Dr. phil. Anna Auguscik (Lektorin)
Dr. phil. Anna Auguscik
Büro: GW 2, A 3.590
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Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2025: Lecturer for Literary and Cultural Studies in the Anglophone World, University of Bremen
- 2018-2025: Lecturer and Researcher in British & Anglophone Literature and Culture, Institute for English and American Studies, CvO University of Oldenburg (‘LfbA’)
- 2018-2022: Associate Junior Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK)
- 2018-2021: Post-Doc Research Fellow for the interdisciplinary research and writers’ fellowship program Fiction Meets Science II funded by Volkswagen Foundation, Oldenburg and Bremen
- 2014-2017: Post-Doc Research Fellow for the interdisciplinary research and writers’ fellowship program Fiction Meets Science funded by Volkswagen Foundation, Oldenburg and Bremen
- 2014: PhD in English Literature, University of Oldenburg: “Prizing Debate in Literary Interaction: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK”
- 2006-2018: Lecturer and Researcher in British & Anglophone Literature and Culture, Institute for English and American Studies, CvO University of Oldenburg (‘Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin’)
- 2006: MA in English, Polish and Comparative Literature (Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Slavische Philologie, Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), LMU München
- 2001-2006: Studies in English and Slavonic Languages as well as Comparative Literature, LMU München and Università di Padova, Italy
Forschung
- Exploration and Expedition Narratives
- Representations of Science and Scientists in Literature and Culture
- Discourses and Taxonomies of (Non)Knowledge
- Polar Fiction, Time Travel and Speculative Literature
- Contemporary Fiction and the Book Market
- Postmodern and Postcolonial Fiction: Australia, Britain, Canada, Caribbean, India, Ireland, Nigeria, and the Pacific
- Virginia Woolf and Modernist Fiction
- Oscar Wilde and the Fin de Siècle
- Charles Dickens and Victorian Literature and Culture
- The Long Eighteenth Century from Laurence Sterne to Walter Scott
- Shakespeare: Drama, Poetry, Rhetoric
Publikationen
- Auguscik, A. "'Our Doing and Undoing': Expeditionary Encounters and the Complex Mutuality of Cultural and Narrative Limits in Lily King’s Euphoria." Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives. Ed. Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025.
- Auguscik, A., and S. Broders. "Introduction: Limits of Knowledge – Knowledge of Limits: The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge, and Agnotology." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 33.2 (2022): 77-88.
- Auguscik, A., "Law on Ice: Polarizing Legal Expertise in Popular Climate Change Fiction." Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics (2021): 153-173.
- Auguscik, A. "The Death of the Archaeologist: Imagining Science, Storytelling and Self-Understanding in Contemporary Archaeofiction." Writing Remains: New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science. Eds. Josie Gill, Catriona McKenzie, Emma Lightfoot. Bloomsbury, 2021.
- Auguscik, A., S. Farzin, E. Herold, and A. Kirchhofer. "Speculative Fiction and the Significance of Plausibility: Dystopian Science in the Critical Response to Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake." Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel. Eds. Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes. Penn State UP, 2021.
- Fücker, S., A. Auguscik, A. Kirchhofer, and U. Schimank. "A Fictional Risk Narrative and its Potential for Social Resonance: The Reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups." Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel. Eds. Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes. Penn State UP, 2021.
- Auguscik, A. "Kulturereignisse und Kulturpreise." L?nderbericht Gro?britannien. Hrsg. Roland Sturm. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2019. 299-306.
- Auguscik, A. "Spoiler Alert: Scott, Science, and Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Expedition Narratives." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 30.2 (2019): 47-64.
- Kirchhofer, A., and A. Auguscik. "Triangulating the Two Cultures Entanglement: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Public Sphere." Journal of Literature and Science 10. 2 (2017): 26-37.
- Auguscik, A. Prizing Debate: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK. Bielefeld: transcript, 2017.
- Roxburgh, N., A. Kirchhofer, A. Auguscik. "Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 49.4 (Dec 2016): 71-87.
- Auguscik, A. "The Institution of Literary Prizes." The Institution of English Literature: Formation and Mediation. Eds. Barbara Schaff, Johannes Schlegel, Carola Surkamp. G?ttingen: V&R unipress, 2016. 311-320.
- Roxburgh, N. and A. Auguscik. "The Eighteenth-Century and the Literary Marketplace." The Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 40-58.
- Auguscik, A. "The History of the Booker Prize as a History of Problems and Precarious Alliances." Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media. Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2016. 47-62.
- Auguscik, A. "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". Literaturbetrieb. Zur Poetik einer Produktionsgemeinschaft. Eds. Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder. Paderborn: Fink, 2013. 97-112.
- Auguscik, A. "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger: Zwischen Repr?sentanz und Kontroverse". Medienobservationen (July 2011): 1-20.