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Anglistik & Amerikanistik
Department of Cultural Studies
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Christina Slopek-Hauff

(she/her, sie/ihr)

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Office:
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 , Room 3.328

Tel:
+49 231 755 7944

E-Mail:
christina.slopekhauff@tu-dortmund.de

Office hours:

Thursday, by appointment

Please schedule appointments at least a week in advance.

 

During term break, I will be available for in-person office hours on selected dates, which I will share here in advance.

I) Feb. 12

II) Feb. 20

III) Feb. 27

IV)

04/2025 - :

TU Dortmund University, British Studies

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

04/2021 - 03/2025:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Anglophone Literatures / Literary Translation

Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer

Ph.D. Research: Postcolonial Medical Humanities

03/2024:

Research Stay at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Critical Health Humanities [HHU scholarship]

10/2018 - 03/2021:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, M.A.: Comparative Studies in English and American Language, Literature, and Culture

04/2019 - 03/2021:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Anglophone Literatures / Literary Translation

Lecturer and Tutor for Anglophone Literatures

10/2014 - 09/2018:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, B.A.: English and American Studies; Romance Studies (Spanish)

09/2016 - 02/2017:

Universidad de Córdoba, Erasmus+

  • British, Anglophone and African Literatures
  • Postcolonial, Transcultural and Translational Relations
  • Medical Humanities and Disability Studies, Postcolonial Medical Humanities
  • Gender and Queer Studies, Non-Heteronormative Figurations across Narratives
  • Intersectionality and Diversity and their Poetics
  • Ecocriticism and the More-than-Human
  • Publication of doctoral thesis on medical humanities and African fiction (Brill)
  • Edited volume: Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds: Literatures for, on or against the Global Literary Market, under contract with Routledge (with Miriam Hinz)
  • Summer Workshop: “Anglophone Narratives and Postcolonial Medical Humanities” Summer Workshop: Anglophone Narratives and Postcolonial Medical Humanities - KUWI - TU Dortmund
  • Postdoctoral project: Queer studies and British literatures

Monographs

2. Postdoctoral project on literary figurations of lesbianism (under construction)

1. Plural Psychologies: Interrogating Mental Illness in Anglophone African Fiction. Brill, 2026. [accepted for publication]

 

Edited Volumes and Journal Issues

1. Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds: Literatures for, on or against the Global Literary Market, edited by Christina Slopek-Hauff and Miriam Hinz, Routledge, 2026. Pre-order the book here!  [forthcoming]

 

Journal Articles

8. “The Road to Recovery in Monique Gray Smith’s Tilly and the Crazy Eights.” [with Michelle Stork; under construction]

7. “Pluralizing Postcolonial Psychological Fiction: NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory.” ARIEL, under review.

6. “‘Signifiers of Worth’: Narrating Post(-)Shame in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Special Issue, guest editor Katrin Röder, under review.  

5. “Crossing Borders: Mapping, Necropolitics, and Border Thinking in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars.” Anglia, vol. 143, no. 4, 2025, pp. 771-790. doi.org/10.1515/ang-2025-0058. 

4. “‘New Ways of Telling True Stories’: Reflections on Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds.” Postcolonial Text, Special Issue, guest editor Jennifer Leetsch, vol. 1-2, 2024, pp. 1-11. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2955/2639. [with Jennifer Leetsch, Arunima Bhattacharya, Trang Dang, Baldeep Kaur, Hannah Nelson-Teutsch, Alisa Preusser, and Peri Sipahi] 

3. “‘Making Generative Oddkin’: Female Bodies as Sites of Connectivity in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light.” Postcolonial Text, Special Issue, guest editor Jennifer Leetsch, vol. 1-2, 2024, pp. 1-24. www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2896/2632. 

2. “Aboriginal Speculations: Queer Rhetoric, Disability, and Interspecies Conviviality in The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf.” Gender Forum, Special Issue, guest editors Bettina Burger, Lucas Mattila and David Kern, vol. 81, 2021, pp. 9-29. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/gefo/2021.2563 . 

1. “Queer Masculinities: Gender Roles, the Abject and Bottomhood in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Anglia, vol. 139, no. 4, 2021, pp. 739-757. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0057. 

 

Book Chapters

6. “More-than-Human Ecoterrorism and Interspecies Translation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon.” Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media, edited by Burak Sezer and Sascha Pöhlmann, Anglia Book Series, forthcoming. 

5. “Afterword: Reflections on the Chapters, Academia and Future Ways of Participation.” Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds: Literatures for, on or against the Global Literary Market, edited by Christina Slopek-Hauff and Miriam Hinz, Routledge, 2026. https://www.routledge.com/Participation-in-Postcolonial-Worlds-Literatures-for-on-or-against-the-Global-Literary-Market/Slopek-Hauff-Hinz/p/book/9781041067870. [with Miriam Hinz; forthcoming] 

4. “Introduction: Participation – Complicity, Implication and Intervention.” Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds: Literatures for, on or against the Global Literary Market, edited by Christina Slopek-Hauff and Miriam Hinz, Routledge, 2026. www.routledge.com/Participation-in-Postcolonial-Worlds-Literatures-for-on-or-against-the-Global-Literary-Market/Slopek-Hauff-Hinz/p/book/9781041067870. [with Miriam Hinz; forthcoming] 

3. “Re-membering Psychiatry in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel.” The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present, edited by Katrin Röder and Cornelia Wächter, Brill, 2025, pp. 255-278.  doi.org/10.1163/9789004745247_014. 

