Phone:
+49 371 531-32275
Fax:
+49 371 531-832275
Room:
Reichenhainer Straße 39, 008
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Office hours:
Wednesday, 11 am - 12 pm
Main Areas of Research
My research focuses on cityscape as well as on youth and children's literature in postcolonial studies. Currently, I am working on my dissertation project on the subject of representing the 'new' metropolis in Indian-English literature.
Career/Job History
| May 2013 – Sept. 2014 | Holder of a Postgraduate Scholarship of the Free State of Saxony |
| Since April 2013 | PhD-candidate |
| Since Jan. 2012 | Academic Staff Member, Chair of English Literature, Chemnitz University of Technology |
| 2009 – 2011 | MA, English and American Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology |
| Sept/Oct 2010 | Research Project "English for Chinese Universities" at Honghe University, Yunnan, China and Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Sept. 2008 – March 2009 | Studies Abroad: History of English and Scottish, Medieval English Literature at University of Glasgow, UK (ERASMUS) |
| 2006 – 2009 | BA, English and American Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology |
Publications
Editorial Work
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Stadt der Moderne. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Christoph Fasbender and Annika Bauer. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today. Trier: WVT, 2013. |
Articles
| “Chris Abani’s GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis.” Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging. Eds. Klaus Stierstorfer, and Florian Kläger. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2015. | |
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with Christoph Fasbender, and Cecile Sandten, "Einführung: Stadt der Moderne". Stadt der Moderne. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Christoph Fasbender, and Annika Bauer. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today. Trier: WVT, 2013, 1-11.
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| "Schanghai 1938 bis 1948: Literarische Repräsentationen jüdischen Lebens im urbanen Palimpsest". Stadt der Moderne. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Christoph Fasbender, and Annika Bauer. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today. Trier: WVT, 2013, 183-198. |
MA-thesis
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German Preschool Children Encountering Postcolonial Picture Books in English. Wettingen: Social Softwork, 2012. |
Other Works
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Home/Heimat. Cecile Sandten. Chemnitz: Chemnitz UT, 2010. (Documentary) |
Conference Talks
| Dec. 2014 | "Metropolitan Subversion by Appropriating Space in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Current European Refugee Politics". Cultural Studies Workshop: Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan |
| Sept. 2013 | "The Case of Elvis: Constructing a Metropolitan Diasporic Space in Lagos" International Conference ITN CoHaB: "Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging", University of Münster |
Teaching
Since 10/2014: TU Chemnitz, Institute for English and American Studies
- History of Literatures in English: Reading the Canon (Lecture, Winter 2015)
- Literature into Film (BA Seminar, Summer 2015)
- Fictions of the South Asian City (BA Seminar, Winter 2014)
Professional Memberships
| Since 2015 | South Asian Literary Association (SALA) |
| Since 2012 | Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS; formerly known as GNEL/ASNEL) |