Melina Heinrichs
Melina Heinrichs completed her Master's degree in English and American Culture and Business Studies with distinction at the University of Kassel in 2023. Since then, she has been a lecturer in American literary studies there. In her teaching and research, she is particularly interested in the fields of ecocriticism and animal studies. She is currently preparing her dissertation on the apocalyptic tradition in contemporary Anglophone climate change literature, focusing on works by Ian McEwan, Mike Bartlett and Kim Stanley Robinson, among others.
Scientific career
2023-2024 | Scholarship holder of the Exposé Scholarship of the University of Kassel |
2020-2023 | Master's degree in English and American Culture and Business Studies at the University of Kassel (0.8). |
2016-2020 | Bachelor's degree in English and American Culture and Business Studies at the University of Kassel (0.9). |
2018-2019 | Stay abroad as part of the ERASMUS+ program at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom |
Professional career
| Since 2023 | Lecturer, Literary Studies (American Studies) |
2021-2023 | Propaedeutic course in literary studies, "Writing a Term Paper in British and American Literary Studies" (English/American Studies) |
| 2019-2021 | Tutor, Management Studies, "Business Administration Ia: Corporate Management", Prof. Dr. Peter Eberl |
| 2018-2023 | Student assistant, English linguistics |
2017-2023 | Tutor, Literary Studies (English/American Studies), "Introduction to British and American Literatures", Dr. Lars Heiler |
2022 | Schlechtweg, Marcel, and Melina Heinrichs. "The Acoustics of Number: Duration Differences in Singular-Plural Syncretism." Linguistics, vol. 47, no. 1, 2022, pp. 77-102. |
2020 | Schlechtweg, Marcel, Melina Heinrichs, and Marcel Linnenkohl. "Differences in Acoustic Detail: The Realization of Syncretic Nouns in German." The Learnability of Complex Constructions from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 345), ed. by Marcel Schlechtweg, De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 39-62. |
2019 | Heinrichs, Melina. "Secrets, Lies, and Unreliable Narration in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Alexia Casale's The Bone Dragon." Diffusion, vol.1, no.1, 2019, pp. 1-11. |
| 2024 | 15th Annual Conference of the Society for Fantastic Research "Fantastic Climates", September 05-07, University of Kassel |
2022 | Vakilzadeh, Kijan, and Melina Heinrichs. "The Use of Fiction for the Study of Organizational Behavior in Extreme Contexts." Lecture. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington, August 5-9, 2022. |
2022 | Vakilzadeh, Kijan, and Melina Heinrichs. "The Use of Fiction for the Study of Organizational Behavior in Extreme Contexts." Lecture. European Academy of Management (EURAM), Winterthur, Switzerland, June 15-17, 2022. |
2020 | Schlechtweg, Marcel, and Melina Heinrichs. "Acoustic Nuances in Phonologically Identical Words: On the Interface between Phonetics and Morpho-Syntax." Poster presentation. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), (online conference), Potsdam, Germany, September 3-5, 2020. |
2019 | Heinrichs, Melina, Marcel Schlechtweg, and Marcel Linnenkohl. "Phonetic Variation in German Homophonous Singular-Plural Nouns." Lecture. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, Germany, August 21-24, 2019. |
| 2019 | Heinrichs, Melina, Marcel Schlechtweg, and Marcel Linnenkohl. "Acoustic Differences between Supposedly Identical Singular-Plural Nouns in German." Poster presentation. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), Lecce, Italy, June 17-19, 2019. |