David Kern
Research Assistant
Department of English I
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany
Office: Philosophikum, Room 1.116
Tel: +49 (0) 221 / 470 - 3035
E-Mail: kernd@uni-koeln.de
Key Research Areas
- Indigenous Australian & Canadian Literature
- Indigenous Studies
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Ecocriticism / Environmental Philosophy
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- "Islamic Fiction"
- Migration Studies
Recent Publications
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"River(s) of Resistance - Narratives of Water and Struggles for 'ex-colonialism' in the Work of Tony Birch." Fire, Water and Land in Indigenous Australia, edited by Dany Adone, Melanie Brück and Bentley James, Centre for Australian Studies Publication Series, Forthcoming 2019.
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“Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen's Goldstone (2016).” with Victoria Herche. Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent, edited by Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019, in print.
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[With Beate Neumeier] "Remembrance and Memorialisation - Tom Wright's Black Diggers (2015) and the Anzac Myth." Der Erste Weltkrieg in der Dramatik, edited by Christian Klein and Franz-Josef Deiters, Metzler, 2018, pp. 223-236.