Hilary Dannenberg

Professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures

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Conference Papers and Guest Lectures

Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

  • "Crossing Borders in the Sand: the Desert and the Post/Colonial Romance in Anglophone Fiction." Forging the Local and Global, Conference at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2006.
  • "Postcolonial Narrative Strategies in African and Canadian Anglophone Fiction." Narrative: An International Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2006.
  • "Sharing Media Spaces: The Kumars at No 42." Sharing Places, Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Malta, March 2005.
  • "Post/Colonial Alterities and Global Hybridities in the Contemporary South African Novel: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome To Our Hillbrow." Postcolonialism: South/Africa, Conference at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 2004.
  • "Polyphony and Fictionality in Postcolonial Diasporic Narratives." Conference on Transcultural English Studies, Frankfurt, May 2004.
  • "Polyphony and Fictionality in Diasporic Narrative." Narrative: An International Conference, Burlington, Vermont, USA, April 2004.
  • "Weibliche Protagonisten as Grenzgänger zwischen Nationalität und Weiblichkeit in zeitgenössischen indischen bzw. anglo-indischen Romanen" [Female Protagonists Crossing the Border between Nationality and Femininity in the Contemporary Indo-Anglian and Anglo-Indian Novel]. Conference on Identities and Alterities. University of Freiburg, February 1998.
  • "Ein edler Wilder des 17. Jahrhunderts und seine intergalaktischen Pendants im 20. Jahrhundert: Aphra Behns Oroonoko und Ursula K. Le Guins Left Hand of Darkness" [A Seventeenth-Century Noble Savage and his Intergalactic Counterparts in Twentieth-Century Science Fiction]. Conference on the Figure of the Noble Savage, University of Freiburg, November 1999.

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Narrative Fiction and Narrative Theory

  • "Key Models for the Analysis of Space and Time in Narrative Theory and Postcolonial Studies." Guest Lecture at a Conference for Doctoral Students of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), Schöntal, December 2005.
  • "The Romance Plot in the Novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy." Guest Lecture at the University of Jena, January 2005.
  • "Windows, Doorways and Portals in Literature, Art and Culture." Magical Objects: Literature, Art and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Conference at the University of Leipzig, November 2004.
  • "Fictional Space and Realworld Bodily Orientation." Narrative: An International Conference, Berkeley, California, USA, March 2003.
  • "Narrative Suspense and the Selection of Alternatives in Print, Cinematic and Electronic Fictions." MLA Convention, New York, December 2002.
  • "The Coincidence Plot in Narrative Fiction." Conference of German University Teachers of English, Bayreuth, September 2002.
  • "Counterfactuality in Human Psychology and Narrative Fiction." Narrative Matters: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2002.
  • "Counterfactual Narratives." Narrative: An International Conference, East Lansing, Michigan, April 2002.
  • "Writing Around the Canon: The Use of Creative Re/Writing to Teach Narrative." Narrative: An International Conference, Houston, Texas, March 2001.
  • "The Shape of Things to Come: Zukunftsvisionen in der Science Fiction der Moderne und Postmoderne" [Visions of the Future in Modernist and Postmodernist Science Fiction]. Lecture Series on Modernism and Postmodernism, University of Freiburg, February 2001.
  • "Creative Writing at the University." ESSE5: Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Helsinki, September 2000.
  • "Coincidence in Narrative Fiction and Science." Narrative: An International Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2000.
  • "Divergent Plot Patterns in Narrative Fiction from Sir Philip Sidney to Peter Ackroyd." Conference of German University Teachers of English, Mainz, September 1999.
  • "Doorways to Anywhere vs. Repetitive Hierarchy: The Multiple-World Structure of C.S. Lewis's Narnian Universe." International Symposium on C.S. Lewis, University of Erlangen, May 1998.
  • "Im/possible Hi/stories: Multiple and Alternate World Construction in Twentieth-Century Narrative Fiction." Second Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics, University of Freiburg, September 1997.
  • "Hypertextuality and Multiple World Construction in English and American Narrative Fiction." Conference on Literature and the New Media, University of Freiburg, October 1996.
  • "The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Form, Plot, Character and Culture." Lecture Series on the History of English Literature, University of Cologne, June 1996.
  • "Die Dreidimensionalisierung des erzählten Raumes in Büchners Lenz" [The Three-Dimensionalization of Narrative Space in Büchner's Lenz]. Conference on Georg Büchner, University of Marburg, February 1996.
  • "The Development of Theories of Narrative Structure and the Concept of Plot." Lecture Series on Literary Theories, Models and Methods, University of Cologne, June 1994.

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Television and Film

  • "Images of American Society and Culture in Key Science Fiction Movies of the 1950s." Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s. Conference at the Trier Center for American Studies. University of Trier, June 2005.
  • "Hybrid Genres and Crosscultural Dialogues in Contemporary British Television Comedy: The Kumars at No 42 and Ali G." Medialised Britain. 15th British Cultural Studies Conference, University of Passau, November 2004.
  • "Pitiful Monsters and Dysfunctional Families: A History of the British Situation Comedy." Guest Lecture at the University of Dresden, July 2004.
  • "The Situation Comedy in British Television from the 1960s to the Present Day." Guest Lecture at the University of Bochum, January 2004.
  • "Marketing the British Situation Comedy." 14th British Cultural Studies Conference on Consumption and Consumer Cultures. University of Leipzig, November 2003.
  • "Fictions of Hybridity: Identity and Genre in Contemporary British Television Comedy." Lecture Series on Mediality and Processes of Cultural Exchange organized by the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies. University of Leipzig, October 2003.
  • "Multiple Identitäten in den populären amerikanischen Spielfilmgattungen Fantasy und Science Fiction" [Multiple Identities in the Popular American Film Genres of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Conference on Alterity in the Media, Interdisciplinary Research Project on Identities and Alterities (SFB 541). University of Freiburg, July 1999
 

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