Research
Sina Schuhmaier is an academic staff member and doctoral student at the Chair of English Literary and Cultural Studies (A II). In her research, Sina Schuhmaier focuses on questions of collective identity construction and representation. She is interested in contemporary British and Irish literature, in particular ‘Condition of England’-texts and black British literature, as well as in the TV-series in this ‘golden age of TV.’
Biographic Information
She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in English studies from the University of Heidelberg and studied one semester at the University of Nottingham. At the University of Mannheim, she completed the Master programme “Modern Literature, Media, and Culture” in 2017. Her PhD project examines how 21st century song lyrics negotiate the English nation and conceptions of national and cultural identity. The thesis combines approaches from Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies with a reading of the lyrics in terms of their aesthetic specifics, which it considers as vital in the functioning of these texts within the cultural system.
Teaching
Publications
- Schuhmaier, S. (2023). Class and the middle-class novel: Jonathan Coe's Trotter-Trilogy. Anglistik, 34, 113–123.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2022). “There was no other ending to the story”: Unexpected turns and fragile gender positions in Leone Ross' Short Stories. Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing, International Conference, Brighton.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2022). “This ain't no RP cup of tea music”: Grime's Britishness. BritCult 2022, Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, British Identities Medialised, Salzburg, Austria.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2022). Decentring Irish nationalist discourse: Immigrant experience in Melatu Uche Okorie's This Hostel Life (2018). International Workshop on Contemporary Irish Literature: New Voices – New Directions, Leipzig.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2021). Competing Stories: On the 'Englishness' of British Popular Music. Eighty Years of “The Lion and the Unicorn”: Society and Identity in Great Britain since World War II, Konstanz, Germany, Online.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2021). Jonathan Coe's Middle England, or, A picture of the English middle class.
British 'Fictions of Class' since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, Siegen/
online. - Schuhmaier, S. (2019). “New Britannia cool / Who are you trying to fool?” The 'Cool' of British popular music and Brexit. Britain in Transition: Brexit and Beyond, International Conference, Berlin, Germany.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2019). Revising the 'Island Story': Kano's Made in the Manor (2016) as postcolonial punctuation.
7. Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations: Postcolonial Punctuation/
s: Demarcations, Interventions, Transgression, Münster, Germany. - Schuhmaier, S. (2018). “But the Albion sails on course”: Latent nationalism in 21st century song lyrics. Writing, the State, and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Concerns, London, UK.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2018). “Goddam' Europeans! Take me back to beautiful England”: 'England' in contemporary British song lyrics. GAPS Conference 2018, Mainz, Germany.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2018). The nature, formation and value of community: Reflections on a contested concept. First Heidelberg Graduate Student Conference in English Studies, Heidelberg.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2016). What's in a person? Limits of quantification in Lottie Moggach’s Kiss Me First. Student Conference: What is Real? The Interdependence of Identity and Media in Contemporary British Novels, Mannheim.
- Gonnermann, A., Schuhmaier, S. and Schwander, L. (eds.) (2021). Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Gonnermann, A. (2021). „Have there been unexplained deaths?”: Kapitalismus, Beschleunigung und die Rolle des Theaters in Alan Bennetts Allelujah! (2018). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 45–66). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Gonnermann, A., Schuhmaier, S. and Schwander, L. (2021). Zur Thematik und Aktualität dieses Bandes. In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 9–20). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- 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.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2021). Singing the nation: The condition of Englishness in the lyrics of PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest. In Nationalism and the postcolonial (S. 92–108). Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2021). Wert und Werte im Kapitalismus: Die Songtexte Kae Tempests und Kanos. In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 139–164). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Schwander, L. (2021). „Another world is possible“: Arundhati Roys anti-kaptialistische Vision in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 211–230). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Holweck, K. (2020). Zum Konnex von Kapitalismus und Kritik in der Anthologie “Mindstate Malibu” (2018). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 115–138). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Neu-Wendel, S. (2020). Kapitalismus, Moral und Ökologie: kritische Darstellungen der italienischen Gegenwart in Giancarlo De Cataldos Nelle mani giuste (2007) und Roberto Savianos Gomorra (2006). In Literarische Perspektiven auf den Kapitalismus : Fallbeispiele aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (S. 23–43). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Schuhmaier, S. (2019). Tommy Shelby's modern family business: The ethics of community in Peaky Blinders (2013-). In Community, seriality and the State of the Nation : British and Irish television series in the 21st century (S. 27–50). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.