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Marcsek-Fuchs, Maria, Dr.
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Dr. Maria Marcsek-Fuchs
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CV
2010 PhD (Dr. phil. “Anglistik”): “Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter (Theory — Typology — Case Studies)”; completed grade: “summa cum laude”, TU Braunschweig
since 2007 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), English and American Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Braunschweig
2003 - 2007 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), English and American Studies, University of Regensburg
1998 - 2000 Graduate Degree (“Diplom”): Choreography, Palucca University of Dance, Dresden
1994 - 1998 2000 - 2003 Master of Arts English Studies and German Studies, University of Regensburg

Stays Abroad

2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 Research visits: UL, Cambridge University, UK; British Library, London, UK
2007 Research visit (funded by the German Research Foundation):, Library of Performing Arts, New York, USA
1989 - 1994 Dance Degree, Joffrey Ballet School, School of American Ballet, New York, USA
Research

Research Areas

  • Intermediality, Adaptation Studies, Transmedia Storytelling, Participatory Culture
  • Theory and History of Popular Culture
  • Gender Studies
  • Shakespeare Studies, 19th & 20th Century Drama
  • Literary London

Research Projects

  • Adaptation Theory: Intermediality and Adaptation
  • Early Female Higher Education in Literature and Culture
  • Shakespeare in Social Media: Transmedia Storytelling and Participatory Culture
  • Postmodern Shakespeare(s) and Material Culture
Performative / Cultural Projects
  • Exkursion "Literary London" (2008, 2009, 2011 - 2020)
  • English Theatre on Campus:
    • Director of the TUBS Players, English and American Studies, TU Braunschweig:
      • 2019 - Jessica Swale: All’s Will that Ends Will (first performance of the original English version)
      • 2018 - performances at the Faculty Jubilee
      • 2018 - Happy Birthday, Caroline: Austen-Style Dances and Scenes based on the Life of Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (event organised by Kerstin Dopatka), Schloss Richmond
      • 2016 - Jessica Swale: Blue Stockings
      • 2014 - William Shakespeare / Leonard Bernstein: Romeo and Juliet-Stories & Shakespeare’s Cocktail Party
      • 2012 - William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
        2009 William Shakespeare / Tom Stoppard: Hamlet
    • Founder, Director and Choreographer: Tanz-Sport-Theater and Shakespeare & Company, University of Regensburg
      Productions (selection): 
      • W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Othello
      • L. Bernstein: West Side Story
      • Das Katzenbuch (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats) based on T.S. Eliot’s poems
      • Heinrich von Veldeke: Dido und Eneas
      • E.T.A Hoffmann: Der Sandmann
      • E. Pushkin: Eugen Onegin
      • Ch. Perrault / M.Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye ( Palucca University of Dance, Dresden )
Publications

Publications

  • Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter (Theory - Typology - Case Studies). Leiden, et al.: Brill, Rodopi, 2015. Studies in Intermediality 8.
  • "Romeo and Juliet Re-danced: Choreographic Remakings of Shakespeare's Tragedy." Remakes and Remaking: Concepts -Media - Practices. Ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Lucia Krämer. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.
  • "Literature and Dance: Intermedial Encounters." Handbook of Intermediality: Literature - Image - Sound - Music. Ed. Gabriele Rippl. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.
  • Conference Report. “PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger and PD Dr. Lucia Krämer (Hosts): Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation. International Conference, February 25-27, 2015, Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany.” Braunschweig: Universitätsbibliothek, 2016. 1-15. urn:nbn:de:gbv:084-16041216419.
  • “Jane Austen in einer Welt des ‘Transmedia Storytelling’: Literatur auf medialer Wanderschaft.” Überschreiten, transformieren, mischen: Literatur an medialen Grenzen. Hg. Renate Stauf, Steffen Richter und Christian Wiebe. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 107-131. 
  • “Adaption und Intermedialität: divergierende oder symbiotische Forschungspositionen?” Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Adaption. Berlin, DeGruyter, 2021. (in press)
  • “Von Shakespeare zum Ballett, und zurück – Der intermediale Blick auf eine polydirektionale Shakespeare-Adaption: Christopher Wheeldons The Winter’s Tale.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157: Tanz. Hg. Sabine Schülting. Stuttgart: Körner, 2021, 180-197.

  • “Missing Words, Polydirectional Adaptation and Metareference as Choreographic Strategy in Shakespearean Dance Adaptations.” Shakespeare Seminar Online 17 (2021), 45 - 58. Online: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/publikationen/shakespeare-seminar-online/ausgaben-sso/ausgabe-17-2020/.

