This week, Dr. phil. Deborah de Muijnck, Giessen, begins her fellowship at the Centre for Cultural Studies and we warmly welcome her!
Dr. phil. de Muijnck will be working as a guest researcher at the Centre for Cultural Studies for five weeks. She is an Anglicist and Narratologist with a PhD and has been working as a research assistant (PostDoc) at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2023. There she coordinates the internationalisation activities of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). She organises and leads international research events and is responsible as editor for the resulting publications. She is also active in teaching at undergraduate and graduate level. As coordinator of the European PhD Network “Literary and Cultural Studies”, we were already able to cooperate with her at the beginning of this year.
For her habilitation, she is focusing her research on literary scandals from the 18th to the 21st century in Great Britain and Ireland. In the course of this, she is writing her second monograph, in which literary scandals are examined as forms of cultural transgression. Literary scandals are able to fuel critical discourse by breaking down the normative boundaries between acceptance and taboo. She is also editing a special issue on this topic in the journal Frontiers of Narrative Studies (De Gruyter, in progress) entitled Narratives of Scandal and Shock: Transgression, Media, and Cultural Response, together with Tero Vanhanen (University of Helsinki). In 2023, she chaired the conference "Literary Scandals as Forms of Cultural Transgression" at the University of Gießen.
We are very much looking forward to this collaboration!