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Joshua Elwer

Joshua Elwer

Research Fellow

Englische Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4304
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37316

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Abstract

Joshua Elwer studied English literature at the Universities of Iowa and Heidelberg, and is currently a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Department of British Literature at the Universität Leipzig. He is working on his PhD in Heidelberg and Leipzig with the working title "The Transmission of Voices in the Works of James Joyce." This project investigates the role of utterances made by characters that are later restated by different characters in Joyce’s oeuvre. He has spoken at various international conferences in the US, Italy, and Germany.


Professional career

  • since 04/2023
    Research Assistant at the Department of English (Literary Studies), Leipzig University
  • 10/2020 - 04/2023
    Instructor (Lehrbeauftragter), English Department, Heidelberg University
  • 10/2019 - 08/2021
    Academic Writing Instructor (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
  • 04/2018 - 01/2020
    Copyeditor (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
  • 01/2011 - 09/2016
    Native English Teacher, Link Language School, Roudnice nad Labem, Czechia

Education

  • since 08/2019
    Doctoral Researcher, Heidelberg University
  • 10/2016 - 05/2019
    MA English Studies, Heidelberg University
  • 09/2006 - 05/2010
    BA English, University of Iowa

Joshua Elwer’s research interests include theories of literary studies and interdisciplinary approaches. Beyond James Joyce, he also focuses on other forms of modernism and postmodernism, metafiction, and the works of Samuel Beckett and William Blake. Questions that he deals with are, for example, what can we do with language in a literary work? What can we not do with language in a literary work? He is particularly interested in experimental forms of narration that foreground language in innovative ways.


  • The Bildungsroman and Child Development

  • Essential Texts in English Literature

  • Samuel Beckett’s Dramatic Works (Heidelberg)

  • The Bildungsroman: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Heidelberg)

  • Introducing Modernism (Heidelberg)

  • Academic Writing in English (Heidelberg)

  • Pronunciation Practice American English (Heidelberg)