Sophia Möllers

• British Fantasy
• Romanticism
• British Cultural Studies
• Origins of Psychiatry/Psychoanalysis
• The Godwin-Shelley Circle
• 18th/19th century literature and culture

Current project

• PhD Project: “William Godwin’s Re-Definition of Value” 

Edited Volumes and Special Issues:

• with Marie Hologa, eds. Romantic Ethics and the ‘Woke’ Romantics. Vol. 97: Anglistik & Englischunterricht. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag. forthcoming 2022.
• with Marie Hologa, Gerold Sedlmayr, eds. Romantic Interventions: Between Activism and Idealism. Conference Proceedings. (Stuttgart: Metzler) planned for 2021.

Articles:

• "The Historian Turned Anatomist of the Soul: Tracing Transgressive Psychology in William Godwin’s Mandeville". Lennartz, Norbert et al., eds. Transgressive Romanticism. Conference Proceedings. Trier: WVT. forthcoming 2021.

Sophia Möllers is a doctoral student and 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)