Frau Dr. Mariam Muwanga

Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Department of British and American Studies)

Biografie

Academic background

• 04/2025–to-date: Lecturer (Lektorin) – English language practice and Anglophone literatures, Department of English and American Studies, University of Wuppertal
• 04/2021–03/2025: Mentor of undergraduate students (full-time), Department of English and American Studies, University of Wuppertal
• 08/2022–03/2023: Postdoctoral researcher with the EU-funded Horizon2020 project: OPPORTUNITIES. Department of English and American Studies, University of Wuppertal
• 10/2014–02/2021: PhD (Dr. phil.) in British literary and cultural studies, University of Wuppertal
• 09/2018–03/2021: Mentor of undergraduate students (part-time), Department of English/American Studies, University of Wuppertal
• 2015–2021: Contact person for international PhD students, Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS/ZGS), University of Wuppertal
• 10/2012–10/2014: Master of Education (English and German Studies), University of Wuppertal
• 09/2009–01/2013: Freelance lecturer of English as a foreign language, Bergische Volkshochschule Wuppertal (Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Wuppertal)
• 04/2008–11/2015: Student assistant at the Chair of Business Computing and Operations Research (WINFOR), University of Wuppertal
• 10/2007–10/2011: Bachelor of Arts (English/American and German Studies), University of Wuppertal
• 04/2006–04/2007: Work and travel (Au Pair) in Germany
• 09/2001–11/2005: Bachelor of Arts with Education (German Language and Geography), Makerere University Kampala

Scholarships and Awards

• 2016-2018: PhD scholarship, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.
• 2017: Travel grant for 7th Biennial Afroeuropeans Conference. University of Tampere (Finland)
• 2015: Cash-prize for dedicated voluntary services by an international PhD student, Center for Graduate Studies (CGS/ZGS), University of Wuppertal.
• 2012-2014: Postgraduate scholarship, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.
• 2010-2011: Undergraduate scholarship, Studienstiftung University of Wuppertal.
• 09/2004: DAAD grant for cultural exchange program between the University of Mainz and Makerere University Kampala.
• 2001-2004: State-funded undergraduate scholarship, Makerere University Kampala.

PhD Dissertation

“Modelling the African Diaspora: Representations of Diasporic Blackness in Black British Fiction.” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Roy Sommer).

Publications

Monographs:

Muwanga, Mariam. Modeling the African Diaspora: Narrative Representations of Diasporic Blackness in Black British Fiction, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2025

 

Articles:

Diallo, Moustapha M., Muwanga, Mariam and Sommer, Roy. “Narrative Maps. Perspectives on Migration from Africa.” (forthcoming, 2025).

Diallo, Moustapha M. and Muwanga, Mariam. “Narrating Diaspora: The African Diaspora as a Counternarrative.” DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research / Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung. vol. 12, no. 2, 2023, pp. 74–91.

Neuigkeiten

Courses and workshops (selection):

• Seminar: Narrating Interracial Love and Friendship in the Windrush Era: A Critical Race Perspective (Summer 2025)
• Seminar: English language grammar courses for students of English and American Studies (Levels C1–C2) (Summer 2025)
• Seminar: Narrating Blackness in Britain – An Intersectional Perspective (Winter 2024)
• Seminar: The Windrush Generation (Winter 2024)
• Close reading workshop: Narrative Inszenierung vom Bildungsaufstieg in Bernadine Evaristos “Girl, Woman, Other“ (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, November 2024)
• Seminar: Narrating Race in Black British Fiction (Summer 2024)
• Workshop: Gender- und Diversitätssensibilisierung im Hochschulkontext (University of Stuttgart, September 2024)
• Workshop: Career guidance for PhD students (Summer School 2023, INP-HB University, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire)
• Workshop: Teaching literature as anti-racist practice – New texts for the EFL classroom (Rassismuskritischer Fremdsprachenunterricht – Aktuelle Perspektiven und Herausforderungen, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, November 2021)
• Seminar: Black identity in the novels of Bernadine Evaristo (SoSe 2021)
• Seminar: Black British Neo-Slave Narratives (Summer 2020)
• Seminar: Multicultural Britain: The Windrush Generation (Summer 2019)
• Seminar: Introduction to English Literary Studies (since Summer 2019)
• Workshop: How to successfully complete your PhD (Summer School 2019, INP-HB University, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire)
• Workshop: The African diaspora on YouTube (GAPS Summer School 2017, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

