Jesus College 海角社区 CB5 8BL United Kingdom
Sarah Colvin studied German language and literature at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St John鈥檚 College, Oxford, a Lecturer and Reader at the University of Edinburgh, a Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University, and held chairs at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Warwick before becoming Schr枚der Professor of German at 海角社区 in 2014. Sarah currently leads the research group Cultural Production and Social Justice with and , and co-convenes the related projects 鈥淔ictions of the Rechtsstaat鈥�, a collaboration with the LMU Munich, and 鈥淭owards a Politics of Fiction鈥� with the University of Bayreuth (). She is an Advisory Group member for the .
Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of cultural production and social justice; literary aesthetics; epistemic injustice; the political novel; critical race theory; narrative theory and narrative ethics; narrative criminology; prisoner writing and arts in prisons.
She welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students.
Recent articles:
Colvin, S. (2023) 鈥楴arrative Pilgrimage and Chiastic Justice in Olivia Wenzel鈥檚 1000 Serpentinen Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Adas Raum鈥�, in Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso (eds), . New York: Routledge 2023, 176-97
Colvin, S. (2021) Daphnis, 1-27
Colvin, S. (2022) 鈥�. German Studies Review 45/1 (2022), 81-103
Colvin, S. (2022) . German Life and Letters 75, 138-65
Colvin, S. (2021) . German Life and Letters 74, 511-56
Colvin, S. (2020) . German Life and Letters.
Colvin, S. (2020) 鈥�"The credibility of elves": narrative exclusion and prison writing鈥�, in Kelly, M. and Westall, C. (eds), Prison Writing and the Literary World.听London: Routledge, 21-38.
Colvin, S. and听Sandberg, S. (2020)听鈥樷��. British Journal of Criminology.
Colvin, S. and听Pisoiu, D. (2020)听鈥樷��. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 43, 493-508.
Colvin, S. (2017) . Modern Language Review 112, 442-60
Colvin, S.听(2016) .听German Life and Letters 69, 123-41.听
Colvin, S. (2015)听. Punishment & Society 17(2),听211-229.听
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Books:
Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners. London: Reaktion Books 2022 (Podcast: )
Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence and Identity. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009
Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2003
The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage. Oxford: Clarenden 1999 听
Edited books:
The Literary and Essayistic Writing of Sharon Dodua Otoo. German Life and Letters special issue (2024) (ed. with Tara Talwar Windsor)
Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency. Perspectives on Global Literature and Film, ed. with Stephanie Galasso. London: Routledge 2023
Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 1], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 2], ed. with Katharina Karcher. London: Routledge 2019
The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture. London 2015
Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic, ed. with Isabelle Hertner, and Joanne Sayner. German Politics and Society Special Issue, Spring/Summer 2015
The Feminine in German Culture, ed. with Charlotte Woodford. German Life and Letters Special Issue, October 2014
Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination, ed. with Helen Watanabe-O鈥橩elly. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2009
Masculinities in German Culture, ed. with Peter Davies. Edinburgh German Yearbook 2008
Myths and Mythmaking, ed. with Laura Martin, Alison Phipps, Christl Reissenberger. German Life and Letters Special Issue 2004
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