Vertr.-Prof. Dr. phil. Jennifer S. Henke

Stand-in professor for Anglophone Gender Studies

Room tba
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
17489 Greifswald

Phone +49 3834 420 3354 (secretary)

Short CV

  born in Bremen
2001-2007 Studies of English and American Literature and Culture at the University of Bremen and the London Metropolitan University
2008-2011 PhD scholarship holder and member of the doctoral research group ‘Textuality of Film’ at the University of Bremen
2012 PhD defence of the thesis ‘Unsex Me Here – Gender und Raum im zeitgenössischen Shakespeare-Film’
2013 PhD award with a focus on gender in the field of Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Bremen
2013-2016 Project position with a focus on gender in the research group ‘Fiction Meets Science’ at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the universities of Oldenburg, Hamburg, Bielefeld, Guelph, Sydney and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst
2016-2020 Independent research position with a focus on gender, leader of the project ‘Monstrous Medicine – Obstetrics in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century’
03-04/2019 Visiting Scholar, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
02-03/2020 Visiting Scholar, College of Arts, University of Guelph, Canada
SS 2021 Stand-in professor at the English department of Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
since WS 2021 Stand-in professor for Anglophone Gender Studies at the department of British and North American Studies of the University of Greifswald

Publications, third-party funding, talks, teaching record, projects

See homepage: https://jennifer-henke.jimdofree.com/

Fields of work

  • Gender Studies
  • Shakespeare Studies 
  • Visual Culture
  • Literature and Science
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Medical Humanities
  • Material Cultures