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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.
Medieval Literature
Comparative Literature
Medieval German & Iberian Literatures
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial Theory
Alterity & Gender in the European Middle Ages
Mobility of Medieval Culture
Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature (Doctoral project, 2015-2019)
Women as Transcultural Agents in Premodern European Literature (Current project, 2020-2023)
Doriane Zerka. 'Mapping Mobility: Women and Textual Networks in the Fifteenth-Century Prose Epic Herzog Herpin.' Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, No. 9. December 2022, pp. 95–123. https://doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-09-06
Doriane Zerka. Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature, Transcript 26 (Cambridge: Legenda, forthcoming 2022)
Doriane Zerka. ‘Andalusi Space and the European Network in the German Rolandslied’. In Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts, ed. by Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil and Julian Weiss, King's College London Medieval Studies, 28 (London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London, 2021)
Doriane Zerka. ‘Constructing Poetic Identity: Iberia as a Heterotopia in Oswald von Wolkenstein’s Songs.’ Modern Language Review. Volume 114, No. 2. April 2019, pp. 274–293 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.114.2.0274