Personal profile
Short presentation
In my ph.d.-project I set out to explore the intricate relationship between instabilities of genre and gender in late eighteenth-century women’s fiction. Here I focus upon Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary and Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy, and Dorothea Veit-Schlegel’s Florentin. My main thesis is, that all three authors, each in their own way, questions fundamentally the rigidity of literary forms (e.g. the “sentimental”, “gothic”, or “romantic” novel), and then using this prior instability in reconfigurations of what it means to be a gendered (e.g. male, female, trans) and sexual (e.g. hetero, bi, homo) person.
Primary fields of research
- Gender Studies.
- Genre Studies.
- Romanticism.
- Comparative Literature
Fields of interest
- History of (Women’s) Philosophy.
- History of Feminism.
- Historiography of Philosophy.
- Political Philosophy of the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century.
CV
Roskilde University 2012-2015.
- B.A. in Danish Literature and Philosophy.
University of Copenhagen 2016-2018.
- M.A. in Philosophy. Title of project: “The ‘Mansplained’ Enlightenment: Mary Astell’s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Challenge to Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment.”
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2017-2018.
- Academic Exchange, part of M.A.
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