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Contact

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Institute of English and American Studies
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg

• Email: anna.auguscik@uni-oldenburg.de
  
• Tel: +49 (0) 441 - 798 - 4541

Office Hours

• Time: cf. university website
• Venue: A06 2-209

About me

Anna Auguscik is a lecturer of English Literature at the University of Oldenburg, where she recently completed a PhD thesis on the role of literary prizes and book reviewing for the literary marketplace. As a ‘Fiction Meets Science’ research fellow she is working on the critical and public reception of contemporary science novels.

Membership

• since 2012 - British Society for Literature and Science
• since 2012 - Deutscher Anglistenverband
• since 2011 - Fiction Meets Science

Current

• I am doing research for the Fiction Meets Science project on the role of fiction in multi-disciplinary science journals.
• I am writing an article on "Cultures of Appreciation and Literary Win-Win Situations" with Olaf Simons, based on our paper as presented in Ghent in November 2012.

Publications

Academic

• "Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel." (with Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, under review)
• "The Institution of Literary Prizes." The Institution of Literature. Eds. Barbara Schaff and Carola Surkamp. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (with the editors)
• "The History of the Booker Prize as a History of Problems and Precarious Alliances." Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media. Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: Transcript. (in print)
• "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". Literaturbetrieb. Zur Poetik einer Produktionsgemeinschaft. Eds. Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder. Paderborn: Fink, 2013. 97-112.
• "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008): Zwischen Repräsentanz und Kontroverse". Medienobservationen (July 2011): 1-20. Web

Journalistic

• "Nachruf Chinua Achebe: Der Nelson Mandela der Literatur". Die Zeit Online. 22.03.2013. Web
• "Booker Prize: Thomas Cromwell als universaler Held". Die Zeit Online. 17.10.2012. Web
• "Booker Prize: Jacobson ist ein Meister der Tragikomik". Die Zeit Online. 13.10.2010. Web

Talks

• "Visions of the Immoral Scientist: Morality and the Perception of Science in Ian McEwan’s Solar and other Contemporary Climate Change Stories." The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2015. University of Liverpool, 16-18 Apr 2015. (with Anton Kirchhofer)
• "Speculative Fiction and the Social and Literary Significance of Plausibility: Debating the Dystopian Science in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake." Fiction Meets Science Workshop: Cultivating Ideas for a New Program, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 18-19 Nov, 2014 (joint paper with Emanuel Herold, Sina Farzin, Anton Kirchhofer)
• "Macro-level problems, micro-level solutions?" The Reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in reviews and reading groups." Fiction Meets Science Workshop: Cultivating Ideas for a New Program, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 18-19 Nov, 2014 (joint paper with Sonja Fücker, Uwe Schimank, Anton Kirchhofer)
• "Neuroscience, Anxiety and Meta-Narrative in Recent British Neuronovels: David Lodge’s Thinks… and Ian McEwan’s Saturday." The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2014. University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, 10-12 Apr 2014. (with Anton Kirchhofer)
• "Reviewing the Two Cultures: Discussing Contemporary Fiction in Nature." International Conference on Narrative 2013. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. 27-29 Jun 2013.
• "The Human in Nature: The Role of Literature, the Human and the Two Cultures in Leading Science Journals." The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2013. Cardiff University, Wales, 11-13 Apr 2013.
• "Performing Authorship between Empowerment and Containment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Literary Win-Win Situations". Reconfiguring Authorship. Ghent University, Belgium, 15-18 Nov 2012. (with Olaf Simons)
• "Literature and Fiction in Contemporary Multi-Disciplinary Science Journals". 11th ESSE Conference 2012: Seminar 31. Interconnections Between Literature and Science. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-8 Sept 2012.
• "The Institution of Literary Prizes". The Institution of Literature. Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, 30 Aug - 1 Sept.
• "The History of the Booker Prize as a History of Problems and Precarious Alliances". Prekäre Allianzen. HWK, Delmenhorst, 14-16 Jun 2012.
• "The Role of the Critic". Ringvorlesung: Kultur und ihre Wissenschaften. CvO University of Oldenburg. 6 Jun 2012.
• "The Role of Fiction in Multi-Disciplinary Science Journals: A Structured Survey (1990-2010)". BSLS 2012 Conference, Oxford, 12-14 April 2012. (with Anton Kirchhofer)
• "Literature as Communication". A Symposium on Literature as Communication. Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2-3 Sept 2011. (with Olaf Simons)
• "Reading Postsecular Readings: The Sacred in Literary Texts and the Empowerment of the Critic". Empowerment and the Sacred: An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Leeds, Institute of Colonial & Postcolonial Studies. 24-26 June 2011.
• "The Culture of Literary Prizes: Im Wettbewerb um Würdigung". Ringvorlesung: Kultur und ihre Wissenschaften. CvO University of Oldenburg. 15 June 2011.
• "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008). Zwischen Repräsentanz und Kontroverse". Workshop Gegenwart kontrovers. Literatur – Musik – Film – Bildende Kunst. LMU Munich. 28 Jul 2009.
• "Sex & the City of Science: Populärkul­tur aus (Geistes)-­Wissenscha­ftlicher Sicht". Oldenburg: Stadt der Wissenschaft. CvO University of Oldenburg. English Department/American Studies. 29 Jun 2009. (with Maike Engelhardt, Annika McPherson, and Christina Meyer).

