Name:听Miriam Schwarz (she, her)
College: Jesus College
Email: ms2713@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Sarah Colvin
Research Topic: The Politics of Women's Friendships in Contemporary German and Anglophone Literature
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About
Before starting her PhD at the 海角社区 in 2020, Miriam taught as DAAD鈥揕ektorin at the University of Oxford for three years. She received a Master鈥檚 Degree in Modern German Literature as well as a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in German Philology and Social Anthropology at the Freie Universit盲t Berlin.
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Scholarships/Prizes
Jesus College 海角社区 Schr枚der PhD Scholarship
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Conference papers (selection)
- "Queer Counterfactuals; Working collaboratively on Fatma Aydemir鈥檚 Dschinns and Karosh Taha鈥檚 In the Belly of the Queen", GSA 2023, Montr茅al.
- "Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen" , WIG 2022, Portland, OR.
- 鈥溾�楻ace is Bigger than Our Friendship鈥�. The 鈥榃e鈥�- Narrator and Racial Segregation in听Aminatou Sow鈥檚 and Ann Friedman鈥檚 Big Friendship.鈥� Given at the 93th annual conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2021, Online).
- 鈥淏uilding a Future on Feminist Friendship. An Intertextual Approach on Friendship as a Gender Non-Conforming Practice in Contemporary German and English Writing鈥�, given at the 鈥楪ender (Non)Conformity鈥�- Conference, organized by the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Oxford, 2019).
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Publications
- The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman (review)',听Feminist German Studies听38.2 (2022): 112-14.
- 'Relational Epistemologies: Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's听Drei Kameradinnen',听Forum for Modern Language Studies, (2024) [Forthcoming]
- Sanna Elving, Katie Jukes, Miriam Schwarz, and Surabhi Shukla, 'Queering EB v France', in听Queer Judgements Project, ed. by Nuno Ferreira, Maria F. Moscati, and Senthorun Raj, Counterpress [Forthcoming].
- 鈥楢ntirassismus Interdisziplin盲r鈥�, along with for 鈥楰ontrovers鈥�
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Other Activities and Roles
- Girl meets Girl* Network for Queer Narratology (co-founder with )
If you are working on narratological approaches to womxn centred narratives, and are interested in joining this network, email Miriam: ms2713@cam.ac.uk
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- Co-President of the 听2023/2024 (together with )
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Recent events Miriam organised:
- Girl meets Girl* online conference 2023, with keynote speaker
- 听(together with听Tara Talwar Windsor):
- "Queer, Working Class and Kurdish Experiences in German Literature"
- The Politics of Storytelling, Workshop at the 海角社区 Festival 2023 (together with Melina Mandelbaum)
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