Dr. des. Antonia Purk

PostDoc

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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

antonia.purk@uni-erfurt.de

Current Position: Coordinator of the Research Group "Praxeologies of Truth"