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Silke Stroh first joined the University of Koblenz in a temporary capacity in the winter semester of 2023-24 and returned as permanent Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies (“Professorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft”) in October 2024. In addition to British Studies, she also teaches Postcolonial Studies (e.g. Caribbean literature und culture) and Didactics.
After her M.A. studies in English, German Literature, Political Science and Celtic Studies in Aberdeen and Frankfurt a.M., she obtained a PhD in English Studies (also from Frankfurt University) with a thesis entitled “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation“. In 2022, she completed her post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Münster with a thesis on “Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora”. She has also held various positions as a lecturer, senior lecturer, assistant professor and temporary professor at the universities of Frankfurt a.M., Gießen, Mainz, Münster, Basel and Oldenburg. Her research areas include Scottish Studies, Black and Asian British and Irish literature, Canada, New Zealand, nationalism and transnationalism, Minority Studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, transculturalism, cultures of memory, intersectionality, political poetry, popular culture, as well as interfaces between English and Celtic Studies.
2022: Completion of habilitation; venia legendi in English Philology; University of Münster; thesis title: "Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora"
2000-2006: PhD in English Studies; University of Frankfurt am Main; thesis title: "(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation"; overall grade: summa cum laude
1994-2000: M.A. in English Literature and Language; additional subjects: German Literature, Political Science; University of Frankfurt am Main; thesis title: "Affirmation und Kritik des Imperialismus in ausgewählten Schriften Joseph Conrads" ("The Apology and Critique of Imperialism in Selected Writings by Joseph Conrad"); overall grade: "mit Auszeichnung" (with distinction)
1996-1997: Visiting student; subjects: English and Scottish Literature and Language, Scottish Gaelic Studies, Celtic Civilisation; University of Aberdeen
since 10/2024: University of Koblenz; Department of English; full Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies ("Professorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft")
04/2023 - autumn 2024: University of Oldenburg; Institute of English and American Studies; Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies
10/2023-03/2024 University of Koblenz; Department of English; Temporary Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies ("Vertretungsprofessorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft")
2023 & 2016: University of Basel; English Department; Adjunct Lecturer of Postcolonial and Scottish Studies
2022-2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Research Office; Manager for funding proposals and externally funded projects
2006-2022: University of Münster; English Department.
Latterly Senior Lecturer ("Akademische Oberrätin a.Z.", 2020-2022);
previously Lecturer / Assistant Professor ("Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin", 2006-2020) and Acting Full Professor of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies (while tenured incumbent was on leave in 2010-2011)
2014-2015: University of Mainz (Germersheim campus); School of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies; Temporary Junior Professor of Anglophone Studies (while usual incumbent was on leave)
2005-2006: University of Gießen; English Department; Junior Lecturer
1996-2006: University of Frankfurt am Main; English Department;
latterly Adjunct Lecturer (2005-2006),
previously Junior Lecturer (2000-2001) and
Teaching & Research Assistant (1995-1996, 1998-2000)
2018: ESSE Book Award (European Society for the Study of English) in the category "Cultural and Area Studies" for Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900.
2010-2018: Research grant from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for an international, interdisciplinary research network on the subject "Black Diaspora and Germany"
2015: Member of the organising and fundraising team for the international academic conference "Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V"; participation in the writing of a successful grant application to the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2012: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) for attending the 11th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Istanbul
2010: Library grant for the purchase of Canadiana for Münster University's English Department, Understanding Canada / University Library Support Program, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) & International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS)
2009: Member of the organising and fundraising team for the international academic conference “Postcolonial Translocations”, which received grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), from the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster (a society of friends and supporters of Münster University), and from various regional business companies
2001-2004: Research grant from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) for PhD project “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation”
1996-1997: Study grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) for a year at the University of Aberdeen
2014-2015 & since 2018: International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL)
since 2012: Deutscher Hochschulverband (German interdisciplinary association of university teachers)
since 2010: Peer reviewer for various academic journals (Anglica, Anglistik, EnterText, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, La questione romantica: Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici, Litteraria Pragensia, Postcolonial Text, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), Scottish Literary Review)
since 2009: European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
since 2009: Deutscher Anglistikverband (German Association for the Study of English; formerly known as Deutscher Anglistenverband)
since 2006: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS)
since 2003: Association for Scottish Literature (ASL; previously known as Association for Scottish Literary Studies / ASLS)
since 1996: Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS), previously known as Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) / Gesellschaft für Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen (GNEL)
2011-2017: Member of the International Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
2011-2016: Society for Scottish Studies in Europe
2014-2015: Official international contact person of the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL)
2013-2014: Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
I teach British and Irish literature and culture, as well as Postcolonial Studies (e.g. Caribbean or New Zealand literature und culture) and Didactics.
