معرفی
Dr Kirstin Gwyer is a Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Exeter College, Merton College, and Pembroke College. She holds an MSt and DPhil, specializing in comparative literature with a focus on Holocaust and Jewish literature, Afro-German and postcolonial writing, and intersections of literature with science and theory. Her research explores aftermath narratives, postmemory, and Kafka’s legacy in post-Holocaust thought.
Her teaching covers German literature from the 18th century to contemporary works, emphasizing modernism, post-1945 writing, and authors like Thomas Mann and Bachmann. She supervises graduate students in German and Comparative Literature, focusing on Holocaust studies, Jewish literature, and postcolonial themes.
Notable publications include Encrypting the Past: The German-Jewish Holocaust Novel of the First Generation (OUP, 2014) and articles on Grass, Sebald, and Kafka’s intertextual influence. Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary themes like dementia in aftermath writing and posthumanism.
