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Language and Rhythm, a听podcast by Charlotte Lee and Tim Chesters about the power of rhythm in language, from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the 海角社区. Supported by the British Academy and the Schr枚der Fund, 海角社区:听.听Watch the accompanying film, "Language and Rhythm":听

What鈥檚 novel about a novel? Storytelling and travelling knowledge,听26 March 2024:Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz & Tara Talwar Windsor.听To view the recording of this event, see听

Being in connection: a conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo: on Friday, 18 March 2022, Sharon Dodua Otoo also gave a public reading from her highly acclaimed novel听Adas Raum听(2021), in English translation (by Jon Cho-Polizzi), and in conversation with the literary expert Maryam Aras. The event can also be watched back here: 听

In Search of Resonance: On Black German Literature and Literary Criticism: Sharon Dodua Otoo delivered the annual Schr枚der Lecture on Monday, 14 March 2022, exploring themes of Black aesthetics and Black writing from the Weimar Republic to the present. The lecture can be watched back here:听

Publications

  • Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor (ed.), Re-writing Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Intervention (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2024).

  • Miriam Schwarz, 鈥楻elational Epistemologies: Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen.鈥 Forum for Modern Language Studies, 60:2听(2024), 219鈥237听

  • Stephanie Galasso, Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024)

  • Sarah Colvin and听Tara Talwar Windsor (ed.), Special Issue: The Literary and Essayistic Writing of Sharon Dodua Otoo, German Life and Letters 77/1 (2024).

  • Stephanie Galasso, 鈥榁ocabulary for an Unthinkable Grammar: Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Synchronicity. German Life and Letters 77/1 (2024), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12401

  • Alrik Daldrup, 鈥榁on der 鈥楳acht, Welt zu machen鈥: Radikale Demokratie in Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Adas Raum.鈥 German Life and Letters, 77/1 (2024), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12400

  • Tara Talwar Windsor, 鈥榁isionen vom idealen Geschichte-Schreiben und Geschichte-Machen始: Epistemic (In)Justice and Insurrection in Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Historical and Memory Activism.鈥 German Life and Letters 77/1 (2014), 10-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12398

  • Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso (ed.), Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency. Global Perspectives on Literature and Film, New York/London 2023.

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥楧oing Drag in Blackface: Hermeneutical Challenges and Infelicitous Subjectivity in Courasche, or: Is Grimmelshausen Still Worth Reading?鈥 Daphnis 50/4 (2022) , 666-692. https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340045

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥楳ay Ayim and Subversive Laughter: The Aesthetics of Epistemic Change.鈥 German Studies Review 45/1 (2022), 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0005.

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥楩reedom Time: Temporal Insurrections in Olivia Wenzel鈥檚 1000 Serpentinen听Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Adas Raum.鈥 German Life and Letters 75/1 (2022),听129鈥165

  • Melina Mandelbaum, 鈥楢dministering Exclusion: Statelessness, Identity Papers and Narrative Strategy in B. Traven鈥檚 Das Totenschiff (1926).鈥 Forum for Modern Language Studies 57/2 (2021), 186鈥204, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqab015听

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥楾alking Back: Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Herr Gr枚ttrup setzt sich hin and the Epistemology of Resistance鈥濃. German Life and Letters 73 (2020), 659-79

  • Sveinung Sandberg and Sarah Colvin, 鈥樷淚SIS is not Islam鈥: Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims鈥 Narrative Resistance鈥. British Journal of Criminology, online 23 May 2020

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥溾楾he credibility of elves鈥: narrative exclusion and prison writing鈥, in Michelle Kelly and Claire Westall (eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice. London: Routledge 2021, 21-37

  • Stephanie Galasso听听Goethe Yearbook听24 (2017), 197-200.

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥楿nerh枚rt? Prisoner Narratives as Unlistened-to Stories and Some Reflections on the Picaresque鈥. Modern Language Review 112 (2017), 442-60

  • Sarah Colvin, 鈥榃hy Should Criminology Care about Literary Fiction? Literature, Life Narratives and Telling Untellable Stories鈥. Punishment & Society 17/2 (2015), 211-29

Latest News

New podcast on language and rhythm

1 April 2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast, Language and Rhythm, made by 海角社区 TV and funded by the British Academy and the Schr枚der Fund, 海角社区. You can listen to the full series or watch a taster video.

Paul Hoegger wins Pilkington Prize

20 March 2025

Congratulations to Paul Hoegger, who has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Dr Abhimanyu Sharma publishes new study on Indian Sign Language

20 March 2025

Dr Abhimanyu Sharma, Teaching Associate in German Linguistics, has published a study which calls on the Indian Government to recognise Indian Sign Language as an official language.

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