Brief descriptions can be found in our KLIPS course catalogue.
Registered course participants can find more extensive information (e.g. on contents, schedules, requirements and deadlines), as well as reading materials, on our online learning platform OLAT.
Students planning to write term papers under my supervision or do oral exams with me can find more information in my exam folder on OLAT. If you wish to schedule an oral exam in the lecture-free period, please contact me at the latest on May/November 30 of the respective term.
I am available as a supervisor for Bachelor, Master and PhD theses related to my subject areas.
If you are interested in writing your thesis under my supervision, please contact me as early as possible to discuss your idea/s for a topic. Once we have agreed on a basic topic, you’ll need to do further preparations (including research of possible primary and secondary sources, writing an abstract, and drafting a structure and work schedule/timeline). Moreover, all my Bachelor and Master thesis candidates will be expected to actively participate in my colloquium (in the current semester, this will be a block seminar in February, see above).
At the University of Koblenz:
At other universities:
At present, my main project is the preparation of a monograph based on my postdoctoral thesis “Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora.”
In addition, I am currently doing editorial work and essay projects on Scottish poetry and folktales from c. the 17th to the 19th century; as well as preparing a larger project on Black and Asian British literature and culture.
MONOGRAPHS:
Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900.
Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press 2017.
Winner of the ESSE Book Award 2018 (European Society for the Study of English) in the category "Cultural and Area Studies".
Reviewed in:
Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry.
SCROLL series (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature), vol. 17. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2011.
Reviewed in:
EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS:
Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture.
Ed. with Manfred Malzahn. Issue no. 13.1 of Scottish Literary Review, 2021.
The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora.
Ed. with other members of the research network “Black Diaspora and Germany” (‘BDG Network’). Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018.
Reviewed in:
Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries.
Ed. with Carla Sassi. Glasgow: Scottish Studies International 2017.
Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking.
Ed. with Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein. Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013.
E.g. reviewed in:
Hybrid Cultures – Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World.
Ed. with Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein. Cross/Cultures series, vol. 129. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010.
Reviewed in:
Transcultural Identities: Britain.
Ed. with Britta Freitag. Issue no. 95 of Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch ('Foreign-language Teaching: English'), 2008
Postcolonial Theory: The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography.
Assistant editor. Main editor: Dieter Riemenschneider. Preface Homi K. Bhabha. Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2004. Repr. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat 2006.
Acolit
(newsletter of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, ASNEL; https://g-a-p-s.net/acolit/)
Member of the editorial team 1996.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:
"Shifting Grounds: Writers of Colour in Twenty-first-century Scottish Literature." Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New, ed. by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi & Scott Hames, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2022, 104–122.
“Literature and Beyond: The Uses of Postcolonial Perspectives in Gaelic Studies.” Cànan is Cultar / Language and Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 10, ed. by Wilson McLeod, Anja Gunderloch & Rob Dunbar, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press 2021, 1–18.
“Orientalism, Islamophobia and Scottish Multiculturalism in Torcuil Crichton’s Rewriting of Kidnapped”, in Scottish Literary Review 13.1 (2021), special issue: Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture, ed. Manfred Malzahn & Silke Stroh, 69–88.
“(Post)Colonial Contexts of the Declaration: Conquest, Resistance and the Ambiguities of Writing Back.” Scotland and Arbroath 1320 – 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence, ed. Klaus Peter Müller, Scottish Studies International, vol. 43, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang 2020, 55–73.
"Scottish–Indian Connections and (Trans)National Identity: Bashabi Fraser’s Engagement with the Literary and Visual Archive,” in Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU) ('Literature in Research and Teaching') 49.4 (officially dated 2016, but actually published in 2019), 249–264.
