College:
Clare
Email:
ps535@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor:
Scholarships/Prizes:
Cambridge International Scholarship 2014
Cambridge-Ukraine Scholarship 2011
International Parliamentary Scholarship of the German Bundestag 2011
Fulbright Faculty Development Program Scholarship 2009
DAAD Summer School Scholarship 2008
Student Scholarship of the Ukrainian Parliament 2007
Research:
Analysing Herta Müller’s literary works, critical essays, and interviews, I show how language is conceptualised metaphorically. I argue that in her writing and speech, Müller uses categories of sensory perception and motor activity to reason about the more abstract concept of language.
Academic publications:
‘Metaphorical conceptualization of destructive and destructible language in the work of Herta Müller’, Monatshefte (forthcoming)
‘Metaphorical conceptualization of injurious and injured language in Herta Müller’, Modern Language Review, 111:4 (2016): 1068-1084.
‘Unpacking the suitcases: Autofiction and Metaphor in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel’, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 50:2 (2014): 197-215.
‘Voroshylovhrad lost: memory and identity in a novel by Serhiy Zhadan’, Slavic and East European Journal, 57:3 (2013): 372-387.
Further information:
Student Representative on SSLC
Faculty Graduate Representative
