Prof. Dr. Sandra Dinter
Associate Professor for British Studies
British Literature and Culture, Study Counsellor for British Literature, Erasmus Coordinator of the IAA
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Key aspects of activity
- British Literature and Culture from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
- Victorian Studies and neo-Victorianism
- Mobility Studies and the Spatial Turn
- Gender Studies
- Medical Humanities
- Literary and Cultural Representations of Childhood
Academic CV
since 4/2022
Junior Professor of British Literature and Culture, University of Hamburg
9/2022-9/2023
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Toronto
4/2018-3/2022
Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
4/2017-3/2018
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
4/2016-3/2017
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, RWTH Aachen
10/2014-4/2015
DAAD Visiting Scholar, Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media, University of Reading
10/2012-6/2017
PhD, University of Bielefeld
10/2011-9/2012
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Leibniz University Hanover
9/2010-6/2011
DAAD Language Assistant, German Department, University of Edinburgh
10/2008-8/2010
Master of Advanced Anglophone Studies and Master of Education, Leibniz University Hanover
8/2007-5/2008
Visiting Graduate Student and Research Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis
9/2006-3/2007
Erasmus+ Studies, University of Bristol
10/2004-8/2007
Bachelor of Arts, Leibniz University Hannover
Publications
Monograph
Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel. New York: Routledge, 2019. (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Reviewed in Anglia 138.4; Anglistik 31.1; C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 8.1; Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 2021
Edited Collections
(with Sarah Schäfer-Althaus). Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture) [forthcoming]
Reviewed in Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 27.1; Literature and History 32.2
(with Johanna Marquardt). Nationalism and the Postcolonial. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2021. (Cross/Cultures 214)
(with Ralf Schneider). Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society. New York: Routledge, 2018. (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
„The Brontë Sisters on Foot: Walking as a Reconfiguration of the Brontë Myth in Sally Wainwright’s BBC Biopic To Walk Invisible.“ English Studies, vol. 101, no. 8, 2020, pp. 961-978.
„Re-Walking the Paths of Pride and Prejudice: Intersectional Perspectives on Pedestrian Mobility in Jo Baker’s Longbourn.“ Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, vol. 137, no. 1, 2019, pp. 105-125.
(with Stefanie John). „Legacies of the Romantic Child: Teaching Post-Romantic Constructions of Childhood in Contemporary British Fiction.“ Teaching the Romantic with the Contemporary, edited by D. B. Ruderman and Rachel Feder. The Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 2017.
„Spatial Inscriptions of Childhood: Transformations of the Victorian Garden in The Secret Garden, Tom’s Midnight Garden, and The Poison Garden.“ Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 3, 2015, pp. 217-237.
„Plato’s Cave Revisited: Epistemology, Perception and Romantic Childhood in Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010).“ C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 53-69.
„The Mad Child in the Attic: John Harding’s Florence & Giles as a Neo-Victorian Reworking of The Turn of the Screw.“ Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, pp. 60-88.
Book Chapters
(with Sarah Schäfer-Althaus). “Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction.” Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture, edited by Sandra Dinter und Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 1-26. (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture)
„Claiming the Flâneur’s Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.“ The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter, edited by Carmen Dexl and Silvia Gerlsbeck, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 173-194. (Palgrave Studies in Representing Gender)
„Nationalism and the Postcolonial: An Introduction.“ Nationalism and the Postcolonial, edited by Sandra Dinter and Johanna Marquardt, Brill/Rodopi, 2021, pp. 1-20. (Cross/Cultures 214)
„The Spatiality of Crisis: Hotels in Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers and On Chesil Beach.“ Reading Ian McEwan's Mature Fiction: New Critical Approaches, edited by Armelle Parey and Isabelle Roblin, Presses Universitaires de Nancy – Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2020, pp. 49-64.
