User:Anna Auguscik

Contact university website 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". Literatur als / statt Betrieb. (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 the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature 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