Dr. Natalie Dederichs
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Projekt
Atmosfears. Reading the Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction
Betreuer*innen
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Roman Bartosch
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
As the horrors of anthropogenic climate change unfold faster than expected, the fascination with darker aspects of the non-human or more-than-human environment seems to be more topical than ever. In my dissertation, I elaborate on the ‘atmospheric turn’ by exploring the uncanny relational aesthetics and ethics inherent to literary figurations of atmosphere. Channeling insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of our planetary existence and combining them with approaches to reading in fields as diverse as ecocriticism, reader-response-criticism, affect theory, and media studies, I will provide theoretical ground for discussions on the role of literary atmospheres in making tangible the uncanny interrelatedness of matter and text, reader and world. In this context, my readings of selected works of contemporary Anglophone ecofiction as well as of more experimental forms of locative narrative will point to the manifold ways in which literary encounters with the atmospheric may challenge our social and cultural constructions of human agency.
Profil
- Since 04/2023
Postdoc at the English Department II (University of Cologne) - 11/2020 - 03/2023
Teacher at different schools in North Rhine-Westphalia - 10/2017–10/2020
PhD student and research assistant at the RTG 2291 (University of Bonn) - 10/2016 - 12/2017
Research Master programme of the a.r.t.e.s Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Cologne) - 10/2015–06/2016
Erasmus exchange (University of Warwick) -
10/2011–09/2017
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education in English and German language teaching (University of Cologne)
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Co-organisation of the international conference Figur(ation)en der 'Gegenwart' / Figure(ation)s of the 'Present', University of Bonn, 5th-7th February 2020
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"Reading Matters, Material Readings: Poetics of Relationality in a Storied World", CSIA IV Beyond Humanism: Cyborgs – Animals – Data Swarms, University of Cologne, 25th September 2019
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“Crisis, Temporality, and Alternative Languages for the Present and the Future”, Workshop with Maria Boletsi, University of Bonn, 23rd May 2019
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"Material Ethics and the Affective Agency of (Uncanny) Literary Atmospheres", Tracing Non-Human Agency in Literatures in English, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 16th November 2018
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"Teaching Literary Atmospheres: A Theoretical Ground for a Hazy Matter", Cultivating Sustainability: Education and the Environmental Humanities, University of Cologne, 5th October 2018
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"Zom-Body to Love: Young Adult Zombie Fiction and the (not so) Monstrous Other", Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1st August 2018
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with Lisa Utsch & Marius Zander: Das Debüt und sein Autor. Laborgespräch mit Jan Valk, Karl Wolfgang Flender und Ursula Geitner, University of Bonn, 20th July 2018
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"Deadly Entertaining Disasters: Mediated Landscapes of Fear in Climate Fiction", Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic, Trinity College Dublin, 18th November 2017
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"Towards Ambient Poetics: Literature and the Challenge of Representing Environmental Crisis". a.r.t.e.s. forum 2017: environment | agency, University of Cologne, 7th July 2017
- asle-uki
- Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum für Didaktiken der Geisteswissenschaften (IFDG, Cologne)
- Erste Generation Promotion e.V.
- Ecocriticism & Theories of Reading
- Post- and Transhumanism
- Locative Narrative & Digital Fiction
- Gothic & Horror Studies
- English Language Teaching
Publikationen
Monographien
2023: Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction
Bielefeld: transcript 2023.
Aufsätze
Teaching Literary Atmospheres: A Theoretical Ground for a Hazy Matter
in: Roman Bartosch (Hrsg.): Cultivating Sustainability in Language and Literature Pedagogy. Steps to an Educational Ecology, London & New York: Routledge, S. 93-107.
2021: Creatures of Story, Stories of Creatures: Transformative Reading and the Agency of Literature
in: Johannes Schick, Nina Engelhardt (Hrsg.): Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken, Bielefeld: transcript 2021, S. 231–247.
2015: Grün ist das neue Schwarz. Environ-Metal als Ausdruck umweltpolitischen Protests
in: Roman Bartosch, David Stoop (Hrsg.): (Un)Politischer Metal? Musikalische Artikulationen des Politischen zwischen Ideologie und Utopie, Trier: WVT 2015, S. 89–105.