Link to BORIS records
Monograph
2017. Fictions of Fluctuation: Water in the Victorian Age. Unpublished Habilitation Thesis. U of Bern. (under review)
2011. Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction. Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. New York and London: Routledge.
Volumes
2022. with Ariane De Waal, eds. "Victorian Materialisms." Special issue of European Journal of English Studies 26.1
2021. with Jens Martin Gurr, eds. "Literature and ...? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity." Anglistik 32.3
2019. with Evi Zemanek, eds. Nachhaltigkeit interdisziplinär. Konzepte, Diskurse, Praktiken. UTB Böhlau, 2019.
2015. with Virginia Richter. The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space. Farnham: Ashgate; London: Routledge. (reviewed in SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 56.4 (autumn 2016) and Victorian Poetry 53.3 (autumn 2015))
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
2022. “Audiences, Reception, and the Literary Market.” Salman Rushdie in Context. Ed. Florian Stadtler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (in press)
2022. “A Sanitary Sense of Smell: Olfaction and Bodily Boundaries in Victorian Writing.” The Senses: Past and Present. Ed. Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (in press)
2022. De Waal, Ariane, and Ursula Kluwick. "Victorian Materialisms: Approaching Nineteenth-Century Matter." Introduction. EJES 26.1, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2022.2044143
2021. Gurr, Jens Martin and Ursula Kluwick. "Literature and ...? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity: Introduction." Anglistik 32.3, 5-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/3/4
2021. “Menschen im Nebel. Ein Beitrag zur Meteopoetik des Unheimlichen.” Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung. Ed. Urs Büttner and Michael Gamper. Berlin: De Gruyter, 155-174.
2020. “The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.” Green Letters 24.1, pp. 64-78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516
2020. “The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans.” Medial Bodies. Ed. Denisa Butnaru. Bielefeld: Transcript, 85-103.
2020. “Magic and the Literary Market.” Magical Realism and Literature. Vol 1. Ed. Kim Sasser and Christopher Warnes. Cambridge Critical Concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 337-356.
2019. Kluwick, Ursula and Virginia Richter. “Of Tourists and Refugees: The Global Beach in the Twenty-First Century.” Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, and Daan Wesselman. London: Routledge
2019. “Aquatic Matter in Victorian Fiction.” Open Cultural Studies vol. 3, no. 1 (2019), 245-255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0022
2019. Kluwick, Ursula and Evi Zemanek. „Einleitung.“ Nachhaltigkeit interdisziplinär: Konzepte, Diskurse, Praktiken. Ed. Ursula Kluwick and Evi Zemanek. UTB Böhlau, pp. 11-26.
2018. ‘Victorian Cultural Sustainability.’ Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ed. Gabriele Rippl and Torsten Meireis. London: Routledge. 184-193.
2017. ‘Die unheimliche Natur: Schauer- und Sensationsroman als Spielarten einer ökologischen Ästhetik.’ Ökologische Genres und Schreibmodi. Ed. Evi Zemanek. Umwelt und Gesellschaft (Rachel Carson Center, Munich). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 181-194.
2016. ‘Dickens in America – America in Dickens.’ Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin: De Gruyter. 448-469.
2016. ‘Tod(es-)Maschine Hai.’ PhiN-Beiheft 10/2016: 61-76. http://web.fu-berlin.de/ phin/beiheft10/b10t05.pdf.
2015. ‘Climate Change, the Novel, and the Bildungsroman: The Relation of Things in an Emergent World.’ Anglistentag 2014 Hannover: Proceedings. Ed. Rainer Emig and Jana Gohrisch. Trier: WVT. 329-340.
2015. Richter, Virginia and Ursula Kluwick. ‘Introduction. ’Twixt Land and Sea: Approaches to Littoral Studies.’ The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space. Ed. Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 1-20.
2015. ‘Food for Sharks: Abjection on the Beach.’ The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space. Ed. Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. 139-154.
2014. ‘Talking About Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form.’ The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Ed. Greg Garrad. Oxford: Oxford UP. 502-516. (online publication date: March 2014; DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.029)
2014. ‘The Coast as a Site of Ecological Haunting in Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.’ Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places. Ed. Anna Horatschek, Yvonne Rosenberg and Daniel Schäbler. Spatial Practices 18. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 237-255.
2013. ‘The (Inter)Disciplinarity of Postcolonial Research.’ Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines. Ed. Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier. Cross/Cultures 170. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. 341-347.
2012. ‘The Tempest Re-Envisioned: Encounters with the Sea in Iris Murdoch and Derek Jarman.’ Shakespeare’s (Un)fortunate Travellers: Maritime Adventures across the Genres. Shakespeare Seminar 9 (2011). Ed. Christina Wald and Felix C. H. Sprang: 53-65. BORIS (unibe.ch)
2011. ‘Waters of Paradise: The English Patient.’ Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature. Ed. Helga Ramsey-Kurz with Geetha Ganapathy-Doré. Cross/Cultures 132. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 179-193.
2009. ‘The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje's Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement.’ A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth. Ed. Stella Borg Barthet. Cross/Cultures 117. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 273-286.
2009. ‘Magic Realism and the Illegitimate Empire.’ Stories of Empire: Narrative Strategies for the Legitimisation of an Empirical World Order. Ed. Christa Knellwolf and Margarete Rubik. ELCH 33. Trier: WVT. 219-231.
2009. ‘Postcolonial Literatures on a Global Market: Packaging the “Mysterious East” for Western Consumption.’ Translation of Cultures. Ed. Petra Rüdiger and Konrad Gross. Cross/Cultures 106. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 75-92.
Conferences and Outreach
Twixt Land and Sea: The Beach in Literature, Film and Cultural Theory. University of Bern, 18-20 June 2009 (together with Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter, University of Berne, and Prof. Dr. Julika Griem, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Rhetorik der Nachhaltigkeit: Konzepte und Diskurse nachhaltiger Zukunftsgestaltung in Medien, Politik und diversen Fachdisziplinen. FRIAS, University of Freiburg, 15-17 June 2016. (together with Jun.-Prof. Dr Evi Zemanek, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Supervision of the 2011 ASNEL Summer School Spaces of Projection, University of Bern, 5-9 September 2011.
Co-curator (together with Dr Claudia Perner, University of Duisburg-Essen) of the 20th Anniversary Exhibition of ASNEL, University of Münster, 21-24 May 2009.