Prof. Dr. Stephan Karschay
Associate Professor for British Studies
British Literature and Cultural Studies, Study Counsellor for British Literature, Erasmus Coordinator of the IAA
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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.
As Editor
(forthcoming, with Katharina Boehm). Gothic Ecologies in British Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Special issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 27/2.
(with Joanna Rostek and Gerold Sedlmayr). Hard Times 84 (2008): The Politics of British Humour.
Articles
(forthcoming), “Scandals in British Culture.” How to Do Cultural Studies: Approaches, Ideas, Scenarios. Eds. Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.
“Great Britain or Little England? Brexit and the London Olympics Opening Ceremony”. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 26/1. Ed. Joanna Rostek and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 59-72.
“George Moore, Esther Waters.” Handbook of the English Novel 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 Allan and Christopher Pittard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 96-110.
(with Philip Jacobi) “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.
“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.” Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray – Das Verhängnis des Oscar Wilde: Ein Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. Jörg W. Rademacher. Coesfeld: Elsinor, 2017. 79-82.
(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 Translator
(forthcoming, 2017), (with a student translation group at the University of Passau), “Cousin Marshall.” Harriet Martineau. Ed. Bernd Lenz. 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