Frauke Jung

Frauke Jung

Graduate Research School

Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts

Contact Details

email: f.jung@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 855416

Proposed Research Title: “Making Nations: Englishness and Otherness in the works of Daniel Defoe”

Currently a fulltime MPhil/PhD student, Frauke Jung is researching constructions of national identities in the works of Daniel Defoe. The thesis will investigate the interactions between regional, national and international parameters of Englishness and the socio-religious and political identities which helped to negotiate and (re)define conflicting English identities. Based on an extensive contextual analysis of Defoe’s texts, this thesis will provide an analysis of Defoe’s own constructions of national identities and extend the established critical understanding of nationhood during Defoe’s lifetime.

Teaching & Research

  • Theories on identity, cultural hybridity and boundaries,
  • Development of literary imagery, genre and rhetoric in early modern texts,
  • Early eighteenth-century print culture.

Professional Bodies

 Frauke Jung is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and of the Defoe Society.

Publications

  • 2011 “Nationhood, immigration and naturalization: Defoe and the ‘Poor Palatine’ crisis in 1709”, Second Biennual Defoe Society Conference, Worcester, UK.

  • 2010 ‘“Thus Vanishes the Horrid and the Wild”: Re-imagining Nature in Daniel Defoe’s Caledonia’, ASECS annual conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

  • 2010 “I/Eye-ing the Nation: The visualization of Nature’s boundaries in Daniel Defoe’s Caledonia”, BSECS Post-Graduate and Early Career Researchers Conference, University of Worcester.

  • 2010 “’Drawing an imaginary line’: Scottish Boundaries in Daniel Defoe’s Caledonia and A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain”, Bonds and Borders - 8th Annual Conference of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow.

Qualifications

2008 M.A. (Distinction) English Language and Literature with Medieval and Modern History, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany