Dr. Susanne Grimaldi

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      1. Latest news
      2. VITA
      3. Lectures
      4. Monographs
      5. Collected volumes
      6. Essays and articles
      7. Reviews and conference reports
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Dr. Susanne Grimaldi

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Institute of Romance Studies

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VITA

  • Since 2020: DFG project with its own position: Portugal's crisis latency. Crisis rhetoric between latency and divergence: memory production in Portuguese photobooks and contemporary novels
  • 2019 - 2020: Parental leave
  • 2017 - 2019: Research Associate at the Social Concepts Institute for Research and Development in Social Work at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences / IQ Network North Rhine-Westphalia / Bridge course for immigrant academics
  • 2015 - 2017: Research Associate at the Evangelische Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit Dresden / IQ Network Saxony / Bridge course for immigrant academics
  • 2008 - 2017: Research Assistant and Research Associate at the Institute of Romance Studies at the TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • 2013: Doctorate at the University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Alfonso de Toro) with a thesis on Cuban students in the GDR. Ambivalent remembrance between contemporary witness and archive
  • Studied Romance Studies and Art History at the TUD Dresden University of Technology, Universidad de Málaga and Havana
  • Research and internship stays of two months or more: Havana, Lisbon, Salvador de Bahia, Tel Aviv
  • Research interests
    • Plant Theory
    • Portuguese-language literatures of the present
    • