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Dr. Deborah de Muijnck

De Muijnck
De Muijnck
About me

Dr. Deborah de Muijnck is the academic coordinator of the European PhD Network "Literary and Cultural Studies" at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In this position, she is responsible for the organisation and management of national and international research events, such as conferences, summerschools, and symposia, and represents the GCSC at these events. Furthermore, she supports the strategic management of the GCSC and is responsible for the Centre's internationalization, specifically in the context of bi-national degrees.
From 2019 - 2023, she was a research assistant at the Department of English Literature at RWTH Aachen University, where she completed her dissertation in 2022. In this work, titled Cultural Models of Narrative Identity: The Case of Military Autobiographical Writing, she sets out how British soldiers and veterans reconstruct their narrative identities after wartime experience through non-fictional autobiographical storytelling using cultural models of narrative identities, as well as narrative methods of trauma incorporation and narrative neutralization techniques. Her teaching foci are British and Anglophone literary studies, especially canonical and post-colonial literature. Other notable publications such as Pandemic Storytelling (Brill, forthcoming) address the reciprocal influence of pandemics and narrativity, as well as the influence of non-normative life experiences on narration (Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Brill, forthcoming.). Winter term 2022/23, she also functioned as a guest lecturer in the Studium Fundamentale at Witten/Herdecke University.

Her second monograph focuses on alternative epistemologies and ways of being from an ecocritical narratological perspective. In addition to ecocriticism, cognitive narratology, and the medical humanities, her research interests include contemporary literature and literary history, as well as postcolonial/indigenous literature.

Dr. de Muijnck worked as an online editor in Cologne, Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, and Aachen, and traveled around the globe as an analog photographer and artist from 2015 until she settled in academia in 2019.

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7863-2011

Publications

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. 
Organisation Research Events

  • 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),