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Miriam Nandi

Prof. Dr. Miriam Nandi

Current position: Professor of British Literary Studies | Leipzig University

Former positions at the English Department:

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Anglophone Indian literature
  • Critical mixed race studies
  • Early modern autobiographical writing
  • Postcolonial theory
  • Psychoanalysis and affect studies
  • Refugee literature

 

FELLOWSHIPS & ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Since 04.2021

Professor of British literary studies in a global and postcolonial frame
Leipzig University
02.2020 – 03.2021

Project Manager | European identities
EPICUR, University College Freiburg
10.2019 – 03.2020

Associate Professor | Centre for Anthroplogy and Gender Studies
University of Freiburg
04 – 09.2019

Acting Professor | English Literary Studies (stand-in for Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik)
University of Freiburg
10.2016 – 03.2019

Lecturer | Department of North American Studies
University of Freiburg
2013 – 2016

Project C3 – Figures of Idleness in 18th-Century British Colonial Discourse: Nabob, Nawaab, and the 'Lazy Native'
Collaborative Research Centre 1015 'Otium. Boundaries, Chronotopes, Practices'
University of Freiburg
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
10.2008 – 09.2016

Research fellowship awarded by the European Union and the State of Baden-Württemberg
(Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitationsprogramm für Frauen)
06 – 07.2005

Full tuition scholarship for the School of Criticism and Theory
Cornell University, USA
10.2003 – 10.2004

State Fellowship
(Landesgraduiertenförderung)
02.2001 – 12.2004

Researcher
Collaborative Research Centre 541 'Identies and Alterities. The Function of Alterity for the Construction of Collective Identity'
University of Freiburg


SHORTLISTED APPLICATIONS

Shortlisted for a W3 Professorship of English Literatures and Cultures | University of Tübingen


EDUCATION

11.2017

Venia legendi: English Philology
Postdoctoral monograph: Reading the Early Modern Diary
01.2006

Ph.D. in English Literature
06 – 07.2005

School of Criticism and Theory
Cornell University, USA
02.2001 – 09.2005

Doctoral student
University of Freiburg | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
06.2000

M.A. in Sociology, English and Philosophy
University of Freiburg
09.1996 – 06.1997 Erasmus exchange
University of Reading, UK

 

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

  • (2021) Reading the Early Modern English Diary. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • (2009) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – eine interkulturelle Einführung. Interkulturelle Bibliothek. Nordhausen: Bautz.
  • (2007) M/Other India/s: Zur literarischen Verarbeitung von Armuts- und Kastenproblematik in ausgewählten Texten der indisch-nglischen und muttersprachlichen indischen Literatur. Heidelberg: Winter.

SPECIAL ISSUES & EDITED VOLUMES

  • (2019) with Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk and Ingrid Gessner. MatteReality: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures in Material Culture Studies. Special Issue Open Cultural Studies. De Gruyter Open.
  • (2014) with Monika Fludernik. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in British Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEW)

  • (2014) mit 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. New York: NYU P. 188-213.
  • (2014) with Monika Fludernik. "Introduction." Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature. Eds. Miriam Nandi and Monika Fludernik. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 1-16.
  • (2014) "The Dangers and Pleasures of Vacuous Time: Idleness in Early Modern Diaries." Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature. Eds. Miriam Nandi and Monika Fludernik. Basingtoke: Palgrave. 40-59.
  • (2013/14) "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.
  • (2010) "Writing Selves – Early Modern Diaries and the Genesis of the Novel." The Genesis of Genre: Early Modern Narratives. Ed. Gerd Bayer. London/New York: Routledge. 60-78.
  • (2009) "Longing for the Lost M/Other – Postcolonial Ambivalences in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46. 175-186.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (NATIONAL PEER REVIEW)

