Kulturwissenschaften - Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies (Universität Paderborn)

Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

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+49 5251 60-2849

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toennies(at)mail.upb(dot)de

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J4.133

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Office hours in the summer semester 2022:

Tuesdays 1-2 pm in J.4.319

Please register for the on-campus office hours in advance with Frau Tegtmeier (petra.tegtmeier@upb.de).

These office hours are offered for more complex matters which cannot be clarified easily by email.

Consultations via video-call or telephone are available upon request.

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Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn

2015 - today	Representative of the Senate of the University Paderborn, member of the Senate since 2013
2011 - today	Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2010 - today	Faculty at the Representation of Arts and Humanities Faculties in Germany
10/2005 - today	Professor of English Literature and British Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn
2014 - 2016	Deputy Chair of the Department for English and American Studies
2007 - 2013	Vice President of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
2003 - 2007	Member of the advisory board of the German Association for the Study of English
2005	Visiting Professor at the University of Constance
2004 - 2005	Visiting Professor at the University of Bayreuth
1998 - 2005	Research assistant at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
2004	Visiting Professor at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
2003	Venia legendi for English Philology
2002	Regular participation in the selection processes for Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1997 - 1998	Research assistant at the University of Bochum
1996	Doctorate at the Ruhr-University of Bochum
1993 - 1995	Postgraduate studies in English at the Exeter College, Oxford
1988 - 1993	MA at the Ruhr-University of Bochum in English, Slavonic Studies and Public and International Law
1990 - 1991	Visiting student at the Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Open list in Research Information System

2021

Constructions of a National Threat: Contextualising the Rhetorical Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain

M. Tönnies, in: Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm, Königshausen & Neumann, 2021, pp. 149-163

Gattung und Geschlecht: Konventionen und Transformationen eines Paradigmas

M. Tönnies, H. Schlieper. Gattung und Geschlecht: Konventionen und Transformationen eines Paradigmas. 2021.

The Black British Bildungsroman: Gender-specific Plot Models?

M. Tönnies, in: Gattung und Geschlecht: Konventionen und Transformationen eines Paradigmas, Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 235-263.

‘Who’s Going to Mobilise Darkness and Silence?’ The Construction of Dystopian Spaces in Contemporary British Drama

M. Tönnies, A. Sierz, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2021), 9(1), pp. 20-42

2020

Posthuman Dystopia: Animal Surrealism and Permanent Crisis in Contemporary British Theatre

M. Tönnies, E. Voigts, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2020), 8(2), pp. 295-312

British Political Rhetoric from World War II to Brexit: A Cultural Studies Approach

M. Tönnies, M. Göhrmann, in: How to Do Cultural Studies: Ideas, Approaches, Scenarios, Königshausen & Neumann, 2020, pp. 303-339

2019

Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit

M. Tönnies, D. Henneböhl, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2019), 26(2), pp. 181-193

2018

Changing Uses of the City in Contemporary Black British Novels

M. Tönnies, A. Lienen, in: Resistance and the City. Negotiating Urban Identities: Race, Class, Gender, Brill, 2018, pp. 66-82

2017

The Immobility of Power in British Political Theatre after 2000: Absurdist Dystopias

M. Tönnies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2017), 5(1), pp. 156-172

Still/Again 'Political'? New Approaches to Questioning Power in Mike Bartlett's 13 (2011)

M. Tönnies, in: Finance, Terror, and Science on Stage. Current Public Concerns in 21st-Century British Drama, Narr Francke Attempto, 2017, pp. 19-39

Pope, G.: Reading London's Suburbs

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2017), pp. 175-177

The Renewal of British Political Theater in the Twenty-First Century: Indirect Narrative Approaches to Ideology and Power

M. Tönnies, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies (2017), 9(1-2), pp. 95-120

2016

Anglistentag 2015 Paderborn: Proceedings

M. Tönnies, C. Ehland, I. Mindt, WVT, 2016

Religion im zeitgenössischen britischen Drama

M. Tönnies, in: Religion und Kultur, transcript, 2016, pp. 81-96

The Use of Comic Effects in Memoirs of British Asian Adolescence: Twenty-First Century Writers Looking Back at the 1970s and 1980s

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2016), 27(1), pp. 113-124

The Duality of Page and Stage: Constructing Lyrical Voices in Contemporary British Poetry Written for Performance

M. Tönnies, J. Brüning, A. Sand, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2016), 64(3), pp. 301-320

2015

Jürs-Munby, K. / Carroll, J. / Giles, S. (Hg.): Postdramatic Theatre and the Political

M. Tönnies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2015), pp. 355-358

Between Authenticity and Objectification: Narrating the Self in Contemporary British Drama

M. Tönnies, Dramatic Minds. Performance, Cognition, and the Representation of Interiority (2015), pp. 243-260

2014

Kamm, J. / Lenz, B. (Hg.): Representing Terrorism and Deconstructing Terrorism

M. Tönnies, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2014), pp. 203-207

(En-)Gendering a Popular Theatrical Genre. The Roles of Women in Nineteenth-Century British Melodrama

M. Tönnies,1st ed., Winter, 2014, pp. 365

Anti-hegemoniale Strategien des Kleinen. Britische dokumentarische Farbfotografie als Kritik des Thatcherismus

M. Tönnies, Kulturen des Kleinen. Mikroformate in Literatur, Kunst und Medien (2014), pp. 321-333

2013

Middeke,M. / Schnierer, P.P. / Sierz, A. (Hg.): The Methuen Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

M. Tönnies, Anglia (2013), pp. 183-188

Rossow, H. Globalismus und Lew Labour

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2013), pp. 223-225

Baumbach, S. / Neumann, B. / Nünning, A.: A History of British Drama

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2013), pp. 201-203

Northern Landscapes and Anti-Thatcherite Positioning

M. Tönnies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2013), 20(2), pp. 115-124

Feminising a Classical Male Plot Model? Black British Women Writers and the 'Bildungsroman'

M. Tönnies, International Journal of English Studies (2013), 24(1), pp. 51-61

2012

Spatial Representations of British Identities

M. Tönnies, H. Buschmann. Spatial Representations of British Identities. 2012.

A Bricolage of Identities in Crisis. Colour Photography Documenting Northern England under Thatcher

M. Tönnies, Facteurs d'Identité / Faktoren der Identität (2012), pp. 301-323

2011

Introducing Narrative in Drama

C. Flotmann, M. Tönnies, in: Narrative in Drama: CDE Studies 18, WVT, 2011, pp. 9-17

Narrative in Drama

M. Tönnies, C. Flotmann. Narrative in Drama. 2011.

Narrative in Drama

M. Tönnies, C. Flotmann. Narrative in Drama. 2011.

2010

Reading British Spaces

M. Tönnies, I. Grimm. Reading British Spaces. 2010.

Das englische Drama der Gegenwart: Kategorien-Entwicklungen-Modellnterpretationen

M. Tönnies. Das englische Drama der Gegenwart: Kategorien-Entwicklungen-Modellnterpretationen. 2010.

The Features of Meanings of Orality in Black British Performance Poetry

M. Tönnies, A. Sand, Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt. Proceedings (2010), pp. 105-114

Transgressive Melodrama. The 'Sensational' 1860s and their After-Effects

M. Tönnies, Victorian Highways - Victorian Byways. New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (2010), pp. 157-180