
- Critical race theory
- Digital media
- Empirical literary studies
- Philosophy of time
Academic Appointments
| 01/2024 – 05/2024 | Adjunct Lecturer, Binghamton University (State University of New York) |
| Since 10/2023 | Lecturer, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen |
| Since 09/2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen |
| Since 11/2022 | Reviews Co-Editor, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
| 09/2021 – 08/2023 | Teaching Associate and Teaching Fellow Co-Representative School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London |
| 09/2019 – 08/2023 | Teaching Associate School of English and Drama; School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London |
Education
| 09/2018 – 09/2022 |
PhD, thesis: ‘The Poetics of Irony and Anticipatory Shame in Contemporary You-Narration’ |
| 09/2016 – 09/2017 |
MA (Distinction) in English Studies: Contemporary Writing |
| 09/2012 – 06/2013 | International Exchange Student (Nominated) School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex |
| 09/2010 – 05/2014 | BA in English Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University |
Honours and Awards
| 2022 |
Honourable mention, Alan Nadel Prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay, |
Publications
Edited Collections
Wong, Denise. ‘The Subversive Cultural Impact of Second-Person Narratives’, Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies, eds. Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. Routledge, in preparation.
Wong, Denise. ‘You-narration and Anticipatory Shame in the Millennial Novel’, Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, eds. Loïc Bourdeau and Christopher Lloyd. Edinburgh University Press, under contract.
Journal Articles
Wong, Denise. ‘Disaffection and You-Narration in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy (1988–2018)’, DIEGESIS, 13.1, forthcoming June 2024.
Wong, Denise. ‘Your Choice and Negative Affect in Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice (2014) and Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019), Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literakich (or, The Problems of Literary Genres), 64 (2022), 35–50. Special issue: Transmedial Second-Person Narratives.
Wong, Denise. ‘Gazing beyond the fourth wall: shame and second-person narration in Fleabag’, Textual Practice, 36 (2022), 1689–1711. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1971751
Wong, Denise. ‘Distancing Affect in Fleabag’, Alluvium, 7.5 (2019), DOI: 10.7766/alluvium.v7.5.05
Scholarly Reviews
Wong, Denise. Review of Marie-Laure Ryan, A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If, Modern Language Review, forthcoming October 2023.
Wong, Denise. Review of Kaye Mitchell, Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect, C21 Literature, June 2023.
Wong, Denise. Review of Xine Yao, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, Journal of Asian American Studies, March 2023.
Wong, Denise. Review of Sandrine Sorlin, The Stylistics of ‘You’: Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects, DIEGESIS, December 2023.
Invited Talks
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘Anticipatory Shame in Contemporary You-Narration’, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 29 November.
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘You-Narration in the Millenial Novel’, British and Irish Association for Narrative Studies (BIANS), co-hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies, University of York, 15 November.
Conference Presentations
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘Division and Revision in Contemporary You-Narratives’, Cognition, Culture, Narrative, hosted by the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 6–8 December.
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘The Fictions of Agency in You-Narratives’, Narrative Matters, Tampere University, 15–17 June.
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘Storyworld Possible Selves and Narrative Temporality in You-Narration’, Narralincog, University of Alcalá, Madrid, 17–19 May.
Wong, Denise. (2023): ‘You-Narration in the Millennial Novel’, International Society for the Study of Narrative, Texas Women’s University, Dallas, Texas, 1–4 March.
Wong, Denise. (2022): ‘You-Narration and Anticipatory Shame in the Millennial Novel’, International Society for the Study of Narrative, Chichester, 27–30 June.
Wong, Denise. (2021): ‘Not You: Negotiating Choice and Shame through Writing in Patrick Flanery’s The Ginger Child (2019)’, American Comparative Literature Association, 8–11 April.
Wong, Denise. (2021): ‘No Choice in Narrative Collaboration: Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice (2014) and “Talk Fiction”’, International Society for the Study of Narrative, 19–23 May.
Wong, Denise. (2021): ‘The Inescapable Shame of Interior Dialogue in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019)’, Poetics and Linguistics Association, 7–9 July.
Wong, Denise. (2020): ‘Your Fault: Negative Affect and the Second-Person Narrative in Contemporary Literature’, International Society for the Study of Narrative, Mississippi State University, New Orleans, 5–7 March.
Panels and Seminars (Convened and Invited)
| 2023 |
Respondent at ‘Editors Roundtable’, Panel for the International Society for the Study of Narrative Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Caucus, 29 September Co-organiser, ‘Narrative Form and Crisis’, Double Panel for the International Society for the Study of, 1–4 March |
| 2021 |
Moderator, ‘Unnatural Narratology and Digital Fiction’, Virtual Reading Group for the International Society for the Study of Narrative Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Caucus, 8 November Respondent at ‘Withstanding the Weather: Black Feminism and Cultural Politics of Unfeeling, talk by Dr Xine Yao, Following the Affective Turn, Postgraduate Research Lecture Series, Royal Holloway University of London, 27 October |
| 2019-2020 |
Co-organiser, Postgraduate Research Seminar Series, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London |
Teaching Experience / List of Courses
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
- Workshop: ‘You-Narration and Afrofuturism in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (2015)’
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
- Intermedial and Multimodal Literature: 18th Century to the Present
Binghamton University
- ‘Global Anglophone Narratives’
Queen Mary University of London
- ESH6000 Dissertation
- ESH293 The Long Contemporary
- ESH124 Poetry
- ESH123 Narrative
- ESH102 Reading, Theory and Interpretation
- POL113 Politics in Action
- POL110 Thinking Politically
Memberships
American Comparative Literature Association
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
British and Irish Association for Narrative Studies
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
International Society for the Study of Narrative
Poetics and Linguistics Association