Anne-Marie McManus
- Comparative Literature
Areas of Expertise:
Literary theory; Arabic and francophone literatures; Literary ethnography; World literature; Ecocriticism
Membership:
since
2021
Contact
Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany
Wallotstr. 14
14193 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 89 001 424
mcan(at)trafo-berlin.de
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About me
I currently head the ERC-funded project SYRASP (“The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria”) at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, Germany.
Having completed my training and most of my academic career outside Germany, I am happy to have the opportunity to join AGYA to work with new collaborators and reflect critically together on the dynamics of Arab-German academic exchange.
Academic career
| 2020 - 2026 | European Research Council Starting Grant |
| 2020 - today | Principal Investigator, European Research Council Grant “SYRASP”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin |
| 2017 - 2021 | Mellon Sawyer Fellowship: “Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living On in the Middle East” Co-director with Dr. Nancy Reynolds |
| 2017 | NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship |
| 2016 - 2017 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship |
| 2013 - 2020 | Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2013 | Robert E. Darling Fellowship for Excellence in the Humanities, Yale University |
| 2013 | Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University |
| 2011 | John F. Enders Research Fellowship, Yale University |
| 2004 | B.A. American Studies, Northwestern University |
- Working Groups
- Common Heritage and Common Challenges
- Dynamics of Transformation
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
Michael Allen, In the Shadow of World Literature