Welcome to the personal home page of Heiko Zimmermann, a multi-disciplinarian from Germany.

The things I'm [please notice the shift of perspective] currently doing: teaching English Literature and Culture at the University of Trier, writing both scholarly papers and articles for magazines, talking at conferences, doing web and print design. Things I did in the past: writing a PhD thesis about the reconfigurations of authors and readers in digital literature, playing volleyball, discussing contemporary literature on stage, studying a teachers' course of Physics and English, working with mentally disabled people, writing in a creative writing group in Leeds/UK, working with exchange students, coding and working as a swapper in the C64 demo scene, selling my first computer game to a publishing house when I was sixteen, living in a cold flat with a tiled stove for seven years, starring in a GCSE listening comprehension test... (to be continued)

You can contact me via email.

For my students at the University of Trier, I have collected some material here.

This is an (incomplete) list of websites I run/have designed or worked with:

• ASAP Symposium - Configuring the Present across Arts and Media (design and maintenance (Typo3)).
• UK in LE - British events in Leipzig (multi user CMS, design).
• Aspects of E. M. Forster - Fan website about the author (text, design, scripts).
• Americanisms - International Conference (design, audio and film editing).
• Prof. Dannenberg - Professional website (design, multi user CMS)
• Romance Languages, Leipzig Uni - (design and multi user CMS)
• English Department, Leipzig Uni - (complex CMS for e-learning)
• Philology, Leipzig Uni - (maintenance)
• WILMA Leipzig - Students' society website (scripts, micro CMS)

I have also done some editing and layouting for print publications.

• ASAP Symposium: Configuring the Present across Arts and Media. Trier: U of Trier, 2010. Print. (Posters: Bal and Meier, Leaflet)
• Master of Arts Intercultural Anglophone Studies (MAIAS): Advanced Cultural Competence in Text, Linguistics, and Media with a Global Horizon. Bayreuth: U of Bayreuth, 2009. Print. (Leaflet)
• Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Textuelle, sprachliche und mediale Kulturkompetenzen mit globalem Horizont: Das Bayreuther Modell. Bayreuth: U of Bayreuth, 2008. Print. (Leaflet)
• Americanisms: Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange. Bayreuth: U of Bayreuth, 2008. Print. (Poster and Leaflet)
• van Schlun, Betsy. Science and the Imagination. Berlin: Galda, 2007. Print. Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture 13. (editors' assistant, layout)
• Schenkel, Elmar and Stefan Welz, ed. Magical Objects. Berlin: Galda, 2007. Print. LELC 12. (editors' assistant, layout and duster photograph)
• Magical Objects. Leipzig: U of Leipzig, 2004. (Poster)
• Böhnke, Dietmar. Shades of Gray. Berlin: Galda, 2004. Print. LELC 11. (layout)
• Braun, Anne-Kathrin. Dramatic Laboratories. Berlin: Galda, 2004. Print. LELC 9. (editors' assistant, layout)
• Schenkel, Elmar and Stefan Welz, ed. The Golden Egg. Berlin: Galda, 2002. Print. LELC 4. (editors' assistant, index)
• Die Reisen und Leiden des jungen T. - Programme for Deutsche Schreibwerkstatt Leeds / German Department, University of Leeds (text, photos, layout)

Scholarly

• Rekonfigurationen des textuellen Handlungsraums digitaler Literatur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Autorschaft: Geschichte, theoretische Ansprüche und deren Wechselwirkungen in der digitalen Medienpraxis. Doctoral Thesis (300 pp.). U of Trier, 2012. Print.
• "Teaching E. M. Forster in 2010: Essayistic Reflections." New Aspects of E. M. Forster. Ed. Krzysztof Fordoński. Warsaw: Instytut Kulturologii i Lingwistyki Antropocentrycznej, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego and International E. M. Forster Society, 2010. 137-60. Print.
• "Diverging Strategies of Remembrance in Traditional and Web 2.0 Online Projects." New Media and the Politics of Online Communities. Ed. Aris Mousoutzanis and Daniel Riha. Freeland: Inter-Disciplinary P, 2010. 219-25. PDF file. Critical Issues 133.
• "Palimpsest and Hypertext: Convergence and Divergence of Traditional and Contemporary Concepts." Interactivity of Digital Texts. Ed. Myriam Diocaretz, Christian Krug and Joachim Frenk. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2012. Print. (forthcoming)
• "Erinnerung im Web 2.0: Das Internet als (persönliches) Gedächtnis." Vorträge aus dem Studium Universale 2004-2007. Ed. Elmar Schenkel and Nadja Kroker. Leipzig: Universität Leipzig 2009. 131-49. Print. Leipziger Universitätsreden ns 106
• "E. M. Forster's Autobiographies: Modes of Telling a Life in Fiction." Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2006. 119-31. Print. SEL&C: Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture 3.

