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Anglistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

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Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

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Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies
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


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2022

Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre

M. Tönnies, E. Voigts. Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre. 2022.


Directing Pandemic Attention: Dystopian Corona Narratives and the Nation in British Media and Politics

M. Tönnies, C. Flotmann-Scholz, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies (2022), 33(2), pp. 257-272


Anger, Anxiety and Hope: The Complicit Realities and Engaged/ing Communities of Contemporary Briitsh Dys/Utopian Theatre

M. Tönnies, E. Voigts, Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre (CDE Studies) (2022), 32


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


2009

Assmann, A.: Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2009), pp. 198-200


Shelagh Delaney 'A Taste of Honey'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


David Hare 'A Map of the World'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


David Hare 'Knuckle'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


David Hare 'Plenty'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Ann Patricia Jellicoe 'The Knack'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Stephen Poliakoff 'Strawberry Fields'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Peter Shaffer 'Amadeus'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Peter Shaffer 'Equus'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


George Bernard Shaw 'Mrs Warren's Profession'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Oscar Wilde 'Mrs Henry Wood'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Mary Elisabeth Braddon 'Lady Audley's Secret'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Oscar Wilde 'Lady Windermere's Fan'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Alan Ayckbourn 'Woman in Mind'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Wilkie Collins 'The Moonstone'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


Oscar Wilde 'East Lynne'

M. Tönnies, in: Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 2009


2008

Translating African Traditions and Identities. Black Poetry in Contemporary Britain

M. Tönnies, Cultures of Translation (2008), pp. 87-104


The Visual Strategies of Nineteenth-Century Melodrama

M. Tönnies, Anglistik & Englischunterricht 71 (2008), pp. 183-205


Kulturelle Bedeutungen und Kontexte der indischen Küche in Großbritannien

M. Tönnies, Interkulturelle Mahlzeiten. Kulinarische Begegnungen und Kommunikation in der Literatur (2008), pp. 337-354


Caselli, D.: Beckett's Dante

M. Tönnies, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2008), pp. 155-156


2007

Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space. The New Brighton Photographs of Martin Parr and Tom Wood

M. Tönnies, Spatial Practices 2 (2007), pp. 305-324


Stierstorfer, K. / L. Volkmann (Hg.): Kulturwissenschaft Interdisziplinär

M. Tönnies, Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies (2007), pp. 170-1


Introduction to the Study of British Culture

M. Tönnies, U. Voigt, Narr Studienbücher, 2007


London-Diversity and Myth

M. Tönnies, in: Viewfinder Special. Lese-und Arbeitsbuch für die gymnasiale Oberstufe, Langenscheidt, 2007, pp. 96-111


2006

Forms and Functions of Violence in Contemporary Black British Drama

M. Tönnies, in: Anglistentag 2005, WVT, 2006, pp. 69-77


Foregrounding Boundary Zones. Martin Parr's Photographic (De-)Constructions of Englishness

M. Tönnies, Spatial Practices 1 (2006), pp. 225-241


Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon: Woza Albert! (1981)

M. Tönnies, Drama II (2006), 2, pp. 389-404


New Labour in the New Millenium. A Further Theatricalisation of Politics?

M. Tönnies, Passauer Arbeiten zur Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaft (2006), 3, pp. 119-138


Radicalising Postmodern Biofictions. British Fictional Autobiography of the Twenty-First Century

M. Tönnies, Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture (2006), 3, pp. 305-314


A Midsummer Night's Dream

M. Tönnies, Stauffenburg Handbücher (2006), 9, pp. 195-214


Boehmer, E.: Stories of Women, 2005

M. Tönnies, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2006), pp. 445-447


Middeke, M.: Die Kunst der gelebten Zeit, 2004

M. Tönnies, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2006), pp. 315-317


Kamm, J. / B. Lenz: Großbritannien verstehen, 2004

M. Tönnies, Anglia (2006), pp. 779-782


Nünning, V. / A. Nünning (Hg.): Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies, 2004

M. Tönnies, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2006), pp. 434-436


2005

Courttia Newland's Theatre Work. On the Occasion of B is for Black (Oval House Theatre, London, 1-18 October 2003

M. Tönnies, Hard Times (2005), 76, pp. 31-33


'Serious' Science vs. 'Light' Entertainment? Femininity Concepts in Nineteenth-Century British Medical Discourse and Popular Fiction

M. Tönnies, in: Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Anthem Press, 2005, pp. 183-192


A New Self-Conscious Turn at the Turn of the Centruy?

