Dr Eva-Maria Windberger

Eva-Maria Windberger is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the English Department, which
she joined in June 2015. She studied English, Philosophy, and Education at the Universities of Trier
and Cambridge. In her PhD thesis, she investigated the functions and strategies of empowerment in
David Mitchell’s novels. Her current research project focuses on the performativity of East Asian
identities on the British stage and the role of British East and South East Asian playwrights in
contemporary theatre.

Eva-Maria Windberger

Degree: BEd, MEd, Dr. phil. (Trier)

Main Areas of Teaching and Research

• British East and South East Asian Theatre and Film

• Performativity of Transcultural Identities

• Postcolonial Displacement and Authorship

• Empowerment Studies in Contemporary Literature

• David Mitchell

• Modernist Poetry and Prose; Virginia Woolf

• Feminist and Queer Criticism

• Adaptations and Remediations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Publications

Monograph

Edited Book and Volumes

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Between Failure and Empowerment: Historicity, Genre, and Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.” Speaking of Failure: Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe, edited by Ralf Hertel und Kirsten Sandrock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. pp.152-69.
  • (with Monika Leipelt-Tsai:) “Editorial: East Asia and Europe between Innovation and Tradition, Literary and Literally.” Interface: Journal of European Languages and Literatures, Issue 21, Summer 2023. pp. 1–5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6667/interface.21.2023.213.
  • “‘Remember me’: Significant Absences and the Fragility of Family in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.” Alluvium, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, n. pag.
  • “Of Memory Boxes and Rhizomatic Structures: Strategies of Empowerment in David Mitchell's Über-book.” Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies, edited by Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger. Boston: Brill, 2021. pp. 101–25.
  • (with Ralf Hertel:) “Introduction: Empowering Contemporary Fiction.” Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies, edited by Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger. Boston: Brill, 2021. pp. 1–15.
  • “‘No Man is an Island’: Tracing Functions of Insular Landscapes in David Mitchell’s Fiction.” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, vol. 6, no. 3, 2018, pp. 1–25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.62.  (1. Platz GUT-Publikationspreis 2018 der Universität Trier, FB II)

Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium

Students currently completing their MA/MEd thesis and Early Career Researchers working on their
PhD thesis or second book projects in literary studies are welcome to join our monthly colloquium,
where we present, discuss, and provide feedback on our research projects. In the colloquium, we
speak English and German and meet either in person or via Zoom. Please email me or my colleague
Dr Britta Colligs if you would like to join us.