Raphael Hoermann (PhD)

Senior Research Fellow

Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX)

University of Central Lancashire (UCLan

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Deputy Director, Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora & Exile (MIDEX)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR)
Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Current project(s)

Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution

Former position(s)

Postdoktorand GRAKO Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs (Universitaet Rostock)
Postdoktorand GRAKO Transnationale Medienereignisse (Universitaet Giessen)

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Writing the Revolution: German and English Radical Literature, 1819-1848/49. Series: Cultural Historical Perspectives (Zurich, etc.: LIT, 2011). (Review by James M. Brophy H-Net (March 2013): http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38704

Articles

“’ I have undertaken this vengeance’: Echoes of Race and Spectres of Slave Revolt in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818),” in Michael Paradiso-Michau (ed.), Creolizing Frankenstein (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538176559/Creolizing-Frankenstein

“’ Fermentation will be universal’: Intersections of Race and Class in Robert Wedderburn's Black Atlantic Discourse of Transatlantic Revolution,” in Gretchen Gerzina (ed.), Britain’s Black Past (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2020), pp. 295-314.
https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621600.003.0017

“Black Jacobins and the Black Atlantic: Towards a Genealogy of a Transatlantic Trope,” in Charlotte Lerg & Heléna Tóth (eds.), Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004351561_004

“Figures of Terror: The ‘Zombie’ and the Haitian Revolution,” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents (14.2) (2017), pp. 152-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1240887

“’ A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Transatlantic Haitian Gothic,” Slavery & Abolition (37.1) (2016), pp.183-205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2015.1086083

“Thinking the ‘Unthinkable’? Representations of the Haitian Slave Revolution in the British Discourse, 1791 to 1805.” In: Raphael Hörmann & Gesa Mackenthun (eds.): Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (Münster, etc.: Waxmann, 2010), pp. 138-70.

Edited volumes

Raphael Hörmann & Gesa Mackenthun (eds.): Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (Münster, etc.: Waxmann, 2010).

Areas of research

The Black Atlantic, Transatlantic Enslavement

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