2. “Specious Species Taxonomies: Porosity and Interspecies Constellations in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Science, Culture & Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Karsten Levihn-Kutzler and Anton Kirchhofer, heiUP, 2025, pp. 263-284. doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1126.c23368. 

1. “Narrating Mental Health and Distress: The Twin Motif and Intermediality in Diana Evans’s 26a.” Poetics of Disturbances: Narratives of Non-Normative Bodies and Minds, edited by Ralf Schneider, Jessica Jumpertz, Teresa Turnbull and Deborah de Muijnck. Brill, 2025, pp. 61-78.  doi.org/10.1163/9789004519886_005. 

 

Encyclopedia Entries

1. “Jacqueline Roy: The Fat Lady Sings and The Gosling Girl.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing, vol. III, edited by Suzanne Scafe and Janine Bradbury, Bloomsbury, forthcoming. 

 

Reviews 

1. “Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness, edited by Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard.” Review. Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2023, pp. 175-181. www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/27241999. 

 

Contributions to Didactic Journals

1. “When We Speak of Nothing – Trans…cultural, Trans…gender.”Praxis Englisch, vol. 4, Anglophone Africa, 2020, pp. 34-38. 

  • 18. "Who's Afraid of ... Female Desire beyond the Man? Carmilla and Its Literary Afterlives." VAL Symposium 2025: Gender Anxieties? (Re-)Assessments from a Literary and Cultural Studies Perspective (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, November 28, 2025).
  • 17. "Postcolonial Medical Humanities: 'Spirit-First' Psychology and Intertextuality in African Literatures." Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies (University of Bamberg, September 30 - October 2, 2025).
  • 16. “'Keine andere Meer?' Nature and Gender in Claire of the Sea Light and Its German Translation." Workshop: The Ethics of Eco-Translation in Anglophone Postcolonial Contexts (Centre for Translation Studies, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, February 7, 2025).
  • 15. “Against Psychiatric Imperialism: Diversifying Psychology in African Fiction.” Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing Seminar (Research Centre for Culture and Health, University of Turku, May 14, 2024).
  • 14. “Psychiatric Imperialism and the African Imagination.” Research Visit, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Health Humanities (Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 19, 2024).
  • 13. “Postcolonial Interventions in Trauma Theory.” M.A. Seminar, Institute of English and American Studies (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, January 15, 2024).
  • 12. “Narrating Post(-)Shame in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias.” DFG Workshop: Autobiographical Writing and the Gestalt of Shame: Disability, Chronic Illness and Mental Distress in Contemporary Intersectional Life Storying (Humboldt University of Berlin, June 23-24, 2023).
  • 11. “Translating Models of Illness and Health? A Contemporary Archive of Plural Minds.” Translation and the Archive: Performance, Practice, Negotiation (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, May 31 - June 02, 2023).
  • 10. “Frames of Life: Refugees and Border Thinking in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars.” Postcolonial Narrations 2022, Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death (University of Bonn, Oct. 20 - 22, 2022).
  • 9. “Black Woman, Interrupted: Challenging Racialised Mentalism in Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings.” Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing (University of Brighton, July 21-23, 2022).
  • 8. “‘Making Generative Oddkin’? The Female Body as a Site of Connectivity in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light.” GAPS 2022, Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Goethe University Frankfurt, May 26-29, 2022).
  • 7. “Kinship through Migration: Intersectional Queer Agency in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Agency – Community – Kinship: Representations of Migration beyond Victimhood (University of Wuppertal, Feb. 23-24, 2022).
  • 6. “Culture-Specific Psychiatries: Re-Membering Psychiatry in Contemporary Anglophone Novels.” Workshop: The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present (Dresden University of Technology, Oct. 28-29, 2021).
  • 5. “Ogbanje and Gender: Translating Queerness in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater.” Postcolonial Narrations 2021, Modernities in the Contact Zone: Translating across Unfamiliar Objects (University of Potsdam, Oct. 21-23, 2021).
  • 4. “Beyond Boundaries: Refugees, Mapping and Border Thinking in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars.” Breaking Boundaries: Reimagining Borders in Postcolonial and Migrant Studies (Manchester Metropolitan University, Sep. 03, 2021).
  • 3. “Specious Species Taxonomies: Porosity and Interspecies Constellations in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” GAPS 2021, Science, Culture & Postcolonial Narratives (University of Oldenburg, May 13-15, 2021).
  • 2. “Dissecting the Tongue in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - ‘But What If the Mother Tongue Is Stunted?’” M.A. Comparative Studies Students’ Conference “Made and Remade Continually.” Identity – Expression – Performance (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Jan. 28-29, 2020).
  • 1. “‘Ice e-skating’: Punctuating Demarcations of Migrant Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.” Postcolonial Narrations 2019, Postcolonial Punctuation/s: Demarcations, Interventions, Transgressions (University of Münster, Oct. 03-05, 2019).
  • German Association for the Study of English
  • GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)
  • ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English)
  • Women's & Gender Research Network NRW