Christian Lassen
Christian Lassen
Dr. Christian Lassen
Gender Studies
Cognitive Literary and Cultural Studies
Medical Humanities
English Literatures, 1800-Present
Institute of English and American Studies (» Postal address)
Curriculum vitae
2014-2016: Assoziierter Juniorfellow
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study
Thema des Fellowship: Anticipation in Cognitive Literary and Cultural Studies
2011 [2010]: Promotion
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Titel der Dissertation: Camp Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS
Note: "summa cum laude"
Gutachter_innen: Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen), Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen), Horst Tonn (Tübingen), Fabio Cleto (Bergamo)
2005-2010: Promotionsstudium
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Fach: Neuere Englische Literatur
2005: Magister Artium
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Titel der Magisterarbeit: The AIDS Elegies of Alan Hollinghurst
Note: "mit Auszeichnung"
Gutachter_innen: Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Tübingen), Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen)
2000-2005: Hauptstudium
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Fächer: Neuere Englische Literatur, Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Linguistik
1999-2000: Auslandsstudium
University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, England
Fächer: English and American Studies
1997-1999: Grundstudium
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Fächer: Anglistik und Germanistik
Beruflicher Werdegang
seit Oktober 2009: Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (LfbA)
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Anton Kirchhofer
2006-2009: Forschungsassistent
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Lehrstuhl Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, PhD
Lectures
Summer term 2026
Publications
Camp Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011.
Buchkapitel
"Camp Conquests: Deconstructing the Sublime in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina. Eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann, and Georg Vogt. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. 26-40.
"The Passion of Saint Kitten, or: Desperately Seeking Mitzi, the Phantom Lady. Camp Responses to Interpellation and Subjection in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto." Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings. Eds. Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer. Trier: WVT, 2013. 81-9.
"Sheep Thrills: Pastoral Camp in the AIDS Elegies of Alan Hollinghurst." New Versions of Pastoral. Eds. David James and Philip Tew. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009. 217-29.
Zeitschriftenartikel
"Camp Cures (the Stigma of Illness): Escaping the Tyranny of Caring, Charity and Positive Thinking in Adam Mars-Jones' 'Slim'." Forum: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts 4 (2007): n.p.
"'In the Dark Camp,' Or: Straight With a (Pastoral) Twist. American Western Masculinity in 'Brokeback Mountain'." Gender Forum 16. Gender Roomours II (2006). <http://www.genderforum.org/issues/gender-roomours-ii/in-the-dark-camp-or/>
Reviews
Rev. "Stephen M. Barber and David L. Clark, eds. Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory." Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 13 (2006): 120-2.
Konferenzbeiträge
Minds and Brains in Everyday Life: Embedding Scientific Concepts in Popular Discourses
Edinburgh, Juni 2016
"Beyond Deduction: Anticipation and Representation in Neo-Victorian Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes" (with Kim Ole Henneke)
Anticipation in Cognitive Literary and Cultural Studies (Scientific Retreat)
Delmenhorst, Oktober 2015
Conference Host
Movement Discourse: Historical and Contemporary Formations and Transformations
Oldenburg, Juli 2015
"Confronting Trauma through Activism: Reparative Engagement with Social Movements" (with Birger Hansen)
Beyond Paranoia: Reparative Reading als neue Methode in den Geisteswissenschaften
Würzburg, September 2014
"Just a Spoonful of Queer: Paranoid and Reparative Uses of the Supernatural in Governess Tales: The Turn of the Screw and Mary Poppins."
Deutscher Anglistentag
Potsdam, September 2012
"The Passion of Saint Kitten, or: Desperately Seeking Mitzi, the Phantom Lady. Camp Responses to Interpellation and Subjection in Breakfast on Pluto."
Queer Spaces
Tübingen, Mai 2009
"I Spy With My Little Eye" (Response Talk)
Versions of Pastoral
Northampton, November 2005
"Pastoral Camp in the AIDS Elegies of Alan Hollinghurst"
Varia
taz: die tageszeitung, 06. Juli 2012