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Portrait: Dr. Mandy Beck
Dr. Mandy Beck
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    Reichenhainer Straße 39, 09126 Chemnitz
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    C46.213 (prev. 2/39/213)
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    Flexible office hours will be held online after previous registration by e-mail.

Main Areas of Research

  • Brexit and Literature
  • Euroscepticism, Britain and Europe
  • British postmodern and contemporary writing
  • Women's writing of the 20th century
  • Gender Studies
  • Affect Theory

Career/Job History

 

Dates Career Path
Since 2022 Co-Speaker of the Research Group Initiative "Populist Discourses"
Since 2021 Member of the Research Group Initiative
Jun 2020 HDS certificate (university didactics), Leipzig University
Since April 2020 Postdoctoral Project: "Brexit and/in Literature: Origins, Intersections and Implications"
Jan 2020 PhD, Thesis: "Unconsumed Desires: Female Homoerotic Space(s) in Early Twentieth-Century English Women's Writing"

Since 2014

Academic staff member, Chair of English Literature, Chemnitz University of Technology

2013 – 2014

Coordinator Mentoring in Saxony, Chemnitz University of Technology

2005 – 2012

M.A. in English/American Studies and German Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology

2009

Certificate of Proficiency, postgraduate student in English and German Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland/New Zealand

2008 – 2010

Student Research Assistant, Chair of English Literature, Chemnitz University of Technology

2007 – 2008

Student Research Assistant, Chair of English Language and Linguistics, Chemnitz University of Technology

Publications

Monograph

Unconsumed Desires: Female Homoerotic Space(s) in Early Twentieth-Century English Women's Writing. TU Chemnitz, 2020.

Editorial Works

Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology . Issue 5. Eds. Mandy Beck and Cecile Sandten. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023.

Narrating Flight and Asylum. Eds. Mandy Beck, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Cecile Sandten. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today 11.

Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology. Issue 4. Eds. Mandy Beck and Cecile Sandten. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022.

Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology. Issue 3. Eds. Sandten, Cecile and Mandy Beck. Chemnitz: Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2021.

Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Eds. Mandy Beck, Cecile Sandten, and Daniel Ziesche. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today 9.

Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology. Issue 2. Eds. Sandten, Cecile and Mandy Beck. Chemnitz: Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2020.

Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology. Eds. Sandten, Cecile and Mandy Beck. Chemnitz: Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2019.

Journal Articles

"The Island Nation and Euroscepticism: Revisiting Europe's Heritage in Brexit Poetry." Cultural Intertexts 12/2022, 22-36.

Book Chapters

"The Contemporary Uncanny after Brexit: Literary Disruptions of the Self." Uncanny Perspectives in Literature and Culture: Texts, Images, Experiences. Eds. Gabriele Biotti, I. Vinitha Chandra, Nacera Haouchine. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024: 217-232. Book URL.

"Border Anxieties in Brexit Literature: Anthony J. Quinn and the Politics of Crime Fiction." Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. Eds. Carmen Zamorano Llena, Jonas Stier and Billy Gray. London; New York: Routledge, 2023: 87-102. Book URL.

"Introduction: Narrating Flight and Asylum." (with Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti and Cecile Sandten). Narrating Flight and Asylum. Trier: WVT, 2022: 1-10.

"Writing Against Populism and Post-Truth: Brexit and Literary Protest." Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Trier: WVT, 2021: 207-220.

"Introduction: Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions." (with Cecile Sandten and Daniel Ziesche) Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Trier: WVT, 2021: 1-10.

"Reading Crisis Through Affect: Sarah Hall's How to Paint a Dead Man (2009)" Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT, 2017: 273-285.

"'The Landscape Is Destroyed, but the Dream of It Is Everywhere': Supersessions of the Past in Iain Sinclair's Downriver (1991)" Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Winfried Thielmann, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT, 2015: 93-105.

