Norah El Gammal

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- Postcolonial theory
- Poststructuralism (esp. deconstruction)
- Life-writing and auto-/biography
- Caribbean literatures and philosophies of the 20th and 21st century
- Memory studies

Research activities

Since 09/2024
Research assistant at the Chair of Western European Literatures, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Since 09/2024
PhD on Caribbean Auto-/Biographies (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Allerkamp)

04/2023 - 08/2023
Teaching assistant "Introduction to Literary Studies", European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

11/2021 - 09/2022
Student assistant for the project 'Pensées Françaises Contemporaines', European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

11/2016 - 09/2020
Student assistant at the Chair of Comparative Literature, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Scientific education

07/2024
M.A. in Sociocultural Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

11/2020 - 07/2024
Master's programme (Sociocultural Studies, with emphasis on: Literary Studies and Philosophy), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

09/2017 - 01/2018
Erasmus stay at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV), Department Lettres modernes

10/2020
B.A. in Comparative Literature and Linguistics (major subject), French Cultural Studies, English Studies (minor subjects)

10/2015 - 10/2020
Bachelor's programme (Comparative Literature and Linguistics, French Cultural Studies, English Studies) at Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Other activities

Since 10/2022
Trainer at the Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism (KIgA e.V.)

2024

Hiatus and Haunting - The Ocean as the Site of Disaster
Talk at the International Conference "Transoceanic Imaginations", Konstanz