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 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).

Publications "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". Literatur als / statt Betrieb. (forthcoming) "Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008): Zwischen Repräsentanz und Kontroverse". Medienobservationen. (in press) "Lesetipps: Bücher fürs Fest! Der Booker-Prize-Sieger". Die Zeit. 14.Okt.2010. online "Booker Prize: Jacobson ist ein Meister der Tragikomik". Die Zeit. 13.Okt.2010. online Talks "Literary communication model (working title)". A Symposium on Literature as Communication. Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2-3 Sept 2011. (in preparation) "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 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 summer term 2010: tba Individual office hours for my mentees in summer term 2010: tba