Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

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Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Anglistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft - Bereich Prof. Tönnies

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Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies
Miscellaneous
Since 2015

Representative of the Senate of the University Paderborn, member of the Senate since 2013

Since 2011

Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Since 2010

Faculty at the Representation of Arts and Humanities Faculties in Germany

Since 10/2005

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

Since 2015

Representative of the Senate of the University Paderborn, member of the Senate since 2013

Since 2011

Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Since 2010

Faculty at the Representation of Arts and Humanities Faculties in Germany

Since 10/2005

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

Publications

Latest Publications


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

M. Tönnies, E. Voigts, The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English, eds., Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre, Walter deGruyter, Berlin, 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 33 (2022) 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) 32 (2022).


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

M. Tönnies, in: P. Jacobi, A. Pankratz (Eds.), Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2021, pp. 149–163.


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