“Migration, Multiculture and Mirroring: Gaelic / South Asian Outreach in Iain Crichton Smith’s ‘An Duine Dubh’ and ‘The Exiles,’" in Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 28.55 (2018), themed issue: Irish-Language & Scottish Gaelic Literatures: A Global Context, ed. Radvan Markus & Petra Johana Poncarová, 82–95.
“Postcolonialism, Celticity, and the Nation State: Interrogating Old and New Multiculturalisms in Europe and beyond,” in Contested Identities: Literary Negotiations in Time and Place, ed. Claudia Marquis, Roger Nicholson & Gertrud Szamosi, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2015, 3–30.
“British (Post)Colonial Discourse and Imagined Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo's Londinium to Caesar's Britain and Gaul,” in Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires, ed. Barbara Buchenau & Virginia Richter, with Marijke Denger; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 182; Leiden & Boston MA: Brill Rodopi 2015, 181–215.
“Theories and Practices of Transmigration: Colonial British Diasporas and the Emergence of Translocal Space,” in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking, ed. S. Stroh, Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013, 295–320.
“Towards a Postcolonial Environment? Nature, 'Native', and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry,” in Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures, ed. Ines Detmers, Nancy Grimm, Katrin Thomson & Laurenz Volkmann; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 121; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, 189–203.
“Transperipheral Translations? Native North American / Scottish Gaelic Connections,” in Translation of Cultures, ed. Petra Rüdiger & Konrad Gross, Cross/Cultures series, vol. 106; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2009, 255–271.
“The Long Shadow of Tacitus: Classical and Modern Colonial Discourses in the Eighteenth- and Early-nineteenth-century Scottish Highlands,” in Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities, ed. Frank Schulze–Engler & Sissy Helff, Cross/Cultures, vol. 102; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2009, 339–354.
OTHER ARTICLES:
“Empire & Colonialism”, in International Companion to Scottish Gaelic Literature, ed. Sìm Innes & Sheila Kidd, Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literature, forthcoming 2024/25.
“Gaelic Poetry and Drama” (c.1910–1979), in The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature, ed. Ian Duncan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025 (with Michelle MacLeod).
“Scottish Writers of Colour and their Place in the Canon: A European Perspective”, in The Meeting of Scotland and Europe, ed. Aniela Korzeniowska & Izabela Szymańska, Warschau: Semper 2024, 79–92.
“Introduction,” in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 17–32 (co-written with other network members).
“George Padmore’s Writings in and about Germany: Interfaces of Race, Class and (Anti-)Imperialism”, in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 118–134.
“Introduction,” in Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries, ed. Carla Sassi & Silke Stroh, Glasgow: Scottish Literature International 2017, vii–xviii (with Carla Sassi).
“Nation and Home,” in The International Companion to Scottish Poetry, ed. Carla Sassi, Glasgow: Scottish Literature International 2015, 144–155 & 247 f (with Carla Sassi).
“The Gaelic Voice in (Post)Colonial Discourse: An Alignment Illustrated by Case Studies of Neil Gunn, William Neill and Tormod Caimbeul,” in Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)Colonial Borderline, ed. Carla Sassi & Theo van Heijnsbergen, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2013, 77–91.
“Revisioning Irish Postcolonialism: The Scottish Connection,” in Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, ed. Katrin Röder & Ilse Wischer; Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, vol. 34; Trier: WVT 2013, 35–46.
“Damien O’Donnell, East Is East (1999),” in Film, ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke & Laurenz Volkmann; Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, vol. 3.1; Trier: WVT 2013, 259–277.
“Introduction: Directions of Translocation – towards a Critical Spatial Thinking in Postcolonial Studies,” in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking, ed. S. Stroh, Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013, xiii–lxxix (with M. Munkelt, M. Schmitz & M. Stein).
“Alistair MacLeod and the Casualties of Global Modernity: Colonisation, Diaspora and Class in No Great Mischief,” in Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU) ('Literature in Research and Teaching') 44.4 (2011), 237–253.
“Gaeldom and Multi-ethnic Scotland: A Long History and a Short Story,” in The Bottle Imp 10 (Nov. 2011).
“Introduction,” in Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, ed. S. Stroh, Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series vol. 129; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, xi–xlvi (with U. Lindner, M. Möhring & M. Stein).
