Sophia Lange
- British Fantasy
- Romanticism
- Origins of Psychiatry/Psychoanalysis
- The Godwin-Shelley Circle
- 18th/19th century literature and culture
- Dystopian Fiction
- Environmental Studies
Current project
- PhD Project: “Inheritance and Indebtedness in the Godwinian Novel” (completed Jan. 2023)
Edited Volumes and Special Issues:
- Ed. with Marie Hologa. Romantic Ethics and the ‘Woke’ Romantics. Vol. 97: Anglistik & Englischunterricht. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023.
- Ed. with Marie Hologa and Gerold Sedlmayr. European Romantic Review. Issue title: Romantic Interventions: Between Activism and Idealism, forthcoming 2024.
Articles:
- “The Historian Turned Anatomist of the Soul: Tracing Transgressive Psychology in William Godwin’s Mandeville.” Boundaries, Limits, Taboos: Transgression in Romanticism, edited by Norbert Lennartz et al., WVT, 2021, pp. 59-70.
- “Land Enclosures and Philosophical Radicalism: Discussing Property Rights in the Long 18th Century.” Hard Times, Issue 105, 2021, pp. 27-36.
- “Fighting the Super-Rich in the Enclosed Countryside: Property Rights and Resistance in William Godwin’s Imogen, A Pastoral Romance (1784).” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Universitätsverlag Winter, forthcoming 2023.
- “Of Solitary Wanderers and Natural Entanglements: William Godwin’s Socio-political Criticism as Romantic Ecopoetics.” Romantic Ecologies, edited by Martin Middeke and David Kerler, WVT, forthcoming 2023.
- “Dreams, Memories, and Matriarchy: Reading Magic: The Gathering’s Oona, Queen of the Fae as Environmental Protectress.” Fairies: A Companion, edited by Simon Bacon and Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Peter Lang, forthcoming 2023.
- “Where Past and Present Collide: Haunted Seascapes and Gothic Exile in William Godwin’s Deloraine (1833).” Coastal Gothic, edited by Jimmy Packham, Emily Alder and Joan Passey, University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2023.
Reviews:
- Review of: Lesjak, Carolyn. The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons. Stanford University Press, 2021. In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2022, pp. 134-138.
- Review of: McCray, J. Louise. Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783-1836. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. In: Keats-Shelley Journal, Issue 71, forthcoming 2023.
Other:
- “There are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to.” – The Concepts of Free Will and Determinism in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Master Thesis. Eldorado – Repositorium der TU Dortmund, 2017.
Sophia Lange is a research assistant at TU Dortmund, where she has been lecturing since 2017 as part of the British Cultural Studies team.
She holds a Master’s Degree in British and American Studies, German Studies and Educational Sciences.
- “Where Past and Present Collide: Haunted Seascapes and Gothic Exile in William Godwin’s Deloraine”. Haunted Shores Symposium (Online), Edinburgh Napier University/ University of Birmingham/ University of Bristol, 26 March 2021.
- “'[Y]ou still live, and, I firmly believe, are still planning the welfare of human kind.': The Enduring Reputation of William Godwin’s Political Thought”. Romantic Reputations Symposium (Online), University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham, 16 April 2021.
- “Estrangement in Moments of Crisis: Tracing Family Trauma in William Godwin’s Letters and Novels.” Distant Communications Conference (Online), The Social History Society and the Royal Historical Society, 21 July 2021.
- “What is political liberty compared with unbounded riches and immortal vigour? - A Godwinian Turn towards Happiness”, Romanticism Now and Then: International Conference on Romanticism, University of Manchester, 31 July 2019.
- “The Historian Turned Anatomist of the Soul: Tracing Transgressive Psychology in William Godwin’s Mandeville”, Transgressive Romanticism: IABS and GER Romanticism Conference, University of Vechta, 4 September 2019.
- Presentation of Dissertation Project at the Graduate Forum, Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, University of Hildesheim, 21 November 2019.
- “Of Death, Obsession and Trauma: Tracing Early Trauma Studies in British Romanticism”, Trauma and Nightmare: International Interdisciplinary Conference Gdańsk, University of Danzig, 6 March 2020.
- German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
- German Society for English Romanticism (GER)
- Deutscher Anglistenverband