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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

• October, 18 and 19; 10-11am

About me

• Lecturer and Researcher
• Research Assistant to Professor Kirchhofer
• Teaching: Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Contemporary Novel, Literary Market, Academic Writing
• Research: Contemporary Anglophone literature and the book market; the culture of literary prizes; mapping the debates of postmodernism, postcolonialism and postsecularism
• Studied English, Slavonic Studies and Comparative Literature in Munich and Padua.
• Master thesis: "Oscar Wilde as Subject of Contemporary Literature and Film: Representations of an Eccentric Identity" (2006).
• PhD project: "Prizing Debate: The Emergence of Problems in the Contemporary Market of Fiction in English" (working title).

Current

• Anna is attending the Workshop "Fiction Meets Science" at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, November 18, 2011
• Anna is attending the The Politics of Marketing and Publishing Writers of Muslim Heritage in the UK at Senate House, London on Wednesday 27 July

Publications

• "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". In: Literatur als / statt Betrieb. Christine Weder, Philipp Theisohn (eds.). Finke. (forthcoming)
• "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008): Zwischen Repräsentanz und Kontroverse". Medienobservationen. 07.07.2011. Web
• "Lesetipps: Bücher fürs Fest! Der Booker-Prize-Sieger". Die Zeit. 14.10.2010. Web
• "Booker Prize: Jacobson ist ein Meister der Tragikomik". Die Zeit. 13.10.2010. Web

Talks

• "Literature as Communication". A Symposium on Literature as Communication. Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2-3 Sept 2011.
• "Reading Postsecular Readings: The Sacred in Literary Texts and the Empowerment of the Critic". Empowerment and the Sacred: An Insterdisciplinary 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).

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.

Courses

• 2012 AM The Role of the Critic
• 2011-12 AM Representations of Muslims in Literature and Film after 9/11
• 2011-12 BM1 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 in winter term 2011/12: tba
• Individual office hours for my mentees in winter term 2011/12: tba