Publications

Publications

Monograph

• Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Dystopian Times: Modified Bodies and the Re-/ Deconstruction of Human Exceptionalism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Trier: WVT. SALS: Studien zur anglistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, 2018.

• ed. with Sylvia Langwald, Anca-Raluca Radu, Walaa Said, and Kirsten Sandrock. Prudent Crossings: From Milton's Paradise to Canada's Bush Gardens. Augsburg: Wißner, 2023
• ed. with Angela Krewani and Martin Kuester. Canadian Ecologies Beyond Environmentalism. Culture, Media, Art, Ethnicities. Trier: WVT, 2020. Focal Point.
• ed. with Eckart Voigts. Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse. Classics – New Tendencies – Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT, 2015. WVT Handbuch Reihe.

Articles

• “Conflicts and Crises, Dialogues and (Dis-)Connections: Renegotiations of Identities through Irish Narratives of Community”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2) (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.8626 (peer-reviewed)
• “’Ties constitute what we are’ – Haunted Gender and Class Identities in Post-Celtic Tiger Narratives of Community.” Ireland: Interfaces and Dialogues. Eds. Ondřej Pilný, Radvan Markus, Daniela Theinová and James Little. WVT. Irish Studies in Europe, Volume 11 (2022): 211-229. (peer-reviewed)
• “’[Y]ou’ve been told and not told’ – The Ethics and Aesthetics of (Non-)Knowledge in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Recent Novels.” Anglistik 33.2 (2022): 155-171. (peer-reviewed)
• “In Need of New Narratives: Feminist Ustopian Fiction Challenging the Anthropocene.” Intersectional, Feminist and Non-Binary Approach to Speculative Literature, Film and Art in the 21st Century: The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia. Eds. Katarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz Fisiak. Routledge. 2021. 17-23.
• “’It's easier to talk like this in the dark’ – The Body with AIDS in Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship.” Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture. Eds. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus and Sara Strauß. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Anglistik & Englischunterricht. 2020. 149-167.
• “’[W]hy do we think that everything on Earth belongs to us, while in reality we belong to Everything?’ – Ecological Democracy and Inclusive Multiculturalism in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Canadian Ecologies Beyond Environmentalism. Culture, Media, Art, Ethnicities. Eds. Alessandra Boller, Angela Krewani, Martin Kuester. Trier: WVT. Focal Point. 2020. 33-57.
• “A Most Violent Encounter – Disruption, Transgression and Intertextuality in David Hayden’s Darker With the Lights On.” Experiments in short fiction: between genre and media/La brièveté et l’expériment: entre genre et media, special issue of Interférences littéraires/ Literaire interferenties 24 (2020): 62-76. www.interferenceslitteraires.be (peer reviewed)
• with Eckart Voigts. “’What counts as a liveable life and a grievable death?’ – Critical Posthumanism and Cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Caryl Churchill’s A Number.” Teaching the Posthuman. Eds. Julia Hoydis and Roman Bartosch. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Anglistik & Englischunterricht. 2019. 151-174.
• “’It’s So Weird Being Inside History’ – Saci Lloyd's Multimodal Hybrid Narratives The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017.” ‘Tell Freedom I Said Hello’: Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Eds. Nicole Maruo-Schröder and Christian Ludwig. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Anglistik & Englischunterricht. 2019. 91-115.
• “Facing the Interface: Politics, Religion, Fiction and the Exemplary Case of William Carleton’s ‘The Death of a Devotee’ in The Christian Examiner, and Church of Ireland Magazine.” The Short Story in Context. Ed. Elke D‘hoker. Special Issue Journal for the Short Story in English 71.1 (2018): 27-41. (peer reviewed)
• with Walaa’ Said. “Moving (Across) Borders: Dystopian Bodies and Possibilities of Transgression in Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia (2008) and Margaret Atwood‘s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).” Border Stories. Narratives of Peace, Conflict and Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Eds. Beate Greisel, Tanja Konrad, Senta A. Sanders, Heike Schwarz. Bern: Peter Lang, 2018. 163-184.
• “Celtic Tiger Ireland and the Car as a Liminal Space: Movement and Paralysis in Gerard Donovan’s Country of the Grand.” Estudios Irlandeses 12 (2017): 12-25. (peer reviewed)
• “Women, Violence and Silence in Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors.” Silence in Modern Irish Literature. Ed. Michael McAteer. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 122-132.
• “In ´Paradice´? - Test-tube Evolution within the Natural Realm in Margaret Atwood´s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Inklings – Jahrbuch für Literatur- und Ästhetik 32. Ed. Dieter Petzold. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 45-60.
• “Young Adult Dystopia: Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy.” Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse. Classics – New Tendencies – Model Interpretations. Eds. Eckart Voigts and Alessandra Boller. Trier: WVT, 2015. WVT Handbuch Reihe. 411-430.

Further Publications

• "Mary Morrissy in conversation with Alessandra Boller.” The Irish Itinerary Podcast, Episode 33, May 2022. https://www.efacis.eu/podcast.
• "Ryan, Donal.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). Ed. Arnold, H.L. (eds). Metzler. 2022.
• "Ryan, Donal. The Spinning Heart.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). Ed. Arnold, H.L. (eds). Metzler. 2022.

Organised Conferences

2023 Anglistentag 2023, Sektion "Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives",
        co-organised with Dr. Sara Strauß, Paderborn

2022 Journeys across B/orders in Canadian Studies
        International conference, co-organised with Walaa‘ Said, M.A. (Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies), Marburg

2019 Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies
        International conference, co-organised with Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani (Media Studies)
        and Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester (English and Canadian Literary Studies), Marburg

2017 Performing Canada – Canadian Identities between Satire and (Re-)Negotiation
        Student conference with international plenary speakers, Marburg

2016 Teaching Canadian Ecologies

        Canadian Studies Day 2016, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies