Sophie Bantle

Sophie Bantle, M.A.

Research Associate & Academic Advisor

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate
English Literature | Korte

sophie.bantle@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
R 4212 | KG IV

Office hours (for students in my seminars):
Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm 

Please register for a time slot under calendly.com/sophiebantle 

Academic Advisor
English Department | Administration & Advising Office

fachberatung@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
R 4011 | KG IV

Office hours (for academic advising):
Monday, 10am-12pm & 
Thursday, 4-6pm

Please register for a time slot under calendly.com/fachberatung-anglistik

Out of office: Dec. 20 to Jan. 6

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Detective Fiction
• Neo-Victorianism
• Television and Film Studies
• Adaptation and Remediation

EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

EDITORSHIPS & PUBLICATIONS

• Forthcoming (with Franca Leitner): "Ever since the war ended, I've been waiting, hoping, longing": Bletchley Park, Gender, and Restorative Nostalgia in Murder at Bletchley Park (2024) and The Bletchley Circle (2012-2014). Journal for the Study of British Cultures 33.2, special issue on Crime (Fictions) and Nostalgia, 2026.
• Forthcoming (with Marie Kluge): "[C]ompletely out of the common": Detection and Gender in L.T. Meade's Florence Cusack and Diana Marburg Mysteries. Recovering Lost Voices in 19th-Century British Literature, Vernon Press.
• Forthcoming: "Smells Can Deceive": Criminality, Smell and the Metropolis in the Detective Series The Frankenstein Chronicles. Die Stinkende Stadt: Olfaktorische Perspektiven auf urbane Räume der Vormoderne. Nomos.
• Guest editorship for COPAS (Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies) Journal 25.2.: Dis/Connection: Relations, Interactions, Disruptions (2024). 
• "This Nightmare Is Your Creation": The Television Series The Frankenstein Chronicles as a Reproductive Remediation." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31.2, special issue on Victorian Reproductions, 2024, pp. 273-291.
• “You are a Symbol, Persis” – The Complexity of Postcolonial and Feminist Progress in Vaseem Khan’s Malabar House Series." Clues: A Journal of Detection 42.2, special issue on BIPOC Female Detectives in a Global Context, 2024, pp. 46-56.
• "Football Isn't Just a Game": Ted Lasso, Utopia and the Issue of Sportswashing." Journal of Popular Television 12.2., 2024, 133-148.
• "The Age of AI? – Artificial Intelligence and (Post)humanist Questions in the Superhero Movie Avengers: Age of Ultron." Konstruieren – Imaginieren – Inszinieren: Zukunftsentwürfe in der Populärkultur. Waxmann, 2024, pp. 19–42.
• "Princess Catherine Duleep Singh (1871-1924)." Queer19, Aug. 23, 2023.
• Guest editorship for the literary online magazine Alluvium | General Issue 10.2 (published August 8, 2022)
• Guest editorship for the literary online magazine Alluvium | General Issue 9.4 (published September 6, 2021)

TEACHING

2025 winter term

• Proseminar Literary Studies: "It is a truth universally acknowledged" – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century

2025 summer term

• Proseminar Cultural Studies: Hauntings, Specters, Revenants – Ghost Stories in Film and Fiction

2024/25 winter term

• Proseminar Cultural Studies: The Ripper Myth – Jack the Ripper in Media and Culture

2024 summer term

• Proseminar Cultural Studies: Female Police Detectives on British Television

2023/24 winter term

• Proseminar Literary Studies: (Re)interpretation, (Re)discovery, (Re)vision – Neo-Victorian Fiction

2023 summer term

• Proseminar Literary Studies: Sherlock Holmes – Written and Rewritten

2022/23 winter term

• Exercise Course: A Closer Look at Close Reading 

2020 summer term

• Introduction to Cultural Studies – Tutorial