Ms Dr. Sarah Joy Link

Contact

O.09.21

+49 202 439 2350

salink[at]uni-wuppertal.de

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Position Description

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Short CV: 

Sarah Link is Lecturer in British Literature and Culture and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Narrative Research. Her research focuses on narratology, Irish literature, lists in literature, popular culture, sensation and detective fiction, and cognitive literary studies. Dr Link was part of the ERC-funded project LISTLIT - Lists in Literature and Culture. She is the author of the monograph A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction (Palgrave, 2023) and a member of the executive team of DIEGESIS, a bilingual interdisciplinary e-journal dedicated to narrative research. She is also co-chair of the Narrative Research Group, a forum for postdocs and (post-)graduate students affiliated with Wuppertal’s Center for Narrative Research.

Publications:

Monographs: 

• A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Edited Volumes: 

• Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration. with Roman Barton, Julia Böckling, and Anne Rüggemeier. Cham:
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• Great Irish Novels of the Twenty-First Century. with Katharina Rennhak. Trier: WVT, forthcoming.

Editorial Work for DIEGESIS:

• DIEGESIS 13.2 (2024): “Narrative and Grammar,” with Christoph Gardian, Carolin Gebauer, and Matthias Grüne.
• DIEGESIS 14.1 (2025): “Narrating Violence,” with Christoph Gardian, and Carolin Gebauer.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• “Transgression and Immersion: Interacting with Images and Stories in Fact and Fiction.” with Undine Remmes. In: Augmented
  Images: Trilogy of Synthetic Realities II. Eds. Lars C. Grabbe et al. Marburg: Büchner, 2022. 144-162.
• “Introduction: Epistemic and Artistic List-Making.” with Roman Barton, Julia Böckling and Anne Rüggemeier. In: Forms of ListMaking: Epistemic, Literary and Visual Enumeration. Eds. Roman Barton et al. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 1-24.
• “Detecting Liminalilty: The List and Symbolic Form.” In: Beyond Narrative: Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work.
  Eds. Katja Kanzler et al. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2022. 99-112.
• “'The Camera Never Lies': Form and Objectivity in Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith‘s Fell: Feral City.” In: Forms at Work: New
  Formalist Approaches in Literary, Cultural and Media Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Kovach et al. Trier: WVT, 2021. 273-289.
• “Detective Facts - Detective Fiction: Listing the Tools of the Trade.” a/b Auto/biography Studies 36.1, Winter 2021. 213-219.

Reviews and Lexicon Entries:

• “A Toolkit for Impossibilities: Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell’s Digital Fiction and the Unnatural.” DIEGESIS 12.2, 2023. 186-192.
• “A. Rolls: Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism. London and New York: Routledge, 2022.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 260.2, 2023. 449-450.
• “Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Ed. H.L. Arnold. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2022.

Organization of Academic Events (Selection):

• 'Rewrite, Reorder, Rejoice': Using Scrivener for Academic Writing. Workshop. Wuppertal, 2024.
• Narrative Liminality: Exchanges and Intersections between Narrative and Other Symbolic Forms. Panel. ISSN Annual Conference. Chichester, 2022.
• Lists in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg. Workshop. Freiburg, 2020.
• Enumeration, Epistemology, Etcetera International Conference. International Conference. Freiburg, 2019.

Talks (Selection): 

• “'Tommib and silence and rain and violence': Myth and Temporality in Danny Denton’s The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow.” EFACIS Conference. Turku, 2025.
• “Der Bandersnatch Effekt: Immersion und Affekt in interaktiven digitalen Erzählungen.” Guest Lecture. Wuppertal, 2025.
• “'That Which Is Done Is That Which Shall Be Done': Dissonant Temporality in Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song.” IASIL Conference. Tokyo, 2024.
• “Narratives that Count: Enumerations in Anna Burns’ Milkman.” ISSN Annual Conference. Newcastle, 2024.
• “Out of Time: Temporality in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane.” EFACIS Conference. Belfast, 2023.
• “B/ordering: Narrative Form in Contemporary Irish Fiction.” ISSN Annual Conference. Dallas, 2023.
• “(Dis-)Trust the Paratext: Reader Guidance in Romantic Fiction.” ISSN Annual Conference. Chichester, 2022.
• “Investigation and Inventory: Lists, Detective Fiction, and Cognitive Narratology.” AG Erzählforschung. Wuppertal, 2022.
• “The Mind Palace: Lists as Mapping Devices in BBC‘s Sherlock.” Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts. University of
  Lancaster, online event, 2020.
• “Let‘s Play: Ludic Lists in Dennis Wheatley‘s Murder Dossiers.” ISSN Annual Conference. New Orleans, 2020.
• “Stories Told by Lists: Detective Fiction and the Reader.” Guest Lecture. Mannheim, 2020.
• “Complete with Actual Clues‘: Narrative and Scientific Logic in Detective Fiction.” Beyond Narrative: Literature, Culture, and
  the Borderlands of Narrativity. Leipzig, 2019.
• “Narrating Forensics? Experientiality and Narrativity in Detective Fiction.” ISSN Annual Conference. Pamplona, 2019.
• “Listing the Tools of the Trade: Structure and Experience in Detective Fiction.” Lists of Life: Life Writing and the Poetics of List Making. Freiburg, 2019.
• “'The Camera Never Lies': Photography and Objectivity in Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith’s Fell.” Forms at Work: New
  Formalist Approaches in Literary Studies. Gießen, 2018.
• “Detection as a Science of Exactitude? Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery (1865).” Medien der Genauigkeit Graduate Workshop. Basel, 2018.
• “'Can Tyrants but by Tyrants Conquered Be?' Individual Freedom and Agency in Gen Urobuchi’s Psycho-Pass.” EucorKonferenz. Basel, 2017.

Teaching: (Selection):

• Out of Order: Navigating Non-Linear Storytelling. Seminar.
• Critical Theory: Bram Stoker‘s Dracula. Seminar.
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet: From Page to Stage. Seminar. 
• Introduction to Literary Studies. Lecture.
• Narrating Ireland’s Future. Seminar.
• The Historical Novel. Seminar.
• Critical Theory: Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein. Seminar.
• British and Irish Sensation Fiction. Seminar.
• The Irish Border in Film and Fiction. Seminar.
• Lists in Literature. Seminar.
• Representing Crises in Science Fiction Literature.“ Cultural Studies Seminar.
• Irish Romanticism. Seminar.
• Introduction to Literary Studies. Seminar.
• Science and Superstition in Detective Fiction. Seminar.
• Victorian Monsters. Cultural Studies Seminar.
• Let‘s Play with Narrative Theory: Books, Bandersnatch, and the Butterfly Effect. Seminar.
• New Materialism. Seminar.
• Realism and Norm Deviation in the Long 19th Century. Seminar.
• Detective Figures in Literature and Culture. Seminar.
• Research and Teaching. Seminar.

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