Kerstin Howaldt

Curriculum Vitae

Kerstin Howaldt completed her Magistra Artium in English Philology, Romance Philology and German Literary and Media Studies at the University of Kiel. Since 2015, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Erfurt where she was given a Christoph-Martin-Wieland-dissertation-scholarship (2015-2018). Since October 2018, she is a research associate at the Chair of English Literature.

PhD working title: “Theatrical Event-Machines. British Farce, 1960-1990”

“Encounters at the After-Party: Multi-Narrativity in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other.” Paper presented at “Multi-Narratives,” 1–3 September 2021 at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel/online.

“‘Diffracting Stabilized/Stabilizing Binaries’ of Climate-Change Theatre.” Paper presented at the 29. Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (Topic: “Critical Theatre Ecologies”), 3–6 June 2021 at the University of Augsburg/online.

“All this eco stuff is making you unhappy:” Reading Contemporary British Climate-Change Theatre (Plays) Diffractively.” Paper presented at “New Materialist Literary Theory,” 18–20 September 2019 at the University of Erfurt.

“Affected Paper-Narratives. Annotating Stories in Julian Barnes’s The Only Story.” Paper presented at the “Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative,” 29 May–1 June 2019 at the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona.

“‘Die gewohnte Kammer:’ Raum und (un-)mögliches Ereignis in Samuel Becketts Geister-Trio.” Paper presented at “ZimmerWelten,” 27 April 2017 at the University of Erfurt.

“The waiting must end’: Waiting and Eventfulness in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King.” Paper presented at “Cultural Practices of Waiting,” 19–22 May 2016 at the University of Paderborn.

Articles

(2021, forthcoming). “Affected Paper-Narratives. Annotating Stories in Julian Barnes’s The Only Story.” Special Issue of LWU: Multi-Narratives. Eds. Liz Bahs, Corinne Bancroft, and André Schwarck.

(2019). “‘The waiting must end.’ Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King. Timescapes of Waiting. Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral. Eds. Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald. Leiden: Brill. Spatial Practices 31. 108-24

(2016). “Kausalität, Kontingenz und Zufall als konkurrierende Strukturprinzipien der Farce in Michael Frayns Skios (2012).” LWU XLVII/4. 335-53.

Reviews

(2019). Review of Marion Fayolle (2018) Die schwebenden Liebenden. Berlin: Avant. Literatur #1. Eds. Felix Haenlein, Jessica Maaßen, and Max Walther. 8-11.

(2018). “Das Konzept ‘Liebe’: erklärt mit Britney, Whitney – und Wissenschaft.” Review of Liv Strömquist (2018) Der Ursprung der Liebe. Berlin: Avant. CLOSURE #5. Review

(2015). Review of Susanne Hochreiter and Ursula Klingenböck, Hg. (2014) Bild ist Text ist Bild. Narration und Ästhetik in der Graphic Novel. Bielefeld: transcript. CLOSURE # 2. 137-39. Review

(2014). Review of Annemarie Matzke, Ulf Otto and Jens Roselt, Eds. (2015) Auftritte. Strategien des In-Erscheinung-Tretens in Künsten und Medien. Bielefeld: transcript. LWU XLVII/4. 403-06.

(2014). Review of Johann N. Schmidt, Felix C. H. Sprang and Roland Weidle, Eds. (2014) Wer lacht, zeigt Zähne. Spielearten des Komischen. Trier: WVT. LWU XLVII/3: 302-05.

(2013). Review of Franziska Sick, Ed. (2011) Raum und Objekt im Werk von Samuel Beckett. Bielefeld: transcript. LWU XLVI/1: 69-71.

Since 2016: co-editor of CLOSURE. The Kiel University e-Journal for Comics Studies

University of Erfurt

• Narration in Contemporary British Fiction (Winter Term 2021/2022)
• Samuel Beckett’s Plays: Radio, Theatre, Television (Summer Term 2021)
• Staging Climate Change (Summer Term 2020)
• Introduction to Literatures in English (Summer Term 2019, Winter Term 19/20, Winter Term 20/21)
• Revisiting the Concept of Genre (Summer Term 2019)

University of Kiel

• Literary/ Cultural History and Genres: 20th Century British Drama (Summer Term 2016)
• Literary/ Cultural History and Genres: British Farce in the 20th and 21st Century (Summer Term 2015)
• Concepts and Methodologies: Introduction to Reading Literary Texts (Winter Term 2013/14 and 2015/16)