Nicole Falkenhayner
About
I am a scholar of English-language literature and cultural studies with a focus on contemporary anglophone literature and interdisciplinary approaches, especially from media studies and cultural theory. I received my PhD (Dr. phil.) in British literary and cultural studies from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2012, and my postdoctoral lecturer qualification (habilitation) from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2017.
Research
I have (co-)headed two research projects for which external funding from the DFG (German Research Council) was obtained. My research has focused on the representation of British Muslims in news media, fiction, autobiographies, film and governmental discourse, the prevalence of surveillance and relevance of surveillance camera images in news media, novels, film and media art, discourses of heroization in British television series, and futurity in fiction and narrative video games.
I have an ongoing interest in the research of futurity in anglophone fiction and other narrative media, as well as the research of affect and emotion in narratives.
Publications
Monographs
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States London: Routledge, 2019.
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-On-Terror Decade Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Co-authored Monograph
with Barbara Korte. Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change. London: Routledge, 2021.
Co-edited Volumes and Journal Issues
The Hero Affect: Affective Heroizations in Contemporary European Popular Culture. Special Issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture Vol.11 No.2 (2020). https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jepc/2020/00000011/00000002#Supp
with Sebastian Meurer, Tobias Schlechtriemen (eds.) Analyzing Processes of Heroization. Theories, Methods, Histories. helden.heroes.héros. Special Issue 5 (2019). DOI: 10.6094/helden.heroes.heros./2019/APH
with Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt (eds.) Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2019.
with Cornelia Brink, Ralf von den Hoff (eds.) Helden müssen sterben. Würzburg: Ergon, 2019.
with Monika Fludernik, Julia Steiner (eds and introd.) Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Würzburg: Ergon, 2015.
with Andreas Langenohl, Johannes Scheu, Doris Schweitzer, Kacper Szulecki (eds. and introd.) Rethinking Order. Idioms of Stability and De-Stabilization. Bielefeld: transcript / University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Articles / Book Chapters
“Erwartungskulturen: Idiome des Zukünftigen in England, 1640-1660” in Eisenlohr, Patrick / Stefan Kramer / Andreas Langenohl (Hrsg.) Parallaxen moderner Zeitlichkeit.Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2021, S. 77-102.
“Futurity as an Effect of Playing Horizon: Zero Dawn (2017)” Humanities 10 (2), 2021. 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10020072
“The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity”, Open Library of Humanities 6(2), 2020. p.21. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.598
“Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere”, Anglia 137.1, 2019, 70-83. DOI: 10.1515/ang-2019-0005
with Hardt, Maria-Xenia. “One Hero Fits All? Cultural Translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as ‘Global Hero’ Movie” in Korte, Barbara / Simon Wendt / Nicole Falkenhayner (eds.) Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 81-98.
“No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City: Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011” in Knebel Doeberitz, Oliver von and Ralph Schneider (eds.). London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2017, pp. 19-38.
“Tödliches Zu-Sehen-Geben: Sichtbarkeit und Deutungsmacht am Beispiel des Mordes an Lee Rigby” in Thomas, Tanja / Lina Brink / Elke Grittmann / Kaya de Wolff (Hgg.). Anerkennung und Sichtbarkeit. Perspektiven für eine kritische Medienkulturforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2017, pp. 203-218.
“CCTV beyond Surveillance. The Cultural Relevance of the Surveillance Camera and Its Images in Contemporary Britain”. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 23.2, 2016, 157-168.
“Heroes in / against the Machine: Performing the Friction of Database and Narrative”. helden.heroes.héros 4.1 (2016) 103-109 DOI: 10.6094/helden.heroes.heros./2016/01/10
“An Unlikely Hero for the War-on-Terror Decade: Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005)” in Korte, Barbara and Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.) Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 152-167.
“After Identity: Hanif Kureishi and the Backlash against Multiculturalism” in Ehland, Christoph; Mindt, Ilka and Merle Tönnies (eds.) Anglistentag Paderborn 2015 Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2016, pp.147-157.
