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.

• Modernist Waterscapes. Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
• “‘My Heart’s Most Secret Thought.’ Zur Präsenz des Verborgenen in Lady Mary Wroths Pamphilia to Amphilantus.” In: Annina Klappert (Hg.), Textfiguren der Emanzipation, forthcoming.
• “Thinking Outside the Box. Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern England.” In: Enrique Fernandez (Hg.), Death and Gender. Brill, forthcoming.
• “Sleep as Action? World Alienation, Distance, and Loneliness in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” AmLit 2.1 (2022): 42–61.
• “Zeitenwandel und Wetterwechsel: Ein Streifzug durch Virginia Woolfs Meteopoetologie.” In: Urs Büttner und Michael Gamper (Hg.), Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung. Meteopoetik – Literarische Meteorologie – Meteopoetologie. DeGruyter 2021, 175–193.