M. A. Kristina Weber

wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Britischen Literatur / Anglistischen Literaturwissenschft

Philologicum

Raum 211

Universitätsplatz 3
18055 Rostock

kristina.weber(at)uni-rostock.de

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

Fax: +49 (0)381 498-2594

Sprechzeiten vorlesungsfreie Zeit Wintersemester 2025/26

10.02.2026 von
13.00 - 14.00 Uhr

13.03.2026 von
14.00 - 15.00 Uhr

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Education

2020–present
PhD: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (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

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