Dr. Mareike Spychala

Second Book Project

Gothic Counterpublics in 19th-Century Women’s Poetry (Working Title)

Research Interests

• War Literature (esp. about the Iraq War)
• Contemporary American Poetry
• Post-9/11 Literature
• Arab American Literature
• Gender and Queer Studies
• Speculative Fiction

(Co-)Organization of Conferences and Workshops

• 09/2021: "Speculative Fiction and Ethics" - 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (with Lorena Bickert, M.A., Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher, and Sara Tewelde-Negassi)
• 03/2018: Konferenz "War and Trauma in Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Conference" (with Lina Strempel and Chiara Manghi)
• 11/2015: Conference "Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies" (with Laura Oehme, Judith Rauscher, and Theresa Roth)