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Professional career

• 04/2005 - 03/2008
  Student assistant at the Chair of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, Leipzig University
• 04/2008 - 03/2009
  Research assistant at the Chair of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, Leipzig University
• 10/2008 - 09/2011
  Lecturer at the Chair of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, Leipzig University
• 01/2012 - 03/2013
  Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Vertretung für Dr. A. Lembert) am Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik, Universität Leipzig
• 04/2013 - 09/2016
  Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben am Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik, Universität Leipzig
• 10/2016 - 09/2019
  Research associate at the Chair of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Leipzig
• 10/2019 - 04/2020
  Lecturer (50%) at the Chair of English Literature and Culture at the Institute of English and American Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• since 04/2020
  Research associate at the Chair of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, Leipzig University
• since 01/2021
  Hororary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David

Education

• 10/2003 - 03/2008
  English Studies and Egyptology (Magister, equiv. M.A.) at Leipzig University
• 08/2000 - 07/2001
  Michigan City High School, Michigan City, Indiana (USA); high school year
• 09/1994 - 07/2003
  Latina August Hermann Francke. Grammar school with a language and music branch in the Francke Foundations in Halle/Saale
• 09/1990 - 06/1994
  Wittekind primary school in Halle/Saale
• 04/2008 - 07/2014
  PhD

Maria Fleischhack is a research associate in the Department of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies at Leipzig University.

She wrote her doctoral thesis on the representation of ancient Egypt in Victorian and Edwardian fantasy literature. The thesis is entitled: Narrating Ancient Egypt: The Representation of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Fantastic Fiction (2014).

Among others, her current research focusses on authorship (concepts) in the digital age, the reception of Sherlock Holmes in literature and media, and Shakespeare adaptations. Furthermore, she is working on cultural materialism and museum shops.

• Fleischhack, M.

  Narrating Ancient Egypt : the representation of Ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century fantastic fiction

  Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. 2015.

  ISBN: 978-3-631-66098-0
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• Fleischhack, M.

  Possession, Trance and Reincarnation: Confrontations with Ancient Egypt in Edwardian Fiction

  Victoriographies - A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing 1790-1914. 2017. 7 (3). pp. 257–270.

  DOI: 10.3366/vic.2017.0283
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• Fleischhack, M.

  Die Welt des Sherlock Holmes

  Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider. 2015.

  ISBN: 978-3-650-40031-4
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• Fleischhack, M.; Ronthaler, J.; Welz, S. (Eds.)

  Das Leben und die Seltsamen Abenteuer des Elmar Schenkel, aus Soest, Professor. Nicht von Ihm Selbst Verfasst. 1. Edition

  Leipzig: Edition Hamouda. 2019.

  ISBN: 3958170404
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• Fleischhack, M.

  The Undead and the Unseen - Ghosts and Ghostlike Characters in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.“

  In: Petzold, D. (Ed.)

  Geister – Einblicke in das Unsichtbare. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2016. pp. 53–62.

  ISBN: 9783631671641
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Maria Fleischhack teaches students of all semesters and study programmes in English Studies. She gives tutorials and seminars in the field of literary studies. In addition to providing a broad overview of knowledge and approaches to literary analysis, she teaches in the higher semesters with a focus on adaptation theory and identity constructions with an emphasis on the Renaissance, Victorianism and postmodern/contemporary literature. 

Among others, she teaches the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Charlotte Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian McEwan, Tobias Hill, C.S. Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Zadie Smith, Bram Stoker, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.

Possible topics for dissertations:

• Fantasy Literature
• Science Fiction
• Detective Fiction
• Children's and YA Literature
• Victorian Literature
• Shakespeare's Work and Reception
• Fan/Fandom Studies
• Literary Adaptations
• Film Adaptations
• Convergence Culture
• Identity Construction/Performance in Literature
• The Black Presence in Britain/English Literature
• Egypt in English (Fantasy) Fiction
• Orientalism/Criticism

• Introduction to British Literatures and Cultures I: Introduction to Literary Analysis (recurring Übung - winter terms)

• Introduction to British Literatures and Cultures II: Essential Texts in English Literature (recurring seminar, summer terms)

• British Food Cultures: From Pub Grub to High Tea

• "Taking back control?” - Nostalgia, Revisionism and Cultural Discourses in the Brexit Debates

• Staging Shakespeare – Theory and Practice

• Sherlock Holmes – The Metamorphosis of a Literary Character into an Icon

• Adventure Stories for Children

• Adapting Literature – Pastiche and Derivative Writings Inspired by British Classics

• The British Fascination with Egypt

• The English Civil Wars, Cromwell and Restoration in Literature and Film

• The Reluctant Hero in YA Fantasy Fiction

• Madness and Evil in Shakespeare

• Postmodern Aspects in the Works of Tobias Hill

• Scottish Romanticism

• Adventure Stories – Exploring the World: Text and Context

• British Hauntings - Shadows, Ghosts and Revenants

• Graphic Novels

• The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (and John Watson)

• 'There is an east wind coming’ – Soldiers, Spies and Suffragettes

• The Literary Re-Discovery of Ancient Egypt in 19th- and 20th-century-Britain

• Shakespeare Adaptations

• Fantastic Geographies

• Empire and Identity

• Detective Fiction - Sherlock Holmes

• English Dystopian Fiction of the 20th and 21st Century

• The Hungry Self

• Literary Worldbuilding

• Applied Methods and Theories: Adaptation Studies

• A Different Kind of Literature: Comics and Graphic Novels

• The Literary Re-Discovery of Ancient Egypt in 19th and 20th-Century-Britain

• London in Contemporary Fiction

• Victorians: From Page to Screen

• Adapting Literature

• BrexLit