“Muslims, the Discourse on (Failed) Integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan’s Film Yasmin,” in Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, ed. S. Stroh, Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures, vol. 129; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, 229–251.
“Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of NOT,” in Novels, ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer & Laurenz Volkmann; Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, vol. 2.1; Trier: WVT 2008, 135–156.
“Crossing Cultures – from Burns to Bhangra! Identitätsentwürfe im Film Ae Fond Kiss untersuchen” (‘… Analysing identity constructions in the film Ae Fond Kiss’), in Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch ('Foreign-language Teaching: English') 95 (2008), themed issue: Transcultural Identities: Britain, ed. S. Stroh & Britta Freitag, 30–37 (with Britta Freitag).
“Cultural Identities on the Move,” in ibid., 2–6 (with Britta Freitag & Uta v. Reinersdorff).
“Transkulturalität und Intertextualität in der Oberstufe: Arranged Marriage in Film und Drama” (‘Transculturality and Intertextuality in Senior High School Teaching: Arranged Marriage in Film and Drama’), in Moderne Dramendidaktik für den Englischunterricht (‘Modern Methods and Suggestions for Teaching Drama in EFL Classrooms’), ed. Rüdiger Ahrens, Maria Eisenmann & Matthias Merkl; Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2008, 371–384.
“Moral und Politik in Conrads nichtfiktionalen Schriften: Eine postkoloniale Polemik“ (‘Morality and Politics in Conrad’s Non-fictional Writings: A Postcolonial Polemic’), in Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), ed. Cordula Lemke & Claus Zittel; Memoria, vol. 8; Berlin: Weidler 2007, 33–57.
“Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and Postcolonialism,” in Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, ed. Anke Bartels & Dirk Wiemann; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 90; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2007, 181–195.
REVIEWS:
Wilson McLeod, Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2020). In: Journal of British Studies 61.4 (2022), 1068–1070.
Inspiring Views from “a’ the airts” on Scottish Literatures, Art & Cinema: The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014, ed. Klaus Peter Müller, Ilka Schwittlinsky & Ron Walker (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang Edition 2017). In: Scottish Literary Review 9.2 (2017), 188–190.
Beredter Norden: Schottische Lyrik seit 1900 ('Eloquent North: Scottish Poetry since 1900'), ed. Iain Galbraith (Berlin: Edition Rugerup 2011). In: The Bottle Imp 19 (June 2016).
Seanchaidh na Coille: The Memory-Keeper of the Forest. Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada, ed. Michael Newton (Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press 2015). In: The Bottle Imp 19 (June 2016).
Scotland 2014 and beyond – Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?, ed. Klaus Peter Müller (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang 2015). In: Études Écossaises ('Scottish Studies') 18 (2016), 168–174.
Michael Klevenhaus, Grammatikübungsbuch Schottisch-Gälisch (Hamburg: Buske 2014). In: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie ('Journal of Celtic Philology’) 62 (2015), 227–230.
Ideological Battlegrounds: Constructions of Us and Them before and after 9/11, Vol. 1: Perspectives in Literatures and Cultures, ed. Joanna Witkowska & Uwe Zagratzki (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2014). In: Anglistik 26.2 (2015), 211–213.
Rosemary Anne Selle, The Parritch and the Partridge: The Reception of Robert Burns in Germany. A History, 2nd revised and augmented edition by Lennart Brieger, Tiana Mareen Fischer, Ines Gundlach, Mirja Kristina Michels, Juliane Pflugmacher, Frauke Reitemeier & Mar Sydymanov (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang 2013). In: Scottish Studies Newsletter 45 (May 2015), print version: pp. 65-69; online version: pp. 59–62.
Listening to Africa: Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures, ed. Jana Gohrisch & Ellen Grünkemeier (Heidelberg: Winter 2012), and The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags by Eldred Durosimi Jones, with assistance from Marjorie Jones (Woodbridge: James Currey 2012). In: Wasafiri 29.1 / issue 77 (2014), 93 f.
Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes, ed. Anna Gonerko-Frej, Malgorzata Sokol, Joanna Witkowska & Uwe Zagratzki (Aachen: Shaker 2011). In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 37.2 (2012), 279–283.
Stefanie Lehner, Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature: Tracing Counter-Histories (Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan 2011). In: Postcolonial Text 7.2 (2012).
