Dr. des. Antonia Purk
PostDoc

News
- Recipient of the Christoph Daniel Ebeling-Fellowship (2022)
- Talk: “Shipwrecking Frontier Romanticism: Anagnorisis in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Castle Nowhere’ (1875)." ACLA Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15 to June 18, 2022.
- Talk: “Realismus wider Ritual. Das Aussetzen der Szene in Constance Fenimore Woolsons ‘Peter the Parson’ (1874).” Conference "Szenen des Politischen," University of Erfurt, May, 19-20, 2022.
- Talk: "Eating Signs. Whiteness and Racialization in American Foodways." University of Erfurt, December 15th, 2021.
Research Projects
Research Interests
- Literary Foodways
- 19th-Century American Literature
- Literature and History
- Postcolonial Studies
- Anglophone Caribbean Literature
- Visual Studies
- Graphic Novels
Publications
- Review: "The Drawing Body" - Review of Simon Grennan, A Theory of Narrative Drawing. Closure 5 (2018).
- „A Photo Album of History: Ekphrasis in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book):” America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf, Juliane Braun. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 349-367.
- “Writing Possibilities of the Past: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter.” Discourse. Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 36.1 (2014): 71-86. Special Issue “After Glissant: Caribbean Aesthetics and the Poetics of Relation.”
- “Multiplying Perspectives through Text and Time: Jamaica Kincaid’s Writing of the Collec-tive.” COPAS – Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 15.1 (2014).
Download: Full List of Publications and Conference Papers
Teaching
- Nature in American Poetry
- Regionalism and Realism
- Caribbean Migrations
- Transatlantic Identities
- Writing the Self
- American Gothic
- Literature in Images: Graphic Novels
- Introduction to Literatures in English
Contact
Current Position: Coordinator of the Research Group "Praxeologies of Truth"