Anna-Maria Grill teaches British literature and culture at the University of Regensburg, specialising in the long nineteenth-century. Her research interests include Victorian popular fiction (especially sensation and crime fiction), gender and medicine, the illustrated serial, advertisements and the periodical press, as well as the representation of transgressive women in early modern and late Victorian literature. Her PhD project focuses on women medical figures and spaces in late Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction, investigating the links between gender, space, and (narrative) processes of women's medical identity construction post the Medical Registry Act.
Research Interests
- Victorian Medicine
- Trauma and Literature
- Victorian Popular Fiction
- Medical Humanities
- Gender Studies
- Sensation and Crime Fiction
- The Victorian Illustrated Serial, Advertisements, and the Periodical Press
- Transgressive Women in Early Modern and (Late) Victorian Literature
- Cultural Materialism
- Folklore and Victorian Ghost Stories
Education and Employment
| 2022-Now | Research Associate, Lecturer, and PhD Candidate (University of Regensburg) |
| 2019-2022 | M.A. British Studies (University of Regensburg) Gender, and Consumer Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Detective Fiction |
| 2015-2019 | B.A. British Studies, French Philology, and History (University of Regensburg) B.A. Thesis: The Representation of Female Criminals in Late Nineteenth-Century Fin de Siècle Literature |
Current Research Projects
PhD Project: From Country Herb Women to Metropolitan Woman Doctor: Negotiating an Urban Female Medical Presence in Popular Literature (1858-1914)
Conference Talks
- "A Dangerous Apprentice: Woman Medical Apprenticeship in Wilkie Collins's Jezebel's Daughter," 'Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Era': 8th DACH Victorians Workshop, digital, 2025.
- "The Villain's Sidekick: Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter Series," Harry Potter Academic Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, US, 2025.
- "The Mad-Doctress and Her Patients: Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret", 'Heights, Depths, and Extremes': Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK, 2025.
- "A Doctor to Have Confidence In? Poisoning Women Medics in Victorian Popular Literature", Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, Regensburg, Germany, 2025.
- "'A Space of Her Own': Negotiating a Female Medical Presence in Popular Literature and the Periodical Press (1858-1914)", Regensburg-Passau Research Colloquium, Passau, Germany, 2024.
- “Sonic Haunting in the Victorian Ghost Story: The Haunted Organ(ist) in Elizabeth Gaskell's ”The Old Nurse's Story" (1852) and Rosa Mulholland's “The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly” (c. 1880), The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation, and Legacy: VPFA Study Day, digital, 2026.
Publications
"Echo and Embodiment of Trauma: George R.R. Martin's Hodor as Tragic Sidekick Figure in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones," in: Critical Insights: Sidekicks in Literature, ed. Laura and James Nicosia (Grey House Publishing: Ipswich, 2026) 210-232.
Memberships
- Victorian Popular Fiction Association
- Wilkie Collins Society
- International Gothic Association
- DACH Victorians
- The British Society of Literature and Science
Awards
Greta Depledge PGR Prize (2025)
awarded at the 2025 Victorian Popular Fiction Annual Conference for the talk "The Mad-Doctress and Her Patients: Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret."
Dr. Katharina Sailer Prize (2022)
awarded for the M.A. thesis "(Un)Masking the Spectre: The Late Victorian Female Criminal at the Intersection of Criminal, Gender, and Consumer Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Detective Fiction"
Dr. Katharina Sailer Prize (2020)
awarded for the B.A. thesis "The Representation of Female Criminals in Late Nineteenth-Century Fin de Siècle Literature"
Anna-Maria Grill
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, M.A.
- E-mail address: anna-maria.grill(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: 09419433499 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: PT, 3.2.59
- Important information: Office Hours:
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