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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Miriam Schwarz

Miriam Schwarz
Position(s): 
PhD Candidate
Department/Section: 
German
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom

About: 

Before starting her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2020, Miriam taught as DAAD–Lektorin at the University of Oxford for three years. She received a Master’s Degree in Modern German Literature as well as a Bachelor’s degree in German Philology and Social Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Teaching interests: 

GE6

GE13

GEB2

Recent research projects: 

The Politics of Women's Friendships in Contemporary German and Anglophone Literature

Published works: 
  • 'The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman (review)', Feminist German Studies 38.2 (2022): 112-14.
  • 'Relational Epistemologies: Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen'Forum for Modern Language Studies, (2024) [Forthcoming]
  • Sanna Elving, Katie Jukes, Miriam Schwarz, and Surabhi Shukla, 'Queering EB v France', in Queer Judgements Project, ed. by Nuno Ferreira, Maria F. Moscati, and Senthorun Raj, Counterpress [Forthcoming].