Raphael Hoermann (PhD)

Senior Research Fellow

Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX)

University of Central Lancashire (UCLan

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

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

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution

Frühere Position(en)

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

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und 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

Artikel

“’ 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.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

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

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

The Black Atlantic, Transatlantic Enslavement