  • "William Shakespeare: Kanonisierung, (Re-)Konstruktion und Adaption eines Klassikers." Regina Toepfer, unter Mitwirkung von Nadine Lordick (Hg.): Klassiker der frühen Neuzeit. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2021 (Spolia Berolinensia 39), 477-500.
  • "'Let the doors be shut upon'… COVID-19: Relocating the Globe Theatre Stage to the Net." Merle Tönnies and Eckart Voigts (eds.): Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022 (Contemporary Drama in English Studies, 32), 225-242. doi.org/10.1515/9783110758252

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

2021 "Artful Pas-de-Deuxs, (Natural) Gestures, and Subverted Ballet Conventions: Christopher Wheeldon Writing Back at Shakespeare’s 'The Winter’s Tale'" ("The art itself is nature": Shakespeare's Nature / Art / Politics, ESRA Virtual Conference 2021, Athens / European Shakespeare Research Association)
2021 "‘Let the doors be shut upon’…Covid-19: Shakespeare Heritage Sites during the Pandemic" (Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000, ZiF Bielefeld)
2020 “‚The measure done, ... I‘ll meet her online‘: Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet im kreativen Online-Unterricht“ (Online-Forum Shakespeare und Schule, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft)
2020 “Moving Words and Meta-Choreographic Characterization in Shakespearean Dance Adaptations” (Shakespeare-Seminar 2020 / Shakespeare and Dance, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft)
2020 “Kultur: Demokratisierung vs./und Kommerzialisierung am Globe Theater, London“ (Ringvorlesung: Kernbegriffe für die Stadt der Zukunft II, TU Braunschweig)
2019 “William Shakespeare: Kanonisierung, (Re-)Konstruktion und Adaption eines Klassikers“ (Ringvorlesung Klassiker der Frühen Neuzeit/ Institut für Germanistik, TU Braunschweig)
2018 “Shakespeare Appropriated: Memes, Web Series and Other Transmedia Experiments” (Association of Adaptation Studies, Amsterdam, NL)
2017 “Returning to a Conceptual ‘Other’: Intermediality, Multi‐Directional Adaptation and Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Association of Adaptation Studies, Leicester, UK)
2015 “Jane Austen in einer Welt des 'Transmedia Storytelling': Literatur auf medialer Wanderschaft“ (Ringvorlesung Literatur der Gegenwart und der medialen Moderne / Institut für Germanistik, TU Braunschweig)
2015 “Wandering Wombs and Women in 19th Century Higher Education - 'Playful Engagement' with Science and Political Agenda in Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings” (University of Bern, CH)
2015 “Literature Danced: from Ballet Adaptation to Hip-Hop-ed Appropriation” (Popular Culture Association / New Orleans, USA)
2014 “Historical Simulacra and Intermedial Infotainment: Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings at London’s Globe Theatre” (CDE / Hamburg)
2014 “When High and Popular Culture Kiss: T. S. Eliot and the Dance” (Popular Culture Association / Chicago, USA)
2013 "Shakespeare Danced: Between Re-Adaptation and Choreographic Tradition" (Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association / Washington, USA)
2012 "Shakespeare Re-made: Filmic and other Remakes between Adaptation and Rewriting" (Play It Again, Sam - Remakes in Film, Literature and Art; International Conference / TU Braunschweig)
2012 "Lovestories in Motion: Dance Revolutionising Literature — Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Lydia Lopokova, and Isadora Duncan" (Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association / Boston, USA, angenommen für die Jahreskonferenz 2012)
2012 "Schnittstellen zwischen Hoch- und Populärkultur: Literature meets Dance, Dance meets Literature" (Nachwuchs F6 / TU Braunschweig)
2011 "Shakespeare Danced: Intermedial Adaptations of Literature" (Gastvorlesung im Rahmen der Vorlesung An Introduction to Adaptation Studies [Dr. L. Krämer]/TU Braunschweig)
2010 "H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds — Mars, 'zwei Kulturen' und drei Medien" (Gastvortrag im Rahmen des KTW Erstsemesterwochenendes [Masterstudiengang "Kultur der Technisch Wissenschaftlichen Welt"])
2010 "Literatur und Tanz: Liebespaare — Künstlerpaare — Medienpaare" (im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung Hauptwerke der Weltliteratur / Institut für Germanistik, TU Braunschweig)
2009 "Presence through Absence: Salomé's Dance of the Seven Veils from 'Wilde' to Scandalous Fame" (Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association / New Orleans, USA)
2008 "Long-Faced Minuets and Inconvenient Partners: Social Dance in Caricature and Literature of the 18th and 19th Century" (Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association / San Francisco, USA)
2007 "From the Waltz to the Text: Intermedial Representations of a Scandal in 19th century British Literature" (Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association / Boston, USA)

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