Prof. Dr. Heidi Lucja Liedke

Prof. Dr. Liedke

Prof. Dr. Liedke

 

Contact details:

Prof. Dr. Heidi Lucja Liedke

Office: IG 4.154

Telephone: 069/798-32348

Email: liedke@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Team:
Gianluca Calio, M.A.
Nina Heise, M.A.
Ronja Koch, M.A.

Student assistant:
Evgeniia Maksimenko

   

Heidi Lucja Liedke is Professor of English literature at Goethe-University Frankfurt, after having been Interim Professor of English literature and Culture at JLU Gießen in the winter term 2022-2023. From 2017 to 2023, she was assistant professor for English literature at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau. From April 2018 to March 2020, Heidi was a Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London. Heidi Liedke obtained her venia legendi for British Literary and Cultural Studies in December 2021 at the University of Koblenz-Landau with a second monograph that will be published as Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in 2023. In 2016, she obtained her PhD in English Philology from the University of Freiburg with a dissertation published as The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. The dissertation was awarded the Prize for the Best Dissertation by the German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistenverband) in 2018. Heidi Liedke studied English and American Studies, Psychology (B.A. 2011) and English Literatures and Literary Theory (M.A. 2013) at the University of Freiburg and Yale University. Since January 2023, Heidi has been the general editor of Studies in Travel Writing, together with Dr. Sandra Vlasta (Genoa).

Office hours, summer term 2024:

Tuesdays 16-17.
Please register via email stating the purpose of your visit.

Research

Research

Current Project (as Co-Investigator, together with Prof. Pascale Aebischer, Dr. Karen Gray, Prof. Barbara Fuchs and Dr. Kelsey Jacobson) on “Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from Covid-19, funded by the British Academy.

Teaching

Teaching

  • Contemporary LGBTQ* Writing
  • British Theatre and Performance
  • Literary and Queer Theory
  • British Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction
  • Adaptation Studies

Out Now!

Out Now!

 

Liedke, Heidi. Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement. Meuthen Drama, 2023.

  Liedke, Heidi Lucja, M. Pietrzak-Franger, T. Radak. “Editorial: Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance.” Theatre Research International, vol. 48, no. 1, 2023, pp. 2–8.
 

Liedke, Heidi Lucja. “(Mental) Health and Travel: Reflections on the Benefits of Idling in the Victorian Age.” Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023, pp. 97–117.

Publications

Publications

Coming soon

In the Media

In the Media

  Viral Theatre podcast (with Prof. Monika Pietrzak-Franger).
  Interview on the book Faultiere. Ein Porträt that I wrote together with Dr. Tobias Keiling.
  Guest in an Episode of the ‘Poetry Pod’ podcast.

Academic CV

Academic CV

Coming soon