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Doro Wiese is a lecturer of Literary Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She was trained in Film Studies and Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg. She received her PhD (cum laude) from Utrecht University, where she was a Marie Curie doctoral research fellow and a Junior Teacher at the Gender Studies Program / Media and Culture Studies Department. Before she decided to reenter academia, she worked for several years as an editor, journalist, and translator (among others of texts by Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Her current research reflects on how literature can make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable, and how it configures a space in which unvoiced, silent or silenced difference might emerge. Other interests include the relation between literature and historiography, intermediality, philosophies of time, critiques of (neo-)colonialism, racism, sexism, homo- and transphobia.

Teaching in 2011/2012

Introduction to Literary Studies (Inleiding Literatuurwetenschap) +++ Introduction to Cultural Analysis (Inleiding in de cultuuranalyse) +++ Literature and Science (Literatuur en wetenschap) +++ Modern Literary Theory (Moderne literatuurtheorie) +++ Film, Literature, Theory (Film, literatuur, theorie) +++ Theory and Criticism: Alterity +++ Seven Masterpieces (Seven meesterwerken)