MA Ksenia Robbe

Ksenia Robbe, MA

 

Personal Data

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    International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
  • Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
  • 35394 Giessen
    • Germany
  • Phone: +496419930083
  • E-Mail: ksenia.robbe@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Research Interests

    South African literature and culture; African literatures

    Postcolonial and transnational theory

    Gender theory and women's writing

    Theories of dialogism

Current Research Project

Doctoral Thesis:

Dialogics of Motherhood: Contemporary South African Women's Writing and the Politics of Translocation

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning (Univeristy of Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Ena Jansen (University of Amsterdam)

 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Since 09. 2007: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen (Germany)

PhD Fellow, GCSC scholarship holder

2006 - 2007: Maternity leave

09.2003 - 07.2005: St. Petersburg State University(Russia)

MA in African and Oriental Studies (African Literatures)

09. 2004 - 05. 2005 : St. Petersburg State University

    Supplementary studies: Diploma in Teaching Russian as Foreign Language

09. 2002 - 07. 2004 : St. Petersburg State University

    English Translation and Interpretation Studies

09. 1999 - 07. 2003 : St. Petersburg State University

    BA in African and Oriental Studies (Languages and Cultures of Southern Africa)

09. 1988 - 06. 1999 : Ochtinsky School of Arts and Humanities, St. Petersburg
 
 

Publications

Academic Essays

Dialogue Within Changing Power Structures: Commodification of Black South African Women?s Narratives by White Women Writers?

Commodifying (Post)Colonialism: Othering, Reification, Commodification and the New Literatures and Cultures in English. ASNEL Papers 16. Eds. Rainer Emig and Oliver Lindner. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010, 109-124.

Comparison as Translation: Looking for Possibilities of Studying South African Literatures Comparatively

In: Papers of International Hermes Seminar, Rodopi. In print.

The Difficulty of Belonging: Reading Across the Times and Spaces of South African Women's Autobiographic Quests

In: GCSC Series (Papers from the GCSC Symposium 'Anders: Identitäten'. Accepted for publication.

Controversies and Conversations: Linguistic and Generic Translations in/of Antjie Krog's Relaas van 'n Moord

In:Proceedings of the Conference Conventions and Conversions: Generic Innovations in African Literatures, March 2010, Berlin. Accepted for publication.

Reviews

Dispropriating Law and Literature.. Review of Mark Sanders. Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007.
    http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=25881
      Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Eds. Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,Nicole Svobodny,Ludmilla A. Trigos. Illinios: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2006.

      In: Wasafiri. Journal of International Contemporary Writing Issue 'African Europeans', 56 (Winter 2008), 84-85.

      Encyclopaedia Entries

      34 entries on South African writers for 'Encyclopaedia Africa'. Pub. by Africa Institute of the Russian National Academy of Science, Moscow. In print.

      Translation

      Riana Scheepers. Dom v tri s polovinoj istorii ['n Huis met drie en 'n half stories]. In: Under My Africa?s Sky: History, Culture and Languages of Africa. Vol. 4. Moscow: Publishing House ?Kluch-S? 2009, 195-203.[/h2]
       
       

      Presentations

      Strokes of Motherhood: Contesting Future in the Past in Contemporary South African Women's Writing. The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) 15th Triennial Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, June 6-11, 2010.

      Mothers of the 'Lost Generation': Questionable Communities and Complicities in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother and Marlene Van Niekerk's Agaat. 21st Annual ASNEL/GNEL Conference 'Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination', University of Bayreuth, May 13-16, 2010.

      Controversies and Conversations: Genre and Language in Antjie Krog's Writing. Paper read at the conference 'Conventions & Conversions: Generic Innovations in African Literature', HU Berlin, March 2010.

      Transpositionings: Chronotopes of Decolonization in Short Stories of Njabulo Ndebele and Zoë Wicomb

      Paper read at the GNEL Conference 'Postcolonial Translocations', Münster, May 2009.

      Voyage In - Voyage Out, or: How to Read a South African Text?

    • Seminarie Afrikaanse Letterkunde, Limburg Universitair Centrum, Hasselt (Belgium), July 2008

      • Afrikaanse literatuur: ´n oorsig

    • Haus der Niederlande, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Presentation given in the framework of the lecture series 'Taalkunde: Afrikaans' (Prof. Dr. Amand Berteloot), December 2006

      • Canonisering van Zuid-Afrikaanse vrouwenliteratuur

    • Haus der Niederlande, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Presentation given in the framework of the lecture series 'Canoniseing in de Nederlandse literatuur' (Prof. Dr. Lut Missinne), June 2006.
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      Teaching

      'To Hear the Variety of Discourses':South African Literatures and Literary Cultures

      Proseminar, Module 'Cultural Studies'

      SS 2009, Anglistik, University of Giessen
       
       

      Membership

      • GCSC Research Area 6 'Culture and Identities'
        GGK Sekiton 2 'Literatur- und Kulturtheorien'
        GCSC Gender Equality Committee (2008/09)
        GCSC/GGK/IPP International Forum (co-speaker with Eleonora Ravizza)
        GNEL/ASNEL (Association for the Study of New Literatures in English)
        • EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)