Dr. des. Teja Šosterič

Akademische Rätin

Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Büroadresse:

Schellingstrasse 7

Raum 201

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Sprechstunde:

Im WiSe 2026/07: Dienstag 14:00–16:00 (nach Vereinbarung)

Zur Person

Since October 2026
Akademische Rätin am Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, LMU München.
February 2026–September 2026
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, LMU München.
October 2021–July 2026
Doctoral Program Environment and Society, Rachel Carson Center/LMU, Munich. PhD in Environmental Humanities. Dissertation title: Neoliberalism in North American Climate Ficiton.
October 2018–January 2021
Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (MA), Charles University, Prague.

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Ecocriticism
  • American Literature
  • Neoliberalism and Capitalism
  • Feminism
  • Queer studies

Publikationen

  • “Blow It Up for the Birds: Neoliberal Protection in Franzen’s Freedom.” Arrivals and Departures. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 195–214 doi: 10.1515/9783111215273-010:
  • “Ecotopia: An Updated Book Review.” Review of Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, 2023: 164–172. doi: 10.1353/res.2023.a931671:
  • “Wellbeing for Whom? Neoliberalism against the Environment in Climate Fiction.” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 3, no. 2 (2022): 135–48. doi:10.46863/ecocene.79.
  • “The Unlikely Heroines of Climate Fiction: Women, Work, and Nature in Weather and The New Wilderness.” helden. heroes. héros 8 (2022): 41–48. doi:10.6094/helden.heroes.heros./2022/CH/05.

  • “Turning the Tide: A Queer Look at the Orca.” NiCHE, July 8, 2024. https://niche-canada.org/2024/07/08/a-queer-look-at-the-orca/.
  • "Neocli-fi, a Horror Genre? For the Love of Things on Earth.” September. Sept 7, 2022. https://september.media/en/articles/neo-clifi-horror-eng.
  • “Consider the Worm.” Published in autumn 2019. Available online at https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02324778.

Lehrveranstaltungen

Introduction to Ecofeminism in Literature and Beyond (MA Seminar)

Utopian/Dystopian Societies in Speculative Fiction (BA Seminar)

Literaturtheorie: Franco Moretti's Distant Reading (Lektürekurs)

An Introduction to Anglophone Ecocriticism

Neoliberalism in North American Literature

Weltliteratur: Herman Melville „Moby Dick“

Other

Erasmus-Beratung: Auslandsstudium, insbesondere Erasmus-Programme der AVL (fachspezifische Fragen)