Ms Miriam Schwarz
- Schroeder Research Associate and Affilliated Lecturer at MMLL German
- Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College
Contact
Location
- RFB room 143
About
Miriam researches novel politics in contemporary German and Anglophone literature, with a particular interest in the representation of gendered, classed and racialised marginalisation through narratological characteristics. In her role as Schroeder Research Associate at 密桃视频, she supports the and CPSJ projects.
Her current research project East (German) Identities in Post-Unification Germany and the Contemporary German Novel examines the narratological characteristics of post-unification novels narrating East (German)-identities 鈥 Post-Soviet, Jewish and racialised 鈥 and their formal interventions in the binaries and racial politics of the ongoing East-West German debate.
Miriam鈥檚 PhD Thesis The Forms of Friendships. How Women鈥檚 Friendship Shape and Challenge Narrativity in Contemporary German and Anglophone Literature examines the narrative innovations that go hand-in-hand with telling women鈥檚 lives in relation to their friends.
Before she came to 密桃视频 for her PhD in 2020, Miriam taught at Oxford, FU Berlin and Beheshti University of Tehran.
Research
Research interests:
- Political Narratology
- 20th and 21st century novels
- Politics of Friendship
- Epistemic Injustice & German memory work
Publications
In progress:
Przechatzky, Franziska, Miriam Schwarz, and Tory Young (eds), 鈥榃hat Happens to Narrative Form When Girl Meets Girl*鈥, Textual Practice Special Issue (anticipated 2027).
Miriam Schwarz, 'Failed Narrative Resurrection in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail (2017)' (in the above).
Miriam Schwarz, 鈥楾ranslated Excerpts of Etienne Lorck鈥檚 鈥淒ie erlebte Rede鈥濃, in Translations of Essays on Free Indirect Style, ed. by Eve Houghton (working title), Narrative Special Issue.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Miriam teaches GEB2 (literary translation into English) and GE13 'Writing the Subject', and is happy to supervise on any modern literature and culture undergraduate modules, especially Ge1 and Ge6, as well as the Ge6 and Ge13 history modules.