Prof. Dr. Gerold Sedlmayr

Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft / Chair of English Studies: Literature
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Raum: Raum C3A7
Bismarckstr. 1
19054 Erlangen

Literature and culture of the Romantic era; contemporary British and Irish literature and culture; cultural and literary theory (incl. Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies; Gender Studies)

  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “Writing Home: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland, the Negotiation of Borders, and the Idea of Irish Unity in the Work of the ‘New Irish’ Poets”. Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe, ed. Maurice H. Fitzpatrick and Christoph Reinfandt, Syracuse University Press, 2026 (forthcoming).
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “Ethnicity, Race and Representation in Britain”. How to Do Cultural Studies: Ideas, Approaches, Scenarios, ed. Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020, 135-166.
  • Cord, Florian, and Gerold Sedlmayr, eds. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, vol. 3 (2018): Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall, https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-3-2018/.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “Power, Death and the Value of the Body in Late Capitalism: Anohni’s ‘Drone Bomb Me’”. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, vol. 1, 2017, 42-58, org/2017/06/power-death-and-the-value-of-the-body-in-late-capitalism/.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “Ownership of the Body, the Sacralization of the Person, and the Right to Bodily Integrity in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams”. European Romantic Review3 (2016): 375-384.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold, ed. Romantic Bodyscapes: Embodied Selves, Embodied Spaces and Legible Bodies in the Romantic Age (Studien zur Englischen Romantik 17), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold, and Nicole Waller, eds. Politics in Fantasy Media: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games. McFarland, 2014. Print and e-book.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “‘I didn’t graduate / I immigrate:’ West Indian British Poets and the Politics of Ethnicity”. Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland (anglistik & englischunterricht 77), ed. Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ulrich Viol, Heidelberg: Winter, 2013, 181-203. Reprinted with slight amendments as: “West Indian British Poetry: John Agard, James Berry, Fred D’Aguiar, and Grace Nichols”. A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments – Interpretations (WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium 18), ed. Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning, Trier: WVT, 2015, 391-407.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. “Sexuality, Monstrosity, and Mythology in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry”. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality from Antiquity to Postmodernity (DQR Studies in Literature 42), ed. Glennis Byron and Andrew John Sneddon, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008, 257-273.
  • Sedlmayr, Gerold. Brendan Kennelly’s Literary Works: The Developing Art of an Irish Writer, 1959-2000. Studies in Irish Literature 15, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. (Incl. chapter on “Gender and Sexuality”, pp. 257-324.)