Christine Lehnen

I work on the historical novel, contemporary European and North American memory cultures, counter-memories and the representation of the past in the present. I am the founder of the Novel Writing Workshop at the University of Bonn, which I directed from 2014 to 2021. My novels are published by Penguin Random House and Harper Collins. I am  working both critically and creatively on the myth of Penthesilea, the Amazons, and the Trojan war.

I am the founder of 42 Magazine and a regular contributor on issues such as gender equality, balancing the historical record, productive (counter-) memories and feminism in different media outlets, such as Aeon, Antigone and Deutsche Welle.

I am particularly interested in literature as driver and distiller of memory culture, as well as the nexus of literature and emotion, narrative and affect, in particular in contemporary re-writings of canonical stories and historical events.

post-national literature in Europe

fantasy fiction

utopian and dystopian fiction

J R R Tokien

Shakespeare / contemporary reception

gender studies

feminist fiction

affective narratology

post-critical theory

memory culture

cultural memory

Novel Writing Workshop / University of Bonn (6 ECTS per semester)

(since 2014)

Professional Development: Crafting a Text, Crafting a Story (Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn)

(2021)

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