Lisa Schwander

Academic Staff Member

University of Mannheim
Anglistik II
Schloss – Room EW 269
68161 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-2354
E-mail: schwander(at)uni-mannheim.de

Consultation hour(s):
Wed 2–3 p.m. or by appointment

Lisa Schwander is academic staff member and doctoral student at the chair of English Literature and Culture (Anglistik II). She holds a degree in English Studies, German Studies and History (Staatsexamen) from the University of Heidelberg. Her dissertation project Postcolonial Romance and Transcultural Modernity(ies) analyses the function of romance in the work of Amitav Ghosh and Kamila Shamsie. She shows that romance is central to both authors’ engagement with global modernity as well as to their attempts to envision alternative futures. She has taught seminars on postcolonial topics, contemporary British literature, as well as genre or period introductions.

Publications

Schwander, L. (2019). 'He's one of us': Community, imperialism, and the narrative of progress in Indian Summers (2015-2016). In C. Lusin (eds.), Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 119–142). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Schwander, L. (2017). Re-visiting the British Empire: Neo-Victorian perspectives on multicultural Britain in Tanika Gupta's The Empress (2013). In K. Frank (eds.), Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama (S. 211–232). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.