Awakezi Alifujiang
Research Training Group 2806/1 – Literature and the public sphere in differentiated contemporary cultures
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Universitätsstraße 4091054 Erlangen
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Research Interests
- Contemporary German-Language Literatures
- Literary and Cultural Theory (Decolonial Theories, Anti-Racism, Postmigration, Intersectional Feminism)
- Literature around 1900, Viennese Modernism
Research Projects
Dissertation: “Constructing Agency: Postmigrant Writing as a Resonance Space for Counter-Narratives”
Vita
- Since 10/2025: Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
- 2022–2025: Administrator for International Students’ Affairs at the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies
- 2017–2021: M.A. in Literary Studies – Intermedial & Intercultural (German Studies, Theatre and Media Studies), FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg. Recipient of the FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg Completion Grant for International Students
- Master’s Thesis: The Path into the Inextricable: Jewish Identity Crisis in Arthur Schnitzler’s Novel “Der Weg ins Freie”
- 2020–2022: Student Research Assistant at Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literatur mit systematischem Schwerpunkt, FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg
- Since 2020: Volunteer German Language Tutor in the project “Mama-Mia – Support for Single Parents and Their Children” at the Erlangen Community Foundation
- 2018–2020: Student Research Assistant in the Department of Media and Autonomous Learning at the Language Center, FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg