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Austrian Lektorin
Email: veronika.schuchter@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Veronika is the Austrian Lektorin at St Anne’s. Her undergraduate/graduate degree is in German and Anglophone literatures and her doctoral project focuses on contemporary British and Canadian women’s writing.
She teaches German language, German and Austrian literature and culture to undergraduates, including Paper I, various seminars for second years (such as: Germany and Austria as postcolonial nations, transnational literature, contemporary women writers), as well as preparing finalists for their oral exam and the Essay in German.
She is in the final stages of her PhD which investigates supermodern spaces in contemporary British and Canadian women’s writing. She is particularly interested in contemporary women’s writing, feminist theory and gender studies, and she is on the executive committee of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA) and the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA).
“Of Grim Witches and Lady-Devils: Rich Women in Literature and Film.” Special Issue “Rogues in Texts; Texts as Rogue (Roguery in Literature and Film)”, eds. Vanja Polić and Aritha van Herk, Text Matters 9, 2019. (Forthcoming)
“Toward a Feminist Archival Ethics of Accountability: Researching with the Aritha van Herk Fonds.” Special Issue “Resurfacing: Women Writing across Canada in the 1970s/ Refaire surface: écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970”, eds. Kirsty Bell, Andrea Beverly, Andrea Cabajsky, Christl Verduyn, Studies in Canadian Literature 44.2, 2019. (Forthcoming)
“Long Thoughts With Aritha van Herk. An Interview.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 13.2, 2019. (Forthcoming)
“The Embassy of Cambodia”. The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 June 2017.
“You cannot imagine how much I long to have a house, a room, or two, a cave of my own” – Home and Rooms in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, “Outside the Machine” and “Sleep It Off Lady”. Peer English: A Journal of New Critical Thinking 9. 2014. 12-25.