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Dr. Claudia Falk

Managing Editor, EGO | European History Online


Studied English, German and History of Art at Heidelberg University; 2013: PhD in English Philology; 2007–2009 assistant for international affairs at the rectorate of Heidelberg University; 2009–2013 personal assistant of Professor Vera Nünning at the English Department, Heidelberg University; 2013–2014 and since 2016 academic editor at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz for “EGO | European History Online” (2015/2016 member of the academic staff, project “DARIAH-DE”); since January 2015 also communications associate at the Graduate Academy, Heidelberg University.

  • Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte
  • Digitale Geisteswissenschaften
  • Gender Studies
  • Crime Fiction

  • Zwischen Tradition und Subversion: Männlichkeitsmodelle im englischen Roman seit den 1950er Jahren. Trier: WVT, 2015.
  • ‘Good Guy’ oder ‘Rejection Man’: Ironie und Humor als Mittel der Empathieerzeugung bei Nick Hornby. Hg. Caroline Lusin. Empathie, Sympathie und Narration: Zur Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 89-102.
  • A Masculinity-Studies Approach to Narrative: Hegemonic and Subordinated Masculinities in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hg. Vera Nünning. New Approaches to Narrative. Trier: WVT, 2013. 93-105.
  • ‘And I Mean Is It Any Wonder All the Men End up Emasculated?’ Post-war Masculinities in Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road and John Braine’s Room at the Top. Hgg. Stefan Horlacher, Kevin Floyd. Between the National and the Transnational, 1945-1980: Masculinities in British and American Literature. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 55-68.
  • Starke Frauen: Val McDermid. Hg. Vera Nünning. Der Amerikanische und Britische Kriminalroman: Genres – Entwicklungen – Modellinterpretationen. Trier: WVT, 2008. 151-164.