Rachel Ramsey
Address: School of Languages Linguistics and Cultures, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester
email: Rachel.Ramsay@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
My PhD focuses on Turkish and Jewish Encounters in Contemporary German Fiction and Film, and is supervised by Professor Margaret Littler and Doctor Cathy Gelbin.
My main disciplinary areas are German cultural studies, contemporary German-Jewish and Turkish-German writing, German cinema, diaspora, hybridity, mimicry, cultural memory, Holocaust studies, representational studies and stereotype.
I am a member of the Manchester Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network , which is a collaborative research network with a monthly reading group and annual conference and workshop.
Conference Presentations:
Cross-cultural and intergenerational Encounters in Rabinovici's Ohnehin (2004) at the Women in German Studies Annual Conference, University of Sussex, 10th November 2007.
'Stereotyping and Otherness in Katja Behrens' Die Vagantin'. Diasporas, Migration and Identities Postgraduate Conference at the University of Leeds, 13-14th December 2006.
'Theorising Jewish and Turkish encounters in German literature since the 1980s'. Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Holocaust Research Workshop: a collaboration between Royal Holloway, University of London, Manchester University and the Wiener Library funded by the AHRC, 18th September 2006.
'Cultural Memory and Commemoration in Zafer Senocak's Gefährliche Verwandtschaft: Positionality, Embodiment and Psychoanalysis'. Annual Postgraduate Conference: School of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Manchester, 25th February 2005.
Membership of Professional Organisations:
Teaching Areas: Introduction to European Cinema, Trends in European and Post-Colonial Cinema.
Professional biography: B.A. German Studies, M.A. 'Cultures of Migration, Diasporas and Cultures', both at the University of Manchester.