Sie sind hier: Startseite › Seminar › Mitarbeitende › Stephanie Bender

Stephanie Bender

Dr. Stephanie Bender

bender

FORMER POSITIONS

Guest Lecturer & Doctoral Candidate
English Literature | Korte



RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Critical Posthumanism
  • Ecocriticism/Blue Humanities
  • Embodiment
  • Gender and Care
  • New Formalism

EDUCATION

Since 2023

Teacher
Gymnasium am Romäusring | Villingen-Schwenningen
2022 – 2023

Parental Leave
2021 – 2022

Research Associate
English Department | University of Freiburg
2015 – 2022

Ph.D. (English Literary and Cultural Studies)
Topic of Dissertation: "Future Fictions in the 21st Century: Ethics and Aesthetics"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte
University of Freiburg
2015 – 02016

Teacher Training
Albert-Schweitzer Schule Villingen-Schwenningen
2008 – 2014

State Examination
English, Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Spanish
University of Freiburg
2004 – 2007

Bachelor of Arts
International Business Management
Hochschule Furtwangen University


GRANTS

  • Ph.D. Scholarship
    Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2023. Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • 2023. “Review on The Feminist Subversion of the Economy”. Antipode Online
  • 2019. “Lives Unmourned: Olumide Popoola’s Refugee Stories ‘Counting Down’ and ‘Expect Me’.” Borders and Border Crossings in British Short Stories of the Twenty-First Century. Barbara Korte and Laura Lojo Rodríguez (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 61-76.
  • 2019. “Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden? The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Journal for Religion, Film and Media 5.2: 31-50.
  • 2017. “Which of the Possible Future Is a Good Future? Ecology and Future Worlds in James Cameron’s Avatar.” Work in Progress. Work on Progress. Doktorand_innen Jahrbuch der Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung. Markus Hawel & Herausgeber_innenkolektiv (eds). Hamburg: VSA, 245-260.
  • 2015. “‘Capitalism a nuh wi fren.’ Global Justice and Capitalism in Life and Debt and Cronicamente Inviável.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 63.2: 199-214.
  • 2014. „Filmische Einblicke in globale Ungerechtigkeiten: Wie der Kapitalismus die Kolonien übernahm.” Just Politics: Ökokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum. Lina Fricke, Anna von Rath and Christoph Senft (eds). Münster: Unrast, 99-112.

 

CONFERENCE TALKS

  • "Embodied Philology as Experimentation with Form"
    The Uses of Form
    Online Workshop | 1–2 July 2022

  • Participatory Session “Alternative Academic Livelihoods”
    7th Degrowth Conference
    University of Manchester (online) | 5–7 July 2021

  • "Worlds within Worlds: Stories about the Oikos in Contemporary Future Fictions"
    ASLE Conference
    University of Plymouth | 4–6 September 2019

  • "How Stories Make Worlds: The Ethics of Popular Fiction"
    6th International Degrowth Conference
    Malmö | 21–25 August 2018

  • "Telling the Invisibles into Existence: 'Counting Down' and 'Expect Me' by Olumide Popoola"
    Short Story Symposium
    University of Freiburg | 9–10 February 2018

  • "Anderwelten in zeitgenössischen Zukunftsfiktionen"
    Symposium Otherworlds
    University of Basel | 3–4 November 2017

  • "Representations of the Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy: Between Popular Entertainment and Longing for Eden"
    Apocalypse and Authenticity
    University of Hull | 11–13 July 2017

  • "Future Fictions in the 21st Century: Ethics and Aesthetics"
    EUCOR Conference
    University of Basel | 7–8 April 2017

  • "Renegotiations of the Utopian in Contemporary Fiction: Dissolving the Boundaries between Utopia and Dystopia in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy"
    CAPPE Conference Utopias
    University of Brighton | 2–4 September 2015

  • "'Capitalism ain't our friend.' Global Justice and Capitalism in Life and Debt and Cronicamente Inviável"
    EACLALS Conference Uncommon Wealths
    University of Innsbruck | 14–18 April 2014

  • "English as Medium of Instruction (EMI): Overvaluation of Language Skills at the Expense of the Real Challenges?" with Susanne Gundermann
    SLI Conference
    University of Freiburg | 18–20 April 2012

 

TEACHING