Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Doriane Zerka completed her first degree in German and Hispanic Studies (European Studies) at Queen Mary, University of London and her MPhil in European Literature and Culture at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录. She received her PhD in German and Hispanic Studies from King鈥檚 College London for a thesis on representations of Iberia and the construction of identities in medieval German literature. After completing her doctoral studies in 2019, she worked as Lecturer in German for Queen Mary, University of London, where she taught a variety of courses on German literature up to the 21st听century, the history of the German language and medieval literature. Between 2020-2023, she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录, considering the role and representation of women as transcultural agents involved in the making of premodern European literature. Her first monograph,听, was published with Legenda in the Transcript series in 2023.
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- Medieval German Literature
- Medieval Iberian Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Critical Theory & the Middle Ages
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Doriane Zerka works broadly on medieval literature from the German-speaking and Iberian worlds from a comparative, transcultural and transtemporal approach, putting into dialogue modern theory with premodern Europe. Particular interests include postcolonial theory, Orientalism and representations of the medieval Iberian past, network theory in relation to the mobility and connectivity of literature in medieval Europe, approaches to gender in medieval texts and the representation of medieval women in modern scholarship.
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- Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature (Doctoral project, 2015-2019)
- Women as Transcultural Agents in Premodern European Literature (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2020-2023)
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- Zerka, Doriane.听Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature. Transcript 26. 澳门六合彩开奖记录:听Legenda, 2023.听.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Mapping Mobility: Women and Textual Networks in the听Fifteenth-Century Prose Epic Herzog Herpin."听Interfaces: A Journal of听Medieval European Literatures听9 (December 2022): 95鈥�123.听.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Andalusi Space and the European Network in the German听Rolandslied." In听Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural听Contexts, edited by Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil and Julian Weiss,听157鈥�178. London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College听London, 2021.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Constructing Poetic Identity: Iberia as a Heterotopia in听Oswald von Wolkenstein鈥檚 Songs."听Modern Language Review听114, No. 2 (April听2019): 274鈥�293.听.
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