Nicole Falkenhayner
About
I work in English-language literature and cultural studies with a focus on contemporary Anglophone literature and interdisciplinary approaches, especially from media studies and cultural theory. I received my PhD (Dr. phil.) in British literary and cultural studies from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2012, and my postdoctoral lecturer qualification (habilitation) from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2017.
My research interests include affectivity an aesthesis in literature, visual media and narrative, futurity in narrative media, and histories of representation in diverse societies.
Research
I have (co-)headed two research projects for which external funding from the DFG (German Research Council) was obtained. My research has focused on the representation of British Muslims in news media, fiction, autobiographies, film and governmental discourse, the prevalence of surveillance and relevance of surveillance camera images in news media, novels, film and media art, discourses of heroization in British television series, and futurity in fiction and narrative video games.
I have an ongoing interest in the research of futurity in anglophone fiction and other narrative media, as well as the research of affect and emotion in narratives.
Publications
Monographs
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States London: Routledge, 2019.
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-On-Terror Decade Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Co-authored Monograph
with Barbara Korte. Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change. London: Routledge, 2021.
Co-edited Volumes and Journal Issues
The Hero Affect: Affective Heroizations in Contemporary European Popular Culture. Special Issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture Vol.11 No.2 (2020). https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jepc/2020/00000011/00000002#Supp
with Sebastian Meurer, Tobias Schlechtriemen (eds.) Analyzing Processes of Heroization. Theories, Methods, Histories. helden.heroes.héros. Special Issue 5 (2019). DOI: 10.6094/helden.heroes.heros./2019/APH
with Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt (eds.) Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2019.
with Cornelia Brink, Ralf von den Hoff (eds.) Helden müssen sterben. Würzburg: Ergon, 2019.
with Monika Fludernik, Julia Steiner (eds and introd.) Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Würzburg: Ergon, 2015.
with Andreas Langenohl, Johannes Scheu, Doris Schweitzer, Kacper Szulecki (eds. and introd.) Rethinking Order. Idioms of Stability and De-Stabilization. Bielefeld: transcript / University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Articles / Book Chapters
“Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature: Utopian Practice in Times of Global Emergency” ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 55 no. 1, 2024, p. 51-76. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2024.a915993.
“Erwartungskulturen: Idiome des Zukünftigen in England, 1640-1660” in Eisenlohr, Patrick / Stefan Kramer / Andreas Langenohl (Hrsg.) Parallaxen moderner Zeitlichkeit.Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2021, S. 77-102.
“Futurity as an Effect of Playing Horizon: Zero Dawn (2017)” Humanities 10 (2), 2021. 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10020072
“The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity”, Open Library of Humanities 6(2), 2020. p.21. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.598
“Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere”, Anglia 137.1, 2019, 70-83. DOI: 10.1515/ang-2019-0005
with Hardt, Maria-Xenia. “One Hero Fits All? Cultural Translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as ‘Global Hero’ Movie” in Korte, Barbara / Simon Wendt / Nicole Falkenhayner (eds.) Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 81-98.
“No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City: Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011” in Knebel Doeberitz, Oliver von and Ralph Schneider (eds.). London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2017, pp. 19-38.
“Tödliches Zu-Sehen-Geben: Sichtbarkeit und Deutungsmacht am Beispiel des Mordes an Lee Rigby” in Thomas, Tanja / Lina Brink / Elke Grittmann / Kaya de Wolff (Hgg.). Anerkennung und Sichtbarkeit. Perspektiven für eine kritische Medienkulturforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2017, pp. 203-218.
“CCTV beyond Surveillance. The Cultural Relevance of the Surveillance Camera and Its Images in Contemporary Britain”. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 23.2, 2016, 157-168.
“Heroes in / against the Machine: Performing the Friction of Database and Narrative”. helden.heroes.héros 4.1 (2016) 103-109 DOI: 10.6094/helden.heroes.heros./2016/01/10
“An Unlikely Hero for the War-on-Terror Decade: Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005)” in Korte, Barbara and Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.) Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 152-167.
“After Identity: Hanif Kureishi and the Backlash against Multiculturalism” in Ehland, Christoph; Mindt, Ilka and Merle Tönnies (eds.) Anglistentag Paderborn 2015 Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2016, pp.147-157.
“Surveillance and Social Memory. Remembering Princess Diana with CCTV”. Humanities 5.3 (2016) 73 DOI:10.3390/h5030073
“The English Ruin(ed). An Idiom of Victorian Aesthetics” in Falkenhayner, Nicole et al. (eds.) Rethinking Order. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015, pp. 183-202.
“Das Medienereignis der Rushdie-Affäre als Beispiel für Zuschreibungsakte in kulturalisierten Konfliktdebatten um den Islam in Europa” in Kirsch, Thomas et al. (Hgg.) Religion als Prozess. Begriffe – Zuschreibungen – Leitmotive – Grenzen. Würzburg: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015, pp.77-89.
with Schöneck, Annette. “David Grossmans Aus der Zeit Fallen: Vielstimmige Trauererzählung zwischen persönlichem und politischem Trauma” in Aurnhammer, Achim and Thorsten Fitzon (Hgg.). Lyrische Trauernarrative. Erzählte Verlusterfahrung in autofiktionalen Gedichtzyklen. Würzburg: Ergon, 2015, pp.319-338.
