Hartung Heike

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University of Potsdam, University of Graz

In my research and teaching I focus on Age Studies, Gender and Disability Studies. Since my training is in literary studies, I analyse cultural representations of ageing and illness within the methodological framework of narrative theory.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Heike Hartungis an independent scholar in English Studies and teaches at the University of Potsdam and the University of Rostock. She is currently employed as a researcher of the MASCAGE project „Aging Masulinities“ at the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz. She has earned her PhD in English Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and her PhD habil. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam. In her publications she applies the methods of literary theory and cultural studies to the interdisciplinary fields of aging, disability and gender studies. She is the author of the monograph Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman(2016) and the edited collection Embodied Narration: Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture(2018). She is a founding member of ENAS, the European Network in Aging Studies, and a co-editor of the Aging Studies publication series. She serves as an editorial board member and regular reviewer of the journals Age, Culture, Humanitiesand the Journal of Aging Studies.

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Heike Hartung

Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien

Phone:+43 316 380 - 8243
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