Member Profile

Name: Professor Barbara Straumann Institution: English Department, University of Zurich
Academic Status: University/college academic Main Discipline: Literary Studies
Additional Disciplines: Art History
Cultural Studies
History
Other Scholarly Societies: Modern Language Association MLA
Modernist Studies Association MSA
Deutscher Anglistenverband
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien DGfA
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
Swiss Association of University Teachers of English SAUTE
Swiss Association of North American Studies SANAS
Research Interests: the long nineteenth century
(Neo-)Victorian literature and culture
gender
film
visual culture
mediality
celebrity culture
queenship
economic criticism
debt
gender and money
feminist economics
psychoanalysis
transatlantic studies
exile studies
female performers and voices in narrative fiction
female eccentricity

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