Bickert
Dr. Lorena Bickert
Englische Fachdidaktik
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Contact
| Phone | |
| lorena.bickert@uni-wuerzburg.de | |
| Office | Philosophisches Institut, Raum 5.U.15 Am Hubland D-97074 Würzburg |
Office Hours
Office hours are available by personal appointment only. Please contact me via E-Mail to arrange one.
- Ecocriticism and Eco-fiction
- Speculative Fiction
- Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
- American Women's Poetry
- Latinx Literature
- Gender Studies
- American Drama and Musical Theather
- Teaching with Musical Theater
2026
Bickert, L. (2026). “The Journalist as Bystander in American AIDS Theater” in Journalists and Journalism in Fiction. Freiburg University Publishing. (in preparation)
2022
Bickert, L. (2022). Hoping for Cyborgs: Odd Kinships, Cyborg Heroes, and Hopeful Heroics in the Compost Pile of Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans. HJEAS.
2020
Bickert, L. (2020). Heroes in Body Bags: Renegotiating Heroism in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. In Hauke, A., Huber, B. & Stelzl, T. (Eds.). Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), 21(1), 7–24.
2024
"'We're all impossible': The Zombie as Eco-Scientist in Daryl Gregory's Raising Stony Mayhall (2011)" Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. January 2024.
2022
"Longing for Home in the Undersea: Geographies of Grief in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven." 13th Anniversary of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung: Fantastische Geographien, TU. Dortmund. September 2022.
"More-Than-Individual Zombie-EcoHeroism in Daryl Gregory’s Raising Stony Mayhall." Summer Institute Non/Humanity: Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities, Bucknell Humanities Center, US. Online. June 2022.
2021
"Heroic Bodies Underwater: Aquatic Eco-Heroism in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986)." Summer Institute Water Ecologies: Interdisciplinary Currents in the Humanities, Bucknell Humanities Center, US. Online. June–July 2021.
2020
"Re-building the American Hero’s Body: Cyborg Heroes in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans." X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Ecoculture. Online. July 2020.
2019
"Heroes in Body Bags: Renegotiating Heroism in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning." PGF Conference Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies (Postgraduate Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, DGfA), Universität Passau. December 2019.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, e.V.
- Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, e.V.
| Since 11/2025 | Postdoctoral researcher and Research Assistant at the Chair of EFL Methdology at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg |
| Since 11/2025 | Habilitation at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg |
| 02/2024 | Promotion to Dr. phil Disseration: "Eco-Heroism: Embodied Ecological Crisis in Contemporary North American Fiction" (magna cum laude) |
| 04/2019-11/2023 | PhD Candidate at the Chair of EFL Methodology at Otto-Friedirch-University Bamberg |
| 11/2018-09/2025 | Lecturer at the Chair of EFL Methodology at Otto-Friedirch-University Bamberg |
| 03-04/2018 | First state exam in English and Spanish (Gymnasiallehramt) |