 

Conference talks and guest lectures (selection):

• “The relevance of gender and race-conscious critique in storytelling: A case-study of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.” Gender History Day–Geschlechterhistorischer Studientag, University of Wuppertal. May 5, 2025 (online).
• “The role of the African Diaspora in Creating a Level Telling Field (LTF) in the Migration Debate.” Roundtable with Dr. Moustapha Diallo (Germany), Prof. Dr. Aly Tandian (Senegal), Prof. Dr. Mary Setrana (Ghana), Abdelkader Sy (Mauritania). Final Conference: EU-Horizon 2020 OPPORTUNITIES, KVS Brussels, Belgium. January 2025.
• “BiPoC-Studierende an der Universität. Narrative Inszenierungen in zeitgenössischen Black British Novels.“ QSP Lecture Series, University of Wuppertal. November 2024.
• “Migration from Africa to Germany – Narrative Dynamics and the Debate about Fluchtursachenbekämpfung.” Department of Anthology and African Studies, University of Mainz. November 2023.
• “Narrative Maps of Migration: African Perspectives.” Presented with Dr. Moustapha Diallo. 4^th Consortium Meeting EU Horizon2020 – OPPORTUNITIES. Dakar, Senegal. February 2023.
• “Crises as Opportunities? Europe and Migration in 2022.” Interculturally Connected Experts (ICE) – PhD Roundtable with Prof. Dr. Roy Sommer and Dr. Carolin Gebauer. University of Wuppertal. January 2023.
• “The African Diaspora and Discourses on Migration in Germany.” International Conference on Narrative 2022, University of Chichester, England. June 2022.
• “Black Europe: The Relevance of Diaspora Literature in 21st Century Europe.” Transformative Wissenschaften – Eine Notwendigkeit in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche? Scholarship-Holder Seminar. Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. (Würzburg), Germany. September 2019.
• “The Chronotope and ‘Victim’ Diaspora: Time and Space in Fictions of/about Windrush.” 9. Graduiertensymposium: Current Trajectories in Narrative Research. University of Wuppertal, Germany. September 2019.
• “Narrative Representations of Black Diasporic Experience(s) in Small Island.” Centre D’Eseignement et de Recherche en Ètudes Postcoloniales. University of Liége, Belgium. April 2019.
• “Intersectionality and Diasporic Blackness: Amplifying Connectedness of Afroeuropean Experiences on Youtube.” Afroeuropeans VI: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe, 6th Biennial Conference. University of Tampere, Finland. July 2017.
• “Modelling the African Diaspora: Representations of Blackness in Black British Narratives.” 7. Graduiertenforum Narratologie: Narrative Formen der Sinnstiftung: Möglichkeiten fiktionaler und faktualer Erzählungen. University of Wuppertal, Germany. November 2016.
• “Narrative Representations of Blackness/Black Experience in Britain.” Platform for Postcolonial Readings: Interrogating the Postcolonial Paradigm. Brussels, Belgium. February 2016.
• “Modelling the African Diaspora: Narrative Representations of Black Experience in Britain.” 6. Graduiertenforum Narratologie: Quo vadis Narratologia? Perspektiven und Grenzen erzähltheoretischer Ansätze. University of Wuppertal, Germany. September 2015.

 

Memberships

• Deutscher Anglistikverband (DAV)
• Center for Narrative Research (ZEF), University of Wuppertal
• German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
• Narrative Research Group (AG Erzählforschung), University of Wuppertal