Current Research Projects
- My most recent research project focussed on experimental writing in twenty-first century German-language cultural production (King’s College London/Humboldt-Universität Berlin, fully funded by the AHRC, with support from the DAAD)
- Research focus: the work of Dietmar Dath, Yoko Tawada, Georg Klein, Nora Gomringer, posthumanism, monsters, subjectivity.
- My research was awarded the Women+ in German Studies Essay Prize 2022 and was runner up in the 2024 Book Prize competition sponsored by the academic publisher Peter Lang.
- I am also a researcher on the international Non-Religion in a Complex Future project.
Research publications:
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Neue Verletzlichkeit: Intermediale Poesie am Beispiel Nora Gomringers,’ Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung, ed. Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Cosima Wolff, 2024, Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Lefebvre, Solange, Linda Woodhead, Paula Montero, Annegret Marten and Guilherme Borges, ‘Changes in Religious Education in Response to Growing Diversity: A Comparison of Brazil, Canada and England’. In preparation.
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Voicing vulnerability: mediating violence, victimisation, and female subjectivity in Nora Gomringer’s monster poetry’, German Life and Letters 76, no. 4 (2023).
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Eco-Vampires: The Undead and the Environment, by Simon Bacon (Book Review)’, Supernatural Studies, Vol. 7, no. 1 (2020).
Here online. - Märten, Annegret, ‘From the Linguistic Mother to the Saltwater Mother: Poetics of Catastrophe in Tawada Yōko’s Eco-critical Writing’, Tawada Yoko: On Writing and Rewriting, ed. Doug Slaymaker, 2019, Lexington, KY: Lexington Books.
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Ecological Angst and Scary Flesh’, Making Monsters: An Anthology of Classical Monsters, eds. Emma Bridges and Djibril al-Ayad Stories, 2018, London: Futurefire.net Publishing/Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies.
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Smart, Alan, and Josephine Smart. 2017. Posthumanism. Anthropological Insights (Book Review)’, Social Anthropology Journal, Vol. 27 (2019).
- Märten, Annegret, contribution to The Researcher’s Notebook, Still Point, Volume 2 (2017).
- Märten, Annegret, ‘The Casting Handbook (Book Review)’, The Journal of Media Practice, Vol. 15, no. 3 (2015).
- Märten, Annegret, ‘Under the Skin (Film Review)’, Monsters and the Monstrous, Interdisciplinary Press, Vol. 4, no. 1 (2014).
Professional Association Memberships and Qualifications:
- I am a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- WiGs (Women in German Studies)
- AGS (Association for German Studies)
Engagement in the Academic Community
- Editorial Assistant and Copyeditor for the journal German Life & Letters
- Peer-Reviewer for Journals
- Marking and moderation at Levels 4, 5, 6, 7 and final dissertations, written and oral language exams
- Supervising MA theses, including practical elements (e.g. writing for games)
- School Outreach workshops
Education
PhD in German and Cultural Studies (King’s College London/Humboldt University Berlin). I hold a Master’s degree in Media and Cultural Analysis and a BA in Media and Cultural Studies from Düsseldorf University.