Louise Louw

Louise Louw is a Researcher (Research Assistant) at the Department of English, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. She is affiliated with the Institute for English Philology and contributes to both research and teaching in literary and cultural studies.

• MA in English Philology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2015–2017)
• BA in English Literature and Mandarin Chinese, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2015–2017)

Her research focuses on Historiographic Fiction, Contemporary Asian American Literature, Trauma Literature, and Postcolonial/Transcultural Literature, with broader interests in Cultural Studies and Cultural Narratologies. She has taught courses like Graphic Narratives: Representations of Trauma, Identity and Collective Experience in Graphic Novels and Crazy Rich Asians: Immigration, Assimilation, and Identity in Contemporary Asian American Fiction, reflecting her expertise in analyzing trauma, identity, and cultural dynamics in literary works.

Contact: louise.louw@uni-giessen.de. Office hours are conducted online via email scheduling.