Amanda Martha Boyce joined the English Department in July 2019, after studying English and Japanese at the University of Trier and English Literatures and Media at the University of Trier and Portland State University, OR, USA, and obtained a Master of Arts in March 2019. They are currently working on their PhD thesis in the area of fan studies, investigating transmedial power dynamics and the depiction of fan fiction / fan fiction authors in print and television narratives. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hilary Duffield.

• Queer/Feminist Fiction and Film
• Contemporary Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Young Adult Fiction
• Fan Studies/Reader-Response Studies
• Comic Studies/Graphic Narratives

Selection of Past Classes

• Censorship in Hollywood
• North American Graphic Memoirs
• The Queer Subversion of Young Adult Fantasy Literature
• Japanese-Canadian Writing

• since 2022: Co-organizer of the Emerging Scholars panel at the GKS (http://www.kanada-studien.org) conference in Grainau with Manuel José Oliveira (https://www.cetaps.com/manuel-jose-oliveira/)

• since 2022: Vice Graduate Student Representative Fachbereich II together with Annina Mohr
• since 2021: Anglistik Book Club Just One More Page with Britta Colligs
• since 2020: Leading committee member for the organization of the graduate conference DocColloq with Laura Simonis
• since 2019: Trier Center for American Studies

Boyce, Amanda: Othering in the Heteronormative: A Study in Queerbaiting. The Society for the Study of Narrative Annual Conference, 2019. 

Boyce, Amanda. (Re)Negotiating Power Dynamics: The Impact of Fan Fiction on Contemporary Novels. Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Annual Conference (https://nepca.blog), 2022.