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My teaching areas range from Gender Studies to Gothic Fiction. I like working across genres, centuries and themes and in an interdisciplinary manner. My interests cover literary and filmic works and include early modern poetry, nineteenth century novels, psychoanalytic theory as well as contemporary crime fiction and fictional and theoretical works on food and eating.
In my teaching, I try to infect students with my own curiosity and passion for the subject and the texts we read. Even if I have been teaching a specific novel, poem, play for years, every time I open it up again, I will find something new and surprising. I love it when students discover new ways of reading and when they teach me new ways of reading and understanding texts.
I have always had a passion for teaching and the idea of lifelong learning. My time at university, studying, working with other students and being involved in various projects was life changing for me and informed my decision to stay in Higher Education as a tutor and researcher. Books, stories, narratives etc fascinate me and I love exploring them from a critical point of view. At a time when everything is viewed in a utilitarian sense and in relation to input/output it is of great importance that we show that there are alternative ways of experiencing and looking at life.
Don’t listen to people who tell you that studying literature will not help you to get a ‘proper job.’
MA and PhD in English and American Literature, History of Art and Modern History.
Lecturer in English at the University of Saarbruecken (1988 – 1993), associate lecturer at Open University, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge University and Birkbeck College; at Manchester Metropolitan university since 1995.
Bilingual in German and English
Gender Studies; Nineteenth century literature, late nineteenth century British literature, in particular sensation and gothic fiction; contemporary poetry, in particular British and Irish women's poetry; Contemporary Critical Theory.
Gender Studies; Nineteenth century literature, late nineteenth century British literature, in particular sensation and gothic fiction; contemporary poetry, in particular British and Irish women's poetry; Contemporary Critical Theory, food in literature and culture.
I am currently supervising PhD projects in poetry and creative writing and on the femme fatale in Victorian literature
Nineteenth century literature and culture; the Gothic; contemporary poetry; psychoanalytic criticism; Critical Theory, food/eating in relation to culture and literature; gender and women studies.
A. Michelis, A. Rowland The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: choosing tough words.
A. Michelis (1996). Frauen, Dichtung und andere Raetsel. Eine Untersuchung feministischer Aspekte in zeitgenoesischer Lyrik englischsprachiger Dicherinnen. Saarbruecken: Roehrig.
A. Michelis (2013). "Where Bees Pray on Their Knees": Spiritual and religious symbolism in Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees. Symbolism An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. 12/13, pp.336-351.
A. Michelis (2010). Food and crime: Whats eating the crime novel?. European Journal of English Studies. 14(2), pp.143-157.
A. Michelis (2010). Rhyming hunger: poetry, love and cannibalism. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 60, pp.61-78.
A. Michelis (2003). 'Dirty Mamma': horror, vampires, and the maternal in late nineteenth-century gothic fiction. Critical Survey. 15(3), pp.5-22.
A. Michelis (2003). The woman in the red dress: Gender, space, and reading. MODERNISM-MODERNITY. 10(1), pp.210-212.
A. Michelis (2002). A Country of One's Own? Gender and National Identity in Contemporaray Women's Poetry. European Journal of English Studies. 6(1), pp.61-71.
A. Michelis (1997). Stop making sense: Heiner muller germ any and intellectuals. Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 2(3), pp.77-87.
A. Michelis (1996). Art histories and visual cultural studies. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 6(1), pp.175-189.
A. Michelis (2018). The Chef, in the Kitchen, with the Knife: Anthony Bourdain's Culinary Crime Fiction. In: Blood on the Table Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction. McFarland,
A. Michelis (2018). Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity. In: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food. Routledge,
A. Michelis (2003). 'Me not know what these people mean': gender and national identity in Carol Ann Duffy's poetry. In: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: 'Choosing Tough Words'. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.77-99.
A. Michelis Eat my words: poetry as transgression.
A. Michelis (1998). The pleasure of saying it: Images of sexuality and desire in contemporary women's poetry. In: SEEING AND SAYING. SAARBRUCKEN, GERMANY, 12/1995. pp.59-72.
I recently organised a conference in memory of Antony Easthope (Theory Now) in Manchester, October 2003, and I am the convenor of a Poetry Panel for the ESSE conference in Zaragossa, August/September 2004.
I have reviewed books and articles and acted as peer reviewer for a range of academic journals.