Articles

 2020. Denise Burkhard and Marion Gymnich. “Flora and Fauna in Children’s Fantasy.” In: Denise Burkhard, Marion Gymnich & Dieter Petzold, Eds. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 37 (Flora und Fauna in Fantastischen Welten / Flora and Fauna in Fantastic Worlds). Peter Lang. 7-33.

2017. Marion Gymnich, Denise Burkhard and Hanne Birk. “The Ever-Expanding Potterverse: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Pottermore.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Tectum. 225-249.

2017. Hanne Birk, Denise Burkhard and Marion Gymnich. “‘Happy Birthday, Harry!’: Celebrating the Success of the Harry Potter Phenomenon.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Tectum. 7-9.

Individual Publications

Monographs & Edited Volumes

 2023. Denise Burkhard. Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral: (Re-)Constructions of Childhood in Neo-Victorian Fiction. V&R unipress / Bonn University Press. 2017. Denise Burkhard. Ancient Dwarf Kingdom or the Hoard of a Fiery Dragon? – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Erebor as a Transformed and Dynamic Place. Tectum.

2012. Gymnich, Marion and Imke Lichterfeld, eds. A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited. V&R unipress.

Articles

Forthcoming. Denise Burkhard. “Neo-Victorian Children’s and Young Adult Fiction.” In: Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, Eds. Handbook on Neo-Victorianism.

Forthcoming. Denise Burkhard and Marie-Luise Kohlke. “Time Travel and Time Slip.” In: Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, Eds. Handbook on Neo-Victorianism.

Forthcoming. Denise Burkhard and Marie-Luise Kohlke. “The ‘Shiftology’ of Time Slip in Neo-Victorian Children’s and YA Fiction.”

 2018. Denise Burkhard. “Agency and Spatial Transformation in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.”  In: Feryal Cubukcu & Sabine Planka, Eds. Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film. Königshausen & Neumann. 369-384.

2018. Denise Burkhard. “‘I belong in your world’: (Re-)Negotiating the Notion of Home in the First Harry Potter Novels.”  In: Dieter Petzold & Klaudia Seibel, Eds. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 35 (Faszination Harry Potter / The Allure of Harry Potter). Peter Lang. 53-63.

2017. Marion Gymnich and Klaus Scheunemann. “The ‘Harry Potter Phenomenon’: Forms of World Building in the Novels, the Translations, the Film Series and the Fandom.” In: “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Ed. by Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk and Denise Burkhard. Tectum. 11-36.

2017. Denise Burkhard. “Stepping through the Wardrobe: Is the Secondary Fantasy World Merely an Escape from Reality?”
In: Dieter Petzold & Klaudia Seibel, Eds. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 34 (Die Inklings und der Erste Weltkrieg). Peter Lang. 133-144.

2017. Denise Burkhard. “Secrets and Forbidden Places in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Tectum. 165-178.

2017. Denise Burkhard and Julia Stibane. “Darkness, Danger and Death: Exploring Gothic Places in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” In: Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk & Denise Burkhard, Eds. “Harry – yer a wizard”: Exploring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe. Tectum. 61-70.

2012. Marion Gymnich. “The Secret Garden Revisited.” In: Marion Gymnich and Imke Lichterfeld, Eds. A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Revisited. V&R unipress. 7-13.

 2012. Marion Gymnich (2012). “Porridge or Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans? - Attitudes towards Food in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Other Children’s Classics.” In: Marion Gymnich and Imke Lichterfeld, Eds. A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Revisited. V&R unipress. 141-165.

2007. Marion Gymnich. “Merlins Nachfahren: Die Figur des Zauberers in der britischen und amerikanischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts.” In: Maren Bonacker, Ed. Pinocchios Freunde: All-ages-Literatur: Phantastische Texte als grenzüberschreitende Lektüre. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 101-116.

2005. Marion Gymnich. “Reconsidering the Linguistics of Middle-earth: Invented Languages and Other Linguistic Features in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” In: Thomas Honegger, Ed. Reconsidering Tolkien. Walking Tree Publishers. 7-30.

2005. Marion Gymnich. “Possible Worlds Theory as an Approach to the Dynamics of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales.” In: Per Krogh Hansen and Marianne Wolff Lundholdt, Eds. When We Get to the End…: Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. University Press of Southern Denmark. 203-218.

Conference Presentations 

2022. Denise Burkhard. “A Time of Carefreeness and Innocence?: Representations of Children in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives.” 1 September 2022, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference 2022, Mainz, Germany.

2021. Denise Burkhard. “A Feline Messenger from the Past: Buried Secrets and Time Travel in Mary Downing Hahn’s The Doll in the Garden.” 12 June 2021, Domestic Cats in Literature, Troy (Alabama) – online due to the Corona pandemic.

 2020. Denise Burkhard. “Children in (Neo-Victorian) Fiction: Towards a Typology.” 7 March 2020, International Conference on Children’s Studies, London.

2017. Denise Burkhard. “Pleasurable or Frightening? The (De-)Construction of the Other World in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.” 22 September 2017. Wirklichkeiten und Weltenbauen / Realities and World Building, Vienna.

2016. Hanne Birk and Marion Gymnich. “Visualising Material Culture: An Analysis of Illustrations in Selected Contemporary First Australian Children’s Books.” 06 Mai 2016. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postcoloniale Studien (GAPS) / Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Universität Augsburg.

 2016. Hanne Birk and Marion Gymnich. “(Trans)Cultural Negotiations of Indigenous Visual Resources in Māori and Inuit Children’s Books.” 09 June 2016. 43rd Annual Children's Literature Association Conference, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH).

2014. Marion Gymnich. “Beyond the Text - in Various Directions... .” 20 February 2014. Harry Potter Workshop, University of Bonn.

2014. Denise Burkhard. “Dolores Umbridge - Authority and Resistance.” 21 February 2014. Harry Potter Workshop, University of Bonn.