“Dissimilation. Wissen um britische Muslime in der War-On-Terror-Dekade” in Ezli, Özkan et al. (Hgg.). Die Integrationsdebatte zwischen Assimilation und Diversität Bielefeld: transcript, 2013, pp.331-360.
“The Other Rupture of 1989: The Rushdie Affair as the Inaugural Event of Post-Secular Conflict”. Global Society, 24, 1 (2010), 111-132.
“Robert Crawshaw’s ‘Das Dazwischen Übersetzen'”. Proceedings of the conference Translating Society – a Commentator’s Conference, 2009. http://www.translating-society.de/conference/papers/4/
“Identity in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café: Narrative Strategies in the Re-Negotiation of Self, Ethnicity and Nation”. KOPS Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-40575 (2005).
Encyclopedia Entries
“Cultural Studies”, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security and Privacy, ed. Arrigo, Bruce A., 2018
“Posthumane Helden”, mit Kerstin Fest und Maria-Xenia Hardt. Compendium heroicum, 2018. DOI: http://10.6094/heroicum/posthumane-helden
Reviews
Florian Zappe and Andrew S. Gross (eds): Surveillance / Society / Culture. Surveillance Studies.org (2020) https://www.surveillance-studies.org/2020/07/review-surveillance-society-culture/
Susan Flynn and Antonia McKay (eds): Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves. In: Surveillance and Society. Vol. 18 No.3 (2020) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v18i3.14087
Andrew Demshuk: The Lost German East In: Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture. Vol.4 No.1 (2013)
Kenan Malik: From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair And Its Legacy. In: JSBC Vol.16 No.2 (2009)
Miscelleaneous
“Burning books in baggy pants”. INDES, 1 (2014), 70-74
“Slush Puppy und Grün auf Schwarz: Eine Kindheit in den frühen Achtzigern”. Billhardt, Jan (ed.) Und Alles Danach,.Hamburg: mta, 2001, S. 125-131.
“Kein Herz für Kenny: South Park” Hamburger Abendblatt Nr. 83, 10.04. 1999, S. 8.
2024
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2024)
Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature: Utopian Practice in Times of Emergency.
Ariel: A Review of International English Literature
Academic article
2019
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2019)
Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere.
Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
Academic article
2018
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2018)
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic monograph
2016
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2016)
Heroes in/against the machine : performing the friction of database and narrative.
helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal zu Kulturen des Heroischen
Academic article
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2016)
Surveillance and Social Memory.
Humanities
Academic article
2015
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2015)
Introducing the concept of the idiom .
Transcript Verlag
Introduction
2014
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushide Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Burning books in baggy pants: Das britische Jahr 1989, Rushdies »Satanische Verse« und der europäische Islam.
INDES Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft
Popular scientific article
2010
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2010)
The Other Rupture of 1989: The Rushdie Affair as the Inaugural Event of Representations of Post-secular Conflict.
Global Society
Academic article
Journal publications
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2024)
Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature: Utopian Practice in Times of Emergency.
Ariel: A Review of International English Literature
Academic article
-
Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2019)
Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere.
Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
Academic article
-
Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2016)
Heroes in/against the machine : performing the friction of database and narrative.
helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal zu Kulturen des Heroischen
Academic article
-
Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2016)
Surveillance and Social Memory.
Humanities
Academic article
-
Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Burning books in baggy pants: Das britische Jahr 1989, Rushdies »Satanische Verse« und der europäische Islam.
INDES Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft
Popular scientific article
-
Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2010)
The Other Rupture of 1989: The Rushdie Affair as the Inaugural Event of Representations of Post-secular Conflict.
Global Society
Academic article
Books
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2018)
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic monograph
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushide Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Academic monograph
Part of book/report
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2015)
Introducing the concept of the idiom .
Transcript Verlag
Introduction
Teaching
Courses
The topic in the current strand of ENG3317 (høst 2023) is magical realist border fiction. The topic of the current strand of ENG3430 (vår 2024) will be surveillance in literature and culture.
Current and prospective students can find all necessary information on blackboard.
Supervision
Master Thesis Supervision
supervison of five ongoing master theses in English (lektor and faglig) at NTNU this academic year. Topics range from the role of the ballad form in the prequel to The Hunger Games- series, folklore and the folk song tradition in the song lyrics of Taylor Swift, narrative focalisation and Byronic heroes in Victorian and contemporary fictions, to questions of mental health in fiction and the relationship of surveillance and identity in British young adult fiction.
I have previously supervised a larger two figure number of MA thesis in English literature and cultural studies at the University of Freiburg
PhD Thesis Supervision
HARDT, Maria-Xenia (2020). "Heroes Through Time: The Process of Heroization and Heroic Moments in Doctor Who". Univeristy of Freiburg, English Seminar. Published as Heroism in Doctor Who: 1963-2020. NOMOS, 2022.