Marie Berndt, M.A.
Contact
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Website: https://marieberndt.de
Office Hour
Mondays 12-1 pm or by appointment.
PhD Project
Working Title: „Precarious Lives in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Literature“
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Schmidt-Haberkamp
Teaching
WiSe 2019/20: Precarity in New Caribbean Fiction (Übung)
Research Interests
• Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (especially Caribbean, African and BAME British Writing)
• Precarity Studies
• Queer and Gender Studies
• Popular Culture
Publications
“‘Jamaicans wid ah different flag’ - Representations of Precarious LGBTQ Lives in Jamaican Fiction of the New Millennium” (MA-Thesis), published with the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) at https://g-a-p-s.org/graduate-award-papers/
Conference Papers
January 2018: “Representing the Precarious Lives of LGBT People in Jamaican Short Fiction”, presented at the conference Precarious Representations, at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
October 2018: “Jamaican LGBTQ Lives in Fiction: Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun”, presented at the Symposium Our (Queer) Caribbean for Thomas Glave, at the University of London
October 2019: “‘Language is limited’ – and numbers are not? The use of mathematics in postcolonial narration”, presented at the Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations, at the University of Münster
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