Madeline Becker M.A.

Doctoral Candidate

M.A. Madeline Becker

Faculty of Humanities (FHW)
Department III - Anglophone Studies

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since April 2021	Lecturer at University of Rostock
since January 2018	Scholarship holder of the graduate funding programme of Saxony-Anhalt
2018 - 2021	Lecturer at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
since 2017	Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
November 2017	Faculty Award 2016/17 for the best Master Degree of the Fakulty of Humanities
2015 - 2017	Research Assistant at the Chair of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2014 - 2017	Master's Degree Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2012 - 2013	Study abroad English Literature, Bath Spa University, Great Britain
2010 - 2014	Bachelor's Degree Anglistische Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies and European History, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Research

Doctoral Thesis: "Screened Encounters: Man, Nature, and Animal in the Documentary of the 21st Century"

Publications and Lectures

“Lonely Futures? From the Last Man to Posthuman Collectivity.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, vol. 7, 2020, pp. 51-72. URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-731620 .

Rev. of The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, and Wang Chi, and New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetry, and Documentary Theory, by Dara Waldron. MEDIENwissenschaft, no. 4, 2019, pp. 421-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13068.
Rev. of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction, by Lars Schmeink. MEDIENwissenschaft, no. 2-3, 2018, pp. 208-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/ep2018.2-3.7859.

"Empathetic Encounter or Naive Encounter? Timothy Treadwell in Werner Herzog’s Drama Documentary Grizzly Man." Guest Lecture. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 9 January 2020.
"Presentation of the Dissertation Project Screened Encounters: The Nature Documentary in the Anthropocene." Post-Graduate Forum of the BritCult. University of Hildesheim, 21 November 2019.
"Environmental Hollywood: Ecocritical Perspectives on Film." campusdateLIVE. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 2 June 2018.
"Poster Presentation Documenting the Anthropocene: The Nature Documentary in the 21st Century." Research Fair of the Faculty of Humanities. Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 23 May 2018.

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