Helga Ramsey-Kurz
A.o. Univ.-Prof.
Mag. phil., Dr. phil., MA
Ringvorlesung "Our Own Shakespeare"
Room: 40319
Office hours: please make an appointment
: +43 512 507 4159
Research and teaching interests
- Postcolonial literatures and theory
- Configurations of wealth and justice theories
- Migrant and refugee literature
- Life writing
- Material culture
- Literacy and book culture
Administration
- Coordination of Writer in Residence 2018
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Recipient of a Charlotte Bühler Habilitation Grant from the Austrian Science Foundation
Organiser of the 15th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Lanugage Studies (EACLALS) and from 2014-17 Chair of EACLALS (EACLALS: https://eaclals.eu)
Board member of the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA: http://www.easa-australianstudies.net)
Selected Publications
1) Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction. Eds. Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy. Cross/Cultures 201. Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2017.
2) Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature. Eds. Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Geetha Ganapathy-Doré. Cross/Cultures 135. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
3) The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English. Costerus New Series 171. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 506 pp.