PD Dr. Kirsten Sandrock

• 10/2021-03/2022: Visiting Professorship for Early Modern Literature and Culture at Tübingen University
• 10/2020-03/2021: Visiting Professorship for Contemporary British Literatures in Global and Postcolonial Contexts at Leipzig University
• 10/2019-08/2020: Guest Professorship for English and Anglophone Literatures at Vienna University
• 06/2019-08/2019: DFG Research Scholarship, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
• 02/2018: Habilitation, University of Goettingen; Venia Legendi Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
• 04/2008 – present: Assistant Professor at the Department for English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany
• 04/2011-07/2011: Temporary Professorship (W2) for English Literature and Culture at the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany
• 06/2008: PhD at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
• 06/2005: First State Examination for Teachers (subjects: English and German) at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
• 10/1999 – 05/2005: Studies of English and German Philology at the Philipps-University Marburg and at the University of Newcastle, UK

Focus of Research:

• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
• Border Studies
• Canadian Literature
• Scottish Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Travel Writing

Current Research:
• Conference on:"Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics" (14-16 October 2021)
• Conference on: "Border Narratives: Brexit, Europe, and the UK" (6-8 May 2021 in Göttingen)


Publications:
a) Monographs:

• Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021
• Gender and Region: Maritime Fiction in English by Canadian Women, 1976-2005. Beiträge zur Kanadistik 15. Augsburg: Wißner, 2009.
b) Edited Collections:
• ed. with Lukas Lammers. Shakespearean Translations, Translating Shakespeare. Special Issue of Shakespeare Seminar Online 16 (2019).
• ed. with Lukas Lammers. Shakespeare Reformed, Shakespearean Reformations. Special Issue of Shakespeare Seminar Online 15 (2017).
• ed. with Lukas Lammers. Shades of Green: Shakespeare's Green Wor(l)ds. Special Issue of Shakespeare Seminar Online 14 (2016).
• ed. with Frauke Reitemeier. Crimelights: Scottish Crime Writing - Then and Now. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (2015).
• ed. with Florian Freitag. Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism. Special Issue of European Journal of American Studies 9.3 (2014).
• ed. with Lukas Lammers. Celebrating Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Festivities. Special Issue of Shakespeare Seminar Online 12 (2014).
• ed. with Wolfram R. Keller and J. Derrick McClure. Scottish Renaissances. Special issue of European Journal of English Studies 18.1 (2014).
• ed. with Owain Wright, Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenenden Literaturwissenschaft 161. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2013)
c) Articles:
• “Discourses of Travel Writing.” B. Schaff (ed.): Handbook of British Travel Writing. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2020): 31-54.
• "Border Temporalities, Climate Mobility, and Shakespeare in John Lanchester's The Wall." Journal of Modern Literature. 43.3 (2020): 163-180.
• "Border Thinking, Brexit, and Literature." Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Special Issue "Literatures of Brexit." 2 (2019): 141-152.
• "Globalization and Postcolonial Transculturation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah." Transgressions / Transformations: Literature and Beyond. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Wolfgang Zach. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2018. 125-140.
• "Robert Burns, Selected Poetry (1791-1795)." Handbook of British Romanticism. Ed. Ralf Haekel. Handbooks of English and American Studies 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 259-76.
• "Ancient Empires and Early Modern Colonialism: William Alexander’s Monarchicke Tragedies." Renaissance Studies 31.3 (2017): 346-64.
• "The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Narrative Construction and Reader Response." Postcolonial Justice. ASNEL Papers 21. Ed. Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, and Dirk Wiemann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2017. 125-40.
• "Truth and Lying in Early Modern Travel Narratives: Coryat's Crudities, Lithgow's Totall Discourse and Generic Change." European Journal of English Studies 19.2 (2015): 189-203.
• "Postcolonial Perspectives on the Scottish Independence Debate." Scotland 2014 and Beyond - Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence? Ed. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015. 337-352.
• "The Legacy of Scotland’s Colonial Schemes: From the 1620s Until Now." Medievalia et Humanistica 41 (2015): 231-46.
