Prof. Dr. Christine Schwanecke

Junior Professor

on parental leave from Sept. 2020

University of Mannheim
Schloss – Room EW 268
68161 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-2353
E-mail: c.schwanecke(at)uni-mannheim.de

Temporary representation:

PD Dr. Wieland Schwanebeck, E-Mail: wschwane@mail.uni-mannheim.de
Consultation hours by appointment via e-mail.

Christine Schwanecke is Junior Professor for the Study of British Literature and Culture. She studied English, German and History in Heidelberg and London (degree: First State Exam; with distinction). She earned her PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 2012 (summa cum laude). Her thesis on “Intermedial Storytelling: Thematisation, Imitation, and Incorporation of Photography in English and American Narrative Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century” was sponsored by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and won an award in 2013. In 2018, she completed her second monograph, “A Narratology and Transgeneric History of Drama: The Cultural Dynamics and Performative Power of Dramatic Narration and Narrative in British Plays from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century”, which is currently under review at the University of Giessen.

Christine worked as an academic staff member at the University of Heidelberg (2009-11) and as research coordinator at the International PhD Programme ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’ at Giessen University (2012-15). Before she was appointed to her professorship at the University of Mannheim in 2015, she spent three months as an academic visitor at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

In her research, she focuses on British drama from the early modern period to the present, the English and contemporary American novel, gender studies,intermediality (esp. literature/photography, literature/film, and literature in the digital age), literature and genre theory as well as narratology. Christine’s teaching is transgeneric in character and geared towards the consideration of cultural issues. She is intent on synchronising her teaching with her current research, to which seminars such as “Popular Media and the Contemporary English Novel” (summer 2016; ‘research-based learning’ seminar; resulted in a student conference) or “The Female Hero: Women in Men’s Shoes in British Drama, Fiction, and Film” (summer 2018) bear witness.

Schwanecke, C. (2017). Mobile people, weapons, and data streams; mobile audiences and theatre spaces : Rimini Protokoll's Situation rooms as a globalised theatre experience. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 5(2), 358–371. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2017-0031
Schwanecke, C. (2016). Theatre, narrative, and cultural change on the early modern stage : Richard Brome's A jovial crew (1641/2) at the dawn of the English Civil War. REAL : yearbook of research in English and American literature, 32, 145–167.
Berning, N., Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (2015). (Trans-)national criteria, norms and standards in literary studies : a comparative analysis of criteria-based 'ex ante' evaluation forms of funding proposals in the humanities. Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift : GRM, 65(1), 115–135.
Schwanecke, C. (2013). 'Turning Points and Falling Bodies' : Literary Investigations into the Cultural Life of the Catastrophe of 9/11 and its Aftermath. Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift : GRM, 63(3), 383–391.

Lusin, C. & Schwanecke, C. (2018). Women in men's shoes : 'sheroes' in literatures and cultures of the British Isles, the Commonwealth and beyond. In A.-J. Zwierlein (eds.), 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.

Berning, N., Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (eds.) (2014). Reframing concepts in literary and cultural studies : theorizing and analyzing conceptual transfers . Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2012). Intermedial storytelling : thematisation, imitation and incorporation of photography in English and American fiction at the turn of the 21st century . Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Schwanecke, C. (2018). Exploring fragile relationships in the twenty-first century : love and marriage in David Nicholl's One Day (2009) and Mark Haddon's The Read House (2012). In V. Nünning (eds.), The British novel in the twenty-first century : cultural concerns - literary developments - model interpretations (S. 173–185). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2017). Data streams, post-human lives, and (virtual) realities : Jules Horne's Gorgeous Avatar (2006). In K. Frank (eds.), Finance, terror, and science on stage : current public concerns in 21st-century British drama (S. 145–165). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (2015). The performative power of unreliable nNarration and focalisation in drama and theatre : conceptualising the specificity of dramatic unreliability. In V. Nünning (eds.), Unreliable narration and trustworthiness : intermedial and interdisciplinary perspectives (S. 189–219). Berlin: de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408263.189
Schwanecke, C. (2015). 'Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte' : Sympathielenkung in Leanne Shaptons literarischem Fotoexperiment. In C. Lusin (eds.), Empathie, Sympathie und Narration : Strategien der Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film (S. 193–205). Heidelberg: Winter.
Schwanecke, C. (2015). Filmic modes in literature. In G. Rippl (eds.), Handbook of intermediality : literature - image - sound - music (S. 268–286). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Berning, N., Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (2014). Unpacking 'Traveling Concepts' and Introducing the Notion of Reframing, or: How to Work with Concepts and Come to Terms with Conceptual Transfers. In N. Berning (eds.), Reframing concepts in literary and cultural studies : theorizing and analyzing conceptual transfers (S. 1–35). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2014). Exploring the Intersection of Space and Experience : An Introduction. In N. Berning (eds.), Experiencing space - spacing experience : concepts, practices, and materialities (S. 1–19). Trier: WVT.
Schwanecke, C. (2014). Intertextuality & Intermediality : Where Literature Meets Literature and/or other Media - Or, A Get-together of Lizzie Bennet, Bridget Jones, and Keira Knightley. In A. Nünning (eds.), Key concepts and new topics in English and American studies (S. 283–300). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2014). The Metaphorical Concept of Reframing : Its History, Problems and Heuristic Value. In N. Berning (eds.), Reframing concepts in literary and cultural studies : theorizing and analyzing conceptual transfers (S. 39–53). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Basseler, M., Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (2013). The Cultural Dynamics of Generic Change : Surveying Kinds and Problems of Literary History and Accounting for the Development of Genres. In M. Basseler (eds.), The cultural dynamics of generic change in contemporary fiction (S. 1–40). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Nünning, A. & Schwanecke, C. (2013). Crossing Generic Borders – Blurring Generic Boundaries : Hybridization as a Catalyst for Generic Change and for the Transformation of Systems of Genres. In M. Basseler (eds.), The cultural dynamics of generic change in contemporary fiction (S. 115–146). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2011). Erzählen in Anlehnung an die Photographie und mit der Photographie in zeitgenössischen Romanen - zwei Fallbeispiele. In A. Nünning (eds.), Medialisierung des Erzählens im englischsprachigen Roman der Gegenwart (S. 135–152). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Schwanecke, C. (2011). John Irving’s A Widow for One Year and Tod Williams’ The Door in the Floor as ‘(mult-)i-conic’ works of art. In P. Michelucci (eds.), Semblance and Signification (S. 405–422). Amsterdam [u.a.]: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.10.23sch
Schwanecke, C. (2011). Learning Martin Amis' “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta” (2006) : die (Weiter)Entwicklung von Lese- und interkultureller Kompetenz anhand einer postmodernen Kurzgeschichte. In I. Bauder-Begerow (eds.), Learning 9/11 : teaching for key competences in literary and cultural studies (S. 199–218). Heidelberg: Winter.
Schwanecke, C. (2011). Metareference in Marianne Wiggins’s Literary Photo-Text The Shadow Catcher and Other Novels Referring to the Photographic Medium. In W. Wolf (eds.), The metareferential turn in contemporary arts and media : forms, functions, attempts at explanation (S. 145–168). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
Schwanecke, C. (2009). Don DeLillo, The Body Artist. In D. Schloss (eds.), Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane aus dem neuen Jahrhundert : literaturkritische Essays zur Einführung (S. 111–121). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl.
Schwanecke, C. (2008). Anaylsieren, Strukturieren, Argumentieren. In V. Nünning (eds.), Schlüsselkompetenzen: Qualifikationen für Studium und Beruf (S. 78–90). Stuttgart: Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05226-1_6