Benmalek's extraordinary (& under-appreciated!) ghost novel regresses from the Holocaust to the Herero and Nama genocide via colonial Algeria, proposing ways of thinking laterally across multiple histories of violence.
Holocaust Studies just published my article on spectral time and memory ethics in Anouar Benmalek's Fils du Shéol. You can read it online here:
https://t.co/1oPan52D6Y
Breaking twitter hiatus to share some happy news: Last month, I defended my doctoral thesis @UniofOxford! It's called: 'Relating Remembrance: Intersections of Post-Holocaust and Postcolonial Memories in Contemporary Literatures in French and German'
Many, many thanks go to the many, many wonderful people who supported me along the way (see acknowledgements), as well as to my examiners, Jane Hiddleston and Dirk Göttsche, for their rigorous & generous feedback!
Thrilled to have been named runner-up at the W+IGS essay prize for my work on Anne Weber, with my wonderful Doktorschwester Isabel Parkinson taking the win! Huge thanks to the judges & organisers, to my supervisors, to @QueensCollegeOx, @OxfordGerman & @OxfordModLangs 🌻
Our second runner-up was Hannah Scheithauer @HannahScheitha1 for her essay entitled 'Annette, ein Heldinnenepos (2020): Transnational Memory and the Limits of Relation.'
"An elegantly written and nuanced analysis of Weber’s work within transnational memory studies." 12/
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year's PGR (essay) and ECA (book) prizes, generously sponsored by Peter Lang and German Life & Letters! The prize-giving ceremony on Monday was a wonderful celebration of talent, preceded by an inspiring workshop on publishing. 1/
The sun has come out in time for my official induction @StJohnsOx, where I’ll hold a part-time Lectureship in French this academic year. Excited to be part of this wonderful community as while I wrap up the olde thesis & can’t wait to meet my students!