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
every Thursday from 10-11am
About me
- Lecturer and Researcher
- Research Assistant to Professor Kirchhofer
- Teaching: Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Contemporary Novel, Torture, Human Rights, post-9/11 literature and film, muslim representations in film and literature
- 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).
- Coordinator for the Buddy Program of the International Students Office / Institut for American Studies
Current
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Publications
- "Literature and Cultural Diplomacy: An Essay on Cultural Readings". insitute for cultural diplomacy. [link coming soon]
- "Wörter am Fließband". Die Zeit.online. 27.12.2010. online
Talks & Papers
- "Literature and Cultural Diplomacy: Different Culture, Different Reading?". The Language of Art & Music - A Three Piece Puzzle: The Relationship between Culture, International Relations and Globalization. (Institut for Cultural Diplomacy, London: 25-29, August 2011)
- “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 (Uniwersytet Szczecin, Poland: 21-23 September 2011).
Upcoming:
- “Representing the Paradox of Human Rights: Forms and Functions of Representing Torture in Literature and Film”. Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (Central Michigan Universtiy, Michigan: 10-13 November 2011).
- “Menschenwürde im Folterdiskurs seit dem 11. September – Das gefolterte Subjekt zwischen Unantastbarkeit und konsequentialistischem Relativismus.”. Verfassung und Transzendenz (Technische Universität Dresden/SFB Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn: 25-26 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
Mentoring
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