Doriane Zerka is an Early Career Fellow with the Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust. Her work focuses on comparative medieval literature, perceptions of alterity and gender, and the mobility of cultural production in the medieval world, with a particular emphasis on the German and Iberian contexts.

She holds a PhD in German and Hispanic Studies from King’s College London, and an MPhil in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge. After completing her doctoral studies in 2019, she worked as Lecturer in German for Queen Mary, University of London before returning to Cambridge in 2020. Her doctoral thesis analysed representations of Iberia and the construction of identities in medieval German literature, while her current research questions the role of women as transcultural agents in the formation of a network of ‘European’ literature in the premodern world.