  • (2018) "Idle Poor and Lazy Natives? – (Re-)Writing Stereotypes about the Global Poor." Representing Poverty. Eds. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and Verena Jain-Warden. Bonn: UVK Bonn. [in press]
  • (2018) "Schreiben in Serie – Überlegungen zum englischen Tagebuch der Frühen Neuzeit." Das Tagebuch zwischen Text und Quelle. Eds. Volker Depkat and Wolfgang Pyta. Berlin: Dunckler und Humblot. [in press]
  • (2017) "Narrative Identity and the Early Modern Diary." How to Do Things With Narrative Theory: Festschrift for Monika Fludernik. München: De Gruyter. 93-108.
  • (2016) mit Jan Alber. "Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone Narratives." Anglistentag 2015 Paderborn: Proceedings. Eds. Merle Tönnies et al. Trier: WVT, 2016. 103-108.
  • (2014) "Theoretisch virtuos, politisch engagiert: Gayatri Spivak und der Feminismus der 1980er Jahre" Indes: Zeitschrift für Politik 1. 47-52.
  • (2014) "Jede Menge Geschichten, aber keine Sprache um sie zu erzählen: Über das Aufwachsen in einer deutsch-indischen Familie." Heimatkunde: Migrationspolitisches Portal | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
  • (2012) "Narrating Emotions – Narrating the Self? Representation and Regulation of Emotions in Early Modern Diaries." Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings. Eds. Benjamin Kohlmann and Monika Fludernik. Trier: WVT. 135-146.
  • (2011) "Sprachgewalt und Widerstand – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 'Can the Subaltern Speak' und 'A Critique of Postcolonial Reason.'" Schlüsselwerke des Postkolonialismus. Eds. Julia Reuter and Alexandra Karentzos. Wiesbaden: VS. 121-130.
  • (2011) "Postkoloniale (Selbst-)kritik: Geschlecht und Migration bei Gayatri Spivak." Migration, Mobilität, Geschlecht – Freiburger Geschlechterstudien 25. 35-47.
  • (2010) "Feminismus und Globalisierung." Wege zur Globalisierung. Ed. Reza Hamid Yousefi. Nordhausen: Bautz. 335-342.
  • (2010) "Die Andere Seite der Differenz." Interkulturalität in der Diskussion. Eds. Ram Adhar Mall and Reza Hamid Yousefi. Nordhausen: Bautz. 91-104.
  • (2009) "'Am I that Other?' Postkoloniale Intellektuelle und die Sehnsucht nach einem Anderen Indien." Postkoloniale Soziologie: Empirische Befunde, theoretische Anschlüsse, politische Interventionen. Eds. Julia Reuter and Paula Villa. Bielefeld: Transkript. 91-114.
  • (2006) "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Übersetzungen aus Anderen Welten." Kultur: Theorien der Gegenwart. Eds. Stephan Moebius and Dirk Quadflieg. Wiesbaden: VS. 129-139.
  • (2004) "Multikulturalismus und postkoloniale Kritik." Anerkennung. Ed. Hans-Hellmuth Gander. Würzburg: Ergon. 183-195.
  • (2004) "Identitätskonstruktionen im postkolonialen Indien – eine Lektüre von Mahasweta Devis Kurzgeschichte 'Draupadi' im Lichte postkolonialer (Selbst)kritik." Normen, Hybridisierungen und 'Acts of Identity'. Eds. Monika Fludernik and Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Würzburg: Ergon. 167-222.

MISCALLENEOUS

  • (2013) [Review of the book Tackling the Morality of History: Ethics and Storytelling in the Works of Amitav Ghosh, by Julia Hoydis]. Anglistik 24.2. 201-202.
  • (2009) "Arundhati Roy." The Literary Encyclopedia. www.litencyc.com
  • (2007) [Review of Amüsement und Schrecken – Studien zum Drama und Theater des 19. Jahrhunderts Theaterforschung]. www.theaterforschung.de
  • (2005) "Englischsprachige Literatur und Kanon" [Review of the books Englische Literaturgeschichte, by Hans-Ullrich Seeber, and Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, by Hubert Zapf]. Freiburger Frauenstudien 17. 283-286.
  • (2005) "Arundhati Roy." Kritisches Lexikon für fremdsprachliche Gegenwartsliteratur. Reprinted in: Indische Literatur der Gegenwart. Ed. Martin Kämpchen. München: text und kritik.
  • (2002) (with Monika Fludernik) "Hybridität – Theory und Praxis." Polylog 8. 7-24. [Translation of Monika Fludernik's "The Constitution of Hybridity"]

 

GUEST LECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • "Reading the Early Modern English Diary"
    University of Regensburg, 28 Nov. 2018
  • "Rewriting Indian History from Below: The Graphic Novel Bhimayana"
    21 Febr. 2018
  • "'Unfamiliar Persons?' Das frühneuzeitliche Selbst im Spiegel des britischen Tagebuchs 1600–1800"
    Hans-Kilian-Vorlesung | Ruhr University of Bochum, 18 June 2014
  • "'A Self Bequeathed by God': Personkonzepte in englischen Tagebüchern der Frühen Neuzeit"
    Free University of Berlin | Friedrich Meinecke Institute, 26 Nov. 2013
  • "'Run Biju Run!' Acceleration and Deceleration in Contemporary Anglophone Indian Novels"
    University of Münster, 27 June 2013
  • "Postkoloniales Erzählen? Arundhati Roy's Roman The God of Small Things"
    University of Bonn | Center for Transcultural Narratology, 25 May 2012 
  • "Post-koloniale (Selbst-)kritik? Gayatri Spivak und die postkoloniale Theorie"
    University of Göttingen | Department of Political Science, 24 April 2012
  • Introduction for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
    University of Freiburg – FRIAS | Trans-Formations Conference, 17 June 2010

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