About

Annalina Benner is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP), and European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. For her dissertation project, she researches modes of representing contemporary music in anglophone fiction as part of a cotutelle agreement under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar Nünning at Justus-Liebig-University (Germany) and Dr. James Hodkinson at the University of Warwick (England).

Research Interests

• Musico-Literary Intermediality
• African American Literature and Culture
• Graphic Memoirs
• Life Writing

Memberships

• European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies
• International Association for Word and Music StudiesLink opens in a new window (WMA)
• International Graduate Centre for the Study of CultureLink opens in a new window (GCSC)
• International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural StudiesLink opens in a new window (IPP)
• International Society for Intermedial StudiesLink opens in a new window (ISIS)

Academic CV

Papers and Talks (ORCiD: 0000-0001-7171-915XLink opens in a new window)

• 01/2025: "Telling My Life in Pictures - An Introduction to Graphic Memoirs." IPP Workshop SeriesLink opens in a new window at the International PhD Programme "Literary and Cultural Studies", 30 January 2025.
• 10/2024: "Workshopping the Canon - Reading Fiction across the Curriculum." A Reading Crisis? The Challenges and Affordances of Reading Generally and Reading Fiction SpecificallyLink opens in a new window. PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen & The Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, and the Department of English, Stockholm University, 10 - 11 October 2024.
• 06/2024: "'Everything We Need' - Changing Perspectives on the Formation of the Good Life in the Music of A Day To Remember." Forms of the Good Life in a Global Context: Hegemonic Cultural Models, Literary Form, and Counter-NarrativeLink opens in a new window. Research Centre for the Study of Culture, 12 - 13 June 2024.
• 05/2024: "From Great Rock and Roll Pauses to The Bricks that Built the Houses - Musicalization in 21st Century Fiction." Guest session in Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: The Musicalization of Poetry? Investigating the Intersections of Early Modern Sonnets and Music at the University of Graz, 15 May 2024.
• 07/2023: "'Own Your Unconscious^TM' - Literary Lessons on the Abandonment of Privacy and the Future of Autonomy." FUTURE/FUTURESLink opens in a new window. The Lisbon Consortium, 03 - 08 July 2023.
• 06/2023: "'When I Wake Up I have Music in My Head' – Repetition and Variation in John Darnielle's Master of Reality (2008)." Repetition/Variation in Literature and MusicLink opens in a new window. International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), 28 June - 01 July 2023.
• 12/2022: with Juan Camilo Brigard, Pinar Gümüş Mantu, Isabella Kalte, Jens Kugele, Margarita Pavlova, Robin Schmieder, and Eva Zimmermann: "Editorial: Codes: Power and Subversion." In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 14Link opens in a new window (2022).
• 05/2022: "You're Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore [Review of: Winkler, Robert A.: Generation Reagan Youth: Representing and Resisting White Neoliberal Forms of Life in the U.S. Hardcore Punk Scene (1979-1999). Trier: WVT, 2021.]." In:KULT_online Link opens in a new window65 (2022).
• 12/2021: "Akademikerinnen in Oxbridge im 20. Jahrhundert – Femmes universitaires à Oxford et Cambridge au XXe siècle." Genre, Milieux, Savoirs et Écrits AcadémiquesLink opens in a new window. Université de Strasbourg, 09 - 10 December 2021.
• 01/2021: with Lena Frewer, Julia Carolin Hinze, and Filip Emanuel Schuffert: "Juristen als Experten: Eine Untersuchung der Wissensbestände und Diskurse der Juristen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert." In: H-Soz-KultLink opens in a new window, 26 January 2021.

Teaching

Supervised Theses

• The Representation of Beauty and the Role of African American Women in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970). (BA, Summer 2024)
• "The Hill We Climb": The Representation of African American Feminism in the Poetry of Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman. (BA, Winter 2023/2024)
• Poetry as Means of Socio-Political Participation. African American Rhetoric in the Poetry of Langston Hughes (1921-1936). (BA, Summer 2023)

Scholarships and Awards

• 05/2022: Received GCSC Doctoral ScholarshipLink opens in a new window, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. [Declined]
• 01/2020: Received Florentine O. and R. Isbell Endowed ScholarshipLink opens in a new window, Eastern Michigan University.