
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)