Ann-Sophie Vornholz
Research associate at the Institute of Sociology
Scientific director of the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies
Ann-Sophie Vornholz is a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology and scientific director of the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies. Since August 2025, she has been pursuing her doctorate at the Institute of English, American, and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn on the topic of Memory and Resistance in Feminist Speculative Fiction. She previously studied English and Romance languages in Cologne and English Literatures and Cultures in Bonn, where she completed her Master of Arts degree in 2025. Her research interests include dystopias, contemporary Anglophone literature, gender and queer theory, postcolonialism, memory studies, and issues of trauma, resistance, and narrativity.
Ann-Sophie Vornholz
Research interests
Dystopia, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary anglophone literature
Narrativity
Queer theory, gender theory, feminism, intersectionality
Postcolonialism
Memory Studies, trauma theory
Resistance
YA-literature
Feminism, intersectionality
Academic CV
- Since September 2025 – Research assistant and managing director of the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies
- Since August 2025 – Doctoral candidate at the Institute for English, American, and Celtic Studies, supervisor: Marion Gymnich
- 2023 – Research stay in London, Great Britain, as part of the DAAD “NRW Exchange” program
- 2022 – 2025 Research assistant at the Bonn Center for Dependency & Slavery Studies Cluster of Excellence
- 2025 Master of Arts English Literatures and Cultures, Bonn
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MA-Thesis: Gendered Bodies and Memory in Dystopian Fiction: Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts and Margaret Atwood‘s The Handmaid‘s Tale.
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2020 Bachelor of Arts Anglistik und Romanistik (Italienisch), Köln
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BA-Thesis: Dystopian Space in Contemporary American and Canadian Fiction.
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2019 – Gender Studies Certificate from the University of Cologne
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2014 – Abitur from Landfermann-Gymnasium Duisburg.
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