Dr. phil. Eva Ries
Akademische Rätin a.Z., Redaktion Anglia
English Literature
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 5744 |
Email: | eva.ries@philhist.uni-augsburgphilhist.uni-augsburg.de () |
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
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2021
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2020
2022 |
Ries, Eva (2022): Precarious flânerie and the ethics of the self in contemporary Anglophone fiction. Dissertation, Universität Augsburg, Berlin: De Gruyter (Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 76). DOI: 10.1515/9783110767490 BibTeX | RIS | DOI Zugl.: Dissertation, Universität Augsburg, 2021 |
2021 |
Riedelsheimer, Martin; Ries, Eva (2021): This narrator nothing affirms, therefore he lies? Truth-speaking and discursive power in Teju Cole's Open City. In: Monika Fludernik, Stephan Packard (Hg.): Being untruthful: lying, fiction, and the non-factual. Baden-Baden: Ergon (Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen ; 9), S. 305-322. BibTeX | RIS |
2020 |
Ries, Eva (2020): Precarious flânerie – towards the formation of an ethical subject. In: Oliver Bock, Isabel Vila-Cabanes (Hg.): Urban walking – the flâneur as an icon of metropolitan culture in literature and film. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, S. 1-29. BibTeX | RIS |
Talks
- “Caleb Azumah Nelson: Open Water/Freischwimmen”. Ringvorlesung: Große Werke der Literatur XVIII. Universität Augsburg, 13 November 2024.
- "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.
Main Areas of Research
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The Flâneur/Flâneuse as a Literary Trope
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City Literature
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Global/Planetary Modernisms
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Narratology
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Literary Ethics
Current Projects
Pan-Africanist Modernism: Literary Responses to a Pan-African Modernity