PD Dr. habil. Verena Laschinger

• "Spill: Motif, Metaphor, and Narrative Operation in Omar El Akkad’s Climate Fiction Novel American War (2017)", Presentation, April 15, 2026, University of Erfurt. see poster
• Ökofeministische Perspektiven in der Literaturwissenschaft. Epistemologien und Figuren der Rede. Workshop with Annina Klappert. University of Erfurt, February 12–13, 2026. 
• The Whole Family: A Collaborative Novel (1908). The European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Workshop with Jelena Sesnic. University of Zagreb, Croatia, November 8–9, 2024. 
• “Recovering Laura Richards’s Children’s Poetry,” The European Study Group of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Online Workshop with Etti Gordon Ginzburg, April 14–15, 2024. 
• “’mosquito against the solar system’: The (In-)Significance of Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Understudies”, Talk at Université Paris Cité, October 1, 2022: 
• “Callousness Kills the Queer: How Paradise was Lost in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, or Ostracizing Turkish Angels from America”, Talk at University of Eastern Finland, October 22, 2021.
• May 28, 2021: “Kulturen bilden Stadt.” Interview mit Sylwia Mierzynska und Verena Laschinger zum Studium Fundamentale Fotoseminar auf Instagram “erfurtkultur”. zum Interview

• American Literature
• American Studies
• Nineteenth Century American Women Writers  Study Group

Select Publications

Monographs

• Snapshot Scholarship: Recovering American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. Habilitationsschrift, 2025.
• Fictitious Politics – Factual Prose. Amerikanische Literatur, politische Praxis und der neorealistische Roman. Frankfurt/M u.a.: Peter Lang, 2000.

Edited Volumes

• Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century: Progressive Pioneers. Eds. Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Turkish-American Literature. Ed. Verena Laschinger. Thematic Issue Amerikastudien/ American Studies 61.2, 2016. 

Selection of Recent Articles

• ““A Woman’s Work is Never (Un-)Done: A Response to ‘Contemplating Women’s Imperial Service: Mabel Bent as Photographer, Travel Writer, and Collector’ by Esther Wetzel.” Women and Service in the Long Nineteenth Century. Eds. Sandra H. Petrulionis et. al. Special Issue New American Studies Journal (NASJ) 74 (2023): 1-6. Article.
• “It will be a thing of Joy and Beauty”: Angel Symbolism in The Brownies’ Book (1920-1921)." Amerikastudien/American Studies 67.2 (2022): 181-98. Article
• “On Photography in the Anthropocene: Surface Views and Imagetexts by J. Henry Fair and Tom McCarthy.” Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene. Eds. Gina Comos and Caroline Rosenthal. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. 214-30.
   
• “Save the Child: Sentimental Politics and Matters of (De-)Composition in Metta Fuller Victor’s The Dead Letter.” Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century: Progressive Pioneers. Eds. Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius. New York: Routledge, 2019. 29-43.
   
• “’Per si muove - it was a mass of moonstone’: Fluid Space, Dynamic Relations, and the Commodification of Storytelling in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Arctic Writings.” Special Issue. Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness. Ed. Stéphanie Durrans. The European Journal of American Studies 14.3 (29 Oct 2019). Article
•  “Whirls of Faith and Fancy: House Symbolism and Sufism in Elif Shafak’s The Flea Palace.” Journal of World Literature 5 (advance 11 Jul 2019 / Feb 2020): 1-24.  Article

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