Barbara Winckler

Barbara Winckler is Junior Professor for Modern Arabic Literature und Culture at Munster University. She studied Islamic Studies, French Literature and Cultural Anthropology in Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, Damascus, and at the Freie Universitat Berlin, where she received her PhD in Arabic Studies in 2009 and served as acting chair for Arabic Studies (2011-2013). In 2009/2010, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies Berlin (ZfL; project: "Topography of...See more

Barbara Winckler is Junior Professor for Modern Arabic Literature und Culture at Munster University. She studied Islamic Studies, French Literature and Cultural Anthropology in Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, Damascus, and at the Freie Universitat Berlin, where she received her PhD in Arabic Studies in 2009 and served as acting chair for Arabic Studies (2011-2013). In 2009/2010, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies Berlin (ZfL; project: "Topography of the Plural Cultures of Europe"). She was a member of the executive committee of the "European Association for Modern Arabic Literature" (EURAMAL; 2012-2014) and is currently a member of the advisory board of "Fikrun Wa Fann / Art & Thought," a cultural magazine promoting dialogue with the Islamic world published by the Goethe Institute, as well as of the "Arab-German Young Academy" (AGYA).Her research interests include modern Arabic literature, war and postwar discourses in Lebanon, cultural encounters between East and West since the early 19th century, the beginnings of the periodical press in the 'long 19th century', phenomena of borders and thresholds, literary theory and gender studies. In 2011, she received a 5 years research grant (Dilthey fellowship, VolkswagenFoundation) for a project on the newly emerging Arabic periodical press and its impact on the public sphere in the 19th century, concerned with identifying analogies with the beginnings of the periodical press in early modern Europe.Apart from the present volume "Grenzgange" ("Moving Across/Along Borders. Androgyny - Madness - Utopia in Huda Barakat's Novelistic OEuvre"), her publications include a number of articles well as several co-edited volumes on different aspects of Arabic literature, such as "Arabesken / Arabesques" (2005), "Poetry's Voice - Society's Norms. Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies" (2006), "Arabic Literature - Postmodern Perspectives" (2010), and "A Life in Praise of Words. A?mad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Nineteenth Century" (forthcoming). In addition, she is member of the editorial board of the German "Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur" (a critical dictionary of contemporary authors of world literature) and of the book series "Literatures in Context. Arabic - Turkish - Persian." See less