Monika Bednarek, The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity (London & New York: Continuum 2010). In: Anglistik ('English Studies') 22.2 (2011), 178–181.
Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial, ed. Susanne Reichl & Mark Stein (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2005). In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 13.1 (2006), 91 f.
Postcolonial Wales, ed. Jane Aaron & Chris Williams (Cardiff: U of Wales P 2005). In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 12.2 (2005), 182–184.
OTHER SHORT PUBLICATIONS:
“Postcolonialism”, in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers & Moira Hansen, Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2025
“Editorial”, in Scottish Literary Review 13.1 (2021), special issue: Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture, ed. Manfred Malzahn & Silke Stroh, v–x. (co-written with Manfred Malzahn)
“Ùpraid anns a' ghàrradh: Mì-mhodh, mion-chànain, agus feum air àite tèarainte” (‘Uproar in the Garden: Impoliteness, Minority Languages and the Need for Safe Space’), Clish (blog run by Gregor Addison), 3 August 2020; republ. on Progressive Gaelic, 5 September 2020.
“Preface,” in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 10-16 (co-written with other network members).
Conference report: “‘Empires and Revolutions: R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish Writers on Globalisation and Democracy, c. 1850–1950’, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), Stirling, 3–5 July 2015.” In: Scottish Studies Newsletter 46 (2016), 95–97.
Endorsement of Michael Newton's Seanchaidh na Coille: The Memory-Keeper of the Forest. Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada (Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press 2015) as one of the “Best Scottish Books of 2015.” In: The Bottle Imp 18 (2015).
“Celticity and the Gaelic Voice in (Post)Dolonial Discourse,” on homepage of seminar 31 of the 2010 conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE; Torino, Italy, 24–28 August; seminar title: “Dis/placing the British Empire: Theoretical and Critical Views from Scottish Studies”), School of English & Scottish Language & Literature (SESLL), University of Glasgow, Homepage: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/ seminarsandconferences/esse2010seminar31/papersandabstracts/#d.en.150544; direct URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_165657_en.pdf (publ. July 2010).
“Auswahlbibliografie“ (select bibliography for further reading on the journal issue’s topic), in Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’) 95 (2008), themed issue: Transcultural Identities: Britain, ed. S. Stroh & Britta Freitag, 7 (with Britta Freitag).
Abstract of PhD dissertation “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation,” Acolit 58 (July 2006), 68–72.
“Die Bildungsstandards und ihre Umsetzung in den 16 Bundesländern: Der Stand der Dinge” (‘The New National Educational Standards and their Implementation in the 16 Federal States of Germany: The Current Situation’), in Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 81 (3 / 2006), themed issue: Bildungsstandards, ed. Wolfgang Hallet & Andreas Müller–Hartmann, 10 f.
139 entries in Postcolonial Theory: The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, main ed. Dieter Riemenschneider, preface Homi K. Bhabha, Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2004; repr. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat 2006.
Conference report: “Global Fragments: Dis-Orientation in the New World Order (Magdeburg)”, in The European English Messenger 12.2 (2003), 76–78.
Conference report: “The Cultural Politics of English as a World Language (Freiburg),” in The European English Messenger 10.2 (2001), 75–77.
Conference report: “Shakespeare: Vom Globe zur Globalisierung (Bremen)” (‘Shakespeare: From the Globe to globalisation’), in Acolit 48 (June 2001), 9 f.
Abstract of M.A. thesis “Affirmation und Kritik des Imperialismus in ausgewählten Schriften Joseph Conrads” (‘The apology and critique of imperialism in selected writings by Joseph Conrad’), in Acolit 47 (December 2000), 22 f.
Conference report: “Towards a Transcultural Future (Aachen),” in Acolit 46 (June 2000), 10–12.
Conference report: “Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English-Speaking World (Tübingen),” in Anglistik ('English Studies') 10.2 (1999), 195–199.
