PD Dr. Kirsten Sandrock
Beruflicher Werdegang
Seit 04/2008
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Schaff) an der Georg-August Universität Göttingen
10/2014 bis 09/2015
Elternzeit
10/2011 bis 09/2012
Elternzeit
04/2011 – 08/2011
Vertretungsprofessur (W2) für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwiss. an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal (Nachfolge Prof. Dr. Erll)
08/2005 – 08/2006
Forschungsaufenthalt an der University of New Brunswick, Canada, gefördert durch den Government of Canada Award
2002 – 2005
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft o.A. bei Prof. Dr. Kuester, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Auszeichnungen
10/2006 – 04/2008
Promotionsstipendium für Geisteswissenschaftler_innen der Universität Marburg
08/2005 – 08/2006
Government of Canada Award für Forschungsaufenthalt an der University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
09/2001 – 08/2002
DAAD-Stipendium für das Studium an der University of Newcastle, UK
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Allgemein
Im Bereich Gender
Veröffentlichungen
Monographien
Herausgeber_innenschaften
Artikel
Vorträge
07/2018
"Postcolonial Utopias: Recent Nigerian Literature and Utopias of Migration" – European Utopian Studies Society, 9-12 July, Tarragona, Spain
06/2018
"Narrating Failure in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court" – Failures East and West: International Symposium, 7 – 9 June 2018, Trier
05/2018
"Utopian Narratives: (Un-)Happiness in the New World" – Fortune, Felicity, and Happiness between 1500 and 1750, 25-26 May, Paderborn
05/2018
"Atlantic Canada as Utopia in Colonial Literature" – Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, 4-5 May, Wolfville, Canada
02/2018
"Canada as Tableau Vivant" – GKS Jahrestagung, 2018, 16-18 February 2018, Grainau
09/2017
Introduction. "The Reformation in the English-Speaking World." Anglistentag, 19-23 September, Regensburg
04/2017
Introduction. "Shakespearean Reformations – Reforming Shakespeare." Shakespeare Seminar, 20-23 April, Weimar
05/2016
"Globalization and Migration in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah: A Material Approach." GAPS, 5-7 May 2016, Augsburg
04/2016
Introduction. "Shakespeare's Green Wor(l)ds." Shakespeare Seminar, 22-24 April, Bochum
07/2015
"Globalization and Postcolonial Transculturation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah." Transgressions / Transformations: Literature and Beyond, 27-31 July 2015, Göttingen
09/2014
"The Wee, Wee Germain Lairdie: The Georgian Body in Jacobite Literature." Deutscher Anglistentag 2014, 21.-24.9.2014, Hannover
07/2014
"Scotland's Colonial Imaginary: From Nova Scotia to the Darien Scheme." 14th International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature, 28-31 July 2014, Bochum
05/2014
"The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton." GAPS/GASt Conference, 29 May – 1 June 2014, Potsdam
04/2014
Introduction. "Strike Up, Pipers – Shakespeare's Festivities." Shakespeare Seminar, 24-27 April, Weimar
10/2013
"Decolonizing Scotland? Postcolonial Perspectives on the Referendum," Scotland 2014: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence? 17-21 October 2013, Germersheim
07/2013
"Through the Eyes of a Traveller: Europe in William Lithgow's The Totall Discourse," 20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 18–24 July 2013, Paris
05/2012
Introduction. "Crime Scotland – Then and Now." Second Conference of the Society for Scottish Studies in Europe, 31 May – 3 June 2012, Göttingen
04/2011
"Medieval vs. Early Modern: Travel Narratives and other Genres in The Tempest," German Shakespeare Society, 8 April – 1 May 2011, Weimar
01/2011
"Gender and Race in Atlantic Canada: Of Dreams and Delusions," GKS Jahrestagung, 2011, 25 - 27 January, Grainau
12/2010
