Members & Projects

Applebaum, Barbara (Syracuse University, New York)

Willful Ignorance: Insights for Understanding White Complicity

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Berberich, Christine (University of Portsmouth)

Complicity and ‘Coming to Terms with the Past’ in Contemporary ‘Nazi Noir’ Crime Fiction

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Bird, Stephanie (University College London)

Good People, Capitalist Networks and Storytelling: Complicity in the Work of Nir Baram

‘Being complicit creeps up on you’: Complicity and the Second Personin Yishai Sarid’s The Memory Monster (2017) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body (2018)

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Cord, Florian (University of Bonn)

Cyclonoplicity: Impurity Politics for the Anthropocene

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Gilbert, Elizabeth (University of Cologne)

‘Places We Don’t Want to Go’: Complicity in Child Soldier Narratives

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Hartmann, Alexandra (University of Paderborn)

Complicity Critiques and the Christian Right’s Anti-Abortion Logic

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Marzinkowski, Sandra (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Discursive-Material Slips: Cripping Sapphic Embodiment in D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox (1923)

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Neder, Judith (Technical University of Dresden)

‘What About Your Carbon Footprint?’ Appellative Greenwashing and the Rhetorics of Individual Complicity

Conflicting Desires: Complicity with and Resistance against Imperialism in Rebecca Kuang’s Babel (2022)

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Pfister, Joel (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut)

Partners in Crime: American Movies, Systemic Complicity, the Big Picture

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Prade-Weiss, Juliane (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Memory, Politics, and Complicity in Eastern Europe

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Sanders, Mark (New York University)

Complicity Today

Complicity and Conspiracy: Schreber’s Accusation

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Singer, Christoph (University of Innsbruck)

Empathy and Complicity: The Gamification of Emotion

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Stacy, Ivan (Beijing Normal University)

Folding Cities: Quotidian Complicity and Structured Ignorance

Alignment and the Rhetoric of Complicity in Post-9/11 Fiction

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Steinhoff, Heike (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Oppositional Lifestyle, Self-Help and Complicity: The Ambiguous Dis/Orientations of Minimalism

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Storey, John (University of Sunderland)

Darkness on the Edge of Mansfield Park: Slavery, Complicity, and the Return of the Repressed

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Teram, Eli (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Ambiguous Complicity in Social Work Practice and the Movie The Club

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Vice, Sue (The University of Sheffield)

Closely Observed Train Workers: Claude Lanzmann’s Excluded Interviews with Reichsbahn Employees

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Wächter, Cornelia (Technical University of Dresden)

Queer Unfoldings in Katherine Burdekin’s Speculative Fiction

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Waldherr, Ronja (RWTH Aachen)

Complicity and Narrative Form: The Narrativity of Resilience and Neoliberal Utopianism in Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019)

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Wirth, Robert (University of Paderborn)

Complicity and Nostalgia: The Language Wars of Brexit

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Guests

Ahmadi, Ali (Geneva Center for Security Policy)
Economic Sanctions and Complicity

Chirmuley, Parnal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Perilous Complicity: The Rhetoric of Hindu Majoritanism

Li Yuanyuan (Peking University)
Envy and Complicity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth

Ó Gabhann, Cathal (former humanitarian aid worker)
Complicity with the Taliban: Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan

Seauve, Lena (FU Berlin)
Complicit Narrators: The Emotionalization of the Reader in Fictional Texts about the Military Dictatorships in Chile and Argentina

Sugano, Motoko (Tsurumi University)
“Prisms of Complicity”: The Japanese Television Drama Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World

Torrance, Ronald (The Sino-British College USST)
Complicity and Compromise in the Context of Contemporary Chinese Fiction 

Wegner, Jarula MI (Zhejiang University)
Resistance and Complicity: A Conversation with Kim Johnson

Zhang, Emma (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Grassroots Complicity in Silencing Dissent: The Wuhan Diary Controversy