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Franziska Wolf M.A.

Franziska Wolf studied Psychology (B.Sc.) and British and American Studies (M.A.) at the universities of Mannheim and Granada, Spain. Since October 2022 she has been a research assistant and PhD candidate at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research interests include ecocriticism, new materialism, and gender studies. In her PhD project she is exploring the (female) atomistic self in late 19th century American fiction.

Since October 2022Research assistant and PhD candidate, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Oct - Dec 2025Visiting scholar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
January 2022Master of Arts Literature, Media and Culture in the Modern Era, University of Mannheim
2025Doctoral Scholarship Heinrich Böll Foundation
2025Heinrich Böll Travel Grant for research stay at the University of Alberta, Edmonton
2023HeRA Travel Grant for conference visit at Birmingham University
2017-2022Deutschlandstipendium

“Who Owns the Cold? (Indigenous) Female Reading and Writing of Snow and Ice.” American Studies, 326. America and Ownership. Territory, Bondage, Jubilee, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Nikita Vasyltsov, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025, pp. 63-81.

19-22 March 2024“Recording the Atoms: On the Porousness of Mattered Bodies in Late 19th Century American Fiction” (Leakage Inaugural Conference of Stsing, TU Dresden)
10-12 April 2024“Of Shells, Nuclei, and Raw Material: Atomistic Being in Edith Wharton and Henry James” (International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science BSLS, CoScLit and SLSAeu, Birmingham University)
9-11 November 2023“’Beauty is only the raw material of conquest’ – Mattered Being in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” PGF 33rdAnnual Conference “Spaces of Affect in the Americas.” University of Hanover.
1-3 June 2023“Who Owns the Cold? (Indigenous) Female Reading and Writing of Snow and Ice.” GAAS 69th Annual Meeting “America and Ownership. Territory, Slavery, Jubilee.” University of Rostock.
  • The Myths that Made America, Introduction to American Studies, Summer 2026
     
  • Ecocriticism and Climate-Change-Fiction, Summer 2025
     
  • American Studies Here and Now. Recent Issues and Debates, Winter 2024
     
  • Make it New – American Modernism, Summer 2024
     
  • Of ‘Tea Cup Tragedies’ and ‘Terrible Things’ – American Realist and Naturalist Fiction, Winter, 2023
     
  • Wild and Free – American Romanticism, Summer 2023
     
  • Literary Climates (Or how to write and read the Anthropocene), Winter 2022
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA/GAAS)
  • Association of Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany (Stsing)
  • The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS)
October 2024“US-Wahl 2024 – Digitale Medien und die Demokratie” Podiumsdiskussion im Haus der Universität Düsseldorf mit Annika Brockschmidt, Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau und Dr. Jens Temmen