"Scotland's Colonial History: Reading William Lithgow's The Totall Discourse (1614)," History in travel narrative 1589-1826, 11-12 December 2010, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris
09/2010
"Crime and the City: The Changing Geographies of Ian Rankin's Edinburgh," Deutscher Anglistentag 2010, 19.-22. September 2010, Saarbrücken
09/2009
"Making Meaning by Resisting It: Silences in Contemporary Trauma Literature," Deutscher Anglistentag 2009, 21.-23. September 2009, Klagenfurt
06/2009
“Melancholia and Imperialist Discourse: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson,” Conference on Melancholia as a Central European Discourse in English Literary and Cultural History, 25-28th June 2009, Augsburg
06/2009
"Bond's Alter-Ego: Ian Fleming as 007 in Thrilling Cities," The Cultures of James Bond Conference, 5-7 June 2009, Saarbrücken
05/2009
"Postcolonial Piecework: Aspects of Self-location in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty (2007) and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008)," GNEL/ASNEL Conference, 21-24 May 2009, Münster
04/2009
"Venice, Vice and Dolce Vita: Images of Italy in Ian Fleming’s Works," In Medias Res: British-Italian Cultural Transactions, Fourth British Academy Colloquium: 'East, West', 1-4 April 2009, University of Nanterre, Paris
07/2008
"Towards a Dialogical Concept of Region: Reconsidering the Relevance of Bakhtin's Chronotope for Maritime Studies," 13th International Mikhaïl Bakhtin Conference, July 28 – August 1, 2008, London, Canada
07/2008
"Carnival in Cape Breton: Multiculturalism in MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees," The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism, July 10-12, 2008, Göttingen
06/2008
with Wolfram Keller, "The Noble Savage, Savage Nobility, and Scotswomen – Abroad!" MESEA, June 25-28 2008, Leiden
06/2007
"Beyond the Canadian Mosaic: Gender and Race in the Poetry of Maxine Tynes," Conference on "Her Na-rra-tion" 21-23 June 2007, Nantes
05/2007
"'Blessed is the Fruit of Thy Loom': The Ethics of Religion in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees," Vierte Graduiertentagung für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern, 24-27 Mai 2007, Wien
05/2007
"The Pastoral Paradigm in Canadian Literature," GNEL/ASNEL Conference 2007, May 17-20 2007, Jena
05/2007
"The Politics of Writing: Feminist and Environmentalist Activism in Donna Smyth's Subversive Elements," 16th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, 3-5 May 2007, Halifax
04/2007
"Railway Imagery in the Novels by Wayne Johnston," British Association for Canadian Studies, 32nd Annual Conference, April 11-13, 2007, Durham
02/2007
"Cultural Diversity in Canada—Newfoundland's Unrequited Dream? Identity Politics in the Novels of Wayne Johnston," Nachwuchsforum der GKS Jahrestagung, 2007, 16-18 Februar 2007, Grainau
11/2006
"A Maritime Vision: Ecocritical Perspectives on Donna E. Smyth's Subversive Elements (1986)," Asociación de Español de Estudios Canadiensis Congress 2006, November 16-17 2006, Madrid
05/2006
"The Cry-sis of the Unheard: Female Voices in Maritime Short Stories," GSC Conference 2006, May 5-6 2006, Montréal
02/2006
"Re-Placing Lives in the Margins: Forms and Functions of Space in Carol Bruneau's After the Angel Mill," GSA 2006, February 24-25 2006, Fredericton
05/2005
Scottish territories and Canadian Identity: Regional Aspects in the Literature of Alistair MacLeod," GNEL/ASNEL Conference 2005, May 4-7 2005, Kiel
Mitgliedschaften
Seit 06/2018
Göttinger Centrum für Geschlechterforschung
Seit 2018
BritCult (Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium Britischer Kulturen)
Seit 2011
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
Seit 2009
Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
Seit 2009
Zentrum für Theorie und Methodik der Kulturwissenschaften, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Seit 2007
Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien e.V.
Seit 2005
GAPS (German Association for Postcolonial Studies