Profile
Abstract
Ariane de Waal is a Senior Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the Institute for British Studies, Leipzig University. Her research and teaching focus on the representation and negotiation of political phenomena such as climate change, terrorism, neoliberalism, migration, and racism in contemporary British literature and culture. Her monograph on British post-9/11 drama, 'Theatre on Terror', which was based on her PhD thesis (completed at Ruhr University Bochum in 2016), was published by De Gruyter in 2017. Her second key research area is the 19th century, especially the field of Victorian Material Culture Studies. Ariane de Waal has published extensively both on contemporary and 19th-century literature and culture. Next to articles and book chapters, she has co-edited several collections and special issues (e.g. for the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, the European Journal of English Studies, and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies).
Professional career
- since 10/2022
Senior Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the Institute for British Studies, Leipzig University - 09/2019 - 08/2022
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in English Literature and Culture, Department of English and North American Studies, MLU Halle-Wittenberg - 04/2016 - 08/2019
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in English Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English, University of Innsbruck - 10/2012 - 07/2014
Teaching Associate, British Cultural Studies and English Language Training, English Department, Ruhr University Bochum - 10/2010 - 03/2013
Research Assistant in British Cultural Studies, English Department, Ruhr University Bochum
Education
- 09/2012 - 02/2016
PhD, English Literature and Culture, Ruhr University Bochum - 09/2014 - 12/2014
Postgraduate Research Associateship, Drama Department, Queen Mary, University of London - 10/2010 - 03/2012
MA, English and American Studies, University of Bochum - 01/2009 - 05/2009
Exchange Programme, Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Oklahoma - 10/2005 - 11/2008
BA, English and American Studies, Drama, and Modern Standard Arabic, Ruhr University Bochum and University of Hull
Panel Memberships
- since 11/2022
Co-Investigator for “Gender, Affect and Care in the Twenty-First Century British Theatre” at the University of Barcelona, a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the EU European Regional Development Fund - since 12/2021
Co-Founder of DACH Victorianists, a network for scholars of Victorian studies based at German-speaking universities - since 06/2021
Member of the Editorial Team and Book Review Editor for the Journal for the Study of British Cultures - 07/2016 - 08/2019
Representative for Early Career Researchers at the Faculty of Languages and Literature, University of Innsbruck
Research in the field of Victorian Studies:
- History of Dermatology
- Victorian Material Culture
- Realism
Research on contemporary British and postcolonial literature and culture:
- Discourses and Representations of Terrorism
- Climate Change Literature and Drama
- Media Discourses and Representations of Pregnancy, Birth, Parenthood
- Contemporary Indian and British South Asian Theatre
Theoretical Approaches:
- Gender/Queer Studies
- Postcolonial Theories
- Ecocriticism, New Materialisms, and Ahuman Theory
- Critical Whiteness Studies
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An Introduction to British Cultural Studies
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Who Wants to Be Middle Class? The ‘Middling Condition’ in Historical Perspective
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Contemporary British Art
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Trans Identities in Britain
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Cultural Identities and the Classroom: Theories and Case Studies of Inter-, Cross-, Multi-, and Transculturalism
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Masculinity Studies
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Bollywood and Beyond: Indian Cinema