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Dr. Michael Heinze

Dr. Michael Heinze is a literary scholar with a focus on gender and queer theories and a particular interest in queer historiography. He also collaborates researchers from a number of different disciplines in a research group on comics and graphic narratives. Michael teaches for the Department of English and American Studies at HHU but spends most of his time at the Dean’s Office. He is one of two Heads of Administration at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

since 2009Head of Administration, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, HHU
Lecturer at Department of English and American Studies, HHU
2006PhD – Dissertation: Love, Sexuality, Identity. The Gay Experience in Contemporary Canadian Drama
2003Final exams English & History (Lehramt), HHU
2023Nominierung für den Lehrpreis der HHU in der Kategorie „Kleine partizipatorische Veranstaltungen“
2013Förderpreis für Wissenschaften der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

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icon Düsseldorf (Hrsg.). SeitenArchitekturen. Architektur und Raum im Comic. Berlin: de Gruyter 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111488318).

icon Düsseldorf (Hrsg.). Krieg und Migration im Comic. Interdisziplinäre Analysen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2020.

“Queering the Stage/Queer Stages – LGBTQ Plays from Canada.” In: Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 30.1 (Spring 2019), 69-80.

“Queering the Frame – Graphic Storytelling and Frameworks of Cultural Identity.” In: Slavko Kacunko, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Hans Körner (ed.s). Framings. Berlin: Logos 2015, 445-457.

“Reflections on a Marine Venus – The Italian Occupation of Rhodes through the Eyes of Lawrence Durrell.” In: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. Theme Issue: Writing Coast and Sea. Ed. by Wolfgang Klooss. XLIV, 2/3, 2011, 169-181.

Heinze, Michael (ed.). Literature on the Move. Cultural Migration in Contemporary Literature. Trier: WVT 2010.

“Communication or Failed Communication? – Michael Frayn’s Towards the End of the Morning.” In: Bach, Susanne, Albert-Reiner Glaap (ed.s). Frayn in Germany. Plays and Novels. Trier: WVT 2008, 123-133.

Heinze, Michael. Love, Sexuality, Identity. The Gay Experience in Contemporary Canadian Drama. Trier: WVT 2007.

Summer 2025“Stylish Academic Writing.” PhD and advanced MA students workshop, philGRAD
08 February 2022“’How bona to vada your dolly old ekes again!’ Polari and Queer Historiography.” Keynote, Students’ Conference MA Comparative Literature (HHU)
29 November 2013“Queering the Frame – Graphic Storytelling and Frameworks of Cultural Identity.” Framings. Interdisciplinary Conference on Frames, Copenhagen
02 December 2011“Traditionspflege oder Kitsch? Die Hochzeit von Prince William und Kate Middleton im Spannungsfeld zwischen nationaler Identitätsfrage und Kitsch.” Partnerschaftskolloquium Nantes – Düsseldorf: La culture est-elle soluble dans le kitsch? Usages et transformations d’un concept, Nantes
12 September 2011“I Remember Rhodes… Die Jüdische Gemeinde der griechischen Insel Rhodos unter der italienischen und deutschen Besatzung.” Partnerschaftskolloquium Düsseldorf – Neapel, Düsseldorf
24 June 2011“Imagine this… in Colour! L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a symbiosis of text and illustrations.” Keynote Lecture. Just Imagine! Postgraduate Conference. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2016MLA International Symposium Düsseldorf: “Other Europes. Migrations, Translations, Transformations” (member of organisation committee)

Winter 2025/26

  • “Before and After Stonewall. Queer Activism in Queer Cultures” (MA, HHU) 

  • “The Witch in Literature and Art” (BA, HHU; Transcultural Studies; co-taught with Dr. Gina Möller) 
     
  • Single lecture: “Transcultural ‒ Queer ‒ Comics. Transcultural and Queer Potentials in Graphic Narratives” (Ringvorlesung “Phänomene der Transkulturalität”; BA, HHU)

Summer 2025

  • “Thinking the Thinker. Jack Halberstam in Context” (MA, HHU)
     
  • “Gardens in Literature & Art” (BA, HHU; Transcultural Studies; co-taught with Dr. Gina Möller)
     
  • “Information Skills: Projektseminar zur Modulentwicklung” (BA,  HHU; interdisciplinary project seminar taught with Nadine Brinkmann, Dr. Katja Gabrovska, Prof. Dr. Frank Meier)

Winter 2024/25

  • “Rassismus im Comic” (BA, HHU; interdisciplinary class taught with colleagues from icon Düsseldorf)
     
  • “’Still here, still queer.’ Queer US-American Literature of the 1980s” (MA, HHU)
     
  • “Approaching Henry James” (MA, HHU; co-taught with Prof. Dr. Susan Winnett)
  • Modern Language Association of America (MLA)