Felix Behler
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
- E-Mail:
- fbehler@mail.uni-paderborn.de
- Telefon:
- +49 5251 60-4132
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-4445-2303
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Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn - Raum:
- J4.144
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I write at a high speed because boredom is bad for my health … I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated — Noel Coward (1899-1973)
Über Felix Behler
I am a faculty member and postdoctoral researcher in English Literature at the University of Paderborn. I studied British and American Studies and History at the University of Paderborn and Piedmont University, USA, and hold a master’s degree in both subjects. Since 2020, I have worked as a lecturer at Paderborn University, where I was designated a PhD in English Literary Studies (summa cum laude).
Curriculum Vitae
Seit 10/2025: Mittelbauvertreter / Representative of the non-professorial academic staff
for the Department of English and American Studies at Universität Paderborn
Seit 11.11.2020: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Academic Staff Member
Universität Paderborn, Chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ehland
10/2025: Abschluss Promotion / PhD
in English Literature
11/2023 - 01/2024: Gastwissenschaftler / Visiting Scholar
University College London, Contact: Prof. Gregory Dart
03/2019 - 11.11.2020: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft / Research Assistant
Universität Paderborn, Chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph Ehland
10/2019 - 09/2020: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft / Research Assistant
Universität Paderborn, for Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Peter Freese
10/2018 - 09/2020: Masterstudium / M.Ed.
Universität Paderborn (Subjects: English and American Studies and History)
10/2014 - 10/2018: Bachelorstudium / B.Ed.
Universität Paderborn (Subjects: English and American Studies and History)
08/2017 - 12/2017: Studium/ Undergraduate Studies
Piedmont University, USA (Subjects: English Literature and History)
Forschung
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Over the past five years, I have been working on military, rural, poetic, and nostalgic themes. I have presented my research at a range of academic conferences and workshops, including major international events such as the MLA Convention in Washington, D.C. (2022), where I presented a paper on ‘The Literature(s) of Gardening in Eighteenth-Century England’, and the ESSE Conference. Some of it found its way into peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, including articles on the impact of super-rich migration on the British countryside, on ITV’s Downton Abbey, on the figure of Pontius Pilate in contemporary historical fiction (forthcoming), and on the Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial in London (forthcoming). The paper I gave at the 2022 ESSE Conference on British soldier poetry in the twenty-first century was turned into an article in 2023 in the University of Warsaw Press’s Anglica journal. Since then, I have been working on a larger project on ‘The New Soldier Poets’ and was fortunate enough to spend some time in 2023 and 2024 as a visiting scholar at University College London.
Research Interests:
- Modern and contemporary British literature and culture
- War and literature
- Literature and trauma
- Memory culture, cultures of mourning and remembrance
- Rural literatures and communities (from the 18th century to the present day)
- Literature, politics, and ideology
- Spatial theory and representations of landscape and place in British literature
- Nostalgia, heritage, and class in twentieth and twenty-first century British literature and culture
- Literature and media (television, film, and popular culture)
- Historical fiction and the representation of the past
- Medical humanities
- Interdisciplinary approaches in literary and cultural studies
Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
‘Cultural Studies – The Role and Relevance of History’: 17. Weiterbildungsseminar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium Britischer Kulturen
F. Behler, ‘Cultural Studies – The Role and Relevance of History’: 17. Weiterbildungsseminar Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Für Das Studium Britischer Kulturen, 2024.
'He'd seen it in the words of Owen and Brooke': The Influence of Great War Poetry on Post-Millennium Soldier Poetry
F. Behler, Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies 23 (2023) 25–46.
Recapturing Old England – Nostalgia, Aristo-Anglophilia, and the Historical Roots of ITV’s ‘Downton Abbey’
F. Behler, Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis (IDEA) 1 (2023) 5–21.
Towards an Edwardian Renaissance? The Super-Rich and the Shifting Social Geography of the British Countryside Today
F. Behler, Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC) 29 (2022) 243–260.
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Lehre
Schwerpunkte in der Lehre
I teach extensively across a wide range of English Literature, from Shakespeare to the Romantics to early colonial, Victorian, modern and contemporary writers. I have taught classes on the formation of parlamentarianism in Britain, the city in British cultural and literary imagination, war and memory culture. In my teaching, I have been able to collaborate on projects with other universities, (co-)organised student excursions to the USA, Belgium, and the UK, and worked together with the Commonwealth War Graves Comission in Ieper, Belgium, on a programme on First World War remembrance culture.
Laufende Lehrveranstaltungen
- The Victorians and the Rural Community
- ONLINE-Termine: Prüfungsplatzvergabe für die Modulprüfung Fachwiss. Horizonte Literary- / Cultural Studies
- MAP-M5 Fachwissenschaftliche Horizonte - Literary and Cultural Studies
Wissenschaftliches Engagement
15.01.2021 - 12.02.2021 | Bridges and Barriers: Interdisciplinary Conference
Online event: January & February 2021, together with Yvonne Jende, Lisa-Marie Büsken, Cecilie Rasmussen (University of Paderborn)
Seit 11/2021 | German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)