CONFERENCE KEYNOTES & INVITED PAPERS:
2022: “Scottish Writers of Colour and their Place in the Canon,” keynote, “Scotland in Europe Conference V,” University of Warsaw
2018: “Literature and beyond: The Uses of Postcolonial Perspectives in Gaelic Studies,” keynote, conference “Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 10,” University of Edinburgh
2017: “Indian Dimensions in Scottish National Identity: Bashabi Fraser’s Engagement with the Literary and Cultural Archive,” invited paper, workshop “Indian and Northern Europe – Identity Formation, Nation, and Knowledge Transfer in the 19th and 20th Century,” University of Kiel
2014: “Walter Kennedy as an Early Postcolonial Trailblazer? Medieval and Modern Images of the Border-crossing Intellectual,” invited paper, symposium “Educated Out: The Literature of these Isles,” University of Aberdeen
2012: “Postcolonialism, Celticity and the Nation State: Interrogating Old and New Multiculturalisms in Europe and beyond,” keynote, 14th International Conference on the Literature of Region & Nation, University of Pécs
2012: “European (Post)Colonialisms and the Historicisation of Difference: From Antiquity’s Empires to Convivial Futures,” keynote, conference “Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality,” University of Bamberg
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION:
2022: Member of the international steering committee of the 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Charles University, Prague, 22–26 June). Also organisation of a panel on “Writing Scotland’s (Post-)Imperial Diasporas.”
2015: Member of the organising team of “Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V,” University of Münster
2015: Main organiser (with Carla Sassi) of “Empires and Revolutions: R.B. Cunninghame Graham and Other Scottish Writers on Empire and Democracy (c. 1850–1950),” Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Stirling
2014: Co-organiser (with Alan Riach) of conference section “Edwin Morgan and the Prospect of Scotland,” 12th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice
2013: Main organiser (with Christina Oppel-Hédon) of the 5th Workshop of the research network “Black Diaspora and Germany,” Berlin
2012: Co-organiser (with Manfred Malzahn) of conference section “‘Turks of Tartary’? Images of Islam in Scottish Writing,” 11th International Conference of ESSE, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
2010: Main organiser of “Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity, and the Politics of the Body,” 1st public workshop of the research network “Black Diaspora and Germany,” University of Münster
2009: Member of the organising team of “Postcolonial Translocations,” 20th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL), University of Münster
2007: Member of the organising team of “Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Insecurity & Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World,” University of Münster
2005: Co-organiser (with Peter Marsden & Virginia Richter) of panel discussion “Translating Cultures, Translating Disciplines? Intra- and Interdisciplinary Exchange in Postcolonial Studies,” 16th annual ASNEL conference: “Translations of Cultures,” University of Kiel
2004: Organiser of conference section “‘Celtic Fringes’ and their Diasporas,” 15th annual ASNEL conference: “Transcultural English Studies,” University of Frankfurt
OTHER CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS:
July 2024: “Re-fitting 'The Garb of Old Gaul': Ethnicity, Class and Gatekeeping in Translations and Re-writings of a Popular 18th-century Song.” Paper at 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham
2023: “Colonial Transmigration and the Role of Infrastructure: Practices, Narratives and Memory.” Paper at conference “Postcolonial Infrastructure”, Gesellschaft für anglophone postkoloniale Studien (GAPS; ‘Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies’), University of Konstanz
2022: Paper “(Re-)Imagining the Normanist/Waipu Community: Religion, Gender and Racial Hierarchies”; & panelist at discussion “The Future of Scottish Literatures Past (Pre-Union), 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague
2022: “Re-imagining Zimbabwean and Global Crises: Victimhood and Agency in Tendai Huchu’s Short Fiction.” Paper at conference “Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures“, Gesellschaft für anglophone postkoloniale Studien (GAPS; ‘Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies’), University of Frankfurt
2015: “The Ideological Construct of the ‘Body Politic’ in Karen King-Aribisala’s Kicking Tongues.” Paper at conference “Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts”, Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS; ‘Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies’), University of Münster
