Esther-Marie Schilling
Lecturer in North American Literature and Culture
Advisor for the Master's course "Culture, Ecology, Change"
Room 8009
August-Bebel-Straße 28
esther-marie.schillinguni-rostockde
Tel.: +49 (0)381 498-2584
Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594
Office Hours this Semester (teaching weeks)
Tuesday from
3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
and by appointment by e-mail
(Please note that changes to office hours will be announced under the menu item "News")
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 2024/25
Proseminar: 1925 Across the Atlantic: The Great Gatsby and Mrs. Dalloway
Proseminar: "The Future is Feminist"?: Women, Motherhood, and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
SS 2024
Proseminar: (American) Musical Politics
WS 2023/24
Proseminar: In 3 Genres around the World’s Crises