Profile
Abstract
Isabell Große acts as programme coordinator for the extra-occupational training of teachers and career changers (wAL Englisch). She is also a lecturer for literary and cultural studies at the ZLS Leipzig. She studied English, German and Educational Studies at Leipzig University and at the University of Wales, Bangor.
From October 2021 onward, she and her colleagues at the ZLS will carry on Simon Weise's project "Lit4School" - a database for authentic literature and media for the EFL classroom. Read more on: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/lit4school/
Besides instructing teachers and career changers, her research interests centre on anglophone crime fiction, postmodernist literary and cultural theories as well as metafiction, intertextuality and pastiche in contemporary literature.
Professional career
- 04/2011 - 09/2013
Lecturer and tutor for literary studies at the Department of English, Leipzig University - 10/2013 - 03/2020
Research assistant and lecturer for British cultural studies at the Department of English, Leipzig University - since 03/2020
Research assistant and lecturer for British cultural studies and literary at the Zentrum fuer Lehrerbildung und Schulforschung, Leipzig University - since 10/2021
wAL Englisch programme coordinator, Zentrum fuer Lehrerbildung und Schulforschung, Leipzig University
Education
- 10/2004 - 07/2010
English, German and Educational studies at Leipzig University
Panel Memberships
- since 07/2014
Member of the International Crime Fiction Association
In her PhD thesis, "Pastiche and Metafiction in Contemporary British Detective Fiction", Isabell Große investigates the implementation of poststructuralist philosophy in contemporary crime fiction.
Research Interests:
- anglophone crime fiction
- postmodernist literary and cultural theories
- metafiction, intertextuality and pastiche
- narrative constructions of identities in literature and film
Isabell Große teaches seminars in British cultural studies and literary studies. She primarily works as an instructor for the extra-occupational training of teachers at the ZLS Leipzig.
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Introduction to British Cultural Studies
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British Cultures and Beyond in the EFL Curriculum
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British LIteratures and Beyond in the EFL Curriculum
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Cultural Identities in the EFL Classroom
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Term Paper: Guidance, Advice and Support
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Essential Texts in English Literature
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Anglophone Literatures, Globalised Cultures
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Exploring Environmental Issues through Literature