2014: “(Post)Colonial Discourse and the British Archipelago(es): Re-reading Travel Writing from the Eve of Union.” Paper at 1st World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Glasgow
2014: “(Post)colonial Celts and the Issue of Racism.” Paper at 129th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Chicago
2012: “Revisioning Irish Postcolonialism: The Scottish Connection.” Paper at Anglistentag (annual conference of the Deutscher Anglistenverband, i.e. the German Association of English Studies), University of Potsdam, Germany
2012: “Muslims and the Scottish Canon: Recent Multicultural Rewritings of Burns and Stevenson.” Paper at 11th International ESSE Conference, Istanbul
2012: “Roman Precedents of British (Post)Colonial Discourse: Patterns, Alignments, Subversions.” Paper at 23rd annual ASNEL conference: “Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires,” University of Bern
2010: “Transperipherality as a Model for Diaspora Studies? – Interfaces of Race, Class and (Post)colonialism.” Paper at workshop “Transcending Diaspora: Whiteness, Performativity, and the Politics of the Body,” University of Münster
2010: “Celticity and the Gaelic Voice in (Post)Colonial Discourse.” Paper at 10th International ESSE Conference, Torino
2010: “Inter-colonial Migrations and the Evolution of Transnational Identities.” Paper at conference “Strokes across Cultures,” Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Nicosia
2010: “Contesting Diasporic Community Identity: Normanism, Gender and Colonial Settlement in the Writings of Flora McPherson and Fiona Kidman.” Paper at 21st annual ASNEL conference: “Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination,” University of Bayreuth
2009: Paper “Theories and Practices of Transmigration: Translocation and Colonial British Diasporas”; & panelist at discussion “Theory and Methods of Teaching Postcolonial Literatures in Secondary Schools,” ASNEL conference “Postcolonial Translocations,” University of Münster
2007: “Towards a Postcolonial Environment? Nature, ‘Native’ and Nation in Scottish Cultural Representations of the Oil Industry.” Paper at 18th annual ASNEL conference: “Local Natures, Global Responsibilities,” University of Jena
2007: “Gender, Islam and (Failed) Integration in Britain: K. Glenaan’s Film Yasmin (2004) and the Public Debate.” Paper at conference “Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Insecurity & Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World,” University of Münster
2006: “Transcultural Visions in a Fractured Mirror: Word and Image in Ken Loach’s Film Ae Fond Kiss.” Paper at 17th annual ASNEL conference: “Word and Image,” University of Koblenz–Landau
2005: “Transperipheral Translations? Native North American / Scottish Gaelic Connections.” Paper at ASNEL conference “Translations of Cultures,” University of Kiel
2004: “The Long Shadow of Tacitus: Intersections of Classical and Modern Colonial Discourses in the 18th-century Scottish Highlands.” Paper at ASNEL conference “Transcultural English Studies,” University of Frankfurt
2004: “Cultural Translation and Liminality in Scotland around 1700: Martin Martin and Maighstir Seathan.” Paper at conference “Connecting Cultures,” University of Kent at Canterbury
2003: “Scotland as a Multi-fractured Post/Colonial Go-between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness, Britishness, and Postcolonial Theory.” Paper at 14th annual ASNEL conference: “Global Fragments: Dis-Orientation in the New World Order,” University of Magdeburg
GUEST LECTURES:
2022: “Decolonising National Space: Regional Cartographies in 21st-century Black British Culture.” Guest lecture in Prof. Mark U. Stein‘s course “Postcolonial Perspectives,” University of Münster
2022: “Indigenous Cosmopolitanism.” Guest lecture in Prof. Mark U. Stein’s course “CosmopolitanismS: Citizens of the World?”, University of Münster
2022: “Neo-Victorianism and Memories of Empire: Settler (Trans-)Migration between Romance and Contestation.” University of Basel
2021: “Coimhearsnachd Waipu: Imreachd, fèin-aithne agus cuimhne thàr-nàiseanta bhon 19mh linn chun an latha an-diugh” (‘The Waipu Community: Migration, Identity and Transnational Memory from the 19th Century to the Present’). Gaelic Society of Glasgow
2019 & 2017: “Progress and Primitivism: Highland Scotland, the Metropolitan Readership and James Macpherson’s Ossian.” University of Basel
2018: “Stating the Nation? ‒ Decolonising Strategies in Gaelic Poetry.” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Silke Stroh first joined the University of Koblenz in a temporary capacity in the winter semester of 2023-24 and returned as permanent Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies (“Professorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft”) in October 2024. In addition to British Studies, she also teaches Postcolonial Studies (e.g. Caribbean literature und culture) and Didactics.
