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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Miriam Schwarz

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Name:Miriam Schwarz (she, her)

College: Jesus College

Email: ms2713@cam.ac.uk

Supervisor: Prof Sarah Colvin

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

About

Before starting her PhD at the Ƶ 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.

Scholarships/Prizes

Jesus College Ƶ Schröder PhD Scholarship

Teaching

GE6

GE13

GEB2

Conference papers (selection)

  • "Queer Counterfactuals; Working collaboratively on Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns and Karosh Taha’s In the Belly of the Queen", GSA 2023, Montréal.
  • "Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar's Drei Kameradinnen" , WIG 2022, Portland, OR.
  • “‘Race is Bigger than Our Friendship’. The ‘We’- Narrator and Racial Segregation inAminatou Sow’s and Ann Friedman’s Big Friendship.” Given at the 93th annual conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2021, Online).
  • “Building a Future on Feminist Friendship. An Intertextual Approach on Friendship as a Gender Non-Conforming Practice in Contemporary German and English Writing”, given at the ‘Gender (Non)Conformity’- Conference, organized by the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Oxford, 2019).

Publications

  • The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature by Nicole Coleman (review)',Feminist German Studies38.2 (2022): 112-14.
  • 'Relational Epistemologies: Friendship and Reading in Shida Bazyar'sDrei Kameradinnen',Forum for Modern Language Studies, (2024) [Forthcoming]
  • Sanna Elving, Katie Jukes, Miriam Schwarz, and Surabhi Shukla, 'Queering EB v France', inQueer Judgements Project, ed. by Nuno Ferreira, Maria F. Moscati, and Senthorun Raj, Counterpress [Forthcoming].
  • ‘Antirassismus Interdisziplinär’, along with for ‘Kontrovers’

Other Activities and Roles

  • Girl meets Girl* Network for Queer Narratology (co-founder with )

If you are working on narratological approaches to womxn centred narratives, and are interested in joining this network, email Miriam: ms2713@cam.ac.uk

  • (contributor)
  • (co-founder with and )
  • Co-President of the 2023/2024 (together with )

Recent events Miriam organised:

  • Girl meets Girl* online conference 2023, with keynote speaker
  • (together withTara Talwar Windsor):
  • "Queer, Working Class and Kurdish Experiences in German Literature"
  • The Politics of Storytelling, Workshop at the Ƶ Festival 2023 (together with Melina Mandelbaum)