Biographical Information

After receiving her Abitur certificate from the Stiftland Gymnasium, Tirschenreuth in 2000, Mayannah N. Dahlheim began her undergraduate studies in Theatre and Philosophy at the Liberal Arts college Principia College, in Elsah, Illinois. She transferred to the University of Regensburg in 2002 where she undertook her Magister studies in English and American Literary Studies and Philosophy, which she completed in spring 2007, handing in her Magister thesis Coming of Age in Liminal Space – Post-colonial Explorations of British Multiculturalism in fall of the same year. Mayannah N. Dahlheim acquired her Magistra Artium early 2008, and taught as a junior lecturer at the University of Regensburg’s Department of English and American Studies, British Studies for the following two semesters. Since October 2009 she is a junior lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen.

 Teaching and Research

 

Research Interests:

Liminal spaces and cultural interfaces have been of lasting interest to Mayannah N. Dahlheim. Next to the significance of language and narratives in identity formation, the (post)-colonial conditions of the present day, from their history to their future implications, have been foremost in her research. The central focus of her Magister thesis, Coming of Age in Liminal Space, is the influence the complex interplay of histories and socio-cultural matrices had and have on the generations growing up within the ambiguities of multi-cultural Britain. In her doctoral thesis Liquid Windows, the Ongoing Negotiation of the British Cultural Self, the underlying concepts of identity formation, their negotiation and implications within the socio-cultural network are at the basis of her analysis. Transcultural Studies, globalization theory and New English Literatures thus belong to the core of her research interests.

Further Research Interests:

19th Century British Literature, Modernism, Neo-Victorianism, Film Studies, Language Philosophy, Gender Studies

Courses WS 2009

PS Cultural Identities
HS 20th Century British Literature