Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of English and American Studies
Prof. Dr. Stephan Karschay
Associate Professor for British Studies
British Literature and Cultural Studies, Study Counsellor for British Literature, Erasmus Coordinator of the IAA
Address
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Language, Literature, and Media II
Überseering 35
22297 Hamburg
Office
Room: 07061
Office hours
please see list of office hours
Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-3887
Key aspects of activity
- The Gothic: Literature, film and media vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert
- Literatur und Wissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert
- Literatur und Kultur des Viktorianischen fin de siècle
- Repräsentationen des Fremden/Anderen
- Skandalforschung
Academic Career
Stephan Karschay is Associate Professor (Juniorprofessor) of British Literature and Cultural Studies. He studied English, German and Pedagogy at the University of Passau and at King’s College London. Furthermore, he is an alumnus of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Before teaching at the University of Hamburg, he was Lecturer in English Literature and British Cultural Studies at the University of Passau. In 2013, his monograph Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) won the Britcult Award of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures and in 2014 it was awarded the Karl-Heinz-Pollok Memorial Prize of the University of Passau.
Publications
Single-authored books
Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Articles
(Forthcoming) “Constructions of Crime and Criminality.” The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Janice Allan and Christopher Pittard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
(Forthcoming) “Mental Illness.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.
(Forthcoming) “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.
(Forthcoming) “George Moore, Esther Waters.” Handbook of the English Novel of the Nineteenth Century: 1830-1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
(Forthcoming) “Foreword.” Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray – Das Verhängnis des Oscar Wilde: Ein Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. Jörg W. Rademacher. Coesfeld: Elsinor, 2017.
(Forthcoming, with Philip Jacobi) “Jack Is Back: Murder, Detection and Victorian Attitudes to Class in Contemporary British Crime TV.” Victorian Structures of Feeling in Late-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Cultural Products. Ed. Christina Flotmann and Anna Lienen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017.
(with Joanna Rostek) “Man haf fe do wha man haf fe do: Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman.” Anglistik 27.1 (2016) Ed. Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: 125-136.
“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. Wissenschaft und Kunst 15.
“‘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
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
As Editor
(with Joanna Rostek and Gerold Sedlmayr). Hard Times 84 (2008): The Politics of British Humour.
As Translator
(forthcoming, 2017), (with a student translation group at the University of Passau), “Cousin Marshall.” Harriet Martineau. Ed. Bernd Lenz and Joanna Rostek. Passau: Stutz. KritBrit 8.
Major Research Areas
- Gothic fiction, film and media from the 18th to the 21st century
- Literature and the natural sciences in the 19th century
- Literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle
- Representations of Otherness
- Scandal studies
Memberships
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult)
- International Gothic Association (IGA)
- The Literary London Society