Seminar für Englische Philologie

Dr. Anna Sophia Tabouratzidis

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Focus of Research:

  • Post-classical Narratologies (esp. Econarratology, Queer and Cultural Narratology)
  • Literary Criticism and Post-Critique
  • Queer Studies
  • Science Fiction Studies
  • Environmental Humanities

    • Career History:
  • 2024-2025: Interim junior professor of Anglophone literatures, cultures and media at Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 2023: Doctoral Degree at Justus Liebig University Giessen and the University of Warwick
  • 2019-2024: Research assistant at Justus Liebig University Giessen

    • Selected Publications a) Books
  • Anna Sophia Tabouratzidis, Uncertain Futures. Politics and Poetics of Uncertainty in Contemporary Anglophone and German-Language Speculative Fiction. transcript, forthcoming.
  • Anna Sophia Tabouratzidis, Magdalena Pfalzgraf, and Ansgar Nünning (eds.), New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies. REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Narr Francke Attempto, 2025.

    • Articles and reviews
  • “Energy, Aesthetics and the Role of Interpretation in Petroculture Studies,” in: New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies, Narr Francke Attempto, 2025.
  • (with Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Ansgar Nünning) “The Undead Arts and Humanities. Against the Swansong of Mourning and Decline,” in: New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies, Narr Francke Attempto, 2025.
  • “Rethinking Gender in Future Narratives,” Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies. Eds. Vera Nünning and Corinna Assmann. Palgrave, 2025, pp. 361–376, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75864-5_21.
  • “Politicizing Temporalities: Divergent and Incommensurable Time Regimes,” in: de Muijnck, Debora (ed.), Troubling Time(s). Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture, Trier: WVT, 2025, pp. 237-250.
  • “Globalised Dystopias: Precarious Futures in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) and Ling Ma’s Severance (2018),” in: Butt, Nadia, and Ansgar Nünning and Alexander Scherr (eds.), The Anglophone Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Model Interpretations, Trier: WVT, 2023, pp. 251-266.
  • (with Liza Bauer, Cord-Christian Casper, Hannah Klaubert) “Introduction,” Ecocriticism & Narrative Form, SubStance, vol 50, no. 3, 2021, pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2021.0015.
  • “Back to the Future — Of the Collective Emplotment of Idealized Pasts and Sustainable Futures [Review of: Schröder, Andressa; Nico Völker, Robert A. Winkler and Tom Clucas (eds.): Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019.].” KULT_online 64, 2021, https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1211.
  • “Review - I. Polland, M. Basseler, A. Nünning and S. M. Moraldo (eds.). Europe’s Crises and Cultural Resources of Resilience.” InScriptum - A Journal of Language and Literary Studies, vol. 1, 2020, pp.159-163.