Dorit Neumann
English Department
Universität Münster
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
Germany
Room: ES129
Phone: +49-(0)251 83-25628
Email: dorit.neumann@uni-muenster.de
Dorit Neumann (she/her) is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Chair of English, Postcolonial, and Media Studies at the English Department of Münster University. She holds a master’s degree in British, American, and Postcolonial Studies and her MA thesis “Black Presence as Absence: Postcolonial Hauntologies and the Oceanic in Homegoing and The Vanishing Half” explores hauntological concepts, Blackness, and theories of the oceanic in relation to the remembrance of transatlantic slavery in contemporary Black American women’s fiction. Transferring these considerations to the British context, her current dissertation project focuses on memory politics and hauntings of empire in the history of Black British literature. She has previously worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Variation Linguistics, at the Collaborative Research Center “Law and Literature,” and at the Chair of American Studies at Münster University.