Prof. Dr. Anne-Julia Zwierlein

Principal Investigator

Project-Related Publications

COLLECTIONS

[mit Sebastian Graef und Heidi Weig], eds. Cultures of Lecturing in the Long Nineteenth Century, vol. 2: Women and Public Speech in Manuals of Rhetoric, Journalism, Autobiography and Fiction (Heidelberg: Winter, 2022).

[mit Heidi Weig und Sebastian Graef], eds. Cultures of Lecturing in the Long Nineteenth Century, vol. 1: Practices of Oral Performance in Manuals of Rhetoric, Journalism and Autobiography (Heidelberg: Winter, 2022).

Zwierlein, A.-J., ed., Victorian Oral Cultures, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, special issue, 63.1 (2015) [contributions by: John Plunkett, Janice Schroeder, Virginia Garnett, John Picker, Anna Farkas, Anne-Julia Zwierlein].

DATABASE

Zwierlein, A.-J. [mit Heide-Marie Weig und Sebastian Graef]. Lecturing Women in Victorian Periodicals Database (LWVP). Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). University Library at University of Regensburg, 2018. Web. DOI: 10.5283/vl.1.

ARTICLES

Zwierlein, A.-J., The Roar on the Other Side of Silence: Sound, Hearing, and Embodiment in Victorian Literature, in: Literature and the Senses, ed. Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Zwierlein, A.-J., Viktorianische Zeitschriften als Plattformen: Multimedial, polyvokal, außerparlamentarisch, in: Einführung in die Zeitschriftenforschung / Introduction to Magazine Studies, Edition Medienwissenschaft, ed. Sabina Fazli and Oliver Scheiding. (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, forthcoming).

Zwierlein, A.-J., 'She lectured and attended lectures': Transmedia Practices and Female Participation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Public Lecturing and Mass Print, in: Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Christina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (London: Routledge, 2022) 113-130.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Metropolitan Communities: Periodicity and Participation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Penny Fiction Weeklies, in: Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses, ed. Jutta Ernst, Oliver Scheiding, and Dagmar von Hoff, Studies in Periodical Cultures, vol. 1 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022) 373-396.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Sonic Monstrosity and Visionary Women: Female Speaking Automata and Mass Mediation in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Science and Fiction, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, special issue, ed. Gero Guttzeit and Natalya Bekhta, 30.3 (2019) 89-105.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Introduction: Lecturing Women in Victorian Periodicals (LWVP), Lecturing Women in Victorian Periodicals Database. Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). University Library at University of Regensburg, 2018. 

Zwierlein, A.-J., Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus (1894) in: Handbook of the English Novel, 1830-1900, ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020) 511-527.

Zwierlein, A.-J., The Lecturer as Revenant(e): Sensation and Conversion in Late-Victorian Popular Lecturing and Mass Print, in: The Popular and the Past: Popular Cultures of the Nineteenth Century, ed. Doris Feldmann and Christian Krug, special issue, Journal for the Study of British Cultures 23.1 (2016) 41-56.

Zwierlein, A.-J., The Spectacle of Speech: Victorian Popular Lectures and Mass Print Culture, in: The Making of British Popular Culture, ed. John Storey (London: Routledge, 2016), 165-183.

Zwierlein, A.-J., ‘The Subject Escapes Me’: Spellbinding Lecturers and (In-)Attentive Audiences in Late-Victorian Serialized Sensation Fiction, Victorian Oral Cultures, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, special issue, guest ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 63.1 (2015), 69-88.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Victorian Oral Cultures: Introduction, Victorian Oral Cultures, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, special issue, guest ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 63.1 (2015) 1-6.

Zwierlein, A.-J., ‘Memory, whose stores are the fruit of attention’: Narratives of Inattention in Victorian and Edwardian Concert Rooms, Classrooms and Lecture Halls, 1860-1910, The Arts of Attention, ed. Katalin Kállay et al., Collection Károli  (Budapest: L’Harmattan Publishing, 2016) 439-455.

