PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Photo: Foto: Konrad Pietrzak

Substitute professor for British Studies, BA subject advisor

Address

University of Hamburg

Faculty of Humanities

Department of Language, Literature, and Media II

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23

20146 Hamburg

Office hours

Since October 2019 she is at the University of Vienna, Austria.
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/pietrzak-franger/

Key aspects of activity

Adaptation, Intermediality and Transmediality Studies, Visual Culture Studies
Medicine, Literature and Culture, Medical Humanities
Victorian und Neo-Victorian Studies
Gender und Masculinity Studies
Biographic Fiction, Biopic
Postcolonial Studies

Career

Since 10/2014	Associate Professor, Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
09 - 10/ 2017	DAAD Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Haus, New York University, USA
08/2016	DAAD Visiting Academic, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
04/2013 – 10/2014	Research Associate, TU Braunschweig, Faculty of Humanities and Education, English Seminar
08/2011 – 07/2012	Visiting Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Department of Anthropology
07/2007 – 03/2013	Research Associate, Universität Siegen, Philosophische Fakultät, Seminar für Anglistik
Since 04/2011	Book Review Editor, Journal Adaptation (Oxford University Press), Great Britain
04/2004 – 07/2007	Adjunct Instructor, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Department of English and Linguistics
2004 – 2007	Freelance journalist for the interdisciplinary, academic journal Ha!art: Interdyscyplinarny Magazyn Kulturalno-Artystyczny, Poland
07/2002 - 03/2003	English teacher, Gymnasium Jana Pawła II in Tarnawa Dolna, Poland

Academic Career

07/2007 – 09/2014	Habilitation at the University of Siegen on: „Spectres of Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility“
04/2003 – 11/2006	Doctoral thesis at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, International Performance and Media Studies Programme, Subject of the thesis: „The Male Body and Masculinity. Representations of Men in British Visual Culture of the 1990s“
09/2001 – 03/2002	Studies abroad at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France. courses on English and Irish literature, culture and film, as well as in English art history
10/1997 – 06/2002	Master studies at the Jagiellonen-Universität in Krakau, Poland Majors: English Philology (British and American Literature, Pedagogics) Master thesis on: „Languages of the Body: Francis Bacon and Alina Szapocznikow“

Main Research Areas

Adaptation, Intermediality and Transmediality Studies, Visual Culture Studies
Medicine, Literature and Culture, Medical Humanities
Victorian und Neo-Victorian Studies
Gender und Masculinity Studies
Biographic Fiction, Biopic
Postcolonial Studies

Current Book Projects

Handbook: The English Novel, 1830-1900 (edited with Martin Middeke, DeGruyter 2017).

Scholarships, Awards and Funding

09 – 10/2017	DAAD Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Haus, New York University, USA link
08/2016	DAAD Visiting Fellowship, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien
2015	BritCult Award der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen für die Habilitationsschrift „Spectres of Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility“
2014	VolkswagenStiftung, mit PD Dr. Lucia Krämer, Organisation der Konferenz: Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation; Schloss Herrenhausen, 25.-27. Februar
2013	DFG, with PD Dr. Pascal Nicklas: Organisation der Konferenz: Medical Power and Ethics: Mediality and Media Convergence, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, February 12-14.
2013 – 2014	FraMeS: Frauenspezifisches Mentoring Siegen, Universität Siegen.
08/2011 – 07/2012	Visiting Fellowship –VolkswagenStiftung, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
2012	DAAD Reisestipendium für die 7th Annual Conference of The Association of Adaptation Studies, York, UK
2009	Förderung der Universität Siegen „Projekte zur Gleichstellung“ for a research stay at the Wellcome Library, London, Great Britain
2009	DFG, with Prof. E. Voigts-Virchow, Organisation der Konferenz: Darwin our Contemporary – Re-Imaginations and Medialisations of Darwin and Cultures of Neo-Darwinian Ideas, Siegen University, Artur-Woll-Haus, November 27-28.
2008	DFG, CDE, with Prof. E. Voigts-Virchow, conference organization: Adaptations – Performing across Media and Genres, 17th CDE Annual Conference, Attendorn, May 1-4.
2008	DFG travel funds for the North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Yale University, New Haven, USA
07/2004 – 07/2006	Doctoral scholarship, Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz

