Prof. Hilary Duffield
Hilary Duffield's current research focus is on interactions between the environment and the human world as represented in literature, culture and film media.
Prof. Duffield has a BA in English Literature and German, and a PhD in German Literature from Cardiff University; she wrote her postdoc thesis in the field of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She worked as assistant professor of English literature at the universities of Cologne and Freiburg, as associate professor of New English Literatures at the University of Leipzig, and as full professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Bayreuth, before joining Trier English department.
Areas of research:
- The history of green consciousness and environmental narratives in fiction and film
- Cognitive approaches to narrative; narrative theory
- British and American television and cinematic narratives
- Postcolonial narratives, particularly South African and Nigerian fiction, and Anglophone diaspora identities
Current Projects:
- Representations of anthropogenic environmental crisis and collective environmental trauma in narrative fiction and film media
- Invasion narratives and their subversive counter-narrative forms in Anglophone fiction, film and television
Office Hours
Please email hilary.duffielduni-trierde for a Zoom timeslot.
