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About

Annalina Benner is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP), and European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus-Liebig-University Gie脽en. For her dissertation project, she researches modes of representing contemporary music in anglophone fiction as part of a cotutelle agreement under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar N眉nning at Justus-Liebig-University (Germany) and Dr. James Hodkinson at the University of 糖心TV (England).

Research Interests

• Musico-Literary Intermediality
• African American Literature and Culture
• Graphic Memoirs
• Life Writing

Memberships

• (WMA)
• (GCSC)
• (IPP)
• (ISIS)

Academic CV

Papers and Talks (ORCiD: )

• 10/2025: "'All Gave Some, Some Gave All'. Affordances and Constraints in the Representation of American Soldier Narratives in Post-9/11 Music." Why Narratives Matter: Affordances and Constraints of Storytelling. PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies", 09 October 2025.
• 01/2025: "Telling My Life in Pictures - An Introduction to Graphic Memoirs." at the International PhD Programme "Literary and Cultural Studies", 30 January 2025.
• 10/2024: "Workshopping the Canon - Reading Fiction across the Curriculum." . PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies", Justus-Liebig-Universit盲t Gie脽en & The Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, and the Department of English, Stockholm University, 10 - 11 October 2024.
• 06/2024: "'Everything We Need' - Changing Perspectives on the Formation of the Good Life in the Music of A Day To Remember." . Research Centre for the Study of Culture, 12 - 13 June 2024.
• 05/2024: "From Great Rock and Roll Pauses to The Bricks that Built the Houses - Musicalization in 21st Century Fiction." Guest session in Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: The Musicalization of Poetry? Investigating the Intersections of Early Modern Sonnets and Music at the University of Graz, 15 May 2024.
• 07/2023: "'Own Your Unconscious^TM' - Literary Lessons on the Abandonment of Privacy and the Future of Autonomy." . The Lisbon Consortium, 03 - 08 July 2023.
• 06/2023: "'When I Wake Up I have Music in My Head' – Repetition and Variation in John Darnielle's Master of Reality (2008)." . International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), 28 June - 01 July 2023.
• 12/2022: with Juan Camilo Brigard, Pinar G眉m眉艧 Mantu, Isabella Kalte, Jens Kugele, Margarita Pavlova, Robin Schmieder, and Eva Zimmermann: "Editorial: Codes: Power and Subversion." In: (2022).
• 05/2022: "You're Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore [Review of: Winkler, Robert A.: Generation Reagan Youth: Representing and Resisting White Neoliberal Forms of Life in the U.S. Hardcore Punk Scene (1979-1999). Trier: WVT, 2021.]." In: (2022).
• 12/2021: "Akademikerinnen in Oxbridge im 20. Jahrhundert – Femmes universitaires 脿 Oxford et Cambridge au XXe si猫cle." . Universit茅 de Strasbourg, 09 - 10 December 2021.
• 01/2021: with Lena Frewer, Julia Carolin Hinze, and Filip Emanuel Schuffert: "Juristen als Experten: Eine Untersuchung der Wissensbest盲nde und Diskurse der Juristen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert." In: , 26 January 2021.

Teaching

Supervised Theses

• Between My Community and Me. The Effects of Internal Conflicts and External Influences on Identity Formation in Angie Thomas' Young Adult Novels. (WHA, Summer 2025)
• The Representation of Beauty and the Role of African American Women in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970). (BA, Summer 2024)
• "The Hill We Climb": The Representation of African American Feminism in the Poetry of Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman. (BA, Winter 2023/2024)
• Poetry as Means of Socio-Political Participation. African American Rhetoric in the Poetry of Langston Hughes (1921-1936). (BA, Summer 2023)

Scholarships and Awards

• 05/2022: Received , International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. [Declined]
• 01/2020: Received , Eastern Michigan University.