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Dr. Deborah de Muijnck

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About me

 
Dr. Deborah de Muijnck is the academic coordinator of the European PhD Network "Literary and Cultural Studies" and of the Internationalization at the GCSC. She conceptualizes, organizes and manages (inter)national research events such as conferences, summer schools and symposia, and coordinates the binational doctoral procedures at the Centre. She cooperates particularly closely with our partner universities Stockholm, Helsinki, Warwick, Graz, Bergamo, and the Cátolica in Lisbon, as well as with participating universities of the ESSCS. She leads the publication of network-related research results, acts as strategic support for the internationalization management, and teaches seminars in B.A./M.A. courses in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies as well as doctoral courses in research and self-management. In the summer semester 2023 she was an affiliate at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University. 
 
From 2019 - 2023 she was a research assistant at the Institute of English Literature at RWTH Aachen University, where she completed her dissertation in 2022. In this thesis, titled Cultural Models of Narrative Identity: The Case of Military Autobiographical Writing, she examines how British soldiers and veterans reconstruct their identities after war experiences through autobiographical storytelling. Other publications such as Pandemic Storytelling (Brill, forthcoming) address the reciprocal influence of pandemics and narrativity, the influence of non-normative life experiences on narrative (Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Brill, forthcoming), and the reciprocal relationship between narrative, culture and identity (Routledge Companion, forthcoming). 

Her second monograph (habilitation) examines literary scandal as a form of cultural transgression in English literature from the 18th to the 21st century. Her research interests include ecocriticism, cognitive narratology and the medical humanities, contemporary British literature, literary history from the 18th-20th centuries, and contemporary indigenous Maori and Aboriginal literature.

Dr. de Muijnck worked as an online editor in Cologne, Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, and Aachen, and traveled around the globe as an analog photographer and artist from 2015 until she settled in academia in 2019.

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7863-2011

Publications

Monographs:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. Cultural Models of Narrative Identity: The Case of Military Autobiographical Writing. Aachen: RWTH Aachen Publications, 2022 (dissertation)

Edited Volumes:

  •  de Muijnck, Deborah, Jan Alber, Jessica Jumpertz. Pandemic Storytelling. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
  • de Muijnck, Deborah, et. al. Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Ansgar Nünning. Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture. Trier: WVT (in progress)

Articles in peer reviewed edited volumes:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. 'The Transformative Power of Literature in Challenging Eras: Time, Trouble, and Hope for the Future. Troubling Time(s): Questioning Prevailing Notions of Time in the Study of Literature and Culture. Trier: WVT (in progress)
  • de Muijnck, Deborah.'Salutogenesis and the Trope of the Dying Girl: Cognitive and Affective Strategies in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction.' New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies (eds. Nünning/Pfalzgraf). Tübingen: Narr 2024 (forthcoming)

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Jan Alber, Jessica Jumpertz. "Introduction" (Working Title)’. Pandemic Storytelling, Brill, forthcoming.

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, et. al. ‘Introduction: 4E Cognition, Phenomenology, and the Body-Mind-Nexus’. Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies, Brill, forthcoming.

  • de Muijnck, Deborah, Francesca Wessing, Nalin Camur, and Linda Wetzel. ‘Plot’. Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel, vol. 24, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 119–42.

  • Schneider, Ralf, and Deborah de Muijnck. ‘Methods of Reception Theory and Cognitive Approaches - From Reception Aesthetics to Cognitive Poetics’. Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies - Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning, vol. 23, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag trier, 2020, pp. 251–72.

 

Articles in peer reviewed journals:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. ‘Narrative, Memory and PTSD. A Case Study of Autobiographical Narration After Trauma’. European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 11, Apr. 2022, pp. 75–95
  • de Muijnck, Deborah. When Breath Becomes Air: Constructing Stable Narrative Identity during Terminal Illness. Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique (38), 2019, p. 44-69.

Articles in handbooks and encyclopedias:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah. 'Narrative, Culture, and Identity'. Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies, edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider. Routledge (in progress)
  • de Muijnck, Deborah. 'Piranesi'. Kindler's Literaturlexikon, edited by Vera Nünning. Springer (in progress).

Reviews:

  • de Muijnck, Deborah.‘Lena Linne. 2019. Unlived Lives in English Literature: A Typological Study. Anglia, vol. 138, no. 4, Nov. 2020, pp. 730–33. 
Organisation Research Events (Selected)

  • 02/2024: Conception, co-organization and co-coordination of the 3rd PhDnet Doctoral Symposium, University of Bergamo, Italy. Guest speaker:Prof. Emer. Angela Locatelli (University of Bergamo)
  • 12/2023: Welcoming remarks, moderation, and organizational support of the conference Cognition, Culture, Narrative (JLU Giessen)
  • 11/2023: Conception, co-organization and co-coordination of the conference Literary Scandals as Forms of Cultural Transgression, Keynote Speaker: Prof. Stephan Karschay (FU Berlin)
  • 09/2023: Conception, co-organization and co-coordination of the 2nd PhDnet Doctoral Symposium, University of Warwick, England. Guest speaker: Prof. Fabio Camilletti
  • 06/2023: Organization and coordination of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) in cooperation with the TransHumanities network (Bern). Topic: Bouncing Foward: Future Narratives, Scenarios, and Transformations in the Study of Culture, JLU Giessen, Germany. Keynote Speakers: Ansgar Nünning (JLU Giessen); Ursula Heise (UCLA, online), Jörg Metelmann (St. Gallen), Susie O'Brien (McMaster University)
  • 05/2023: Organization and co-coordination of the 1st PhDnet doctoral Symposium, University of Helsinki. Guest speakers: Jan Rupp (JLU Gießen), Anna Ovaska (Tampere University), Natalya Bekhta (Tampere University)
  • 11/2020 - 04/2021: Organization and management of the Pandemic Storytelling Event Series. Guest speakers: Erica Charters (Faculty of History, Oxford Univesity), Rita Charon (Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University), Elena Semino ((Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University), Jarmila Mildorf (Department of English and American Literature and Culture, Paderborn University), Stefan Iversen (Department for Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University), Molly Andrews (Department of Social Sciences, University of East London), Christoph ernst (Department of Media Studies, Bonn University) , Jens Schröter (Department of Media Studies, Bonn University), Ansgar Nünning (Department of English and American Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen), Vera Nünning (English Department, University of Heidelberg), Jim Phelan (Department of English, Ohio State University), Marina Grishakova (Professor, Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu), Anneke Sools Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente
    and the Research group on Narrative, Culture, and Cognition at the University of Tartu, Estonia. November 2020 - June 2021