Since it has been around for years now, I have to mention my own project Aspects of E. M. Forster again.

Feuilleton / Journalistic

• "Von der Leipziger Buchmesse: Tagebuch eines Preisverleihungstouristen." Titel Magazin 21st Mar. 2011 <http://titel-magazin.de/artikel/25/8946/von-der-leipziger-buchmesse.html>
• "DESIGNERS Inc.: Triers erste Design-Messe." hunderttausend.de 3rd May 2010 <http://www.hunderttausend.de/artikel/d3ad0bad-c9c9-474d-9e96-9cd2a2326bfd.htm>
• "Buchmesserückblick 2010: Junge Wilde in Leipzig." Titel Magazin 23rd Mar. 2010 <http://www.titel-magazin.de/artikel/3/7160.html>
• "Ein Buchmesselogbuch." Titel Magazin 12th, 14th and 16th Mar. 2009. Part 1 "Vorschau auf Donnerstag und Freitag" <http:// www.titel-magazin.de/ modules.php? file=article& sid=7908>, Part 2 "Zwischenbericht und Tipps für das Wochenende" <http:// www.titel-magazin.de/ modules.php? file=article& sid=7918> and Part 3 "Rückschau" <http:// www.titel-magazin.de/ modules.php? file=article& sid=7922>
• "Paradiesvögel in Mauve - Ronald Firbanks 'Die Blume unter dem Fuße'." Berliner Literaturkritik 7th Apr. 2008 <http:// www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/ detailseite/ artikel/ paradiesvoegel-in-mauve-ronald-firbanks-die-blume-unter-dem-fusse.html>
• "Mal eben ums Blog: Weblog-Lesung des 'Handelsblattes' im Rahmen der Leipziger Buchmesse." Berliner Literaturkritik 24th Mar. 2007 <http:// www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/ index.cfm?id=14170>
• "Mit aufgefeilten Pulsadern in der Sofagarnitur." Review of Wir sprechen uns noch, Florian Werner. Titel Magazin 16th May 2005 <http:// www.titel-forum.de/ modules.php? op=modload& name=News& file=article& sid=3580>.
• "Bits Like White Elephants: The First Intro Debate." Domination 15 (April 2001).

Literary

• Fuller, Chris, Friedemann Holder, Neil McGowan, Bastian Strauch and Heiko Zimmermann. Die Reisen und Leiden des jungen T.: Ein sentimentales Märchen. Leeds: Deutsche Schreibwerkstatt Leeds, 2001. Print.

This, again, is an incomplete list.

Talks and Presentations

• Bemerkenswert! Die junge Lesereihe in der TUFA. (Live Reviews) Literary Talk Show. 2010-2011.
• "Teaching E. M. Forster in 2010." (Talk) Conference Polish Aspects of E. M. Forster, Instytut Kulturologii i Lingwistyki Antropocentrycznej, University of Warsaw. Warsaw, 7th June 2010.
• "Diverging Strategies of Remembrance in Traditional and Web-2.0 On-Line Projects." (Talk) Conference on Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, ID.Net. Salzburg, 12th-14th Mar. 2010.
• "Erinnerung im Web 2.0: Das Internet als (persönliches) Gedächtnis." (Lecture) Studium Universale: Räume der Erinnerung, Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, 2006.
• "Palimpsest and Hypertext: Convergence and Divergence of Traditional and Contemporary Concepts." (Talk) Conference on Interactivity of Digital Texts, WWU Münster. Münster, 2005.
• "E. M. Forster's Autobiographies: Modes of Telling a Life in Fiction." (Talk) Conference on Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction, Universität Salzburg. Salzburg, 2004.

Interviews / In the Media

• "Gemeinsames Schwingen: Allein in Leipzig plappern die Blogger ohne Pause auf mehr als 150 Internet-Seiten - aber wieso ist die Blogosphäre eine Macht?." Interview with Mathias Wöbking. Leipziger Volkszeitung. Leipzig. 14th Feb. 2009 [Clipping | Article at Genios | Article at Illufabrik].
• "Das Web 2.0 als Raum der Erinnerung." Interview with Dominika Jaschek. Faustschlag. Mephisto 97.6, Leipzig. 30th May 2007 [MP3 | Article].