“Surveillance and Social Memory. Remembering Princess Diana with CCTV”. Humanities 5.3 (2016) 73 DOI:10.3390/h5030073
“The English Ruin(ed). An Idiom of Victorian Aesthetics” in Falkenhayner, Nicole et al. (eds.) Rethinking Order. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015, pp. 183-202.
“Das Medienereignis der Rushdie-Affäre als Beispiel für Zuschreibungsakte in kulturalisierten Konfliktdebatten um den Islam in Europa” in Kirsch, Thomas et al. (Hgg.) Religion als Prozess. Begriffe – Zuschreibungen – Leitmotive – Grenzen. Würzburg: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015, pp.77-89.
with Schöneck, Annette. “David Grossmans Aus der Zeit Fallen: Vielstimmige Trauererzählung zwischen persönlichem und politischem Trauma” in Aurnhammer, Achim and Thorsten Fitzon (Hgg.). Lyrische Trauernarrative. Erzählte Verlusterfahrung in autofiktionalen Gedichtzyklen. Würzburg: Ergon, 2015, pp.319-338.
“Dissimilation. Wissen um britische Muslime in der War-On-Terror-Dekade” in Ezli, Özkan et al. (Hgg.). Die Integrationsdebatte zwischen Assimilation und Diversität Bielefeld: transcript, 2013, pp.331-360.
“The Other Rupture of 1989: The Rushdie Affair as the Inaugural Event of Post-Secular Conflict”. Global Society, 24, 1 (2010), 111-132.
“Robert Crawshaw’s ‘Das Dazwischen Übersetzen'”. Proceedings of the conference Translating Society – a Commentator’s Conference, 2009. http://www.translating-society.de/conference/papers/4/
“Identity in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café: Narrative Strategies in the Re-Negotiation of Self, Ethnicity and Nation”. KOPS Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-40575 (2005).
Encyclopedia Entries
“Cultural Studies”, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security and Privacy, ed. Arrigo, Bruce A., 2018
“Posthumane Helden”, mit Kerstin Fest und Maria-Xenia Hardt. Compendium heroicum, 2018. DOI: http://10.6094/heroicum/posthumane-helden
Reviews
Florian Zappe and Andrew S. Gross (eds): Surveillance / Society / Culture. Surveillance Studies.org (2020) https://www.surveillance-studies.org/2020/07/review-surveillance-society-culture/
Susan Flynn and Antonia McKay (eds): Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves. In: Surveillance and Society. Vol. 18 No.3 (2020) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v18i3.14087
Andrew Demshuk: The Lost German East In: Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture. Vol.4 No.1 (2013)
Kenan Malik: From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair And Its Legacy. In: JSBC Vol.16 No.2 (2009)
Miscelleaneous
“Burning books in baggy pants”. INDES, 1 (2014), 70-74
“Slush Puppy und Grün auf Schwarz: Eine Kindheit in den frühen Achtzigern”. Billhardt, Jan (ed.) Und Alles Danach,.Hamburg: mta, 2001, S. 125-131.
“Kein Herz für Kenny: South Park” Hamburger Abendblatt Nr. 83, 10.04. 1999, S. 8.
2018
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2018)
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States.
Routledge. 2018. ISBN 9781138609433.
Academic monograph
2014
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushide Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade.
Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. ISBN 978-1-137-37495-0.
Academic monograph
Books
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2018)
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States.
Routledge. 2018. ISBN 9781138609433.
Academic monograph
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Falkenhayner, Nicole.
(2014)
Making the British Muslim: Representations of the Rushide Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade.
Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. ISBN 978-1-137-37495-0.
Academic monograph
Teaching
Courses
- ENG3430 - Topics in Literature and Culture
- ENG3317 - Special Subject: Modern English-Language Literature
Supervision
supervison of five master theses at NTNU this academic year year