After her M.A. studies in English, German Literature, Political Science and Celtic Studies in Aberdeen and Frankfurt a.M., she obtained a PhD in English Studies (also from Frankfurt University) with a thesis entitled “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation“. In 2022, she completed her post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Münster with a thesis on “Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora”. She has also held various positions as a lecturer, senior lecturer, assistant professor and temporary professor at the universities of Frankfurt a.M., Gießen, Mainz, Münster, Basel and Oldenburg. Her research areas include Scottish Studies, Black and Asian British and Irish literature, Canada, New Zealand, nationalism and transnationalism, Minority Studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, transculturalism, cultures of memory, intersectionality, political poetry, popular culture, as well as interfaces between English and Celtic Studies.
2022: Completion of habilitation; venia legendi in English Philology; University of Münster; thesis title: "Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora"
2000-2006: PhD in English Studies; University of Frankfurt am Main; thesis title: "(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation"; overall grade: summa cum laude
1994-2000: M.A. in English Literature and Language; additional subjects: German Literature, Political Science; University of Frankfurt am Main; thesis title: "Affirmation und Kritik des Imperialismus in ausgewählten Schriften Joseph Conrads" ("The Apology and Critique of Imperialism in Selected Writings by Joseph Conrad"); overall grade: "mit Auszeichnung" (with distinction)
1996-1997: Visiting student; subjects: English and Scottish Literature and Language, Scottish Gaelic Studies, Celtic Civilisation; University of Aberdeen
since 10/2024: University of Koblenz; Department of English; full Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies ("Professorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft")
04/2023 - autumn 2024: University of Oldenburg; Institute of English and American Studies; Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies
10/2023-03/2024 University of Koblenz; Department of English; Temporary Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies ("Vertretungsprofessorin für britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft")
2023 & 2016: University of Basel; English Department; Adjunct Lecturer of Postcolonial and Scottish Studies
2022-2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Research Office; Manager for funding proposals and externally funded projects
2006-2022: University of Münster; English Department.
Latterly Senior Lecturer ("Akademische Oberrätin a.Z.", 2020-2022);
previously Lecturer / Assistant Professor ("Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin", 2006-2020) and Acting Full Professor of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies (while tenured incumbent was on leave in 2010-2011)
2014-2015: University of Mainz (Germersheim campus); School of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies; Temporary Junior Professor of Anglophone Studies (while usual incumbent was on leave)
2005-2006: University of Gießen; English Department; Junior Lecturer
1996-2006: University of Frankfurt am Main; English Department;
latterly Adjunct Lecturer (2005-2006),
previously Junior Lecturer (2000-2001) and
Teaching & Research Assistant (1995-1996, 1998-2000)
2018: ESSE Book Award (European Society for the Study of English) in the category "Cultural and Area Studies" for Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900.
2010-2018: Research grant from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for an international, interdisciplinary research network on the subject "Black Diaspora and Germany"
2015: Member of the organising and fundraising team for the international academic conference "Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V"; participation in the writing of a successful grant application to the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2012: Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) for attending the 11th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Istanbul
2010: Library grant for the purchase of Canadiana for Münster University's English Department, Understanding Canada / University Library Support Program, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) & International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS)
2009: Member of the organising and fundraising team for the international academic conference “Postcolonial Translocations”, which received grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), from the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster (a society of friends and supporters of Münster University), and from various regional business companies
2001-2004: Research grant from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) for PhD project “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation”
1996-1997: Study grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) for a year at the University of Aberdeen
2014-2015 & since 2018: International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL)
since 2012: Deutscher Hochschulverband (German interdisciplinary association of university teachers)
since 2010: Peer reviewer for various academic journals (Anglica, Anglistik, EnterText, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, La questione romantica: Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici, Litteraria Pragensia, Postcolonial Text, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), Scottish Literary Review)
since 2009: European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
since 2009: Deutscher Anglistikverband (German Association for the Study of English; formerly known as Deutscher Anglistenverband)
since 2006: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS)
since 2003: Association for Scottish Literature (ASL; previously known as Association for Scottish Literary Studies / ASLS)
since 1996: Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS), previously known as Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) / Gesellschaft für Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen (GNEL)
2011-2017: Member of the International Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
2011-2016: Society for Scottish Studies in Europe
2014-2015: Official international contact person of the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (UCSL)
2013-2014: Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
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