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Professor Sarah Colvin

Fellow
University Positions
Schr枚der Professor of German
University Gender Equality Champion
Subjects
Modern and Medieval Languages
History and Modern Languages
Specialising in
Specialising in German literature and culture

Sarah Colvin is the Schr枚der Professor of German and a Fellow of 水果派AV College.

Academic interests

Sarah Colvin's academic interests include: 

  • Cultural production and social justice
  • Literary aesthetics and the political novel
  • Critical race theory
  • Epistemic injustice
  • Narrative theory and narrative ethics; narrative criminology
  • Prisoner writing and arts in prisons.

Degrees obtained

  • BA, Oxford.
  • MA, Oxford.
  • DPhil, Oxford.

Awards and prizes

  • Senior Prize Fellowship, Bayreuth Humboldt Centre, 2020-21
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow, 2007-8.
  • Humboldt Fellow, 2000-2001.
  • Senior Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford, 1992-95.
  • Hanseatic Scholar, 1990-92.
  • Heath Harrison Scholar, 1987.
  • Stevenson Scholar, Exeter College, Oxford, 1986-90.

Biography

Sarah Colvin studied German language and literature at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St John鈥檚 College, Oxford; a Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University; Lecturer, Reader, and Eudo C. Mason Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh, and she held chairs at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick before becoming Schr枚der Professor of German at Cambridge in 2014.

Sarah leads the research group  with Dr Stephanie Galasso and , and co-convenes the related projects 鈥淔ictions of the Rechtsstaat鈥, a collaboration with the LMU Munich, and 鈥淭owards a Politics of Fiction鈥 with the University of Bayreuth ().

She is an Advisory Group member for the .

PhD supervision

Recent PhD supervisions have been on the politics of women鈥檚 friendship; public intellectuals and political violence; citizenship and the novel; conflict and normalization in German literature; women and leadership; politics and theatre; prison writing by women; and Herta M眉ller.

Other interests

Cultural production and social justice.

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Publications, links and resources

  • Colvin, S., ed. with Tara Talwar Windsor (2024) The Literary and Essayistic Writing of Sharon Dodua Otoo. German Life and Letters special issue 
  • Colvin, S., ed with Stephanie Galasso (2023) Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency. Perspectives on Global Literature and Film, ed. with Stephanie Galasso. London: Routledge 2023
  • Colvin, S. (2023) 鈥楴arrative Pilgrimage and Chiastic Justice in Olivia Wenzel鈥檚 1000 Serpentinen Angst and Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Adas Raum鈥, in Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso (eds), . New York: Routledge 2023, 176-97
  • Colvin, S. (2022) Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners. London: Reaktion. (Podcast: ) 
  • Colvin, S. (2022) 鈥. German Studies Review 45/1 (2022), 81-103
  • Colvin, S. (2022) . German Life and Letters 75, 138-65
  • Colvin, S. (2021)  Daphnis, 1-27
  • Colvin, S. (2021) . German Life and Letters 74, 511-56
  • Colvin, S. (2020) . German Life and Letters.
  • Colvin, S. (2020) 鈥"The credibility of elves": narrative exclusion and prison writing鈥, in Kelly, M. and Westall, C. (eds), Prison Writing and the Literary World. London: Routledge, 21-38.
  • Colvin, S. and Sandberg, S. (2020) 鈥樷. British Journal of Criminology.
  • Colvin, S. and Pisoiu, D. (2020) 鈥鈥. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 43, 493-508.
  • Colvin, S., ed. with Katharina Karcher (2019) Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 1]. London: Routledge 2019
  • Colvin, S., ed. with Katharina Karcher (2019) Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Vol 2]. London: Routledge 2019
  • Colvin, S. ed. (2015) The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture. London: Routledge
  • Colvin, S., ed. with Isabelle Hertner and Joanne Sayner (2015) Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic. German Politics and Society Special Issue, Spring/Summer
  • Colvin, S., ed. with Charlotte Woodford (2014) The Feminine in German Culture, ed. with Charlotte Woodford. German Life and Letters Special Issue, October 2014
  • Colvin, S. (2009) Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence and Identity. Rochester, NY: Camden House
  • Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination, ed. with Helen Watanabe-O鈥橩elly. Rochester, NY: Camden House 2009
  • Masculinities in German Culture, ed. with Peter Davies. Edinburgh German Yearbook 2008
  • Myths and Mythmaking, ed. with Laura Martin, Alison Phipps, Christl Reissenberger. German Life and Letters Special Issue 2004
  • Colvin, S. (2003) Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts. Rochester, NY: Camden House
  • Colvin, S. (1999) The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage. Oxford: Clarendon 

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