Christina Slopek-Hauff

04/2021 – 03/2025:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Anglophone Literatures / Literary Translation

Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer

PhD. Research: Postcolonial Medical Humanities

03/2024:

Research Stay at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Critical Health Humanities [HHU scholarship]

10/2018 – 03/2021:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, M.A.: Comparative Studies in English and American Language, Literature, and Culture

04/2019 – 03/2021:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Anglophone Literatures / Literary Translation

Lecturer and Tutor for Anglophone Literatures

10/2014 – 09/2018:

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, B.A.: English and American Studies; Romance Studies (Spanish)

09/2016 – 02/2017:

Universidad de Córdoba, Erasmus+

• British and Anglophone Literatures, Postcolonial and Transcultural Relations
• Medical Humanities and Disability Studies
• Gender and Queer Studies, Non-Heteronormative Figurations across Media
• Intersectionality and Diversity and their Poetics

• Publication of doctoral thesis on medical humanities and African fiction (Brill)
• Edited volume: Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds, under contract with Routledge (with Miriam Hinz)
• Postdoc project: Queer studies and British literatures

• "Narrating Mental Health and Distress: the Twin Motif and Intermediality in Diana Evans’s 26a." In: Poetics of Disturbances: Narratives of Non-normative Bodies and Minds. Eds. Deborah de Muijnck, Jessica Jumpertz, Ralf Schneider and Teresa Turnbull. Brill, 2025, pp. 61-78.
• “'Making Generative Oddkin': Female Bodies as Sites of Connectivity in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light." Postcolonial Text, vol. 19, no. 1&2, 2024.
• "New Ways of Telling True Stories: Reflections on Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds." Postcolonial Text, vol. 19, no. 1&2, 2024. [with Jennifer Leetsch, Arunima Bhattacharya, Trang Dang, Baldeep Kaur, Alisa Preusser and Peri Sipahi]
• “Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness, edited by Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard.” Review. Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2020, pp. 175-81.
• “Re-membering Psychiatry in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel”. In: The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations. Eds. Katrin Röder und Cornelia Wächter. Forthcoming
• “Aboriginal Speculations: Queer Rhetoric, Disability, and Interspecies Conviviality in The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf.” Gender Forum, vol. 81, 2021, pp. 9-29.
• “Queer Masculinities: Gender Roles, the Abject and Bottomhood in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Anglia, vol. 139, no. 4, 2021, pp. 739-757.
• “When We Speak of Nothing – Trans…cultural, Trans…gender”. Praxis Englisch, vol. 4, 2020, pp. 34-38.

• “'Keine andere Meer?' Nature and Gender in Claire of the Sea Light and Its German Translation." Workshop: The Ethics of Eco-Translation in Anglophone Postcolonial Contexts (Centre for Translation Studies, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, February 7, 2025).
• “Against Psychiatric Imperialism: Diversifying Psychology in African Fiction.” Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing Seminar (Research Centre for Culture and Health, University of Turku, May 14, 2024).
• “Psychiatric Imperialism and the African Imagination.” Research Visit, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Health Humanities (Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 19, 2024).
• “Postcolonial Interventions in Trauma Theory.” M.A. Seminar, Institute of English and American Studies (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, January 15, 2024).
• “Narrating Post(-)Shame in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias.” DFG Workshop: Autobiographical Writing and the Gestalt of Shame: Disability, Chronic Illness and Mental Distress in Contemporary Intersectional Life Storying (Humboldt University of Berlin, June 23-24, 2023).
• “Translating Models of Illness and Health? A Contemporary Archive of Plural Minds.” Translation and the Archive: Performance, Practice, Negotiation (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, May 31 - June 02, 2023).
• “Frames of Life: Refugees and Border Thinking in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars.” Postcolonial Narrations 2022, Postcolonial Matters of Life and Death (University of Bonn, Oct. 20 - 22, 2022).
• “Black Woman, Interrupted: Challenging Racialised Mentalism in Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings.” Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing (University of Brighton, July 21-23, 2022).
• “‘Making Generative Oddkin’? The Female Body as a Site of Connectivity in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light.” GAPS 2022, Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Goethe University Frankfurt, May 26-29, 2022).
• “Kinship through Migration: Intersectional Queer Agency in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Agency – Community – Kinship: Representations of Migration beyond Victimhood (University of Wuppertal, Feb. 23-24, 2022).
• “Culture-Specific Psychiatries: Re-Membering Psychiatry in Contemporary Anglophone Novels.” Workshop: The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present (Dresden University of Technology, Oct. 28-29, 2021).
• “Ogbanje and Gender: Translating Queerness in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater.” Postcolonial Narrations 2021, Modernities in the Contact Zone: Translating across Unfamiliar Objects (University of Potsdam, Oct. 21-23, 2021).
• “Beyond Boundaries: Refugees, Mapping and Border Thinking in Zeyn Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars.” Breaking Boundaries: Reimagining Borders in Postcolonial and Migrant Studies (Manchester Metropolitan University, Sep. 03, 2021).
• “Specious Species Taxonomies: Porosity and Interspecies Constellations in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” GAPS 2021, Science, Culture & Postcolonial Narratives (University of Oldenburg, May 13-15, 2021).
• “Dissecting the Tongue in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – ‘But What If the Mother Tongue Is Stunted?’” M.A. Comparative Studies Students’ Conference “Made and Remade Continually.” Identity – Expression – Performance (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Jan. 28-29, 2020).
• “‘Ice e-skating’: Punctuating Demarcations of Migrant Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.” Postcolonial Narrations 2019, Postcolonial Punctuation/s: Demarcations, Interventions, Transgressions (University of Münster, Oct. 03-05, 2019).

• German Association for the Study of English
• GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)