Media

Language and Rhythm, a podcast by Charlotte Lee and Tim Chesters about the power of rhythm in language, from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Supported by the British Academy and the Schröder Fund, University of Cambridge: https://shows.acast.com/language-and-rhythm-university-of-cambridge. Watch the accompanying film, "Language and Rhythm": https://www.youtube.com/@mmllcambridge

What’s novel about a novel? Storytelling and travelling knowledge, 26 March 2024: Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz & Tara Talwar Windsor. To view the recording of this event, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tEHIdHkgE

Being in connection: a conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo: on Friday, 18 March 2022, Sharon Dodua Otoo also gave a public reading from her highly acclaimed novel Adas Raum (2021), in English translation (by Jon Cho-Polizzi), and in conversation with the literary expert Maryam Aras. The event can also be watched back here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A1nkHWLAjA&t=4s

In Search of Resonance: On Black German Literature and Literary Criticism: Sharon Dodua Otoo delivered the annual Schröder Lecture on Monday, 14 March 2022, exploring themes of Black aesthetics and Black writing from the Weimar Republic to the present. The lecture can be watched back here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3wlTykhzq4

Publications

• Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor (ed.), Re-writing Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Intervention (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2024).

• Miriam Schwarz, ‘Relational Epistemologies: Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen.’ Forum for Modern Language Studies, 60:2 (2024), 219–237 https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae051

• Stephanie Galasso, Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024)

• Sarah Colvin and Tara Talwar Windsor (ed.), Special Issue: The Literary and Essayistic Writing of Sharon Dodua Otoo, German Life and Letters 77/1 (2024).

• Stephanie Galasso, ‘Vocabulary for an Unthinkable Grammar: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Synchronicity. German Life and Letters 77/1 (2024), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12401

• Alrik Daldrup, ‘Von der ‘Macht, Welt zu machen’: Radikale Demokratie in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum.’ German Life and Letters, 77/1 (2024), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12400

• Tara Talwar Windsor, ‘Visionen vom idealen Geschichte-Schreiben und Geschichte-Machenʼ: Epistemic (In)Justice and Insurrection in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Historical and Memory Activism.’ German Life and Letters 77/1 (2014), 10-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12398

• Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso (ed.), Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency. Global Perspectives on Literature and Film, New York/London 2023.

• Sarah Colvin, ‘Doing Drag in Blackface: Hermeneutical Challenges and Infelicitous Subjectivity in Courasche, or: Is Grimmelshausen Still Worth Reading?’ Daphnis 50/4 (2022) , 666-692. https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340045

• Sarah Colvin, ‘May Ayim and Subversive Laughter: The Aesthetics of Epistemic Change.’ German Studies Review 45/1 (2022), 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0005.

• Sarah Colvin, ‘Freedom Time: Temporal Insurrections in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum.’ German Life and Letters 75/1 (2022), 129–165

• Melina Mandelbaum, ‘Administering Exclusion: Statelessness, Identity Papers and Narrative Strategy in B. Traven’s Das Totenschiff (1926).’ Forum for Modern Language Studies 57/2 (2021), 186–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqab015 

• Sarah Colvin, ‘Talking Back: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin and the Epistemology of Resistance”’. German Life and Letters 73 (2020), 659-79 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.12287

• Sveinung Sandberg and Sarah Colvin, ‘“ISIS is not Islam”: Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance’. British Journal of Criminology, online 23 May 2020 https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaa035/5843316

• Sarah Colvin, “‘The credibility of elves’: narrative exclusion and prison writing’, in Michelle Kelly and Claire Westall (eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice. London: Routledge 2021, 21-37

• Stephanie Galasso Form and Contention: Sati as Custom in Günderrode's 'Die Malabarischen Witwen.' Goethe Yearbook 24 (2017), 197-200.

• Sarah Colvin, ‘Unerhört? Prisoner Narratives as Unlistened-to Stories and Some Reflections on the Picaresque’. Modern Language Review 112 (2017), 442-60

• Sarah Colvin, ‘Why Should Criminology Care about Literary Fiction? Literature, Life Narratives and Telling Untellable Stories’. Punishment & Society 17/2 (2015), 211-29 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1462474515577152