Dorothee Birke
Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Chair of Anglophone Literatures
Room: 40333
Office hours: Monday 13:15 – 14:15 Uhr
Please register for a slot by writing an email to anglistik@uibk.ac.at
Research and teaching interests
- History of the Novel (especially 18th century and 20/21st century)
- Reading and Book Culture
- Literature in the Digital Age
- Narrative Theory
- Reception Studies
- Economic Criticism
- Memory Studies
- Political Drama
Administration
- Vorsitzende des Fakultätsrats der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
- Mitglied des QV-Beirats der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
CV
2024: Second Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
since 2021: Full Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Innsbruck
2020-2021: Associate Professor for Modern and Contemporary English Literature at NTNU Trondheim, Norway
2015-2018: Marie Curie Fellow at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Denmark
Selected Publications
1) “Diachronic Perspectives on Digital Reading Culture: Crying Readers from the Age of Sensibility to BookTok.“ Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 34.2, 2025. Special issue: Diachronicity (eds. Monika Fludernik and Olga Timofeeva). 128-144.
2) Ed. (with Anja Hartl): Theatre in the Digital Age. Special Issue for the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 13.1, 2025. Click here to access the introduction.
3) “The Poetics and Politics of We-Narration on the Contemporary British Stage.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 12.1, 2024. with Janine Hauthal).
4) “Chrononarratology: Modelling Historical Change for Narratology”, Narrative 30.1, 26-46 (2022; with Karin Kukkonen and Eva von Contzen).
5) “Social Reading? On the Rise of a 'Bookish' Reading Culture Online.” Poetics Today 42.2 (2021). Special issue Modes of Reading (eds. Tore Rye Andersen, Stefan Kjerkegaard and Brigitte Stougaard Pedersen). 149-172.
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