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Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of English and American Studies

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Prof. Dr. Stephan Karschay

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Associate Professor for British Studies

British Literature and Cultural Studies

Address

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Language, Literature, and Media II
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23
20146 Hamburg

Office hours

In summer term 2022 and in winter term 2022/ 23 on leave for a temporal professorship.

Key aspects of activity

  • Literature and science in the nineteenth century
  • Literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle
  • Gothic literature, culture and media
  • Crime and detection in literature and film/TV
  • Ecocriticism: literature and ecology
  • Visual culture
  • Scandal and censorship

Publications

Monograph

Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).


Edited Volumes

Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Special issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 27/2 (2020) [with Katharina Boehm].

Hard Times, 84 (2008): The Politics of British Humour [with Joanna Rostek and Gerold Sedlmayr].


Articles

“Decadent Echoes, the Language of Censorship and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness.” Symbolism, 21 (2021): 55-75.

“A Novel of Sex and War: The Scandal of D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow.”, Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. eds. Philip Jacobi & Anette Pankratz (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021), 165-180.

“Introduction: Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 27/2 (2020): 115-128 [with Katharina Boehm].

“Scandals in British Culture.” How to Do Cultural Studies: Approaches, Ideas, Scenarios. Ed. Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2019), 191-220.

“Great Britain or Little England? Brexit and the London Olympics Opening Ceremony.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 26/1 (2019): 59-72.

“George Moore, Esther Waters.” Handbook of the English, 1830-1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), 482-497.

“Doyle and the Criminal Body.” The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Janice M. Allan and Christopher Pittard (Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2019), 96-110.

“Jack Is Back: Murder, Detection and Victorian Attitudes to Class in Contemporary British Crime TV.” Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures. Ed. Christina Flotmann-Scholz and Anna Lienen (Heidelberg: Winter, 2019), 47-70 [with Philip Jacobi].

“Mental Illness.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), 154-157.

“Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), 239-241.

“Foreword.” Oscar Wilde – A Writer Trapped by His Own Words: An Exhibition Catalogue. Ed. Jörg W. Rademacher (Coesfeld: Elsinor, 2017), 79-82.

“Vorwort.” Oscar Wilde – Als Schriftsteller verfangen in den eigenen Worten. Ein Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. Jörg W. Rademacher (Coesfeld: Elsinor, 2017), 8-11.

“Man haf fe do wha man haf fe do: Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman.” Anglistik, 27/1 (2016): 125-136 [with Joanna Rostek].

“Laughing in Horror: Hybrid Genre and the Grotesque Body in Psychoville.” British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. Ed. Jürgen Kamm and Birgit Neumann (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 341-358.

“An Epidemic of Perversions: Normativity and Deviance in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis.” Crimes of Passion: Repräsentationen der Sexualpathologie im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Oliver Böni and Japhet Johnstone (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015), 255-276.

“The Victorian Housing of Gender: The Semiotics of Ideology and Social Reality.” Moderne Sprachen, 55.1 (2011): 39-60.

“(Pre-)Destined to Fail: Atavism and Character Development in Late-Victorian Fiction.” From the Cradle to the Grave: Life-Course Models in Literary Genres. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Sarah Herbe (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), 177-191.

“‘Only Connect!’ The Negotiation of Identities in E.M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.” Insular Mentalities: Mental Maps of Britain. Essays in Honour of Bernd Lenz. Ed. Jürgen Kamm and Gerold Sedlmayr (Passau: Stutz, 2007), 201-213.


Reviews

Instabile Herrscherfiguren im Norden: Zwischen nuanciertem Psychogramm und autoritärer Pose. In: Shakespeare-Jahrbuch, 156 (2020): 207-221 (with Ute Berns, Benjamin Kohlmann, and  Anca-Raluca Radu).

Feldmann, Doris and Christian Krug, eds. Viktorianismus: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung. In: Anglia, 133/1 (2015): 195-198.

Wasson, Sara. Urban Gothic and the Second World War: Dark London and Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860. In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 60/2 (2012): 196-198.

Brosch, Renate, ed. Victorian Visual Culture. In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 16/2 (2009): 181-184.


Translations

[Forthcoming] “Cousin Marshall.” Harriet Martineau. Ed. Bernd Lenz. Passau: Stutz.