Prof. Jan Rupp

Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12, Room 312
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

+49 (6221) 542826
Jan.Rupp@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Sprechstunde: Office hours by appointment

I received my PhD from the University of Giessen (2009) and completed my postdoctoral qualification  at Heidelberg University (Habilitation, 2014). I am the author of Genre and Cultural Memory in Black British Literature (2010) and a second monograph on representations of ritual in modernist Pageant Fictions(2016). Among my co-edited volumes are two collections of essays on intermedial storytelling in the novel (2011) and on new narrative genres on the internet (2012). My research interests include the contemporary novel, cultural memory studies, narrative theory, ritual, and (neo-)Victorian studies. I have published widely on diasporic British as well as postcolonial Anglophone writing and theory, including on didactic perspectives of the literature classroom. In my current work, I have recently been interested in figurations of world writing and environmental memory in literatures of the Global South.