Sophie Bantle

Sophie Bantle, M.A.

Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate
English Literature | Korte

sophie.bantle@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
R 4212 | KG IV

Office Hours during the semester:
Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm |
Please sign up for a time slot on calendly.com/sophiebantle

We can meet in person (R 4212) or via Zoom.

For information on my academic advising office hours see the Administration and Advising Office's website.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Detective Fiction
Neo-Victorianism
Television and Film Studies
Adaptation and Remediation

EMPLOYMENT

since Apr. 2025	Academic Advisor University of Freiburg English Department
since Oct. 2022	Research Associate University of Freiburg English Department English Literature \| Prof. Korte
Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2022	Erasmus+ Coordinator University of Freiburg English Department Administration and Advising Office
Jan. 2020 – Sep. 2022	Administrative Assistant University of Freiburg English Department Administration and Advising Office

EDUCATION

since 2022	Ph.D., English Literary and Cultural Studies University of Freiburg Working title: “The Neo-Victorian Detective Series in Popular Anglophone Fiction and Television” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte September 2024: Research Stay at the University of Oxford, UK
2019 – 2022	M.A. in British and North American Cultural Studies University of Freiburg Final thesis: "It is the precise details of our lives caught and represented to us" – The Neo-Victorian Detective Television Series as a Mirror of 21^st-century Britain Awarded the Alumni Prize for Academic Achievements
2017	Erasmus+ Studies University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 – 2019	B.A. in English and American Studies & German Literature University of Freiburg

EDITORSHIPS & PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming (with Marie Kluge): "[C]ompletely out of the common": Detection and Gender in L.T. Meade's Florence Cusack and Diana Marburg Mysteries. Recovering Lost Voices in 19th-Century British Literature, Vernon Press.
Forthcoming: "Smells Can Deceive": Criminality, Smell and the Metropolis in the Detective Series The Frankenstein Chronicles. Die Stinkende Stadt: Olfaktorische Perspektiven auf urbane Räume der Vormoderne. Nomos.
"This Nightmare Is Your Creation": The Television Series The Frankenstein Chronicles as a Reproductive Remediation." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31.2, special issue on Victorian Reproductions, 2024, pp. 273-291.
“You are a Symbol, Persis” – The Complexity of Postcolonial and Feminist Progress in Vaseem Khan’s Malabar House Series." Clues: A Journal of Detection 42.2, special issue on BIPOC Female Detectives in a Global Context, 2024, pp. 46-56.
"Football Isn't Just a Game": Ted Lasso, Utopia and the Issue of Sportswashing." Journal of Popular Television 12.2., 2024, 133-148.
"The Age of AI? – Artificial Intelligence and (Post)humanist Questions in the Superhero Movie Avengers: Age of Ultron." Konstruieren – Imaginieren – Inszinieren: Zukunftsentwürfe in der Populärkultur. Waxmann, 2024, pp. 19–42.
"Princess Catherine Duleep Singh (1871-1924)." Queer19, Aug. 23, 2023.
Guest editorship for the literary online magazine Alluvium | General Issue 10.2 (published August 8, 2022)
Guest editorship for the literary online magazine Alluvium | General Issue 9.4 (published September 6, 2021)

TEACHING

2025 summer term

Proseminar Cultural Studies: Hauntings, Specters, Revenants – Ghost Stories in Film and Fiction

2024/25 winter term

Proseminar Cultural Studies: The Ripper Myth – Jack the Ripper in Media and Culture

2024 summer term

Proseminar Cultural Studies: Female Police Detectives on British Television

2023/24 winter term

Proseminar Literary Studies: (Re)interpretation, (Re)discovery, (Re)vision – Neo-Victorian Fiction

2023 summer term

Proseminar Literary Studies: Sherlock Holmes – Written and Rewritten

2022/23 winter term

Exercise Course: A Closer Look at Close Reading

2020 summer term

Introduction to Cultural Studies – Tutorial