Frau Dr. Mariam Muwanga

Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Biografie

Academic background

• 04/2021 – to date: Mentor of undergraduate students, Department of English/American Studies, University of Wuppertal.
• 08/2022-03/2023: Postdoctoral researcher with the EU-funded Horizon 2020 Project: OPPORTUNITIES. Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal.
• 09/2018-03/2021: Mentor of undergraduate students, Department of English/American Studies, University of Wuppertal.
• 10/2014-02/2021: PhD (Dr. phil.) in British literary and cultural studies, University of Wuppertal.
• 2015-2021: Contact person for international PhD students, Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS/ZGS), University of Wuppertal.
• 2012-2014: Master of Education (English and German Studies), University of Wuppertal.
• 2008-2014: Student assistant at the Chair of Business Computing and Operations Research (WINFOR), University of Wuppertal.
• 2007-2011: Bachelor of Arts (English/American and German Studies), University of Wuppertal.
• 2006-2007: Work and travel (Au Pair) in Germany.
• 2001-2005: 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). Successfully defended in February 2021, University of Wuppertal

Neuigkeiten

Courses taught and workshops conducted:

• Seminar: Introduction to English Literary Studies (since Winter 2021/22)
• 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: Introduction to English Literary Studies (Winter 2020/21)
• Seminar: Black British Neo-Slave Narratives (Summer 2020)
• Seminar: Introduction to English Literary Studies (Winter 2019/20)
• Seminar: Introduction to English Literary Studies (Summer 2019)
• Seminar: Multicultural Britain: The Windrush Generation (Summer 2019)
• Workshop: Project and Time Management for PhD students (Summer School 2019, INP-HB Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire)
• Workshop: The African diaspora on YouTube (GAPS Summer School 2017, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

Conference talks and guest lectures

• “Narrative Maps of Migration: African Perspectives.” Presented with Dr. Moustapha Diallo. 4^th Consortium Meeting of OPPORTUNITIES (EU Horizon 2020. Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Wuppertal). 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. 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.
• “Identitäts- und Genderkonstruktionen in der Web-Serie An African City.” Chabos wissen wer der Babo ist – Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Identifikationen und kultureller Hybridität. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. December 2014.

Memberships

• Deutscher Anglistikverband (DAV)
• Center for Narrative Research (CNR/ZEF), University of Wuppertal
• European Narratology Network (ENN)
• German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
•  International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
• Narrative Research Group (AG Erzählforschung), University of Wuppertal
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLAS)