Dr. Miriam Nandi
Research Interests
- Anglophone Indian literature
- Postcolonial theory
- Psychoanalysis and affect studies
- Early modern diaries
- Critical mixed race studies
01/2006 | PhD in English Literature |
06-07/2005 | School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, USA |
02/2001 - 09/2005 | Doctoral student at the University of Freiburg, Germany supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik |
06/2000 | MA in Sociology, English and Philosophy, University of Freiburg |
09/1996 - 06/1997 | ERASMUS Student at the University of Reading, UK |
Since 2013 | Project funded by the German National Researchfund (DFG) "Figures of Idleness in Colonial Discourse: Nabob, Nawaab, and 'Lazy Native'" within the interdisciplinary research cluster 1015. Otium: Concepts, Spaces, Figures |
Since 10/2008 | research fellowship by the European Union and the Land Baden-Württemberg (Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitationsprogramm für Frauen) |
06/2005 - 07-2005 | full tuition fee scholarship for the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University |
10/2003 - 10/2004 | State Fellowship (Landesgraduiertenförderung) |
Listings for full professorships
W3 Professur Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
Publications
(2014) with Monika Fludernik. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature. Basingtoke: Palgrave.
(2016) “Zwischen Mußepraxis und Selbstdressur: Überlegungen zum englischen Tagebuch des siebzehnten und achtzehnten Jahrhunderts“ in: Muße und Gesellschaft. Ed. Peter Phillip Riedl.
(2016) “Idle Poor and Lazy Natives? – (Re-)Writing Stereotypes about the Global Poor” Representing Poverty. Eds. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp/Verena Jain-Warden. Bonn: UVK Bonn. [in production]
(2016) “Schreiben in Serie – Überlegungen zum englischen Tagebuch der Frühen Neuzeit“ in: Das Tagebuch zwischen Text und Quelle. Eds. Volker Depkat und Wolfgang Pyta. [under review]
(2014) with Monika Fludernik. “Introduction” in: Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature. Basingtoke: Palgrave. 1-16.
(2014) "The Horror and Pleasure of Vacuous Time: The Profitable Employment of Leisure Moments in Early Modern Diaries” in: Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature. Eds. Miriam Nandi and Monika Fludernik. Basingtoke: Palgrave. 40-59.
(2014) with Paul Spickard "The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule" Global Mixed Race. Eds. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, and Paul Spickard. NY: NYU P. 188-213.
(2014) "Jede Menge Geschichten, aber keine Sprache um sie zu erzählen. Über das Aufwachsen in einer deutsch-indischen Familie" Heimatkunde. Das migrationspolitische Portal der Heinrich-Böll Stiftung. http://heimtkunde.boell.de/
(2014) "Theoretisch virtuos, politisch engagiert: Gayatri Spivak und der Feminismus der 1980er Jahre" Indes: Zeitschrift für Politik zbd Gesellschaft 1. 47-52.
(2014) "Beyond Authenticity of Voice: A Response to Barbara Korte's ´Can the Indigent Speak´: Poverty Studies, the Postcolonial and Global Appeal of Q & A and The White Tiger" Connotations 21. 153-171.
Invited papers
18.06.2014
Post-koloniale (Selbst-)kritik? Gayatri Spivak und die postkoloniale
Theorie
Postkoloniales Erzählen? Arundhati Roy’s Roman The God of Small
Things
07/2010
Introduction for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
List of courses taught
At the University of Freiburg:
WS 16/17
MS / HS: Life Narratives
PS Unterrichtsbezug: Narrating the Bi-National Family
WS 15/16
HS / MS: Migration and Gender
SoSe 2015
MS / HS / EPG: Social Injustice in Anglophone Indian Literature
WS 2014/15
PS mit Unterrichtsbezug / EPG: Narrating Autism
SoSe 2014
PS: Strong Emotions in Shakespeare's Plays
WS 13/14
MS/HS: Migration
SoSe 2013
PS: Margaret Atwood
PS: The Passions in Early Modern Drama
MS/HS: Postcolonial Spaces
WS 12/13
PS I: The Sonnet
SoSe 2012
EPG / PS II: Postcolonialism: Theory, Politics, Literature
PS I: Early Modern Poetry
WS 2011/12
MS: Literary Theory
EPG / PS II: Asperger’s Autobiographies
SoSe 2011
PS I: English Poetry: A Historical Survey
PS II: Life Writing: Histories, Genres, Theory
WS 2009/10
PS I: Religion and Literature in Early Modern England
PS II: Good Intentions
SoSe 2009
PS I: The English Novel: A Historical Survey
EPG / PS II: Ethics and Alterity in the History of English Literature 1660-Present
Summer 2003
Lecturer at the Summer Academy of the Deutsche Studienstiftung [German national academic foundation]
Course title: „Where’s home? Literary Answers from India“
Summer 2000
Tutor at the German-Japanese Institute
Tutorial in Philosophical Anthropology (Cassirer, Plessner) for Japanese exchange students