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Cara Vorbeck
Contact
Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12, Room 218
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
E-Mail: cara.vorbeck@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Sprechstunde: please email me to make an appointment.
Research Interests
- Current project: "Cognizing Queerness in Contemporary Fiction" (PhD project on intersections between cognitive/enactivist and queer approaches to fiction)
- Cognitive literary studies, enactivism, embodiment
- Literary and cultural theories, queer theory, fiction and power, (literary) normativity
- Memory studies
- Experimental fiction and metafiction, narrative (and) games
- Renaissance theatre, metaphysical poetry, gothic fiction, literary modernism and postmodernism, contemporary anglophone fiction
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Publications
- Gaston, Bruce; Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie; Vorbeck, Cara; Yim, Oriana; Zieglmeier, Veronika: Showcasing English studies in and from Heidelberg : a statement from the editorial team / Bruce Gaston, Natalie Stevenson, Cara Vorbeck, Oriana Yim, Vroni Zieglmeier, 2025-12-19. - 3 S.
In: Heidelberg journal of English studies, ISSN 3054-1204. 1(2025), Seite 1-3
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.82132/hjes.2025.1.114332 - Vorbeck, Cara: "Remember me" : narratives of collective embodied memory / Cara Vorbeck, 2025
In: Nünning, Vera; Nünning, Ansgar (Hrsg.): Culture, cognition, narrative. (2025), Seite 105-123
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1515/9783112218761-006 - Vorbeck, Cara: A graveyard smash : analyzing embodied memories in Lincoln in the Bardo / Cara Vorbeck, August 2023. - 20 S.
In: Style, ISSN 2374-6629. 57(2023), 3, Seite 350-369
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.5325/style.57.3.0350
- Vorbeck, Cara. 2024. „Hamnet, von Maggie O’Farrell.“ Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_23625-1.