Prof. Hilary Duffield
Hilary Duffield studied English Literature and German (BA Hons) and gained a PhD in German Literature at Cardiff University, Wales; she qualified for the German Habilitation with a postdoctoral thesis in 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.
Main areas of research:
- Cognitive approaches to narrative.
- Environmental narratives in fiction and film
- The history of narrative fiction in English from the Renaissance to the present
- Narrative theory
- British and American television and cinematic narratives
- Postcolonial narratives, in particular South African and Nigerian narrative fiction
- Post-imperial Britain and Anglophone diaspora identities
Current Projects:
- Invasion narratives in Anglophone fiction, film and television
- The history of anthropogenic environmental crisis in narrative fiction and film media
Office Hours
Please email hilary.duffielduni-trierde for a Zoom timeslot.