• “Venice in Coryat’s Crudities (1611): Between Multicultural Community and Christian Archetype,” in: Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenenden Literaturwissenschaft 161. Ed. Kirsten Sandrock and Owain Wright. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 149-167.
• "The Quest for Authenticity: History and Class in Ian Rankin's Rebus Novels." Scottish Literary Review 3.1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 153-167.
• "Rethinking the Region in Canadian Postcolonial Studies." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 31.2 (2011): 78-92.
• "The Changing Geographies of Ian Rankin's Edinburgh: Crime and the City." Anglistentag 2010 Proceedings. Ed. Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011. 81-90.
• "Travelling with Ian Fleming: From Thrilling Cities (1963) to James Bond. "The Cultures of James Bond. Ed. Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011. 209-17.
• “Medieval vs. Early Modern: Travel Narratives and other Genres in The Tempest,” in: Wissenschaftliches Seminar Online 9 (2011): 15-25.
• "Motherhood and Madness in Joan Clark's An Audience of Chairs." Apropos Canada / À propos du Canada. Fünf Jahre Graduiertentagungen der Kanada-Studien. Ed. Eugen Banauch, Elisabeth Damböck, Anca-Raluca Radu, Nora Tunkel, Daniel Winkler. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. 49-62.
• "Carnevalizing Cape Breton: Multiculturalism in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees."The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Ed. Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 203-16.
• "Regionalism Revisited: Canadian Regions and the Literary Imagination Today." Canada in Grainau/Le Canada à Grainau: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Canadian Studies after 30 Years. Canadiana 7. Ed. Klaus-Dieter Ertler and Hartmut Lutz. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009. 175-93.
• "Against Monologization: The Subversive Voice of Christa Wolf's Cassandra." From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women's Aesthetic Production. Ed. Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2009. 73-92.
• "Beyond the Canadian Mosaic: Gender and Race in the Poetry of Maxine Tynes." Her Na-rra-tion, Women's Narratives of the Canadian Nation. Canadensis Series. Ed. Françoise Le Jeune and Charlotte Sturgess. Nantes: Université de Nantes, 2009. 181-191.
• "Scottish territories and Canadian Identity: Regional Aspects in the Literature of Alistair MacLeod." Translation of Cultures. ASNEL Papers 12. Ed. Petra Rüdiger and Konrad Gross. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 169-82.
• with Wolfram Keller. "Beyond the Limits of Individuality? Genre and Nation in Lady Grisell Baillie's Household Book." Further From the Frontiers... Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. Ed. Aimee McNair and Jacqueline Ryder. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2009. 63-73.
• with Astrid Lohöfer and Anca-Raluca Radu. "What’s in a Title? Translations of English-Canadian Titles into German." Ahornblätter: Marburger Beiträge zur Kanada-Forschung 20 (2008): 42-66.
• "Zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis in der Adoleszenz." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 3/4 (2007): 171-186.
• "Regional (Be)Longing in Canada – Newfoundland’s Unrequited Dream? Identity Politics in the Writing of Wayne Johnston." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 27.2 (2007): 58-72.
• with Eva Knopp. "'Dis-Orientation in the New World Order': GNEL/ASNEL-Annual Conference, Magdeburg, 28-31, Mai 2003
d) Reviews:
• Rev. o Maria Löschnigg and Martin Löschnigg, eds., The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretations. Anglistik 31.3 (2020): 241-243.
• Rev. of Germany and the Americas, ed. by Thomas Adam, The German Studies Review 29.3 (October 2006).
• Rev. of Writing the Everyday: Women's Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada, by Danielle Fuller, Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 27.2 (2007): 133-134.
• Rev. of Virginia Woolfs Briefe 1 und 2, by Virginia Woolf, ed. Klaus Reichert, Rezensionsforum Literaturkritik.de 1-2007, 19 June 2008 .
• Rev. of Jene Sehnsucht nach Gewissheit, by Madeleine Thien, Rezensionsforum Literaturkritik.de 5-2007. 19 June 2008
• Rev. of Territorial Terrors. Contested Spaces in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing, ed. Gerhard Stilz, Rezensionsforum Literaturkritik.de 6-2008. 19 June 2008 .
e) Lexicon Articles:
• "Dionne Brand." Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. 89. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik (3/2013): 1-8. "Ann-Marie MacDonald." Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. 90. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik: (6/2013): 1-8.