Helga Ramsey-Kurz
A.o. Univ.-Prof.
Mag. phil., Dr. phil., MA
Room: 40319
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Research and teaching interests
Refugee literature
Postcolonial literatures and theory
Representations of wealth
Visual culture
Literacy and book culture
Administration
Book orders for literary studies
CV
2017: Founder of ARENA: https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/arena/
2014-2017: Chair of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS)
2012: guest professorship University of Alberta, Canada
2008: habilitation
Selected Publications
1) Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction. Eds. Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Melissa Kennedy. Cross/Cultures 201. Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2017.
2) Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature. Eds. Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Geetha Ganapathy-Doré. Cross/Cultures 135. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.
3) The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English. Costerus New Series 171. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 506 pp.