Publications

I. Monographs

II. Edited Volumes, Anthologies, Special Issues

III. Editions/ Journal

IV. Essays and Articles

(with Antonija Primorac) „Introduction: What is Global Neo-Victorianism?“ Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation: Transnational Dissemination of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Texts – Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies Journal 8:1 (2015): 1-16, (peer-reviewed).
„Restrained Glamour: Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina (2012), Postfeminism and Transmedia Biopolitics.“ The Politics of Adaptation. Ed. by Dan Hassler-Forest and Pascal Nicklas. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 243-256 (peer-reviewed).
„Virtual Reality and Dystopia in the Matrix Trilogy.“ Dystopian Narratives. Ed. by Eckart Voigts. WVT, 2015. 347-362.
(with Martha Stoddard-Holmes) „Disease, Communication, and the Ethics of (In)Visibility.“ Special Symposium Issue of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 11:4 (2014): 441-444.
„Introduction.“ Women, Beauty, and Fashion (History of Feminism). Ed. by Monika Pietrzak-Franger. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. iv-li.
(with E. Voigts) „Introduction: Cultural Reflections on Darwin and Their Historical Evolution.“ Reflecting on Darwin. Ed. by Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. 1-13 (peer-reviewed).
„Strenghtening the Skein: Art, Biography and Gender Politics in Christopher Hamptons’ Carrington.“ Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic. Ed. by Marta Minier and Maddalena Pennacchia. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014, 161-178, (peer-reviewed).
„Serial Politics of Appropriation and Transmedia Storytelling: From Breaking Bad to the Occupy Movement.“ Media Economies. Ed. by Marcel Hartwig, Evelyne Keitel and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2014, 159-178.
„Screen Adaptations of Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth (1970).“ Modern British Drama on Screen. Ed. by Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 169-191 (peer-reviewed).
„From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect and Contemporary Exhibition Projects. “ After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind. Ed. by Angelique Richardson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 193-214 (peer-reviewed).
„Codes of Discretion: Silence, Ethics and Doctor-Patient Communication in Emma Frances Brooke’s A Superfluous Woman (1894).“ The Writing Cure: Literature and Medicine in Context. Ed. by Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich and Jarmila Mildorf. Zürich: Lit, 2013. 155-171.
(with M. Hartwig) „Conceptions of Childhood in Renaissance Midwife Manuals: Between Naturalistic and Religious Interpretations.“Childhood in the English Renaissance. Ed. by Anja Müller. Trier: WVT, 2013. 133-144.
„Conversing with Ghosts: Or the Ethics of Adaptation.“ Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation. Ed. by Pascal Nicklas and Oliver Lindner. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2012. 70‑88.
„Körpergrenzen: Maskulinitätskonstrukte in der britischen Kunst der 90er Jahre.“ Ambivalente Männlichkeit: Maskulinitätsdiskurse aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Ed. by Uta Fenske and Gregor Schuhen. Ridgebrook: Barbara Budrich, 2012. 178-212.
„‚Those Ill Things‘: On Hidden Spectacles and the Ethics of Display.“ Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. Special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2 (2011): 24-48. Web. 20 Jan. 2012 (peer-reviewed).
„Envisioning the Ripper’s Visions: Adapting Myth in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell.“ Adapting the Nineteenth Century: Revisiting, Revising and Rewriting the Past. Special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies 2.2 (Winter 2009/2010): 157-185. Web. 10 Oct. 2010 (peer-reviewed).
„Mapping Polish Identities on the British Stage.“ Staging Interculturality. Ed. by Werner Huber, Margarete Rubik, Julia Novak. Trier: WVT, 2010. 219-236.
(with E. Voigts-Virchow) „Staging the Palimpsest: An Introduction to Adaptation and Adaptation in Performance.“ Adaptations - Performing across Media and Genres. Ed. Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts-Virchow. Trier: WVT, 2009. 1-16.
„Silencing the Male: Rochester’s Muteness.“ NJES 7.1 (2008): 11-32. Web. 10 Oct. 2010 (peer-reviewed).
„What Headscarves (Un)veil: Annexing Bodies of German Minority Women.“ New Subjectivities: Negotiating Citizenship in the Context of Migration and Diversity. Eds. Dorota Golańska and Aleksandra M. Różalska. Lódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, 2008. 49-64.
„Multi-Mediatised Intersubjectivity.“ Performing the Matrix: Mediating Cultural Performances. Eds. Meike Wagner and Wolf-Dieter Ernst. Munich: e-podium, 2008. 121-136.
„‚The Bugger King.‘ The Body in the Theatre of Mark Ravenhill.“ Beyond Aesthetics: Performance, Media, and Cultural Studies. Eds. Christopher Balme and Meike Wagner. Trier: WVT, 2004. 65-71.
„Body Languages: Francis Bacon and Alina Szapocznikow.“ Between Two Cultures: Poland and Britain. Edited by Peter Leese. Poznań: British Council Publishing, 2004. 161-178.
„Hamlet Jako Medialny Palimpsest.“ („Hamlet als ein medialer Palimpsest“) Ha!art: Interdyscyplinarny Magazyn Kulturalno-Artystyczny 27 (2007): 66-71.
„Z Pozą im do Twarzy: Igraszki Kampowe Amandy Lepore i Davida LaChapelle’a.“ („Gender-Konstruktionen von Amanda Lepore und David LaChapelle“) Panoptikum 6 (2007): 51-60.
„Pomniki Gejowskie.“ („Gay-Denkmale“) Ha!art: Interdyscyplinarny Magazyn Kulturalno-Artystyczny 25 (2006): 92-97.