Zwierlein, A.-J., ‘White Slavery’: Würde- und Sympathiediskurse in den Kampagnen der britischen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung (ab 1780) und der Frauenrechtsbewegung (ab 1880), Würdelos: Ehrkonflikte von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, Regensburger Klassikstudien, Bd.1, ed. Achim Geisenhanslüke (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner Verlag, 2016) 165-83.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Autobiographie und Handlungsautonomie in der ersten britischen Frauenbewegung. Kommentar zu Angelika Schaser, ‚Autobiographie und Gender-forschung‘, Autobiographie zwischen Text und Quelle, ed. Volker Depkat und Wolfram Pyta (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2017) 151-65.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age I: Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Post-Romantic Verse Narratives, A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments – Interpretations, ed. Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning (Trier: WVT, 2015) 243-255.

Zwierlein, A.-J. [with Anna Farkas] Lärmende, starrende, vulgäre Mengen: Populäre Vortragskultur und weibliche Performanz im 19. Jahrhundert, Blick in die Wissenschaft: Forschungsmagazin der Universität Regensburg, 26 (2012) 9-14, 18 Spalten.

Zwierlein, A.-J., Travelling through (Post-)Imperial Panoramas: British Epic Writing and Popular Shows, 1740s to 1840s, Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires. ASNEL Papers 19, ed. Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2015) 243-67.

Zwierlein, A.-J., ‘The Education of the Will’: Kindererziehung als Gewohnheitsbildung in Physiopsychologie und Pädagogik des viktorianischen Großbritannien, in: Perfektionismus und Perfektibilität: Theorien und Praktiken der Vervollkommung in Pietismus und Aufklärung, ed. Konstanze Baron und Christian Soboth, Studien zum 18. Jahrhundert, 39 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2018) 259-82.

Zwierlein, A.-J., 'Written entirely for your amusement': Deklamation und fingierter Dialog in Lewis Carrolls Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland und Through the Looking Glass, Klassiker der internationalen Jugendliteratur, Bd. 2: Kulturelle und epochenspezifische Diskurse aus Sicht der Fachdisziplinen, ed. Anita Schilcher und Claudia Maria Pecher (Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 2013) 217-240.

Zwierlein, A.-J., 'The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart': Vocation, Hysteria, and the ‘Surplus Female’ in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medical Discourse, Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures, Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung, Band 7, ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Iris M. Heid (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014) 109-123.

Zwierlein, A.-J. [mit Iris Heid] Preface: Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures, in: Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures, Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung, Band 7, ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Iris M. Heid (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014) 7-18.

REVIEWS

Zwierlein, A.-J., review of Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea, eds.: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018, in: Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, 12 (2020) 233-236.

Zwierlein, A.-J., review of Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, in: Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin 10 (2018) 191-194.

Zwierlein, A.-J., review of Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer, eds, Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, in: Anglistik 27.1 (2016) 189-91.

Project-Related Conferences

As convenor:

2017: Teacher training conference / Lehrerfortbildungstagung "Populism and the Popular", Universität Regensburg

2014: Teacher training conference / Lehrerfortbildungstagung „Theatre, Spectacle, and Performance in British and American Cultures”, Universität Regensburg

2013: Special Session, MLA Convention 2013 in Boston: „Victorian Oral Culture, c.
1861-1901”

As presenter:

03.12.2021

DACH Victorianists Workshop (online)
Presentation, "Lecturing Women in Nineteenth-Century Lecturing Institutions and Mass Print"

30.01.2020

Konferenz "Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", Universität Mainz
Vortrag: "Staring guest and hostess in the face was a copy of Votes for Women": Late-Nineteenth Century Feminist Not-for-Profit Periodicals as Provoking Objects"

29.1.2019

University of Oxford, "Diseases of Modern Life in the Nineteenth Century", ERC Advanced Grant (PI Sally Shuttleworth): "Science, Medicine and Culture seminar series"
Vortrag: "Monstrous Voices: (Female) Speaking Automata, Mind Science and Mass Mediation in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Fiction"

29.-31.8.2018

BAVS Conference, University of Exeter (British Association for Victorian Studies):
Vortrag: "Patterns of Participation: Late-Nineteenth-Century Popular Weeklies and the Rhythms of Metropolitan Cultural Life"

9.7.2018

Gastvortrag, Universität Hamburg: "Metropolitan Communities: Sensation and Participation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Weekly Periodicals"

13.-15.12.2017

"Periodicals in Focus: Methodological Approaches and Theoretical Frameworks", Universität Mainz
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: "Periodicity and Participation: Late 19th-Century Popular Weeklies and/as Metropolitan Culture Institutions"

