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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

  • "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.

  • “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.

  • [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. 

CV

since 2018
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

since 2017
Doctoral Candidate and Coordinator at the Centre for Australian Studies (CAS)

2016-2018
Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

2016
State Examination (equivalent of MA) in English, Philosophy and Educational Science, University of Cologne

Publications
Journal Articles / Articles in Edited Books:
  • "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.

  • “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.

  • [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. 

  • "Nature as a living agent – Reading Nature and Environment in Mudrooroo’s Dr. Wooreddy’s Prescriptions for Enduring the Ending of the World (1983)." Nature and Environment in Australia, edited by Beate Neumeier, Boris Braun and Victoria Herche, WVT, 2018, pp. 177-18.

Courses
Office Hours

During the semester (Summer Term 2020)

Mondays, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm via Skype.

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