Literatur und Literaturvermittlung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

Nicole Gabriel

geboren 1986. Studium der Fächer Anglistik, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg und an der Oulun Yliopisto (Universität von Oulu), Finnland. Von 2009 bis 2013 Tutorin und studentische Hilfskraft bei Frau Prof. Sabine Volk-Birke am Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft der MLU. Abschluss im Januar 2013 als Diplom-Anglistin mit einer Arbeit zu Terry Pratchett's Shakespeare Adaptations. Anschließend für 6 Monate als EU-geförderte COMENIUS-Assistentin an der Greenbank High School in Southport, England. Von 2013 bis 2017 Kollegiatin am GRK 1787. Von 2013 bis 2015 zudem Lehrbeauftragte an der MLU. Praxisphase bei LovelyBooks von April bis Oktober 2015. Bis März 2017 Kollegiatin des GRK 1787.

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Lehre:

  • Introduction to Cultural Studies (SoSe 2016)
  • Cross-Cultural Adaptations of The Office (SoSe 2015)
  • Introduction to Convergence Culture: Transmedial Sherlock Holmes (SoSe 2014)
  • Fantasy: Terry Pratchett and William Shakespeare (WS 2013/14)



Promotionsprojekt: Terry Pratchett's Transmedial Discworld
My project focusses on contemporary British Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015), his ever-growing Discworld-franchise, which was begun in 1983, and its large international (online) fan base. In my thesis, I will trace the development from novel series to transmedial world (Klastrup/Tosca) by determining its different phases of world-building. Special attention will be given to the impact of the digitalization of content and culture.
For the Discworld, various technical, medial, economical, legal, and socio-cultural changes and challenges can be identified, from which new roles and functions arise for the author within the transmedial world: Pratchett develops from author to 'world manager'. In order to define the different functions, I shall analyse this process through a selection of case studies of interactions between Pratchett and other producers or prosumers (Toffler). Eventually, I shall compare the Discworld with other novel-based transmedial worlds to identify its distinctive features, and to compile a typology of novel-based transmedial worlds and their world managers. Theoretically and methodologically, the thesis will be based primarily in transmedia and adaptation studies, as well as culture and media studies (esp. Jenkins' concepts of convergence culture and participatory culture).