Esther-Marie Schilling
Lecturer in North American Literature and Culture
Room 7008
August-Bebel-Straße 28
esther-marie.schillinguni-rostockde
Tel.: +49 (0)381 498-2609
Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594
Curriculum Vitae
Education
since 2023
research assistant, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, University of Rostock
PhD project: “Anglophone Literatures in Crisis Mode”
2018 – 2023
1. Staatsexamen (English/Chemistry), University of Rostock
Final Thesis: “The Language of Brexit Literature: Narrating a Social and Political Landslide”
2016
Abitur (A-Levels)
Other
2023 – leading student assistant DGfA Conference “America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee”, University of Rostock
2021 – leading student assistant “Metaphora 2021: Übergänge ins Universitätsleben”, University of Rostock
2020 – Online Materials Developer “English Resource Pool”, University of Rostock
Research Interests
- literary representations of contemporary anxieties (climate change, political extremism, xenophobia)
- ecocriticism and postcolonialism
- gender studies, feminist criticism, ecofeminism
- speculative fiction
Teaching
WS 2023/2023
Proseminar “In 3 Genres around the World’s Crises”