Thomas Gurke, M.A.

Employment

Since October 2008: Lecturer and ERASMUS-Coordinator at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roger Lüdeke).
August 2007 – September 2008: Exam-Coordinator for the English Department, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
Oktober 2006 – Juli 2007: Lecturer at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
September 2002 – September 2006: Student Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Modern English Literature, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Chair: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel).
September 2000 – April 2004: Technical Translator, Marketing and Sales Support, Panasonic Industrial Europe, GmbH.

Education

Summer 2012: UB-Special Collections Scholarship at the Humanities Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA (April-June)
Summer 2009: Scholarship at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland (Friends of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation Scholarships, August-October)
Summer 2006: Graduation Magister Artium in Modern English Literature, Medieval English Literature and Musicology. M.A.-Thesis: "The Function of Music in James Joyce's Dubliners and Ulysses". Supervisors Univ.-Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel, PD Dr. Susanne Peters.
Winter 2005: Research-Scholarship at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (DAAD-Stipendiate, August-October).
Winter 2000/2001: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Studies in English, Medieval English and Musicology.

Teaching

• Winter 2012/2013: Text and the City
• Summer 2012: Affect!
• Winter 2011/2012: Literary Music Aesthetics
• Summer 2011: Close Reading
• Summer 2011: Radio Drama
• Winter 2010/2011: Drama! Drama! Irishness on Stage from Wilde to McDonagh
• Summer 2010: Ulysses
• Summer 2010: Literature on Drugs
• Winter 2008/2009: The Musicalization of Fiction in Modern and Postmodern Literature
• Summer 2007: Introduction to English Literature
• Winter 2006/2007: Synge and the Irish Language
  
  

Publications

1. "Zum Eskapismus der Anästhetik im populären Drogenroman". Roger Lüdeke, Kommunikation im Populären. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf ein ganzheitliches Phänomen. Bielefeld: Transcript 2011.

2. "After all the Errears and Erroriboose: The Zurich James Joyce Workshop of August 2008". James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 23 (Spring 2009) No. 1, p. 20.

3. (Review) "Dieter Fuchs. Joyce and Menippos. 'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog". Anglia, Vol. 126 (2008) No. 3, pp. 563-567.

Talks, Papers, Workshops

June 2010: "Joycean Musemathematics through the Looking Glass of the Fuga Per Canonem".  XXII International James Joyce Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic.
January 2010: Symposium "Die Popularität der Literatur". Düsseldorf, Germany. 
August 2009: "The Memory of Music in 'Sirens'". Workshop "Musicillogical Joyce", International James Joyce Foundation Zurich, Switzerland.
April 2009: James Joyce Research Colloquium, James Joyce Research Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland.
August 2008: "Errears in 'Sirens'". Workshop "Errears and Erroriboose", International James Joyce Foundation Zurich, Switzerland.
June 2006: "The Function of Music in Dubliners". XX International James Joyce Symposium in Budapest, Hungary.
March – April 2006: Display "Beckett and Music/Beckett and Radio Drama" at the Exhibition "Beckett 100", held at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, Germany.
June 2004: XIXth. International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland.
March 2004: Interdisciplinary Conference "Beckett und die deutsche Kultur". Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.