M. A. Kristina Weber
Lecturer of British Literature / English Literary Studies
Room 8008
August-Bebel-Straße 28
kristina.weber(at)uni-rostock.de
Tel.: +49 (0)381 498-2583
Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594
Office hours lecture-free period SS 2024
26.07.2024 from 13.00 - 14.00 o'clock
19.08.2024 from 11.00 - 12.00 o'clock
(Please note that changes to office hours will be announced under the menu item "News")
Education
2020–present
Doctoral student, PhD topic: The Intersections of Queerness and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Literatures in English (Rostock)
(Funding: Promotionsstipendienprogramm "Unsere Besten promovieren in Rostock")
2017–2019
Master of Arts, British and American Transcultural Studies and Communication and Media Studies (Rostock)
2014-2017
Bachelor of Arts, Anglistik/Amerikanistik and Communication and Media Studies (Rostock)
Research Interests
- Queer sexualities and genders (in literature)
- Masculinity Studies
- Postcoloniality and Transculturality (in literature)
- Intersectionality
- Caribbean and Black British literature(s)
Conference Presentations
"Queer Kinship: Masculinity, Age and the Closet in the Windrush Generation: Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman (2013)." Workshop Masculinities Aging Between Cultures: Methods and Concepts in Dialogue, Rostock (04/2021)
Memberships
- Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
- Beratendes promovierendes Mitglied des Promotionsausschusses (seit 05/2021)
Teaching
WS 2024/25
Proseminar: Queerness and the Civil War in Sri Lankan Literature
SoSe 2024
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies
SoSe 2023
Proseminar: "No Modernism Without Lesbians": The Sapphic Novel in Early 20th-Century Britain
SoSe 2022
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Caribbean Short Stories (LA Grundschule)
WS 2021/22
Proseminar: Caribbean Short Stories
SoSe 2021
Proseminar: Intersectionality in Recent Black British Fiction: A Case Study of Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
WS 2020/21
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft