Holding a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies and Literary Studies with a focus on Scandinavia as well as a Bachelor’s degree in World Literature, Marie-Luis is naturally interested in all literature-related things, but especially in the linking of queer studies and literary studies, speculative fiction and everything else that transcends or obliterates borders. After being a research student at the IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” from April 2023 to March 2025, Marie-Luis is now working as a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures at the Institute of Fennic and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald and is pleased to remain involved with the IRTG as an associated member.
Marie-L. Westfeld
University of Greifswald
Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
17489 Greifswald
Germany
westfeldm[at]uni-greifswald.de
- “Nordischer Klang: Where Science meets Music,” Baltic Peripeties Blog, April 29, 2025, https://peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/nordischer-klang/
- [with Hannah Michalla and Laura Schönhärl] “Queer\ing Scandinavia: Traditional Topics, Recent Research and Current Concerns”. In: Nordeuropaforum – Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2024, S. 71–74.
University studies and degrees
- Since April 2025
- PhD Candidate at the Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures, Institute of Fennic and Scandinavian Studies, University of Greifswald.
- October 2022 – March 2025
- M.A. in Cultural Studies and Literary Studies with a focus on Scandinavia, University of Greifswald.
- 2018 – 2022
- BA in World Literature, University of Göttingen.
Professional Background
- Since October 2024
- Head of Press & PR, Festival Nordischer Klang
- April 2023- March 2025
- Research Student, IRTG “Baltic Peripeties”, University of Greifswald
University Teaching
- Summer 2025
- Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft für Skandinavistikstudierende