11.7.2017

Vorlesung Universität Gießen, "The Victorian Novel", Vortrag: "Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus (1894): New Woman Writing and Alienated Time"

11.5.2017
"Reading Transnational Periodical Cultures", Universität Mainz-Germersheim
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: "'Soul thrilling tones': (Women) Lecturing and Reciting in Late-Victorian Popular Periodicals"

14.1.2017
Symposium "Critical Materialities", Universität Mainz
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: "'Spheres' and Access: Female Visibility/Vocality and the Materialities of Late-Victorian Lecturing Culture"

18.2.2016
Konferenz, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München, “Present Pasts:
Historical Consciousness and the Experience of Modernity”
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “The Spectacle of Speech and the Presence of the Past:
Late-Victorian Popular Lecturing and Mass Print Culture”

10.2.2016
Recent Research Lecture Series, University of Huddersfield, UK
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “Surprise and Conversion in Late-Victorian Fictionalized Platform Performances”

20.11.15
BritCult Conference, Universität Erlangen, “The Popular and the Past”
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “The Lecturer as Revenant: Late-Victorian Sensationalism and Popular Oral Performances”

19.-21.1.15
Centre for Research into Gender and Culture in Society (GENCAS), University of Swansea
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “‘The subject escapes me’: (In-)Attentive Audiences in Late-Victorian Serialised Sensation Fiction”

27.6.14
Lehrerfortbildungstagung, „Theatre, Spectacle, and Performance in British and
American Cultures”, Universität Regensburg
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: „Victorian Attention and the Lecturer as Spectacle”

8.3.14
Konferenz „The Female Textual Body, 19th century to now“, University of Durham
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “‘The picture and figure of the half-bedizened damsel’: (Dis-)Embodied Females and Late-Nineteenth-Century Platform Performances”

22.1.2014
Ringvorlesung “’Die Würde des Menschen ist antastbar’: Ehrkonflikte von der Antike
bis in die Gegenwart, Klassik-Zentrum, Universität Regensburg
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “‘Am I not a Man and a Brother?’ Würde, Sympathie, und weibliche Partizipation in der britischen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung, 1780-1830”

4.11.2013
Birkbeck College, London, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “’Everyone knows what attention is: Audiences in Late-Victorian Serialised Sensation Fiction”

11.-14.9.2013
Konferenz “The Arts of Attention”, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “‘Electrifying the Nerves’: (In-)Attentive Audiences of Victorian Sensation Fiction and Public Platform Performances”

3.-6.1.2013
Special Session, MLA Convention 2013 in Boston: „Victorian Oral Culture, c. 1861-1901”
Einführungsvortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “Victorian Oral Cultures”

16.11.2012
Tagung „Autobiographie zwischen Text und Quelle“, Universität Regensburg
Kommentar A.-J. Zwierlein: Angelika Schaser, Autobiographie und Genderforschung

18.-20.5.2012
GNEL / ASNEL-Konferenz, Universität Bern, „Post-Empire Imaginaries“
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: „Staging (Post-)Empire: Panoramic Tours of Britain’s Imperial Ruins in Literature and Popular Shows, 1750s to 1850s“

17.4.2012
Ringvorlesung „Gender and Disease / Geschlecht und Erkrankung“, Regensburg
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: „‘The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart‘:
Vocation, Hysteria, and the ‚Surplus Female‘ in Nineteenth-Century Literature and
Medical Discourse“

21.2.2012
„Cultural Encounters“, Humanities in the European Research Area, Berlin
Beitrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “The Empire at Home: Cultural Encounters for a Nineteenth-Century Mass Audience”

7.2.2012
Ringvorlesung „Klassiker der internationalen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur“, Universität Regensburg
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: “’Written entirely for your amusement’: Deklamation und Dialogizität in Lewis Carrolls Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland und Through the Looking Glass”

15.7.2011
Symposium „Law and Literature – Die Würde des Menschen“, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Regensburg
Vortrag A.-J. Zwierlein: ‚Dignity‘ and ‚Respectability‘: Repräsentation und Performanz proto-feministischer Debatten in britischen spätviktorianischen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften der Mittelschicht