Consultation hours: In the summer term 2025, regular office hours take place on:
Mondays, 10:30-11:30 am.
No office hours on April 14 and 21, and on June 9, 2025.We meet onsite in my office. If an online consultation is what you need, we will meet on Zoom in the same timeslot.Please register for an office hour slot via the Termino link on my website: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/heinz/
CV
Apr. 209-May 2020: Parental Leave
Aug. 2018: Returning Visting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Apr. 2016-June 2017: Parental Leave
Apr. 2015-March 2016: Guest Professor at the English Department, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Jan.-Apr. 2015: Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
May 2014: Oral Habilitation Presentation, granting of the venia legendi "Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft" [English Literary and Cultural Studies]
2013: Submission of Habilitation at the School of Humanities, University of Mannheim, Germany
Title of Habilitation Treatise: "The Relative Skin: Whiteness in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film"
2009-2014: Juniorprofessor for British Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of Humanities, University of Mannheim
2008-2009: Juniorprofessor for English Literature/Cultural and Media Studies at the School of Humanities, University of Passau, Germany
2006-2008: Instructor at the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies (Chair of English Literature and Culture, Anglistik II, Prof. Dr. Meinhard Winkgens) at the University of Mannheim
2003-2006: PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude)
Title of Doctoral Thesis: "Die Einheit in der Differenz: Metapher, Romance und Identität in A.S. Byatts Romanen" [Unity in Difference: Metaphor, Romance and Identity in A.S. Byatt's Novels]
1997-2003: Master of Arts in English, Linguistics, and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim
Born 1978 in Groß-Gerau, Germany
Teaching and Supervision
• Contemporary British drama and narrative literature
• The contemporary Anglophone novel
• Theories of intersectionality and race, specifically whiteness
• Theoretical and narrative conceptualisations of transcultural encounters
• Filmic, dramatic, and narrative representations of race, gender, class, and nation from Shakespeare to today
• Cultural discourses of identity, normality, and normalisation
For a full list of my courses, course evaluations, and my teaching dossier, see my personal homepage: http://sarah-heinz.de/
I welcome supervision proposals in all these areas. If you are interested in doing a thesis project with me, please come to my office hours and bring any material that you might find helpful to outline your idea and research plan.
Research Interests
• Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, specifically the Contemporary Novel
• Transnational Discourses of Home and Homeland in Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature and Cultural Production
• British Drama and the Novel since 1800
• Contemporary Irish Literature, Film, and Culture in the Context of Postcolonial Studies and Globalisation
• Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Adaptation
• Theories of Identity and Subjectivity
'Through a glass, darkly': Re-Orientating British #Tradwife Content through Domestic Noir
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Hoard or Nothing: The Extreme Materialities of Home as the 'Good Place'
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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"Hush Now. Walk." - Walking and/as Home in Sarah Moss' The Fell
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Wasting Space: Raum als Verschwendung im englischsprachigen Lockdown-Roman
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Keep Calm and Go Quietly Mad: Representing Homemaking Practices under Lockdown in Sarah Moss' The Fell
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Australia and/as White Property
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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The Politics of Banality: Literary Representations of Homemaking Practices under Lockdown in Sarah Moss' The Fell
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Re-Assessing Home in Contemporary Lockdown Fiction in English
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Bride and Prejudice: Representing Irish Traveller Communities in Britain in Channel 4's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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The Politics of Home in the Lockdown Novel in English
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Home on the Block: Decentring White, Middle-Class Adulthood in British Council Estate Comedy
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Mobilizing the Story of Home: Lockdown and Quarantine in COVID-19 Fiction from East Africa
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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'There is no way out': The Re-Assessment of Home in Peter May's Thriller Lockdown
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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At Home in the Pandemic: Lockdown Novels and the Politics of Home under COVID-19
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Stay at Home: Lockdown Narratives and Politics of Identity in British Covid-19 Cultural Production
Sarah Heinz (Keynote speaker)
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Unsettling the State: Disturbing Sedentary Notions of Home in Irish Traveller Films
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Panel discussion after staging of Neil LaBute's play Wrecks
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Home, Heimat, Zuhause: Einführung zum Workshop "Home on Campus"
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Reading Lockdown: Disturbing Sedentary Notions of Home in COVID-19 British Fiction
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Lockdown! Re-Assessments of Im/Mobility in COVID-19 British Fictions of Home
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Whose House is this?: Everyday Bordering and the Intersection of Home and Nation in British Property TV Shows
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Applying for a Juniorprofessur in Germany: Experiences from the Field
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Mobilizing Homes: Representing Home Spaces in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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'Father was an eagle': Narrative Adaptation as Postcolonial Critique in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Un/welcomed Homes: Negotiating Homing Desire in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Sechs Mal Schneewittchen: Eine Vorlesung darüber, was Bücher mit anderen Büchern zu tun haben
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Home Sweet Home?: The Politics and Practices of Home in Anglophone and British Writing
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Laudatory speech for winner of Helene Richter Award 2017
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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The Immobilized Family: Home and Homeland in the Nigerian Novel
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Unhomely Spaces and Improper Houses: Representations of Whiteness and Class on British Television
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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The Individual Subject and Genre Theory
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Postcolonial Whitenesses in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonial Literature and the Intersection of Race and Gender
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Presentation of project "The Colour of Power" and discussion of research during PhD colloquium
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Presentation of plans to establish a German Association for Irish Studies
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker) & Katharina Rennhak (Invited speaker)
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The Whiteness of Europe: Skin Discourses and Skin Colour in Irish Literature and Film
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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"My whole life is betwixt and between": The White Trash Body and Problems of Intersectionality in Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street and Irvine Welsh's Skagboys
Sarah Heinz (Speaker) & Mark Schmitt (Speaker)
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Presentation of project "The Colour of Power"
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker) & Mark Schmitt (Invited speaker)
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Staging the Body Politic in Irish Contemporary Drama: Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street and Gianina Carbunariu's Kebab
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Ireland Online: Diaspora, Virtual Communities and the Question of National Identity
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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An Old Myth in New Guises: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Rewritings of Cathleen ni Houlihan
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Irish Identities in the U.S. Census and in American Literature
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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From Utopia to Heterotopia: Irish Writers Narrating the Spanish Civil War
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Relative Whiteness: The Irish and the Question of the Skin
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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The Whiteness of Irish Drama: The Irish and their Black Other
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Kreatives Schreiben im Literaturunterricht
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Teaching Autobiography: The Reintegration of Theory through Creative Writing
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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"If you think you know Shakespeare ... think again": Julie Taymors Shakespeare-Adaption Titus
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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Minute Dramas in Compressed Spaces - Neil LaBute's Short Play Cycle Autobahn
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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"Funny thing, memory, isn't it?" - Constructing and Deconstructing Memory in Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Inside and outside language - Body and Language as Borders of Identity in Contemporary Philosophy and Literature
Sarah Heinz (Speaker)
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Sprachskepsis und ihre Überwindung am Beispiel von A.S. Byatts Roman Possession
Sarah Heinz (Invited speaker)
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