M. A. Kristina Weber

Lecturer of British Literature / English Literature 

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

  • Asexuality, asexual reading methods
  • Queer sexualities and genders (in literature)
  • Postcoloniality and Transculturality (in literature)
  • Caribbean and Black British literature(s)

Publications

“Amatonormativity and the Postcolonial Condition: An Asexual Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions-Trilogy.” In: Przybylo, Ela and Yo-Ling Chen, eds. Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms. Routledge, forthcoming.

“Review: Sherronda J. Brown. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2035

“Queer Kinship: Masculinity, Age and the Closet in the Windrush Generation in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman (2013).” In: Hartung, Heike, Roberta Maierhofer and Christian Schmitt-Kilb, eds. Masculinities Ageing Between Cultures: Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue. Aging Studies. Transcript, 2024. 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839469064-008

Conference Presentations

“Asexuality and Aromanticism in Postcolonial Literature – A Conspicuous Lack?” Postgraduiertenforum: Queering Postcolonial Worlds, Bremen (2023).

“Asexual Perspectives on Liveability and Grievability.” Postgraduiertenforum: Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death, Bonn (2022).

“Narratives of Ageing, Queerness and Migration in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman (2013).” Tagung: Narratives and Counter Narratives of Aging and Old Age: Reflexivity in Aging Studies, Bukarest, Rumänien (2022, online).

“Work in Progress: Asexuality in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature.” Workshop: Critical Uninhabitations, Rostock (2022)

“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 (2021, online)

Memberships

  • Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network (https://www.aroaceresearch.com/)
  • Beratendes promovierendes Mitglied des Promotionsausschusses der PHF (seit 05/2021)
  • Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)
  • Anglistikverband

Teaching

SS 2026
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies

WS 2025/26
Proseminar: Selected Fiction by Akwaeke Emezi

SS 2025
Proseminar: Queerness and the Civil War in Sri Landan Literature
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies

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