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Daniela Dora is a DAAD Teaching Fellow (Lektorin) and Bye-Fellow in German at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in German Studies from Ghent University and has taught at institutions in Belgium, the Netherlands, South Korea, Mexico, and the UK.
- Education: MA in Modern German and English Literature (Regensburg University), with studies at Vanderbilt University (US) and Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles.
Her research intersects literary studies with travel theory, queer ecology, and Indo-German cultural relations. Recent projects include environmental sustainability in German curricula and multisensory approaches to literary analysis. Her publications address topics like anti-tourist strategies in Ilija Trojanow’s India writings, performative teaching methods, and transmedia storytelling.
Articles highlight her expertise in queer ecological readings of German literature, acoustic landscapes in postcolonial contexts, and interdisciplinary intersections of architecture, film, and literary criticism. She co-edits the Cambridge-based undergraduate research journal denkfabrik and contributes to the DAAD research hub.
- Scientific Awards: Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017), Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Cambridge, 2019), multiple DAAD research grants.
Daniela actively promotes diversity in academia through roles in the MMLL Faculty’s EDI Committee and as DAAD UK/Ireland lecturers’ representative. She supervises in Modern German and Austrian literature while advancing innovative language pedagogy techniques.
