Dr. Victoria Herche

Department of English I
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany

Office: Philosophikum, Room 1.106

Tel: +49 (0) 221 / 470 - 2338

E-Mail: victoria.herche@uni-koeln.de

“Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen's Goldstone (2016).” with David Kern. Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent, edited by Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019, in print.
[with Boris Braun and Beate Neumeier]. Nature and Environment in Australia, WVT, 2018.
The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Forthcoming.

CV

since 2021

Adjunct Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities

2020

since 2020
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Heinz Antor, University of Cologne

2018
PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude): The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film

2014
DAAD Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Melbourne

2012-2020
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

2012
M.A., Magister Artium in Theatre-, Film- and Television Studies, English Studies and German Studies, University of Cologne

2009-2012
Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

[with Boris Braun and Beate Neumeier]. Nature and Environment in Australia, WVT, 2018.
The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Forthcoming.

“Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen's Goldstone (2016).” with David Kern. Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent, edited by Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019, in print.
“Reassessing Aboriginal Self‐Determination in Rolf De Heer’s Charlie’s Country (2014).” ... and there’ll be NO dancing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Governmental Policy Impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007, edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and Elisabeth Bähr. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017, pp. 228-242.
“‘Rights of Passage’: Exploring the Liminal Position of Indigenous Australian Youth in Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009) and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah (2011).” Postcolonial Justice. Reassessing the Fair Go, edited by Gigi Adair and Anja Schwarz. Trier: WVT, 2016, pp. 151-162.
“‘The Sapphires’ (2012) and ‘One Night the Moon’ (2001): Song, History and Australian Aboriginality.” gender forum - An Online Platform for Gender and Women's Studies, edited by Beate Neumeier, e-journal, 46 (2013).