Sophie Bantle

Sophie Bantle, M.A.

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate
English Literature | Korte

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

Office Hours:
Wednesday, 12:30–1:30pm

in person or via Zoom | register for a time slot under: calendly.com/sophiebantle

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

EMPLOYMENT

since Oct. 2022	Research Associate University of Freiburg English Department English Literature \| Prof. Korte
Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2022	Erasmus+ Coordinator University of Freiburg English Department Administration and Advising Office
Jan. 2020 – Sep. 2022	Administrative Assistant University of Freiburg English Department Administration and Advising Office

EDUCATION

since 2022	Ph.D., English Literary and Cultural Studies University of Freiburg Working title: “The Neo-Victorian Detective Series in Popular Anglophone Fiction and Television” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte September 2024: Research Stay at the University of Oxford, UK
2019 – 2022	M.A. in British and North American Cultural Studies University of Freiburg Final thesis: "It is the precise details of our lives caught and represented to us" – The Neo-Victorian Detective Television Series as a Mirror of 21^st-century Britain
2017	Erasmus+ Studies University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 – 2019	B.A. in English and American Studies & German Literature University of Freiburg

EDITORSHIPS & PUBLICATIONS

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.
"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

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