Person
Jessica Jumperz
M. A.wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Address
Building: 1070
Room: B15
Kármánstr. 17/19
52062
Contact
- WorkPhone
- Phone: +49 241 80 96372
Consultation-hours during term break:
- by arrangement via email
Research Interests
- Cognitive Approaches to Literature
- Feminist Approaches to Literature
- Gender Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Unreliable Narration in different media
- Film narratology
Teaching Experience / List of Courses
- Seminar: Unreliable Narration in Different Media (winter term 2018/19)
- Practical Introduction to Literary Studies (summer term 2019)
- Proseminar "Literatures of the 50s and 60s" (winter term 2019/20)
- Practical Introduction to Literary Studies (summer term 2020)
- Applications of Periods of English and American Literature (winter term 2020/21)
- Practical Introduction to Literary Studies (summer term 2021)
- Applications of Periods of English and American Literature (winter term 2021/22)
Academic CV
Since 10/2018
Research Assistant at the Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
10/2016 - 09/2018
Master of Arts “Literary Studies and Linguistics”, focus area English and American Studies at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
09/2016
Bachelor of Arts in “Literature, Culture, Media” in combination with “Language and Communication” at the University of Siegen, Germany
04/2015-09/2016
Change into another undergraduate study programme and subsequent reading in the study programme “Literature, Culture, Media” in combination with “Language and Communication” at the University of Siegen, Germany
08/2013 - 12/2013
Semester abroad at Háskoli Íslands, Reykjavík, Iceland
10/2011 – 04/2015
Undergraduate study programme “Language and Communication” in combination with “Communication and Media” at the University of Siegen, Germany
Awards:
Springorum Denkmünze 2019
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Prize 2019 for the Master thesis "Unreliability in Film" (supervision: Prof. Dr. Jan Alber)
Publications:
Jumpertz, Jessica and Franziska von Meer. "Unreliable Narration from a Cognitive-Narratological Perspective." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlg Trier, 2021, pp. 169-190.
Alber, Jan, Jessica Jumpertz, and Axel Mayer. "How Professional Readers Process Unnatural Narrators: An Empirical Perspective." Scientific Study of Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 193-214.
Jumpertz, Jessica and Wiebke Tary. “An Empirical Study of Readers’ Identification with a Narrator.” Anglistik, vol. 31, no. 1, 2020, pp. 111-128.
Alber, Jan, Jessica Jumpertz and Karoline Rauschen. “Netzwerke der Sittenlosigkeit in Circulation Novels des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.“ Literarische Netzwerke im 18. Jahrhundert: mit den Übersetzungen zweier Aufsätze von Latour und Sapiro, herausgegeben von Lore Knapp. Aisthesis Verlag, 2019, pp. 169-184.
Presentations:
05/2021: Paper "The Representations and Roles of Highly Intelligent Female Characters: A Diachronic Perspective," Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), online.
03/2020: Paper "A Cognitive Analysis of Highly Intelligent Female Characters," Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), New Orleans.
05/2019: Paper "Unreliability in Film: A New Model," Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), Pamplona, Spain.