Leonie John
Postdoctoral Researcher | Research Assistant |
Academic Project Manager "Australian Studies" Digital Master Programme
English Department I (Englisches Seminar I)
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
Office: Philosophikum, 2.209
Tel: +49 (0) 221 / 470 - 4186
E-Mail: l.john(at)uni-koeln.de
Leonie John is currently on maternity leave.
Key Research Areas
- Nuclear Narrations
- Māori and Pacific Literatures
- Mobility Studies (Literary Im/Mobilities)
- Memory and Museum Studies
- Short Fiction
- Postcolonial Theory and Literatures
Upcoming/Recent Conference Presentations and Guest Lectures
- 05/2024: "Historicity and Futurity in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s Eco-Poetry" (Conference Presentation, GAPS 2024: Post/Colonial Environments; University of Zurich)
- 10/2023: "Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga" (Conference presentation, Australian Mobilities: 18th Biennial Conference of the Gesellschaft für Australienstudien; Essen)
- 05/2023: "A 'cluster of mongrel islands' Infrastructures of Connection and Disconnection in Coco Solid's How to Loiter in a Turf War" (Conference presentation, GAPS 2023: Postcolonial Infrastructures; University of Konstanz)
- 05/2022: "'[H]ow dare it be his people'? Family, Agency, Terrorism and Victimhood in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire" (Conference presentation, GAPS 2022: Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures; Goethe University Frankfurt)
- 01/2022: "Pacific memories and entanglements in Māori literature" (Invited guest lecture as part of the course "Memories of Diversity - Diversity of Memories" by Prof.' Dr.' Astrid M. Fellner and Dr.' Magdalena Pfalzgraf (Saarland University - online)
- 11/2021: "'You are nothing from nowhere': The dynamics of remembering and forgetting in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing" (Conference presentation, Memory (Studies) in Africa: State of the Field; MSA Africa Chapter Annual Conference 2021; Pretoria/Frankfurt - online)
- 09/2021: "'This beautiful ocean was once a nightmare to me': Hani Abdile’s ambiguous relationship with the sea" (Conference presentation, Australian Seascapes: 17th Biennial Conference of the Gesellschaft für Australienstudien; Trier - online)
CV
Leonie John is a literary studies postdoc and the academic project manager of “Australian Studies”, an online master that is currently being developed and will be offered at multiple North Rhine-Westphalian universities soon. She completed her Master of Education at the University of Cologne and the German Sports University Cologne in 2016 and subsequently pursued an English Studies PhD as a full-time scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Her thesis is entitled “The Negotiation of Im/Mobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Māori Short Fiction”. Leonie has published on various Māori texts written in English, on teaching such texts in a German context, and on literary research ethics. Her academic interests include Indigenous and postcolonial theories, Pacific literatures and networks, mobility studies, memory studies, museum studies, and nuclear writing.
Publications
Chapters in Edited Collections
- “Teaching Māori literature as a tauiwi scholar: A German case study” In: Janet Wilson/Paloma Fresno-Calleja (eds.). Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace. London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 103-117.
- “Becoming Tupaea: Interweaving Moments of Contact in Witi Ihimaera’s ‘The Thrill of Falling’.” In: Isabell Oberle/Dorine Schellens/Michaela Frey/Clara Braune/Diana Römer (eds.). Literaturkontakte: Kulturen – Medien – Märkte. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2018, pp. 77–95.
Journal Articles
- With Christina Ringel and Friderike Zahn. "Emerging Research in Australian Studies." In: Australian Studies Journal: Zeitschrift für Australienstudien (Special Issue: Emerging Research in Australian Studies) 37, 2023, pp. 9-11.
- “Teaching Māori Literature as a Tauiwi Scholar: A German Case Study” In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing 58 (1), 2022, pp. 402-416. DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2058886.
- “With your foodbasket and my foodbasket, the visitors will be well: Combining postcolonial and Indigenous theory in approaching Māori literature.” Special Issue: Indigenous and postcolonial studies. In: ariel: A Review for International English Literature 51(2-3), 2020, pp. 149–176.
- “‘I was going places’: Investigating the Complexities of Travelling Indigenous Characters in Contemporary Māori Short Fiction.” Special Issue: Moving Centers & Traveling Cultures. In: Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 4(1), 2019, pp. 27-44. Open Access: https://kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/62/50.
- “‘i am the dreams of your tipuna’: Constructing Oceanic memory in contemporary anglophone Māori literature.” In: Pacific Dynamics 2(2), 2018, pp. 146–160.
Teaching
WiSe 23/24
Multi-, Inter-, and Transcultural Perspectives on Literature (BA/MA course, University of Cologne)
SoSe 23
Postcolonial Migrant Literature (BA/MA course, University of Cologne)
WS 22/23
(Anti)Nuclear Literature (BA/MA course, University of Cologne)
WS 21/22
Indigenous Literature from New Zealand - Roots and Routes (BA course, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
WS18/19
Contemporary Indigenous New Zealand Fiction (BA course, University of Cologne)
Office Hours
Summer Semester 2024
No office hour.
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