Research
Caroline Lusin has held the Chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Mannheim since the year 2015. In her research, she chiefly focuses on the 21st-century British and Irish novel as well as on contemporary British drama and television series. Besides, she is particularly interested in the literature of the British Empire and the literary relations between Russia and Britain since the early 20th century.
Biographic Information
She did an MA in English and Slavonic studies at the universities of Heidelberg and St. Petersburg and completed her PhD on Virginia Woolf and Anton P. Chekhov in 2007. Her research for her post-doc project on Anglo-Indian life-writing led her to spend several months in London and Cambridge, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Teaching
Publications
- Lusin, C. (2018). A one way ticket to Paradise? Adapting the Bible in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva Petushki (1973), Stephen Mulrine’s Moscow Stations (1993), and A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise (2004). Komparatistik online, 2018, 8–25.
- Brüske, A. and Lusin, C. (2016). “One continent/
To Another” : cultural flows and poetic form in the South Asian and Caribbean diasporas – and beyond. Atlantic Studies, 13, 433–444. - Lusin, C. (2013). 'We live again anew' : loss, introspection and redemptive meta-narratives in British and Irish fiction since 2000. Critical Engagements, 6, 9–26.
- Lusin, C. (2013). Curry, tins and grotesque bodies : food, cultural boundaries and identity in Anglo-Indian life-writing. English Studies : A Journal of English Language and Literature, 94, 468–488.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Metamorphosen des Selbst : Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) und die Poetik des Traumspiels. Sprachkunst, 39, 77–96.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Red flowers and a shabby coat : Russian literature and the depiction of madness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Comparative critical studies, 5, 289–300.
- Lusin, C. and Schwanecke, C. (2018). Women in men's shoes : 'sheroes' in literatures and cultures of the British Isles, the Commonwealth and beyond. In , Anglistentag 2017 Regensburg : proceedings (S. 183–187). Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier.
- Lusin, C. (2016). 'Home Matters' : home, family and community in the contemporary Anglo-Jewish novel. In , Anglistentag 2015 Paderborn : proceedings (S. 47–58). Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier.
- Lusin, C. and Haekel, R. (eds.) (2019). Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (2018). Imperial selves : negotiating collectivity in Anglo-Indian life-writing. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Frank, K. and Lusin, C. (eds.) (2017). Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (eds.) (2014). Empathie, Sympathie und Narration : Strategien der Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2007). Virginia Woolf und Anton P. Čechov : die Semantisierung von Raum und Zeit. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Lusin, C. (2021). Der 'Pate' ist tot: Macht, Markt und Moral in der BBC-Serie McMafia (2018). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 89–112). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (2021). Der lange Schatten des Kolonialismus: Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektive. In Krise(n) der Moderne : über Literatur und Zeitdiagnostik (S. 137–148). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2019). Drugs, sheep, and broken lives: Dysfunctional families, violence, and the subversion of nostalgia in Happy Valley (2014-). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 167–191). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. and Haekel, R. (2019). 'This is England' : Community, the State of the Nation, and seriality in contemporary British and Irish television series. In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 9–23). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (2018). The Condition of England novel in the twenty-first century : Zadie Smith's NW (2012) and Jonathan Coe's Number 11, or tales that witness madness (2015). In The British novel in the twenty-first century : cultural concerns – literary developments – model interpretations (S. 247–263). Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Frank, K. and Lusin, C. (2017). Introduction : Current debates and British drama since 2000. In Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama (S. 9–15). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (2017). Canon and carnival : challenging hierarchies in Zadie Smith's NW. In Reading the canon : literary history in the 21st century (S. 247–267). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2017). Surviving boom and bust : finance, responsibility, and the state of the world in Nicholas Pierpan's You can still make a killing (2012). In Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama (S. 79–100). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Lusin, C. (2014). 'Darling Nell' : zur Funktion epischer Kommunikationsstrukturen in Tom Stoppards Indian Ink (1995). In Empathie, Sympathie und Narration : Strategien der Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film (S. 121–136). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2014). Empathie, Sympathie und Narration : zur Einführung. In Empathie, Sympathie und Narration : Strategien der Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film (S. 11–22). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2010). Writing lives and 'worlds' : English biographical fiction and the turn of the 21st century. In Cultural ways of worldmaking : media and narratives (S. 265–286). Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter.
- Lusin, C. (2009). 'We daydream helplessly' : the poetics of (day)dreams in Ian McEwan's novels. In Ian McEwan: art and politics (S. 140–158). Heidelberg: Winter.
- Lusin, C. (2009). Encountering darkness : intertextuality and polyphony in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) and Matthew Kneale's English passengers (2000). In Semiotic encounters : text, image and trans-nation (S. 69–85). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Nachwort. In Kindheit und Jugend (S. 491–518). Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Projektmanagement. In Schlüsselkompetenzen: Qualifikationen für Studium und Beruf (S. 33–48). Stuttgart ; Weimar: Metzler.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Stimmen aus dem “Kellerloch” : Ljudmila Petruevskajas “Svoj krug” und Jurij Mamleevs “Tetrad individualista” : zwei Spielarten des Bösen in der zeitgenössischen russischen Prosa. In Das Böse in der russischen Kultur (S. 317–335). Köln ; Weimar: Böhlau.
- Lusin, C. (2008). Zwischen T. S. Eliot und Albert Camus : absurde Stadterfahrung in Miroslav Krležas Roman Povratak Filipa Latinovicza. In Metropole – Provinz : Urbanität und Ruralität in den slawischen Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen (S. 79–92). Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin [u.a.]: Lang.