Maria Hüren, M.A. (Ph.D. candidate)

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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CV

• Since 10/2011: Research assistant, IEAS / NELK, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

• Since 10/2011: Ph.D. candidate at Goethe-University Frankfurt (Faculty 10: Modern Languages; Institute for English and American Studies / New English Literatures and Cultures)

• 10/2009 - 09/2011: Master of Arts, English and American Studies: Literature and Culture, University of Wuppertal

• 10/2005 - 09/2008: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and English Studies (RWTH Aachen University) 

Dissertation Project

"Collapsible Spaces and Translatable Memories? On African Pasts and Western Readers" (working title)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll

Abstract in Progress

Research Interests

Memory studies; transculturality; cognitive and contextual narratologies; popular culture and authenticity

Oral Presentations / Papers at Conferences

2011. "Potentials, Limits and Narrative Strategies For a 'Translation of Memory'." Summer School of the Nordic Network in Memory Studies, Transnational Cultural Memory - Towards a Common Past?, Karlstad, Sweden

Academic Activities and Memberships

• Co-founder (with Prof. Astrid Erll and Zhuang Wei) of the study group "Interdisziplinäre Gedächtnisforschung" (Interdisciplinary Memory Studies) at the Forschungszentrum für Historische Geisteswissenschaften (FZHG), Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
• Research colloquium "Transculturality in the English-Speaking World"; (chaired by Prof Dr. Astrid Erll and Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler,  NELK Frankfurt)

geändert am 20. März 2012  E-Mail: Webmasterhueren@em.uni-frankfurt.de