Prof. Hilary Duffield
Areas of Research:
- Cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to narrative
- Anthropocene consciousness in fiction and film
- Emotional and spatial immersion in narrative and lyrical texts
- Representations of anthropogenic crisis and collective environmental trauma
- Invasion narratives and their subversive counter-narrative forms in Anglophone fiction, film and television
- Postcolonial narratives: Nigeria; South Africa. Anglophone diaspora identities
Hilary Duffield has a BA in English Literature and German, and a PhD in German Literature from Cardiff University. She wrote her postdoc thesis - Coincidence and Counterfactuality (a cognitively oriented, diachronic analysis of the representation of time and space in narrative fiction) - at the University of Freiburg. She worked at the universities of Cologne, Freiburg, Leipzig and Bayreuth before joining Trier English department.
Office Hours
Please email hilary.duffielduni-trierde for a Zoom timeslot.