Conferences/ Workshops

• Fiction Meets Science II. Workshop. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 12-13 October, 2012.
• Fiction Meets Science. Workshop. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 18 November 2011.
• The Politics of Marketing and Publishing Muslim Writers. Workshop. The Institute of English Studies and the Muslim Writers Awards, Senate House, London. 27 July, 2011.
• Walberberg Creative Writing Seminar. 26th Seminar: 'Literature and Health'. Akademie Schmöckwitz, Berlin. 27 - 30 Jan 2011.
• Postsecular Britain? Religion, Culture and Agency. 19. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium Britischer Kulturen, Oldenburg. 20-22 November 2008. (organized and conducted a student conference wokshop)
• Theory, Faith, Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference. The Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University. 4-6 July 2007.

Translations

• with I. Mendoza und S. Grzesinska

• Jakobson, R.O., "Die Vergangenheit" von Cyprian Norwid. In: Birus, H.; S. Donat (Hgg.), Roman Jakobson. Poesie der Grammatik und Grammatik der Poesie. Sämtliche Gedichtanalysen, Bd. 1. Berlin – New York 2007, S. 355-374.
• Jakobson, R.O., "Gefühl" von Cyprian Norwid. In: Birus, H.; S. Donat (Hgg.), Roman Jakobson. Poesie der Grammatik und Grammatik der Poesie. Sämtliche Gedichtanalysen, Bd. 1. Berlin – New York 2007, S. 375-394.
• Jakobson, R.O., Polnische Illustrationen zu "Linguistik und Poetik". In: Birus, H.; S. Donat (Hgg), Roman Jakobson. Poesie der Grammatik und Grammatik der Poesie. Sämtliche Gedichtanalysen, Bd. 2. Berlin – New York 2007, S. 217-236.

Teaching

• 2016 AM Time Travel
• 2015-16 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature
• 2014-15 AM Speculative Fiction
• 2014-15 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature
• 2014 AM Prizing 'National Allegories'
• 2013-14 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature
• 2013 VL Movements - Historical survey and theoretical perspectives ("The McSweeneyites")
• 2013 Negotiating History in Contemporary Fiction
• 2012-13 MM Fictional Scientists
• 2012 AM The Role of the Critic
• 2011-12 AM Representations of Muslims in Literature and Film after 9/11
• 2011-12 BM7 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
• 2011 Oct - TutorInnenschulung
• 2009-10 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Course B
• 2009 Oct - TutorInnenschulung
• 2008-09 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1 Course B - Wed 12-14
• 2008-09 AM Postsecular Britain? Religion, Secularity, and Cultural Agency - Workshop
• 2008-09 MM The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes - Tue 14-16
• 2008 BM1-B Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 2 - Wed 12-14
• 2007-08 AM Zadie Smith's Multicultural World - Fr 12-14
• 2007 BM1-D Introduction to Literature - Tue 14-16
• 2006-07 Ü Academic Writing - Wed 14-16

Mentoring

• Our next group meeting: tba
• Individual office hours for my mentees: tba