„Child Bodies in the British Novel of the 1980s.“ Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture, edited by Sara Strauss and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Winter, 2020, pp. 69-88. (Anglistik & Englischunterricht 91)
„‚A Voodoo Doll in Diapers’: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin (2003).“ Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures, edited by Monica Flegel and Christopher Parkes, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 217-236. (Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature)
(with Ralf Schneider). „Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction.“ Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society, edited by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-16. (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
„The Child Narrator in Contemporary British Fiction and Literary Criticism: The Case of Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011).“ Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society, edited by Sandra Dinter and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2018, pp. 50-66. (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Handbook Entries & Reference Works
„John Burnside.“ Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Sebastian Domsch et al. München: edition text + kritik, 2018. 106th supplement. [24 pages]
„Ali Smith.“ Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Sebastian Domsch et al. München: edition text + kritik, 2018. 105th supplement. [19 pages]
Reviews
Review of Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 159-161.
Review of Shawna Ross, Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene. English Studies, vol. 102, no. 3, 2021, pp. 385-387.
Review of Marion Gymnich et al., The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2020, pp. 173-174.
Review of Tim Oliver, Understanding Brexit: A Concise Introduction. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 104-106.
Review of Kathrin Tordasi, Women by the Waterfront: Modernist (Re)Visions of Gender, Self and Littoral Space. Anglia: Journal of English Philology, vol. 137, no. 3, 2019, pp. 512-514.
Review of Bastian Kuhl, Verhandlungen von Kindlichkeit: Die englischen Schauspieltruppen der Shakespeare-Zeit. Anglistik, vol. 30, no. 1, 2019, pp. 183-184.
Review of Sonja Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day (eds.), The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture. Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019, pp. 206-215.
Review to Anette Pankratz and Claus Ulrich Viol (eds.), (Un)Making the Monarchy. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 211-214.
Videos and Podcasts
Interdisciplinary Podcast "Interspaces" of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research of Bielefeld University with Sandra Dinter and Marietta Zille on "Illness and Health in Medicine and Literature" (in German):
https://interspaces.letscast.fm/episode/episode-5-krankheit-und-gesundheit-in-medizin-und-literatur
Contribution to “Augenblicke für Forschung”, a series of academic talks on YouTube hosted by the Daimler and Benz Foundation with a talk on “Women Walkers in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”, Video
Grants, Awards, and Third-Party Funding
2022
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2021
Postdoctoral Grant, Daimler und Benz Stiftung
2021
Research Grant of the Emerging Talents Initiative, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2019
Conference Travel Grant, DAAD
2019-2023
Postdoctoral Fellowship “The Young ZiF”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
2019
Travel Grant for Research at the British Library in London, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
2019
Conference Funding for “Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain”, Fritz Thyssen Foundation (with Sarah Schäfer-Althaus)
2019
Funding of the Lecture Series “Distinction, Exclusion and Mobility: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Inequality”, Dr Alfred Vinzl Foundation
2017
Helene Richter Award for PhD Thesis, The German Association for the Study of English
2016
PhD Completion Grant, Young Researchers’ Fund, University of Bielefeld
2014
Workshop Grant for “Transformations of Childhood in Contemporary Britain”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (with Ralf Schneider)
2013-2014
DAAD Short-Term Research Grant
2012-2015
Full PhD Grant, Graduate School of Literary Studies and Linguistics, University of Bielefeld
2010-2011
DAAD Grant for Language Assistantship
2006-2010
Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Service for the Profession
since 10/2023
Liaison Professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
since 2023
Reviewer for German Research Foundation (DFG) and Doctoral Scholarships of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
since 4/2022
Academic advisor, Erasmus coordinator, and coordinator of “Juniorstudium”, Department of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
since 2020
Peer reviewer for the journals Humanities, Journal for the Studies of British Cultures, Neo-Victorian Studies, Childhood in the Past
2018-2023
Elected board member of The German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistikverband e.V.)
Current Projects
Second Book Project: Bringing together gender studies and mobility studies, my book project Rural Women Walkers in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (working title) examines representations and functions of female walking in British literature and culture of the nineteenth century beyond the paradigm of flânerie. My case studies include canonical and lesser-known novels, poetry, short fiction published in periodicals, journalist and autobiographical writing, and illustrations. The project is supported with generous funding from the Daimler and Benz Foundation.
DACH Victorianists: My colleague Dr Ariane de Waal (Halle-Wittenberg) and I have set up an informal network for Victorianist scholars in the D-A-CH region. Our inaugural online workshop took place on 3 December 2021 via Zoom. Our second workshop is scheduled for 1 July 2022. Drop me an email if you would like to receive more information about our events and/or join the network.