V. Reviews, Conference and Exhibition Bulletins

Extracurricular items

Jan. 16, 2018	Taboo-Breaking Fashion – Graduate Student Conference, Universität Hamburg
Dec. 15, 2017	Death and Dying – Booklet; with Prof. Dr. G. Mitchell, Ida Roscher and students of British Studies and Theology
Feb. 01, 2017	Death and Dying – Pop-Up Exhibition; with Prof. Dr. G. Mitchell, Ida Roscher and students of British Studies and Theology, Gipsabguss Sammlung, Universität Hamburg
July 02, 2016	Remix Cultures – Joint Student Conference, Universität Hamburg; with Prof. Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig
Jan. 29–30, 2016	The City of the Future – Graduate Student Congress, Universität Hamburg
Nov. 07, 2015	Radio-Interview, „Lady Florence Dixie“, Narr. Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann. WDR
2013 – 2014	Jurymitglied Daniil Pashkoff Prize for Creative Writing in English by a Non-Native Speaker
10/2013	Theaterexkursion London, German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in English; with Prof. Eckart Voigts
Jan. 06, 2012	Radio-Interview, „Neo-Viktorianer und Steampunk“, Narr. Dennis Moebus. Scala – Aktuelles aus der Kultur. WDR5
Jan. 28, 2011	Victorian Intertexts and Subtexts – Student Conference, Universität Siegen; with Dr. Mark Berninger, Universität Mainz
Jan. 08–09, 2010	Master- und Doktorandenkolloquium, Haus Nottbeck, Oelde; with Prof. Eckart Voigts, Prof. Christoph Ribbat, JProf. Miriam Strube, Universität Paderborn
2007 – 2008	Organization of the Siegen theatre group „Desperate Thespians“; with Prof. Eckart Voigts

