M. A. Kristina Weber

Lecturer of British Literature / English Literary Studies

Philologicum

Room 211

Universitätsplatz 3
18055 Rostock

kristina.weber(at)uni-rostock.de

Tel.: +49 (0)381 498-2154

Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594

Office Hours this Semester (teaching weeks)

Thursday from

15.30 to 16.30 o'clock

(Please note that changes to office hours will be announced under the menu item "News")

Education

2020–present
Doctoral student, PhD topic: The Intersections of Queerness and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Literatures in English (Rostock)
(Funding: Promotionsstipendienprogramm "Unsere Besten promovieren in Rostock")
  
2017–2019
Master of Arts, British and American Transcultural Studies and Communication and Media Studies (Rostock)
  
2014-2017
Bachelor of Arts, Anglistik/Amerikanistik and Communication and Media Studies (Rostock)

Research Interests

  • Queer sexualities and genders (in literature)
  • Masculinity Studies
  • Postcoloniality and Transculturality (in literature)
  • Intersectionality
  • Caribbean and Black British literature(s)

Conference Presentations

"Queer Kinship: Masculinity, Age and the Closet in the Windrush Generation: Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman (2013)." Workshop Masculinities Aging Between Cultures: Methods and Concepts in Dialogue, Rostock (04/2021)

Memberships

  • Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
  • Beratendes promovierendes Mitglied des Promotionsausschusses (seit 05/2021)

Teaching

WS 2024/25
Proseminar: Queerness and the Civil War in Sri Lankan Literature

SoSe 2024
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies

SoSe 2023
Proseminar: "No Modernism Without Lesbians": The Sapphic Novel in Early 20th-Century Britain

SoSe 2022
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Caribbean Short Stories (LA Grundschule)

WS 2021/22
Proseminar: Caribbean Short Stories

SoSe 2021
Proseminar: Intersectionality in Recent Black British Fiction: A Case Study of Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (2019)

WS 2020/21
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft