![Dr Doriane Zerka Dr Doriane Zerka](/sites/www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/files/styles/leading/public/mmll_website_photo.jpg?itok=NliO8POT)
Faculty of Modern andÌýMedieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Sidgwick Avenue °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ 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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. She received her PhD in German and Hispanic Studies from King’s 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 21stÌýcentury, the history of the German language and medieval literature. Between 2020-2023, she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, considering the role and representation of women as transcultural agents involved in the making of premodern European literature. Her first monograph,Ìý, 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.ÌýImagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature. Transcript 26. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼:ÌýLegenda, 2023.Ìý.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Mapping Mobility: Women and Textual Networks in theÌýFifteenth-Century Prose Epic Herzog Herpin."ÌýInterfaces: A Journal ofÌýMedieval European LiteraturesÌý9 (December 2022): 95–123.Ìý.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Andalusi Space and the European Network in the GermanÌýRolandslied." InÌýAl-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-CulturalÌýContexts, edited by Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil and Julian Weiss,Ìý157–178. London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's CollegeÌýLondon, 2021.
- Zerka, Doriane. "Constructing Poetic Identity: Iberia as a Heterotopia inÌýOswald von Wolkenstein’s Songs."ÌýModern Language ReviewÌý114, No. 2 (AprilÌý2019): 274–293.Ìý.
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