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

2018	Menber of the organization committee of the Summer School „Global Humanities in Transnational Exchange“, UHH, Fudan University, Shandong University, China,; September 10. –24.; with Prof. Gordon Mitchell, Ni Shaofeng, Ise Gainza
2016/ 17	Lecture series „Immer noch Shakespeare?!“, Universität Hamburg; with Prof. Ute Berns and JProf. Stephan Karschay
2016	Member of the organization committee of the Anglistentag, Universität Hamburg, September 21.–24.
2016	„Mash-ups“-Sektion, Anglistentag, Universität Hamburg, September 21.–24., with Prof. Dr. Lucia Krämer
2015	Transforming Cities: Narratives of Urban Change in the 19th and 21st Centuries – International Conference; Neuer Senatssaal, TU Braunschweig, July 3.–4, 2015; with Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts and Dr. Nora Pleßke https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/Medien-DB/anglistik/flyer_transforming_cities_konferenz.pdf
2015	Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation – International Conference; Schloss Herrenhausen, February 25–27, 2015; with PD Dr. Lucia Krämer https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/anglistik/seminar/liku/forschung/projekte
2014	Medical Power and Ethics: Mediality and Media Convergence, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, February 12–14; with PD Dr. Pascal Nicklas https://www.medienkonvergenz.uni-mainz.de/files/2014/01/poster-e1390212683577.png
2013	Member of the organization committee of the conference Adaptation, Intermediality, Participatory Culture, TU Braunschweig, September 24.
2012	Member of the organization committee of the conference Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics, Universität Amsterdam, June 13–15.
2012	Disease, Communication and the Ethics of (In)Visibility, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, February 6–7.
2011	Victorian Intertexts and Subtexts, Universität Siegen, January 28, with Dr. M. Berninger
2009	Darwin our Contemporary – Re-Imaginations and Medialisations of Darwin and Cultures of Neo-Darwinian Ideas, Universität Siegen, November 27–28, with Prof. Dr. E. Voigts-Virchow
2008	Adaptations – Performing across Media and Genres, 17th CDE Annual Conference, Attendorn, May 1–4, 2008, with Prof. Dr. E. Voigts-Virchow

Academic Lectures (selection, 2015-2017)

06.10.2017	„Recognizing Syphilis: Medical Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation.“ Deutsches Haus, New York University, USA.
30.05.2017	„Degeneration and New Women Writers.“ Guest lecture, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
25. – 26.09.2016	„Framing the Past.“ Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies. St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Großbritannien.
21– 24.09.2016	(with Lucia Krämer) „Mash-Ups: An Introduction.“ Anglistentag, Universität Hamburg.
10.08.2016	„Photography and Medical Atlases of the 19^th Century.“ History and Classics School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Tasmanien.
03.08.2016	"Facing Pathology: Syphilis Iconography at the Fin de Siècle.“ Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien.
12.05.2016	„Gender, Krankheit und Gesellschaft im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.“ Guest lecture. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin, Lehrstuhl für Medical Humanities, Charité, Berlin.
19– 21.11.2015	(with Eckart Voigts) „The Case of Hysteria (2011) and the Medical Humour of Neo-Victorianism.“ The Popular and the Past: Nineteenth-Century British Cultures, BritCult, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
5– 07.11.2015	„‘Framing’: Adaptions- und Intermedialitätsprozesse in Graphic Novels.“ Annual conference 2015, Forschungsverbund Übersetzen und Rahmen. Praktiken medialer Transformationen, Universität Hamburg.
25– 26.06.2015	„Mapping the Pox-Ridden City: Modernity and the Geopolitics of Differentiation in the Late Nineteenth Century.“ Modernity and the European Mind: International Colloquium, University of Portsmouth, Great Britain.
04.05.2015	„Hospitals and Asylums.“ Lecture series: Darkside London, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main.
25– 26.02.2015	„Transmedia Storytelling: Introduction.“ Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception – International Conference, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover.