Judith Neder, M.A.

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Ms Judith Neder M.A. / StEX.

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01219 Dresden

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Curriculum Vitae

Since 2021 Research associate in British Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden
2019 - 2021 M.A. in English and American Studies at Bamberg University

2011 - 2019

 1st Staatsexamen in English, French and Spanish for Gymnasium at Bamberg and Swansea University

Research Interests

  • British Chinese & British East Asian Culture
  • Childhood and Adolescence
  • British Imperialism in China
  • Colonialism & Postcolonialism
  • Visual Culture
  • Popular Culture
  • Complicity
  • Ecocriticism

PhD Project

"Becoming British Chinese: Childhood and Coming of Age in Contemporary British Chinese Writing"

Publications

Edited Volumes

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures – History, Representation, Diversity, edited by Judith Neder & Eva-Maria Windberger, Palgrave Macmillan, (forthcoming). 

Book Chapters

  • forthcoming

Academic Talks

Guest Lectures

  • "Humanising the 'Boxer' War: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints (2013)" (Guest lecture, Université de Luxembourg, 14.11.2024)

Conference Papers

Upcoming

  • "The Taste of Vinegar: Chinese Popular Culture, Fan Translation and the Establishment of Transnational Fan Identities" (Walailak University, Thailand, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Panel: Global Dimensions of Asian Media, Popular Culture, and Intellectual Production, 23.-25.07.2025)

  • "Intergenerational Self and Diasporic Coming of Age in PP Wong’s The Life of a Banana (2015)" (KU Leuven, Family Fictions: Generations and Genealogies in European Culture, 15-17.05.2025)

  • "Period Heroes: Menstruation as Site of Heroism and Bonding in Chinese Dramas” (University of Iowa, Mutations and Permutations of Care, 04-05.04.2025, virtual attendance)

Past

  • "Ambiguous Laughter: Humour as Resistance to and Reproduction of Racism in Sue Cheung’s Chinglish (2019)" (University of Gothenburg, Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Creative Perspectives for Researching Mental Health and Social Problems, 11.-12.02.2025)

  • "'In the mountains, there you feel free'?: Mountainscapes in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land" (TU Dresden, Seismic Shifts, 20-22.03.2024)
  • "Playful Subversion: Po-Chih Leong's Ping Pong (1986)" (TU Dresden, Uncovering British Chinese Cultures, 02.-03.12.2023)
  • "Challenging Fundamentalism: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints" (Sapienza Università di Roma, Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination, 21.-22.09.2023)
  • "Of Drugs, Humiliation and National Identity – Renegotiations of Anglo-Chinese Relations in Chinese Opium War Films" (Trier University, Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture and Media, 28.-30.06.2023)
  • "Tales of Opium – British-Chinese Relations and Film Adaptations of the First Opium War" (Singapore University of Management, SGNCS World Congress: Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914, 19.-22.06.2023)
  • "'The Necessity of Violence’: Complicity with and Resistance against Empire in Rebecca Kuang’s Babel" (TU Dresden, Global Complicities, 05.-06.06.2023)
  • "The Waste Land, the Capital and the Anthropocene" (Innsbruck University, Artistic Practices of (Un-)Making Place, 23.-24.09.2022)
  • "Naturally (in)compatible?: Reflections on the Relationship between Ecocriticism and Posthumanism" (TU Dresden, Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, 01.-02.07.2022)
  • "What about your Carbon Footprint? Corporate Use of Individual Complicity Narratives" (TU Dresden, Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings 2nd Workshop, 07.-08.04.2022)

Memberships

Research Networks

Associations

  • GAPS: Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
  • Brit Cult: German Association for the Study of British Cultures
  • Anglistikverband (associated member): The German Association for the Study of English

Teaching

  • Summer 2025: "Introduction to British Cultural Studies"
  • Winter 2024/25: "The Post/Colonial Eye – Visual Discourses of Empire"
  • Summer 2024: "Chewing, Munching, Snacking and Dining – British Cultural Perspectives on Food"
  • Winter 2023/24: "British Horror"
  • Summer 2023: "Meet the Victorians"
  • Winter 2022/23: "Britain and China: From the Opium Wars to Modern British Chinese Identity"
  • Summer 2022: "Celebrity Culture"
  • Winter 2021/22: "From Deep Ecology to Environmental Justice: Ecocriticism in Theory and Practice"

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