Dr. Victoria Herche
Research Assistant & Assistant Editor of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
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

Key Research Areas
- Australian Literature and Film
- Indigenous Studies
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Ecocriticism
- Migration and Refugee Studies
- Film Theory and History
- Popular Culture and Psychoanalytic Theory
- Postcolonial Science Fiction
Recent Publications
- “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.