M. Tönnies, in: anglistik & englischunterricht, 2005, pp. 57-82


Das viktorianische Theater als Populärkultur

M. Tönnies, Eine Kulturgeschichte der englischen Literatur: Von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart (2005), pp. 158-170


Hooper, B.: Voices in the Heart. Postcolonialism and Identity in Hong Kong Literature, 2003

M. Tönnies, Anglistik (2005), pp. 201-203


2004

New Britain as Consumer Country and Commodity

M. Tönnies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2004), 11(2), pp. 117-128


Mergenthal, S.: A Fast-Forward Version of England, 2003

M. Tönnies, Anglia (2004), pp. 758-761


2003

Peter Brook's Glückliche Tage

M. Tönnies, The Beckett Circle (2003), 26(2), pp. 1-3


'New Lingo - New Theatre'?

M. Tönnies, in: anglistik & englischunterricht, 2003, pp. 169-191


The 'Postcolonial University Novel' in Britain.

M. Tönnies, Xenophobic Memories: Otherness in Postcolonial Constructions of the Past (2003), pp. 13-37


Making Play-texts Live: Teaching Drama as Experience

M. Tönnies, P. Annette, v.R. Alyce, S. Kathleen, Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English (2003), 10, pp. 247-264


Sager, P.: Oxford & Cambridge. Eine Kulturgeschichte

M. Tönnies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2003)


Veit, C.: Ich-Konzept und Körper in Becketts dualen Konstruktionen, 2002

M. Tönnies, The Beckett Circle (2003), pp. 18


Logan, T.: The Victorian Parlour, 2001

M. Tönnies, Anglia (2003), pp. 323-325


Keipert, H.: Pope, Popovskij und die Popen, 2001

M. Tönnies, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2003), pp. 141-144


Heinemann, P.: Potenzierte Subjekte – Potenzierte Fiktionen. Ich-Figurationen und ästhetische Konstruktion bei Jean Paul und Samuel Beckett, 2001

M. Tönnies, The Beckett Circle (2003), pp. 20


Beckett, S.: Dante und der Hummer. Gesammelte Prosa, 2000

M. Tönnies, The Beckett Circle (2003), pp. 15-16


2002

Good/Bad Girls and their Fathers

M. Tönnies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2002), 9(2), pp. 185-195


Laughter in Nineteenth-Century British Theatre: From Genial Blending to Harsh Distinctions

M. Tönnies, in: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Rodopi, 2002, pp. 99-119


The 'Sensationalist Theatre of Cruelty' in 1990s Britain, its 1960s Forebears and the Beginning of the 21st Century

M. Tönnies, Contemporary Drama in English (2002), 9, pp. 57-71


Voigts-Virchow, E. (Hg.): Mediated Drama. Dramatized Media, 2000

M. Tönnies, Forum Modernes Theater (2002), pp. 95-98


2001

Players, Playthings and Patterns: Three Stages of Heteronomy in Beckett's Mature Drama

M. Tönnies, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui: Endlessness in the Year 2000 / Fin sans fin en l'an 2000 (2001), 11, pp. 194-201


The Limits of Defining Power in Terms of Exclusion

M. Tönnies, Common Ground? Crossovers between Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies (2001), pp. 61-64


British Political Speeches from Churchill to Blair

M. Tönnies, C. Viol. British Political Speeches from Churchill to Blair. 2001.


2000

Lewis, J.E.: Mary Queen of Scots. Romance and Nation, 1998

M. Tönnies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2000), pp. 80-83


Youth Identities. Teens and Twens in British Culture

M. Tönnies, G. Stratmann, C. Viol. Youth Identities. Teens and Twens in British Culture. 2000.


1999

Hanif Kureishi. My Beautiful Laundrette

M. Tönnies, C. Viol. Hanif Kureishi. My Beautiful Laundrette. 1999.


British Literature and Culture. Divergent Views and Attitudes. On the Occasion of Gerd Stratmann's 60th Birthday

M. Tönnies, R. Schiffer. British Literature and Culture. Divergent Views and Attitudes. On the Occasion of Gerd Stratmann's 60th Birthday. 1999.


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