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Chair for English and American Cultural Studies

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  6. Chair for English and American Cultural Studies
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  8. Marie Kluge, M.A.

Marie Kluge, M.A.

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Contact
Obere Karolinenstr. 8, Room 02.03
D-96049 Bamberg
E-Mail: marie.kluge(at)uni-bamberg.de
Tel: +49 (0) 951 / 863 - 2033

Address
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft
Kapuzinerstr. 16
96047 Bamberg

Research

  • Crime Fiction
  • Women Investigators
  • Gender and Femininity
  • Adaptation Studies
  • Victorian Literature and Culture
  • Medical Humanities

Current Projects

The Female Investigator in Contemporary British Crime Fiction (PhD project)

Academic CV

since October 2024: PhD candidate and research associate, Chair for English and American Cultural Studies (Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer), Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

2019–2022: Master of Arts Literary Studies (English Studies), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2020–2021: Erasmus+ mobility, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

2019–2022: research assistant, Institute of General Practice and Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann, em.), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, as well as Institute of English and American Studies, University Hamburg

2015–2018: Bachelor of Arts English and American Studies, Spanish Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg

Publications and Presentations

“The Deaf Detective: Gendered Representation of (Dis)ability and Detection in Contemporary Crime Media.” Captivating Criminality 13 (Topic: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation), Bamberg, June 2026.

“The Female Detective in Literature and Culture.” Postgraduate Forum BritCult Conference, (Topic: Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today), Bamberg, November 2025.

Kluge, Marie, und Sophie-Constanze Bantle. "'[C]ompletely out of the common': Detection and Gender in L.T. Meade's Florence Cusack and Diana Marburg Mysteries." Recovering Lost Voices in 19th-Century British Literature, edited by Michaela George and Elizabeth Drummey, Vernon Press, 2026, pp. 97–118.

Memberships

German Assocation for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
DACH Victorianists Network
International Crime Fiction Association

Others

2025 Nominee of the Annual Bettina Paetzold Prize for Teaching Gender Studies, University of Bamberg.

Teaching

Summer Term 26: Circe, Calypso, and Co.: Female Agency in Modern Adaptations of The Odyssey (Interdisciplinary Seminar)

Summer Term 25: Female Detectives in Literature and Culture

Winter Term 24/25 and Winter Term 25/26: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Winter Term 24/25: Theorien der Transkulturalität (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)