Dr. phil. Eva Ries

Akademische Rätin a.Z., Redaktion Anglia
English Literature
Phone: +49 821 598 - 5744
Email:
Room: 4033 (D)
Address: Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg

Office Hours

 

 

During winter term 2024/2025:

 

  • Monday, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
 
 

 


 

Academic Curriculum Vitae

 

  • 2008 – 2012: Undergraduate studies at the University of Augsburg and the University of Jaén: English Studies and Ibero-Romance Studies 
  • 2012 – 2016: Graduate Studies at the University of Augsburg: International Literature
  • 2012 – 2016: Research Assistant at the Chair of Comparative Literature 
  • 2013 – 2018: Research Assistant at the Chair of English Literature
  • Seit 2013: Editorial Assistant ANGLIA/Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie
  • Seit 2018: Lecturer at the Chair of English Literature
  • 2021: PhD („summa cum laude“), University of Augsburg

Publications

2022 | 2021 | 2020

2022

Ries, Eva (2022): Precarious flânerie and the ethics of the self in contemporary Anglophone fiction. DOI: 10.1515/9783110767490
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2021

Riedelsheimer, Martin; Ries, Eva (2021): This narrator nothing affirms, therefore he lies? Truth-speaking and discursive power in Teju Cole's Open City.
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2020

Ries, Eva (2020): Precarious flânerie – towards the formation of an ethical subject.
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Talks

  • "Pan-Africanist Modernism: Conceptualizations of Community in Dusé Mohamed Ali’s Ere Roosevelt Came and C.L.R. James’s Minty Alley.” MADS 2024 - Global Encounters. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 27 – 29 September 2024.
  • "Opacity and the Ethics of Relationality in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For". Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood. Center for Narrative Research, University of Wuppertal / online, 23 – 24 February 2022.
  • [with Martin Riedelsheimer:] "This Narrator Nothing Affirmeth, Therefore He Lieth? Constructions of (Un)Truth in Teju Cole's Open City." Lying and Related Fictions. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15 – 16 February 2019.
  • "Precarious Flânerie: Towards the Formation of an Ethical Subject". Urban Walking – The Flaneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Other Media. Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, 9 – 10 March 2018.

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Main Areas of Research

  • The Flâneur/Flâneuse as a Literary Trope

  • City Literature

  • Global/Planetary Modernisms

  • Narratology

  • Literary Ethics

Current Projects

Pan-Africanist Modernism: Literary Responses to a Pan-African Modernity

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