Dr. Sarah Lohmann
Dr. Sarah Lohmann
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Additional information
Research area
Climate fiction, science fiction, utopian literature, feminist utopias, the Gothic.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| Nov 2023 – |
ETH Zürich, Switzerland Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Apr – Jul 2023 |
University of Tübingen, Germany Dozentin (Lecturer) in the English Department (Amerikanistik) |
| Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 |
University of Tübingen, Germany Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow in the English Department - Anglistik) |
| 2021 – Oct 2022 |
University of Tübingen, Germany Teach@Tübingen Fellow (Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow in the English Department as part of Teach@Tübingen, an Excellence Initiative programme) |
| 2020 – 2021 |
Durham University, England Honorary Associate in the Department of English Studies |
| 2015 – 2020 |
Durham University, England Teaching Assistant in the Department of English Studies |
EDUCATION
| 2016 – 2021 |
Durham University, England Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PG Cert, awarded Jan 7, 2021) Final project (Module 3): course design ‘Feminist Utopian Literature Through the Ages’ [Also awarded status as Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in Feb 2018 after successful completion of Modules 1 and 2 of DULTA (Durham University Learning and Teaching Award), later renamed Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PG CAP), Jan – Sep 2016 and 2017] |
| 2014 – 2020 |
Durham University, England Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature (PhD, awarded Aug 4, 2020) Passed with minor corrections (‘magna cum laude’) Thesis topic: ‘The Edge of Time: The Critical Dynamics of Structural Chronotopes in the Utopian Novel’ Supervisors: Professor Patricia Waugh and Professor Simon James Examiners: Dr Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough) and Dr Jenny Terry (Durham) |
| 2012 – 2013 |
University of St Andrews and University of Stirling, Scotland MLitt Philosophy Dissertation: ‘The Ethics of Selves: In Defence of the Connection Between Parfitian Reductionism and Utilitarianism’ |
| 2011 – 2012 |
University of St Andrews, Scotland MLitt Women, Writing and Gender (Distinction in the Dissertation) Dissertation: ‘On the Edge of Time: Feminist Utopias and Four-Dimensionality’ |
| 2007 – 2011 |
University of St Andrews, Scotland |
| 2003 – 2007 |
Städtisches Luisengymnasium, Munich, Germany |
PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
Book Review: ‘Living and Dying Together: Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott, eds. Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2025.’, Science Fiction Studies, eds. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger (under review).
Book Review: ‘The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, eds. Lisa Yaszek, Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, and Wendy Gay Pearson’, Utopian Studies, ed. Elisabeth Reichel (under review).
Contributions to Textbook: ‘Utopia’, ‘Dystopia’, ‘Ecological SF of the 1960s and 1970s’, ‘Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day’ and ‘Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks’ in This is Not a Science Fiction Textbook, eds. Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths and MIT, 2024).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: ‘“Wheels turning in opposite directions”: Objective Temporality, Utopia and the Individual in Sheri S. Tepper’sThe Gate to Women’s Countryand Ursula K. Le Guin’sThe Dispossessed’(Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2/2022).
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter: ‘“What isn’t living dies”: Utopia as Living Organism in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time’, in Transgressive Utopianism: Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson, eds. Raffaella Baccolini and Lyman Tower Sargent (Peter Lang Publishing, Ralahine Utopian Studies series, March 2021).
Book Review: ‘Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction by Patrick B. Sharp’, Fantastika Journal 2:1 (2018): 105-108.
Conference Report: ‘Conference Report: Organic Systems’, regarding Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction conference, Birkbeck University of London (September 2017).
CV PDFAdditional information
www.sarahlohmann.com - Webseite zu aktueller Forschung/academic homepage
Zurich Science Fiction Network (ZSFN) - Mitgründerin/Co-founder, Organising Committee
Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) - Secretary, Executive Committee
'EcoSpeculations: Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities', Lever Press - Co-founder, Co-Editor
Course Catalogue
Autumn Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 851-0205-00L | Ecological Utopias and Dystopias |