Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies

Chair for English Literature and Gender Studies

 

 

How to contact me:

Mailing address:

E-Mail: ingrid.hotz-davies(at)uni-tuebingen.de

Englisches Seminar,

Universität Tübingen,

Wilhelmstraße 50,

72074 Tübingen

Room: 463

Phone: +49-(0)7071-2975254; Fax: +49-(0)7071-295760

 

Fields of interest and research:

Gender/Queer Studies; Women’s Literature from the Renaissance to Today; Early Modern Literature; communicating under conditions of (self)-censorship and interdiction.

 

Academic pathways:

MA/Staatsexamen at the University of Munich; PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada; Habilitation in Munich (2000); Professor for English Literature and Gender Studies in Tübingen since 2001.

 

Staff:

Rainer Schelkle: rainer.schelkle(at)gmx.de

Office: 462a; Phone: 0049-(0)7071-2976081

Area of specialization: contemporary literature, Deleuze, representations of reality

 

Additional appointments/functions:

Academic Coordinator in the international Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme “Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones” (Tübingen section):

http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ and

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/intrel/mundus/interzone.html

 

Academic Coordinator in the international Erasmus Mundus M.A. Programme „Crossways in European Humanities“ (Tübingen Section):

http://www.munduscrossways.eu/ and

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/intrel/mundus/crossways.html

 

Sprecherin des Promotionsverbunds "Abgrenzung - Ausgrenzung - Entgrenzung:
Gender als Prozess und Resultat von Grenzziehungen": http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/gendergrenzen/

 

Sprecherin der Landeskonferenz der Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an den wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen Baden-Württembergs (LakoG) (since 1.1.2008): http://www.lakog.uni-stuttgart.de/menue_links/lakog_startseite/index.html

 

2002-2006: Gleichstellungsbeauftragte Tübingen University

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching:

 

Current:

HS: Women’s Novels of the 1930s and 40s

HS: Textwucherungen – Wuchertexte (with Prof. Stefanie Gropper)

VL: Secrets, Lies and Closets: Structures of Disclosure and Non-Disclosure in English Literature from the Renaissance to Postmodernism

 

 

Upcoming Seminars (Summer Term 2011):  no seminars due to sabbatical

 

 

Selected recent courses (HS/OS and VL) :

SoS 10

HS: Jacobean City Plays: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

HS/OS: Nabokov (mit Schamma Schahadat, Slavistik)

HS/OS: Dreams, Hallucinations, Visions: The Languages of the Unconscious in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature

WS 09/10

HS: A Sly Modernism: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Stevie Smith

HS: Postmodern Realism: Theory and Experiments (with Tutor Rainer Schelkle)

 

SoS 09

HS: Camp Theory and Camp Literature (with Fabio Cleto, University of Bergamo)

LHS: The Didactics of ‘Landeskunde’: Canada (with Ellen Butzko, Teacher Training Seminar)

HS: Women’s Experimental Fiction and Poetry in the 20^th Century

WS 08/09:

HS: Die Literatur der Exzentrik (mit Stefanie Gropper, Skandinavistik)

VL: English Women’s Novels before 1830

HS: Modern Fiction and the Problem of Masculinity

SoS 08

HS: Konstrukte des Bösen in Literatur und Kriminologie (mit Prof. Kerner, Kriminologie)

HS. Queer Theatre of the 1990s and Beyond (with tutor Franziska Bergmann)

PSII:  Reading Poetry, Doing Literary History: Animal Poems from 1600 to Now

WS 07/08:

HS. Byron: Gender, Irony and Melancholy

HS: Transgressionen. Theorien der Grenzsetzung und der Grenzverletzung (mit Schamma Schahadat, Slavistik)

Lecture courses:

Same-Sex Desire in English Literature I and II: 1600 to Today

Women’s Literature I and II: 1600 to Today

Women’s Novels Before 1830

Jacobean Drama

The Sonnet

The Romantic Novel

 

 

 

Selected Publications:

Books:

Adversarial Stances: Strategies of Resistance in Selected Renaissance Writers (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995)

The Creation of Religious Identities by English Women Poets from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: Soulscapes (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2001)

with Anton Kirchhofer, eds., Psychoanalytic· ism: Uses of Psychoanalysis in Novels, Poems, Plays and Films (Trier: WVT Trier, 2000)

with Schamma Schahadat, eds., Ins Wort gesetzt, ins Bild gesetzt: Gender in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur (Bielefeld: transcript, 2007)

with Sirpa Leppänen and Anton Kirchhofer eds., Internet Fictions (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). 

Soon to appear: with Stefanie Gropper, eds. Special Edition of Gender Forum on the topic of „Eccentricity and Gender“.

Articles:

“A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Women Beware Women: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and   the Limitations of Satire,” Cahiers Elisabéthains 39 (1991): 29-39.

“‘My Name is Finis’: The Lonely Voice of Stevie Smith,” In Black and Gold: Contiguous Traditions in Post-War British and Irish Poetry, ed. C.C.Barfoot, DQR Studies in            Literature 13 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994): 219-234.

“‘Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord’: Das Problem der Untertänigkeit der Frau bei William Gouge, Rachel Speght und Margaret Fell”, Text und Geschlecht: Mann und Frau in der frühen Neuzeit ed. Rüdiger Schnell (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1997): 197-213.

 “What Freud Did for H.D.: The Story of an Appropriation”, in Psychoanalytic· ism: Uses of Psychoanalysis in Novels, Poems, Plays and Films, ed. H-D and Anton Kirchhofer (Trier: WVT Trier, 2000).

“Die Romanzen,” Shakespeare-Handbuch, Hg. Ina Schabert (Stuttgart: Kröner, 2000): 460-91.

“‘Nobly lighted while she sleeps’: Images of Desire in the Poetry of ‘Michael Field’,” Bi-Textualität: Inszenierungen des Paares, ed. Annegret Heitmann, Sigrid Nieberle, Barbara Schaff, Sabine Schülting (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001): 57-76.

“Feministische Literaturwissenschaft und Gender Studies,“ Literaturwissenwschaft in Theorie und Praxis, ed. Ralf Schneider (Tübingen: Narr, 2004)117-140

“Microtextual Cruelties and the Subversive Imagination in Ronald Firbank’s Novels,“ Critical Essays on Ronald Firbank, English Novelist, 1886-1926, ed. Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons (Lewiston: Mellen, 2004): 61-80.

“Plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible“: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man und die Grenzen der symbolischen Ordnung“, Krisen des Verstehens um 1800, ed, Sandra Heinen und Harald Nehr (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2004): 277-296.

“Shakespeare Theology: A Polemic,“ Wissenschaftliches Seminar Online 2 (2004) publ. Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/deutsch/index.html

“Dark Doors: The Exchange of Dangerous Knowledge Between Classes in Jacobean Drama”, Realigning Renaissance Culture: Intrusion and Adjustment in Early Modern Drama, eds. Enno Ruge and Stephan Laqué (Trier: wvt, 2004)

 “’No use Spoiling One’s Trip Worrying about Imaginary Police Men’: The Pleasures of the Closet in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Novels,” Anglistentag Proceedings 2004, ed. Lilo Moessner und Christa M. Schmidt (Trier: wvt, 2005): 183-193.

„Phantasien über das 17. Jahrhundert im zeitgenössischen historischen Roman Großbritanniens“, Ethik und Ästhetik der Gewalt, ed. Julia Dietrich und Uta Müller-Koch (Paderborn: Mentis, 2006): 101-124

„Verwerfungen des Closet in Joseph Conrads The Secret Sharer (1912)”. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, ed. Cordula Lemke und Claus Zittel (Berlin: Weidler, 2007: 201-226.

„Scham in den Romanen Jane Austens, oder: wie die Gender Studies auf den Affekt gekommen sind“, in Ins Wort gesetzt, ins Bild gesetzt: Gender in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur. Ed. H-D and Schamma Schahadat (Bielefeld: transcript, 2007), 181-206.

“Quentin Crisp und die Kunst der Schamlosigkeit”, Kulturen der Leidenschaften, Leidenschaften in den Kulturen, eds. Dorothee Kimmich und Schamma Schahadat, special edition von arcadia 44 (2009): 94-106

“Mirror Fictions: Babylon 5 and Its Dreamers”, in  Internet Fictions, eds. H-D, Anton Kirchhofer and Sirpa Leppänen (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).  84-104.