About me

• Studied English, Political Science in Oldenburg and Stockholm.
• Worked in the Office for International Relations, City of Oldenburg
• Worked for the Salzburg Global Seminar and the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
• Master thesis: "Literary Representations of Torture from the Gothic Novel to Contemporary Anglophone Fiction." (2009).

Current

• 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
• 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

Courses

• 2011/12 Representations of Muslims in Literature and Film after 9/11
• 2011/12 BM7 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
• 2011 AM Literary Representations of Torture
• 2010-11 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature

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). [Participation made possible by a generous sponsorship of the Wolfgang Schulenberg-Programm]

• “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).

Contact

Daniel Sip

Institute of English and American Studies
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg

• Email: d.sip@uni-oldenurg.de
  
• Tel: +49 (0) 441 - 798 - 4541

Office Hours

every Thursday from 10-11am

Mentoring

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