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Daniel Šíp

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) Amateur, as in AMATEUR photographer: [Homepage] 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. (December 2011). online "Wörter am Fließband". Die Zeit.online. 27.12.2010. online Talks & Papers "Transformation von Popkultur und popkulturelles Wissen in politische Symbole des Dissens: Zur Verwendung und Instrumentalisierung von online Sprache und Ikonographie durch die jüngsten sozialen Bewegungen in den USA" Jahrestagung der AG Populärkultur und Medien der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Universität Oldenburg/Edith Russ Haus: 13-14 Januar 2012) "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). "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] "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). "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) Upcoming: "Making sense of pain and representation: On the paradoxical discursive pattern of torture representation and legitimacy." 3rd Global Conference: A Making Sense of: Pain(Inter-Disciplinary.Net/Prague 19-21 May 2012)

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 Contact me via Email Bio-Note 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. Worked for governmental institutions and NGOs in Germany and Austria.