Conference Talks

Feb 2024
(with Antonia Friebel) "Brexit-Metaphors in News Texts and Poetry: A Comparative Analysis of Conceptualization and Creativity." EDL5 (English and Digital Linguistics Conference), Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
July 2023
"Volatile Regions and Bordered Tensions: Affective Atmospheres after Brexit." BrexLit: Writing the British Border in Times of Crisis, Facultade de Filoloxía, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (Funded by the DAAD)
June 2023
(with Kai Oppermann) "Satires of Brexit: The Discursive Construction of Political Failures in Contemporary Literature." BISA (British International Studies Association) Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.
April 2023
"Europeanness and the British Case: Britain's non-European identity before Brexit". Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU, Institute for English Studies, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
June 2021
"Re-writing Brexit: Canonical Texts and the Appeal of Reinvention in an Age of Chaos." Re-writing/Re-imagining the Past, The 22nd Annual International Conference of The English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania.
June 2017
"Rethinking the 'Female Form': Affective Resonances in Anna Seward’s Poetry." Material Transgressions I: Textual Generations: 25th British Women Writers Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
April 2017
"Sensuous Bodies: Framing Affective Tension in Sarah Hall’s Short Stories." Literary Bodies Panel: Talking Bodies - An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Identity, Sexuality and Representation, University of Chester, UK.
Oct 2016
"Boyettes, Cross-Dressers and Sapphists': Vom Deuten und Missdeuten sexueller Identitäten in kulturellen und politischen Diskursen im frühen 20. Jahrhundert." Interdisziplinärer Doktorand_innen, Masterand_innen und Bachelorand_innen Workshop-Tag, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.
Dec 2014
"Reading culture through affect: Sarah Hall’s How to paint a dead man (2009)." Cultural Studies Workshop: Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan, Italy.

Teaching

Regular teaching since 04/2014: TU Chemnitz, English Department

  • Fairy Tales: Now and Then (BA Seminar; Summer 2024)
  • Brexit Literature (BA Seminar; Winter 2023)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2023)
  • Border Narratives (BA Seminar; Summer 2023)
  • Euroscepticism in British Literature (MA Seminar; Winter 2023)
  • Short Stories and Flash Fiction (BA Seminar; Winter 2022)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2022)
  • Contemporary Nature Writing (BA Seminar; Summer 2022)
  • Literature of the 1920s: Beyond Modernism (MA Seminar; Winter 2021)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2021)
  • Romantic Women Poets (BA Seminar; Summer 2021) 
  • New Zealand Literature (MA Seminar; Winter 2020)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2020)
  • Sexual Stories (BA Seminar; Summer 2020)
  • Contemporary Nature Writing (BA Seminar; Summer 2020)
  • Short Stories and Flash Fiction (BA Seminar; Winter 2019)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2019)
  • Experimental Poetry and Creative Writing (BA Seminar; Summer 2019)
  • Narrating Female Identity (BA Seminar; Summer 2019)
  • New Zealand Literature (BA Seminar; Winter 2018)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2018)
  • Romantic Women Poets (BA Seminar; Summer 2018)
  • Short Stories and Flash Fiction (BA Seminar; Summer 2018)
  • Writing Gay in the UK (MA Seminar; Winter 2017)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2017)
  • Schlingel: International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults (MA Seminar; Summer 2017)
  • Reading the Contemporary (BA Seminar; Summer 2017)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2016)
  • Experimental Poetry and Creative Writing (BA Seminar; Summer 2016)
  • Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2015)
  • London Narratives (BA Seminar; Summer 2015)
  • Sexual Fluidity in Twentieth-Century Women's Writing (BA Seminar; Winter 2014)
  • Angela Carter and Post-modern Femininity (BA Seminar; Summer 2014)

11/2016: University of Manchester, English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing

  • Gendered Experiments: Women’s Innovative Writing in the 20th Century (BA Seminar)
  • Reading the Contemporary (with Dr. Kaye Mitchell) (MA Seminar)
  • American Literature and Social Criticism, 1900-Present (BA Seminar)

Teacher's Workshops

  • 10/2021: "Filmanalyse im EFL-Unterricht in Verbindung mit dem SCHLINGEL – Kinder- und Jugendfilmfestival in Chemnitz"
  • 11/2019: "Asylum Accounts"
  • 11/2018: "Complex Stories in a Few Images": Die Graphic Novel/das Comic im EFL-Classroom
  • 10/2017: "Extremely Short and Extremely Flashy": Die kurze Kurzgeschichte im EFL-Classroom
  • 05/2013: "Teaching the Metropolis in the EFL-Classroom" (24th GNEL/ASNEL Annual Conference, TU Chemnitz)

Professional Memberships

German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)

German Association for the Study of English