{"id":12452,"date":"2023-06-01T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=12452"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:36:53","slug":"dr-roxanne-phillips","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-roxanne-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Roxanne Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic career<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>since 06\/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin] at KWI, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities<\/li>\n<li>10\/2019-05\/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin], Institute for German Language and Literature, LMU Munich<\/li>\n<li>11\/2020: Doctor of philosophy, Graduate School Language &amp; Literature, Class of Literature, LMU Munich<\/li>\n<li>09-12\/2017: Visiting scholar, German Department, New York University<\/li>\n<li>2016\u20132019: Doctoral scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF]<\/li>\n<li>studied German literature (major), history and philosophy (minors) in Munich and Amsterdam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research interests<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German literature and culture (18th to 21st century), and film<\/li>\n<li>literature and knowledge (incl. governmentality\/political economy, labour\/class, medicine\/illness, law, authorship and gender)<\/li>\n<li>cultural techniques and techniques of the body<\/li>\n<li>comedy in literature, theatre and film<\/li>\n<li>gender, performance and affect studies<\/li>\n<li>theories of literature, media and culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Current projects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Stumble, trip and tumble. Functions, aesthetics and mediality of comedic falling<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Project lead of the DFG-network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/projekt\/comic-literacies\/\"><em>Comic Literacies &#8211; Cultural Techniques of Comedy<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Co-PI of the VW-project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/projekt\/towards-a-genealogy-of-guilty-pleasures\/\"><em>Towards a Genealogy of Guilty Pleasures: Performing Reflexive Consumption<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Tischgespr\u00e4che<\/em> [conversations around the table]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Books<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2025: Keck, Annette\/Phillips, Roxanne (eds.): figurationen: gender \u2013 literatur \u2013 kultur 26\/1, special issue: Komische F\u00e4lle\/Funny Cases. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7788\/figu.2025.26.issue-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7788\/figu.2025.26.issue-1<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2022: <a href=\"https:\/\/verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de\/product\/9783826073922-die-regierung-der-menschen-erzaehlen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Die Regierung der Menschen erz\u00e4hlen<\/a>. Figurationen der Gouvernementalit\u00e4t bei Streeruwitz, Meinecke und Mora, W\u00fcrzburg: K\u00f6nigshausen &amp; Neumann. (=Studien zur Kulturpoetik 28).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2025: Cross-Dressing, in: Michael Niehaus (Hg.): Slapstick. Ein Kompendium Teil II, Hagen: Hagen University Press 2025, 73-95. <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.57813\/20250801-095338-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Access<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2025: Die Treppe, das St\u00fcrzen. Komische Einzel-F\u00e4lle in Serie, in: figurationen. gender \u2013 literatur \u2013 kultur 26\/1, special issue: Komische F\u00e4lle\/Funny Cases, 102-119.\u00a0DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7788\/figu-2025-260111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7788\/figu-2025-260111<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2025: (Un)Tying the Knot. Engagements, Legal Complications and Comic Ambiguity in Lessing\u2019s <em>Minna von Barnhelm<\/em>, 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 &amp; Literature 26), 245-268. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783111302591-015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783111302591-015<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2024: Komischer Paradigmenwechsel. \u00c4sthetische Praktiken und sinnliche Performativit\u00e4t in Georg Friedrich Meiers <em>Gedancken von Schertzen<\/em> (1744), in: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Deutsche Philologie 143\/4 (2024), 487-508.\u00a0DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.37307\/j.1868-7806.2024.04.02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.37307\/j.1868-7806.2024.04.02<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2024: Schwerarbeit. Zs. mit Simon Avramis\/Marilisa Reisert, in: Michael Niehaus (Hg.): Slapstick. Ein Kompendium Teil I, Hagen: Hagen University Press, 201-212. <a href=\"https:\/\/ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de\/receive\/mir_mods_00002079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Access<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2024: Provozierendes (Ver)Lachen. Heilung, Hygiene und Vorsorge bei Gottsched und Lessing, in: Magdalena Fricke\/Hannes Kerber\/Eleonora Travanti (Hg.): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehrhahn-verlag.de\/public\/index.php?ID_Section=1&amp;ID_Product=1624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Praktiken der Provokation<\/a>. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien, Hannover: Wehrhahn (=Wolfenb\u00fctteler Lessing-Studien 3), 135-164.<\/li>\n<li>2020: Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm\u2019s <em>Aquis submersus<\/em> and HBO\u2019s <em>Big Little Lies<\/em>, in: Carina Breidenbach\/Tamara Fr\u00f6hler\/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: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783110672244-014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9783110672244-014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/phillips-publikationsliste-2025-12.pdf\">full publication list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":17556,"template":"","person_category":[277],"class_list":["post-12452","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/12452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}