Mag. Ursula Knoll
Section:
GER
e-mail:
ursula [dot] knoll KlammerAffe ff [dot] cuni [dot] cz
Phone:
+420 221 619 242
Office:
318b
Born:
1981 Personal webpage: http://www.ursulaknoll.com
Short biography
- studied German Studies/Jewish Studies/ French Studies in Vienna and Bishkek (Kirgistan).
- Since September 2012 OeAD- Lecturer at the Department of German Studies, Charles University, Prague.
- 2009-2011 Research Assistant: Postcolonial – Queer: Necessary Entanglements. Postcolonial Theories and Gender Theories as Perspectives for German Literary Criticism. Dr. Anna Babka, Department of German Studies, Univ. of Vienna.
- 2007-2012 Member of the Playwright collective “wiener wortstätten”: Shows in New York (the way to happiness, Austrian Cultural Forum, 2011) and in Vienna ( netz/nest, garage X 2010).
- 2010 Raul Hilberg PhD Fellowship, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC.
- 2009 Thomas-Bernhard-Scholarship for Playwriting, Landestheater Linz.
Research interests
- Holocaust Literature
- Literary Theory
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Postcolonial Theories
- Narratology
- German/Austrian Literature of the 20th century
Current research projects
- PhD-Project: Confessing Nazis: Sexualizing Nazi-Perpetratorship in Literature. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller/ Ass.Prof. Dr. Anna Babka, Univ. of Vienna
- Research Assistant: Narratives in a postimperial context. Nationbuilding in Central Europe. Bilateral WTZ-Project (Dr. Wolfgang Müller-Funk), Univ. of Zagreb – Univ. of Vienna