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Hannah Willcox

Hannah Willcox assists in coordinating research development, organising courses and events, and providing support to (international) PhD researchers.

In 2024 she completed a Master’s degree in German Literature Studies at the University of Greifswald. With a background in Cultural Studies and Art History she is interested in concepts of postmigration, political writing and temporality in contemporary German literature and film. Before joining the coordination team, she was a research student at the IRTG and has worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology in Greifswald.

University of Greifswald

IRTG Baltic Peripeties
Anklamer Str. 20
17489 Greifswald
Germany

Room: 0.01
+49 3834 420 3597
hannah.willcox[at]uni-greifswald.de

Department of German Philology

  • “Fiction, Futurity and Fabulation – Approaching Poetics and Politics in Contemporary Postmigrant Writing,” 2024 Doctoral Conference of DAAD-funded Centres for German and European Studies, Cambridge, UK, November 26-28, 2024.
  • Participation in the seminar “Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen,” GSA 48th Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA, September 27-29, 2024.
  • “Zeit und Zugehörigkeit in queeren und postmigrantischen Erzählungen der Gegenwart,” Gender im Fokus, Interdisciplinary Colloquium, IZfG Greifswald, July 12, 2024.
  • Moderation and talk with Dîlan Canan Çakir, “Asyl im Archiv? Über kurdische Diaspora, Gender und das deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach” AFTER HOURS, IZfG Greifswald, December 05, 2022.
  • “(K)ein festgeschriebenes я – Queeres Erzählen und postmigrantische Identitäten in Sasha Marianna Salzmanns Außer Sich (2017),” Gender im Fokus, Interdisciplinary Colloquium, IZfG Greifswald, November 11, 2020.

University studies and degrees

  • 04/2021-03/2024
  • M.A. in German Literary Studies, University of Greifswald. Title of Master Thesis: „Uns gehört die Zukunft” – Zeit und Zugehörigkeit in postmigrantischen Erzählungen der Gegenwart [“The future is ours” – Temporality and Belonging in contemporary postmigrant narratives].
  • 10/2017-09/2020
  • B.A. in German Studies and Art History, University of Greifswald.

Professional background

  • Since 04/2024
  • Assistant Coordinator, IRTG “Baltic Peripeties – Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald.
  • 02/2022-03/2024
  • Research Student, IRTG “Baltic Peripeties”. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald.
  • 01/2021-07/2023
  • Research Assistant, DFG project “Schreibweisen der Gegenwart. Zeitreflexion und literarische Verfahren nach der Digitalisierung”. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald.
  • 03/2019-01/2021
  • Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Eckhard Schumacher. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald

Teaching

  • Winter Semester 2024/25
  • Seminar “Media Theory”. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald.
  • Winter Semester 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22
  • Tutorial “Introduction into Text Analysis”. Department of German Philology, University of Greifswald.