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Hannah Willcox

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

As a doctoral researcher at the Chair for Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the Department for German Philology at the University of Greifswald and with a background in Cultural Studies and Art History she researches concepts of postmigration, belonging and temporality in contemporary German literature and film.

University of Greifswald

IRTG Baltic Peripeties
Rubenowstraße 3
17489 Greifswald
Germany

Room: 3.13
+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 08/2025
  • Doctoral Researcher at the Chair for Modern German Literature and Literary Theory, University of Greifswald.
  • 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.