Mrs Daniela Dora

Gonville and Caius College
  • DAAD Teaching Fellow (Lektorin)
  • Bye-Fellow in German, Lucy Cavendish College
Mrs Daniela Dora

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About

Daniela DORA is currently DAAD Teaching Fellow in German Studies at Gonville & Caius College / Trinity College and Bye-Fellow in German at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her PhD at Ghent University Belgium (near completion) deals with the intricate interconnections between literary discourses and concepts of tourism in the context of travels from Germany to India.

Daniela has taught German language, literature and translation at institutions of higher education in Belgium, the Netherlands, South Korea and Mexico. Prior to her appointment at Cambridge, Daniela was teaching associate at Ghent University and Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, a visiting research fellow at the University of Luxembourg and tutor in German at King’s College London. She studied at Regensburg University, Germany, and Vanderbilt University, US, and holds an M.A. in Modern German and English Literature from Regensburg University.

Diversity and inclusivity lie at the heart of Daniela’s research and teaching. She is a member of the MMLL Faculty’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee and serves as current representative of DAAD lecturers employed in the UK and Ireland.

She is the founder and co-editor of denkfabrik – a Cambridge-based Online Undergraduate Research Journal in German Studies and a reviewer for literaturkritik.de. Since 2017 she has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2019 she completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Cambridge.

Research

Research interests: 

Her research interests lie at the intersection of literary studies, travel and tourism as well as gender and queer studies. She also works on Indo-German cultural relations.

Recent research projects: 

  • Towards an (Environmentally) Sustainable Curriculum in German Studies (DAAD Cambridge Research Hub in German Studies, 2022)
  • Narrative Spaces and Architectural Story-Telling: On The Intersections of German Literature & Film and the Built Environment (DAAD Cambridge Research Hub in German Studies, 2021)
  • Ecology in German Literary Criticism – Recent Developments and Approaches (DAAD Cambridge Research Hub in German Studies, 2020)
  • Performative Language Teaching. Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Practice » in collaboration with Dr Natalie Diebschlag (Language Acts and Worldmaking Small Grant, AHRC, King’s College London, 2019)
  • Literature and Tourism. Contemporary German-speaking Travel Texts on India in the Context of Modern Tourism Practices (PhD Dissertation, Department of German Studies, Ghent University)

 

Published works: 

  • ‘Plastic and Queer Desire – a Queer Ecological Reading of Josef Winkler’s contemporary writing’, Oxford German Studies, 51.3 (2022).
  • ‘Soundwalks through the Anthropocene. The Acoustic Landscape in Josef Winkler's Der Stadtschreiber von Kalkutta (2019)’, Austrian Studies, 30 (2022).
  • ‘Reisen als Intertextueller Schreibprozess in Grünter Grass‘ Netajis Weltreise (2015)’, Germanistische Mitteilungen, 48 (2022, forthcoming).
  • Daniela Dora and Katie Ritson, ‘Perspectives on German Ecocriticism: Introduction’, in ‘Ecology in German Literary Criticism – Recent Developments and Approaches’, Oxford German Studies, 51.3 (2022).
  • Daniela Dora and Katharina Forster, ‘Introduction: Reisen im Kontext der NS-Zeit. Orte, Texte und Erinnerungen’, Germanistische Mitteilungen, 48 (2022, forthcoming).
  • ‘Multisensorik und Performance in Josef Winklers transmedialem Reisewerk‘, in Inter- und transmediale Ästhetik bei Josef Winkler, ed. by Anke Bosse, Christina Glinik, Elmar Lenhart (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2022).
  • Daniela Dora and Katharina Forster, ‘Reading literature in the ab initio classroom’, in Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education. The Case of German, ed. by Ulrike Bavendiek, Silke Mentchen, Christian Mossmann, and Dagmar Paulus (London: UCL Press, 2022).
  • ‘Goethes Faust improvisieren - Performative Zugänge im fremdsprachlichen Literaturunterricht’, BGDV-Rundbrief: Fachzeitschrift für DaF und angewandte Linguistik (2021).
  • ‘Die Suche nach einem anderen Indien. Antitouristische Abgrenzungsstrategien und Selbstkanonisierung in den Indientexten Ilija Trojanows’, in: (Off) The Beaten Track?: Normierungen und Kanonisierungen des Reisens, ed. by Hajo Diekmannshenke, Stefan Neuhaus and Uta Schaffers (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018).
  • ‘Der Erzähler als Tourist und Ethnograf in Ilija Trojanows literarischer Reportagensammlung Der Sadhu an der Teufelswand. Reportagen aus einem anderen Indien (2001)’, Germanistische Mitteilungen, 43.1 (2017), 75-92
  • ‘Pilger, Voyeure und Touristen. Zum Verhältnis von Reisen und touristischer Praxis in Ilija Trojanows An den inneren Ufern Indiens. Eine Reise entlang des Ganges (2003)’, Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik, 8.1 (2017), 75-90.
  • Daniela Dora, Dieter Heimböckel, Eelena Kreutzer et al., ‘Interkulturalität als Herausforderung’, in Interkulturelles Labor. Luxemburg im Spannungsfeld von Integration und Diversifikation. (Études luxembourgeoises/Luxemburg-Studien), ed. by Eva Wiegmann (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2016), pp. 201-222.
  • ‘Reiseblogs im DaF-Literaturunterricht. Eine Unterrichtsanregung’, BGDV-Rundbrief: Fachzeitschrift für DaF und angewandte Linguistik, 28 (2016), 21-32.
  • ‘Die Word-Café-Methode im DaF-Unterricht. Beispiel eines Workshops für den Literaturunterricht’, BGDV-Rundbrief: Fachzeitschrift für DaF und angewandte Linguistik, 28 (2015), 3-18.

Edited special journal issues and books

  • Daniela Dora and Katie Ritson (ed.), ‘Ecology in German Literary Criticism – Recent Developments and Approaches’, in Oxford German Studies, 51.3 (2022).
  • Daniela Dora and Katharina Forster (ed.), ‘ Reisen im Kontext der NS-Zeit. Orte, Texte und Erinnerungen’, in Germanistische Mitteilungen, 48 (2022, forthcoming).
  • BGDV-Rundbrief: Fachzeitschrift für DaF und angewandte Linguistik 27 (2015).
  • Daniela Dora, Bea Paelman and Carine De Pau, Ich hätte eine Frage … Wortschatz, Redemittel und Grammatik (Gent: Academia Press, 2013)

Teaching and supervision

Daniela teaches translation and German language, and lectures and supervises on Modern German and Austrian literature.

Course contact for: 

GE1: Introduction to German Studies