Alina Aulbur

Positions:

2025 – today  Research and Teaching Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”), English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen

2023 - 2025  Research associate and lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

2022 - 2023 Teaching assignments at the Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Education:

2025 PhD: English Literary and Cultural Studies (dissertation on Frances Burney’s subversive courtship novels currently in post-submission phase) 

2020 M.A.: Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

2017 B.A.: German and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Research areas:

• (Long) Eighteenth Century, especially the novel, gender and genre, Bildungsroman, Sentimental literature and culture, canon revision
• Historical Fiction
• Fantasy Literature (Children's and adult fantasy)
• Early Modern Literature and Culture, with a focus on early modern theatre and disability 

Current projects:

• Discourses of Disability in Early Modern Drama 

Previous projects:

• Frances Burney's Subversive Courtship Novels (monograph) 

Conferences:

• Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026: "Feelings and Emotions", 19.-20.02.2026 FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/events/historical-fictions-research-conference-2026-feelings-and-emotions/ 

Conference papers and guest lectures:

• Guest Lecture at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: "Frances Burney's Evelina: Sentimental Subversion", 23.07.2025
• "No '[M]aterials for [P]olitical [C]ontroversy'? History and Gothic Spaces in Burney's Fictions" Historical Fictions Research Network Conference in Manchester (UK), 13.-14.02.2025
• "Simpler Eskapismus? Fantasy aus Literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive" FAU Tag der Forschung, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 25.07.2024
• "Frances Burney's Literary Exploration: Masculine Women, Female Wits" Burney Society UK 2024 Conference 'Exploring Burneys' in Greenwich (UK), 13.-15.06.2024; Mit President's Prize (Peter Sabor) for Best (PhD) Student Paper ausgezeichnet
• "Kenneth Branagh's A HAUNTING IN VENICE: Brücken in die Vergangenheit" Tagung im Deutschen Studienzentrum in Venedig (Italien), 17.-18.01.2024

 “Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice: Brücken in die Vergangenheit.” Das unheimliche Venedig, edited by Dennis Henneböhl and Claudia Lillge. Paderborn: Brill | Fink, 2026 (forthcoming)

Current:

• “The 'Mother of English fiction': Frances Burney”
• “For Love or Money? 18th-century courtship fictions”

Past teaching (overview):

Universität Siegen:

• “Exploring Past and Present: The English Historical Novel and 'Maternal' Traditions”
• “Blurring Boundaries? Sarah Perry's Historical Fictions”
• “The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama”
• “The Beginnings of Drama”

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg:

• "Villains, Witches, Romans: Shakespeare's Richard III, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra"
• "A Journey Through Fantasy: The Hobbit and Philosopher's Stone" 
• "18^th-century woman's 'delicate […] reputation': Burney's Evelina"
• Introductions to literary and cultural studies

Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.:

• "Jane Austen's Emma"
• "18^th-century woman's 'delicate […] reputation': Burney's Evelina"