Jarula M. I. Wegner, Dr. des.
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Research Interests
- Autobiography
- Critical Theory
- Memory Studies
- Transculturality
- Caribbean Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Carnival
- World Literature
- Gender/Queer Theory
Current research project
Post-doctoral project: “Autobiography as Critique” focusing on the intersection of autobiography, critical theory and the politics of citizenship
Selected publications (selection)
Monographs and Edited Volumes
- Co-edited with Frank Schulze-Engler, Maren Scheurer and Andrea Gremels. Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South. New York: Ibidem. forthcoming
- Co-edited with Astrid Erll, Maria Elisabeth Dorr, Erin Högerle and Paul Vickers. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, vol. 11. Special Issue: Remembering between Travel and Locatedness: New Horizons of Culture and Media Memory Studies (2019)
Other
- With Amanda T. McIntyre “A Life in Carnival and Writing: Michael Anthony at Ninety.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3 (September 2021): 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2021.1957478
- With Amanda T. McIntyre “‘There was no book to tell you anything about this’: Al Ramsawack and the Oral Archives of Caribbean Literature.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 29, no. 1 (April 2021): 11-26. https://www.jwilonline.org/downloads/vol-29-no-1-april-2021/
- “Book Review: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.” Memory Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (April 2021): 551-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211003188
- “Rethinking Countermemory: Black-Jewish Negotiations in Rap Music.” Memory Studies, 13(6) (Winter 2020): 1219-1234. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1750698018794801
- “Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition.” A Poetics of Neurosis, edited by Dietmar Meinel und Elena Furlanetto. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. 75-94. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839441329-005
Functions and Activities
- Chair of the Global Memories Working Group at the Memory Studies Association (MSA) since 2017
- Co-Founder of the Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Group (IMSG) at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, since 2011
Selected presentations
- “Provincialising Memory Studies (Again)” Fourth Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Warsaw, Poland, July 2021
- “Beyond Bakhtin and Ethnography: The Politics and Aesthetics of Caribbean Carnivals.” Second Annual International Symposium of Festival Culture Research and Education, London, England, June 2021
- “Memory Constellations: A Historical Epistemology.” Epistemologies of Memory, King’s College London, England, December 2019
- “Retrieve, Remember, Reclaim: Feminist Performances in Caribbean Carnivals.” 11th Encuentro: The World Inside Out: Humor, Noise, and Performance, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Mexico City, Mexico
- “Rethinking Countermemory: Transcultural Memory Negotiations,” Diaspora, Race, and Empire Colloquium, Columbia University, USA, April 2016
Professional Memberships
- Member of the Modern Language Association
- Member of the Memory Studies Organisation
- Member of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
- Member of the International Working Group for Critical Theory
Awards/grants/scholarships
- DAAD short scholarship for a research trip to the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, from January to July 2019
- Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies travel grant, July 2017
- DAAD scholarship for research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago as well as the University of Warwick, England, February 2017
- Calliopean Prize for the best M.A. thesis in the years 2015-2016 at the Institute of England and America Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, July 2016
- CSC Full Scholarship by the Chinese Scholarship Council to study one year at the Jiaotong University Xi’an, China, 2008-2009
Teaching (selection)
- Introduction to Caribbean Literature, Beginners, University of Frankfurt, Winter 2021
- Queer Life Writing, Advanced, University of Frankfurt, Winter 2020
- Autobiography, Cultural Theory and Identity Politics, Advanced, University of Frankfurt, Summer 2020
- Caribbean Carnivals, Proseminar, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Winter 2017
- Old and New Frontiers in Memory Studies, Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Group with international guest lectures, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Winter 2015
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