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Dr. Roxanne Phillips

Researcher and Lecturer / Event Coordination

Academic career

  • since 06/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin] at KWI, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
  • 10/2019-05/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin], Institute for German Language and Literature, LMU Munich
  • 11/2020: Doctor of philosophy, Graduate School Language & Literature, Class of Literature, LMU Munich
  • 09-12/2017: Visiting scholar, German Department, New York University
  • 2016–2019: Doctoral scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF]
  • studied German literature (major), history and philosophy (minors) in Munich and Amsterdam

Research interests

  • German literature and culture (18th to 21st century), and film
  • literature and knowledge (incl. governmentality, medicine, labour, authorship and gender)
  • cultural techniques and techniques of the body
  • comedy in literature, theatre and film
  • gender, performance and affect studies
  • theories of literature, media and culture

Current projects


Publications (selection)

Books

Articles

  • 2025: Cross-Dressing, in: Michael Niehaus (Hg.): Slapstick. Ein Kompendium Teil II, Hagen: Hagen University Press 2025, 73-95. Open Access.
  • 2025: Die Treppe, das Stürzen. Komische Einzel-Fälle in Serie, in: figurationen. gender – literatur – kultur 26/1, special issue: Komische Fälle/Funny Cases, 102-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7788/figu-2025-260111.
  • 2025: (Un)Tying the Knot. Engagements, Legal Complications and Comic Ambiguity in Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm, in: Laura Schmitz-Justen/Laura A. Zander/Hanna Luise Kroll/Laura Wittmann (Hg.): Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025 (=Law & Literature 26), 245-268. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111302591-015.
  • 2024: Komischer Paradigmenwechsel. Ästhetische Praktiken und sinnliche Performativität in Georg Friedrich Meiers Gedancken von Schertzen (1744), in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 143/4 (2024), 487-508. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-7806.2024.04.02.
  • 2024: Schwerarbeit. Zs. mit Simon Avramis/Marilisa Reisert, in: Michael Niehaus (Hg.): Slapstick. Ein Kompendium Teil I, Hagen: Hagen University Press, 201-212. Open Access.
  • 2024: Provozierendes (Ver)Lachen. Heilung, Hygiene und Vorsorge bei Gottsched und Lessing, in: Magdalena Fricke/Hannes Kerber/Eleonora Travanti (Hg.): Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien, Hannover: Wehrhahn (=Wolfenbütteler Lessing-Studien 3), 135-164.
  • 2020: Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and HBO’s Big Little Lies, in: Carina Breidenbach/Tamara Fröhler/Dominik Pensel/Katharina Simon/Florian Telsnig/Martin Wittmann (Hg.): Narrating and Constructing the Beach. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (=Spectrum Literature 68), 285-310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672244-014.

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