Dr. Deborah de Muijnck is a postdoctoral researcher and academic coordinator of the European PhD Network "Literary and Cultural Studies" at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. She conceptualizes, organizes and chairs (inter)national research events in Giessen and at European partner institutions, working particularly closely with the universities of Stockholm, Helsinki, Warwick, Graz, Bergamo, and the Cátolica in Lisbon. In the summer term 2023, she was an affiliate at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University. 

Formerly a research assistant at the Institute of English Literature at RWTH Aachen University, she completed her dissertation in 2022. In her thesis, rooted in cognitive narratology and in the medical humanities, she examines how British soldiers and veterans reconstruct their identities after war experiences through autobiographical storytelling. Other notable publications such as Pandemic Storytelling (Brill, forthcoming) address the reciprocal influence of pandemics and narrativity, the influence of non-normative life experiences on narrative (Poetics of Disturbances - Narratives of Non-Normative Minds and Bodies. Brill, forthcoming), and the reciprocal relationship between narrative, culture and identity (Routledge Companion, forthcoming). 

Her second monograph examines literary scandal as a form of cultural transgression in English literature from the 18th to the 21st century. Her research interests include ecocriticism, cognitive narratology and the medical humanities, cultural transgression theory, history of affect, and contemporary Aboriginal and Maori storytelling.

Dr. de Muijnck worked as an online editor in Cologne, Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, and Aachen, and traveled around the globe as an analog photographer and artist from 2015 until she settled in academia in 2019.