Dr Kirstin Gwyer

Academic Subject(s): Modern Languages and Joint Schools

Teaching

German translation, German literature from the eighteenth century to the present, with a special interest in modernist and contemporary writing. Prescribed authors offered include Thomas Mann, Kafka and Bachmann.

Research

Kirstin Gwyer’s research interests are in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with a particular focus on modern Jewish and Holocaust literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century aftermath writing, comparative literature, literary theory and postmodernism, and intersections between literature and science. She is currently writing a book on Kafka’s intertextual afterlife in works by authors and thinkers responding to human limit experiences: genocide, (post)colonialism, racism, terrorism, environmental collapse.