Lisa Bölinger, M. A.

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

Animal Perspectives: Narrating Nonhuman Lives and Deaths in the Age of Extinction

Publication of Master’s Thesis in Göttingen Schriften zur Englischen Philologie (vol. 15, 2022)
Title: “Animal Subjectivities and Anthropocentrism in Richard Adams’s Watership Down”

“Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature” (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, May 2025)
Presentation: “Literary Biomutations in Times of Extinction: Lydia Millet’s How the Dead Dream”
“Conceptualizing More-than-Human Relationalities” (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Nov. 2024)
Presentation: “A Sea of Slippery Perspectives: Exploring Fishy Interconnection in Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind”
“Narrating the Nonhuman” (Edge Hill University, May 2024)
Presentation: “Fantastical Elephants? Speculative Anthropomorphism and Allegorical Inversion in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone”
“Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production” (University College Dublin, May 2024)
Presentation: “The Stench of Suburban Sprawl: Canine Phenomenology and Fabular Environmental Writing in Daniel Mannix’ The Fox and the Hound”
“More-than-Human Studies” (Karlstad University, Sweden, May 2023)
Presentation: “The Ghostly Phenomenology of Avian Migration in Fred Bodsworth’s Last of the Curlews”
“Articulation of the Nonhuman Turn in Theory, Literature and the Arts” (Universität Göttingen, June 2022)
Presentation: “The Fictionalization of Elephant Research in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone”