Nina Morais

Nina Morais is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Rhodes University. Her research explores themes of transculturality, hybridity, and cannibalism as aesthetic practices, alongside transnational migration literature, contemporary German theater/film, and German-speaking countries' relations with the Global South.

• Ph.D., Modern German Literature and Culture, Indiana University
• M.A., Germanic Studies, Indiana University
• B.A., German and Translation Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• B.B.A., Business and Management, Escola Técnica de Formação Gerencial, Brazil

Her teaching incorporates performative pedagogy, with experience in second-language instruction for German, English, Spanish, and Portuguese since 2009. Expertise spans German Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and cross-cultural literary analysis.