Dr. Marlene Dirschauer

After completing her PhD at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School in Berlin and the University of Cambridge, Marlene Dirschauer gained a scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München for a research project that examined literary representations of death and desire in late medieval and early modern women’s writings as a vehicle of emerging female subjectivity. This project was also funded by the FONTE Stiftung. From 2021 to 2022, Dirschauer was visiting professor at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. In April 2022, she joined the DFG research group “Geistliche Intermedialität in der Frühen Neuzeit“ at the University of Hamburg to explore the transformations of meditation in Post-Reformation England. Her first monograph, Modernist Waterscapes. Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

Monographien

• Modernist Waterscapes. Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Sammelbände

• with Marc Föcking, Rogier Gerrits, and Alec Ryrie, Practising Piety. Spiritual Intermediality and Devotion in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, Intersections), forthcoming 2025.

Zeitschriftenaufsätze

• “Donne’s Future Perfect”, in: Cord Christian Casper, Lara Ehrenfried and Nicolina Hatton (eds): Early Modern Futures (Special Issue). Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, forthcoming 2025. (peer-reviewed)
• “‘The Secret of Perpetual Life’: Virginia Woolf’s Shakespeare”, Shakespeare Seminar 20 (2023): 16-25.
• “‘The World was out there still.’ World Alienation, Distance and Loneliness in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” AmLit 2.1 (2022): 42-61. (peer-reviewed)

Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

• “Hunting and the Making of the (Hu)man in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, in Hunting Troubles. Gender and Its Intersections in the Cultural History of the Hunt, ed. by Laura Beck and Maurice Saß (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), forthcoming 2025.
• “Punctuation & Rhythm in Virginia Woolf’s Early Stories”, in A History of Punctuation in English Literature, ed. by Jeffrey Guttierrez, Elizabeth Bonapfel, Mark Faulkner, and John Lennard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming 2025.
• “‘ O give me quicknesse’. Engel als Katalysatoren geistlicher Intermedialität in George Herberts The Temple”, in Engel. Intermediale Konstellationen in geistlicher Kunst, Musik und Theologie der Frühen Neuzeit, hg. von Ricarda Höffler, Oliver Huck und Johann Anselm Steiger. Im Druck.
• with Marc Föcking, Rogier Gerrits, and Alec Ryrie: “Introduction”, in Practising Piety. Spiritual Intermediality and Devotion in Early Modern Europe, ed. by idem (Leiden: Brill, Intersections), forthcoming 2025. (peer-reviewed)
• with Marc Föcking, “‘Writ with Blood and Tears’. The Intermediality of Body and Text in Early Modern English and Italian Devotional Poetry”, in Practising Piety. Spiritual Intermediality and Devotion in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Marlene Dirschauer, Marc Föcking, Rogier Gerrits and Alec Ryrie (Leiden: Brill, Intersections), forthcoming 2025. (peer-reviewed)
• “Why Look at Fish? Virginia Woolf’s Piscine Aesthetics”, in Virginia Woolf and Ecologies. Selected Papers from the 32 International Conference on Virginia Woolf, ed. by Laci Mattison and Shilo McGiff (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press), forthcoming 2025.
• “Die eigene Stimme im Geflecht: Intertextualität und Hybridisierung der Gattung als Textfiguren der Aneignung in den Sonetten von Lady Mary Wroth ”, in Textfiguren der Emanzipation. Autorinnen des europäischen 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts wieder und wieder/wider lesen, hg. von Annina Klappert (Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2024), 171-192.
• “Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern England”, in Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (Leiden: Brill, 2024), 87-108. (peer-reviewed)
• “Zeitenwandel und Wetterwechsel: Ein Streifzug durch Virginia Woolfs Meteopoetologie”, in Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung. Meteopoetik – Literarische Meteorologie – Meteopoetologie, hg. von Urs Büttner und Michael Gamper (Berlin: DeGruyter 2021), 175-193.