Daniel Šíp, Magister
Born in Hamburg. Studied English (Anglophone Literature) and Political Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. Magister thesis analysed "Literary Representations of Torture from the Gothic Novel to Contemporary Anglophone Fiction".
Currently researches for a dissertation project in the field of "Literature and Human Rights" and teaches for the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik at Oldenburg University. Annually employed as a Program Associate for the Salzburg Gobal Seminar, assisting the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.
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Daniel Sip
Institute of English and American Studies
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg
Office Hours
About me
- Lecturer and Researcher
- Research Assistant to Professor Kirchhofer
- Teaching: Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Contemporary Novel, Literary Market, Academic Writing
- Research: literary representations of torture, human rights discourses, political torture, contemporary Anglophone literature, literary and cultural theory
- Studied English, Political Science in Oldenburg and Stockholm.
- Master thesis: "Literary Representations of Torture from the Gothic Novel to Contemporary Anglophone Fiction." (2009).
- PhD project: "Torture Representations and the Problems of the Human Rights Subject in the Post-9/11 Discourse." (working title).
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Publications
- "Wörter am Fließband". Die Zeit. 27.12.2010. online
Talks & Papers
Upcoming:
- “Plotting the Power Dilemma of Politics and Language: Literary Representations of Torture in a World after 9/11”. Who is ´us` and who is ´them´ after 9/11 – Reflections on Language, Culture and Literature in Times of Ideological Clashes (Szczecin, 21-23 September 2011).
- “Representing the Paradox of Human Rights: Forms and Functions of Representing Torture in Literature and Film”. Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (Michigan, 10-13 November 2011).
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Courses
- 2011 AM Literary Representations of Torture
- 2010-11 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature
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