Guest Lecturership

• Stay as a guest lecturer at the University of Sivas / Central Anatolia / Turkey, 31 May - 7 June 2008, funded by the ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility programme.

Planning and Organising Events

• ASAP Symposium: Configuring the Present across Arts and Media (U of Trier, 2010; support, head of technical support, development of corporate identity/design)
• Bemerkenswert! Die junge Lesereihe in der TUFA. (selbstredend e. V./TUFA Trier, 2010-2011; co-development concept)
• PowerPoint Karaoke. (SCHMIT-Z e. V., Trier, 2010-11; organisation and MC)
• Americanisms: Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange (U of Bayreuth, 2008; head of support)
• Magical Objects: Literature, Technology and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (U of Leipzig, 2004; support, layout and editing conference proceedings)
• The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (U of Leipzig, 2002; support, research).
• Die Reisen und Leiden des jungen T.: Ein sentimentales Märchen (Deutsche Schreibwerkstatt Leeds, 2001; concept, co-directing, text adaptation, photography and layout).

Memberships

• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• Modern Language Association (New York, member)
• The International E. M. Forster Society (founding member)
• Wilma (Leipzig, former member)
• The Friends of the Forster Country (Stevenage, former member)
• Leipzig Poetry Club (founding member)
• Deutsche Schreibwerkstatt Leeds (founding member)

Some miscellaneous bits:

• Office hours: Please see StudIP (first log onto StudIP, then click this link).
• Notes on the Submission of Essays

This is a list of my lectures and seminars with links to even more details about them:

SS 2012

• SS 2012 / University of Trier:
  Lecture Approaches to Contemporary British Literature and Media
• SS 2012 / University of Trier:
  Cybertexts: American Cyberculture and Literary Theory (my editions)

WS 2011/2012

• WS 2011/2012 / University of Trier:
  Lecture Introduction to Literary Studies 1
  (recommended editions (at Amazon.de): Klarer, Seeber, Abbott, Pfister)
• WS 2011/2012 / University of Trier:
  Victorian Literature: From the Sensation Novel to the Contemporary Pastiche
  (recommended editions (32,19 € at Amazon.de): Braddon, Byatt, Eliot, Sweet, Wilde)

SS 2011

• SS 2011 / University of Trier:
  Cybertexts: American Cyberculture and Literary Theory (my editions)

WS 2010/2011

• WS 2010/2011 / University of Trier:
  Queer Brits in 20th Century Berlin: Urban Exile and Political Upheaval
• WS 2010/2011 / University of Trier:
  British and Irish Poetry after the Second World War

SS 2010

• SS 2010 / University of Trier:
  Victorian Fiction: From the Sensation Novel to the Scientific Romance (my editions: Kipling; Braddon; Sweet)
• SS 2010 / University of Trier / German Studies:
  Roland Barthes, "Der Tod des Autors" (guest lectured seminar session)

WS 2009/2010

• WS 2009/2010 / University of Trier:
  Constructions of Gender in Contemporary British Film
• WS 2009/2010 / University of Trier:
  Short Stories of Modernism

SS 2009

• SS 2009 / University of Trier:
  PS Cybertexts: A Practical Course on the Theory of Literature on the Computer
• SS 2009 / University of Trier:
  PS Victorian Literature and Culture
  Enrolment for Presentations

WS 2008 / 2009

• WS 2008/2009 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Cybertexts: A Practical Course on the Theory of Literature on the Computer
• WS 2008/2009 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Gendered Booker: A Practical Approach to Literary Theory in Atwood, Coetzee and Hollinghurst (The Female Perspective)
• WS 2008/2009 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Thatcherisms: Britain's Change in Literature and Film

SS 2008

• SS 2008 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS British and Irish Poetry after the Second World War (Update: 2008-5-23)
• SS 2008 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Technology and Literature from Late Victorianism to Early Modern Literature (Update: 2008-5-23)

WS 2007 / 2008

• WS 2007/2008 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Concepts of Authorship: From Oral Tradition to Digital Literature (Update: 2008-1-25)
• WS 2007/2008 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS London and the Rest (Update: 2008-1-18)
• WS 2007/2008 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Short Stories of Modernism: From the Literary Text to the Academic Essay (Update: 2008-1-25)

SS 2007

• SS 2007 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS Victorian Literature: From the Sensation Novel to the Contemporary Pastiche
• SS 2007 / University of Bayreuth:
  PS British Modernist Literature

1999 - 2008

• 2001/2002 / University of Leeds: Oral Skills
• 1999 - 2012: freelance teacher