Birgit Neumann#
| Membership Number: | 4356 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2014 Professor/Chair of English Literature/Anglophone Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and since 2016 head of department
- 2012 - 2014 Director of the Graduate School for International Cultural Studies (University of Passau; with Prof. Dr. Ursula Reutner and Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmann)
- 2011 - 2014 Professor of English Studies (Cultural and Media Studies) at the University of Passau
- 2010/11 Acting Professor of English Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- 2008 - 2010 Senior Researcher, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
- 2008 Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2007 - 2008 Acting Professor of English Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
- 2006 - 2012 Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Fields of Scholarship
- Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
- Gender Studies
- Literary and Cultural Memory Studies
- Postcolonial and Material Ecocriticism
- Spatial Turn and Literary Studies
- Postcolonial, Global and Transcultural Studies
- British Empire and Literature
- Anglophone World Literatures
- Intermediality and Ekphrasis in Postcolonial Literatures
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Award for best PhD thesis, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
