Esther-Marie Schilling
Lecturer in North American Literature and Culture
Advisor for the Master's course "Culture, Ecology, Change"
Room 8009
August-Bebel-Straße 28
esther-marie.schillinguni-rostockde
Tel.: +49 (0)381 498-2584
Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594
Office hours lecture-free period SS 2024
05.08.2024 from 09.00 - 11.00 o'clock
27.08.2024 from 09.00 - 11.00 o'clock
and by appointment via Email
(Please note that changes to office hours will be announced under the menu item "News")
Curriculum Vitae
Education
since 2023
research assistant, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, University of Rostock
PhD project: “Anglophone Literatures in Crisis Mode”
2018 – 2023
1. Staatsexamen (English/Chemistry), University of Rostock
Final Thesis: “The Language of Brexit Literature: Narrating a Social and Political Landslide”
2016
Abitur (A-Levels)
Other
2023 – leading student assistant DGfA Conference “America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee”, University of Rostock
2021 – leading student assistant “Metaphora 2021: Übergänge ins Universitätsleben”, University of Rostock
2020 – Online Materials Developer “English Resource Pool”, University of Rostock
Research Interests
- literary representations of contemporary anxieties (climate change, political extremism, xenophobia)
- ecocriticism and postcolonialism
- gender studies, feminist criticism, ecofeminism
- speculative fiction
Teaching
WS 2024/25
Proseminar: 1925 Across the Atlantic: The Great Gatsby and Mrs. Dalloway
Proseminar: "The Future is Feminist"?: Women, Motherhood, and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
SS 2024
Proseminar: (American) Musical Politics
WS 2023/24
Proseminar: In 3 Genres around the World’s Crises