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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
 
===Academic===
 
===Academic===
*"The Institution of Literary Prizes." ''The Institution of Literature''. Eds. Barbara Schaff and Carola Surkamp. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (in print)
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*Auguscik, A. "The Institution of Literary Prizes." ''The Institution of Literature''. Eds. Barbara Schaff and Carola Surkamp. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (in print)
*"Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel." ''Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature''. (with Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, forthcoming)
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*Roxburgh, N., A. Kirchhofer, A. Auguscik. "Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel." ''Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature'' 49.4 (scheduled for publication in Dec 2016).
*"The Eighteenth-Century and the Literary Marketplace." ''The Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies''. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter (with N. Roxburgh, forthcoming)
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*Roxburgh, N. and A. Auguscik. "The Eighteenth-Century and the Literary Marketplace." ''The Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies''. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2016.
*"The History of the Booker Prize as a History of Problems and Precarious Alliances." [http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2318-5/precarious-alliances ''Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media.''] Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2016.  
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*Auguscik, A. "The History of the Booker Prize as a History of Problems and Precarious Alliances." [http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2318-5/precarious-alliances ''Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media.''] Eds. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2016.  
*"Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". [http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-5296-2.html ''Literaturbetrieb. Zur Poetik einer Produktionsgemeinschaft''.] Eds. Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder. Paderborn: Fink, 2013. 97-112.  
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*Auguscik, A. "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". [http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-5296-2.html ''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. [http://www.medienobservationen.lmu.de/artikel/kontrovers/auguscik_tiger.pdf Web]
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*Auguscik, A. "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008): Zwischen Repräsentanz und Kontroverse". ''Medienobservationen'' (July 2011): 1-20. [http://www.medienobservationen.lmu.de/artikel/kontrovers/auguscik_tiger.pdf Web]
  
 
===Journalistic===
 
===Journalistic===

Revision as of 10:08, 5 August 2016

Contact

university website

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

Office Hours

I am currently on leave to do FMS-related research. Please, contact me via email.

About me

Anna Auguscik is a lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, where she recently completed a dissertation on the role of literary prizes and book reviewing for the literary marketplace, "Prizing Debate in Literary Interaction: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK." As a Fiction Meets Science research fellow in the project group “Reception: Readers and Media,” 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

  • Auguscik, A. "The Institution of Literary Prizes." The Institution of Literature. Eds. Barbara Schaff and Carola Surkamp. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (in print)
  • Roxburgh, N., A. Kirchhofer, A. Auguscik. "Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 49.4 (scheduled for publication in Dec 2016).
  • Roxburgh, N. and A. Auguscik. "The Eighteenth-Century and the Literary Marketplace." The Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2016.
  • Auguscik, A. "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. 2016.
  • Auguscik, A. "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". Literaturbetrieb. Zur Poetik einer Produktionsgemeinschaft. Eds. Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder. Paderborn: Fink, 2013. 97-112.
  • Auguscik, A. "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

  • in preparation: "In Search of a Common Problem: Matching Interests in Research Collaborations across the Two Cultures". Science Humanities Colloquium. Cardiff University, 3 Dec 2016. (with Anton Kirchhofer)
  • "Canons and Critical Profiles of the Contemporary ‘Science Novel’: Perspectives on Genres, Markets and Media Presence." The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2016. University of Birmingham, April 2016. (with Anton Kirchhofer)
  • "Evaluating Literature: Prizes, Reviews, Criticism." Ringvorlesung: Kultur und ihre Wissenschaften. CvO University of Oldenburg, 22 Jun 2015.
  • "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)
  • "Science as an Issue in Contemporary Literary Communication." Fiction Meets Science Workshop, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 18 Nov 2011. (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

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

Mentoring

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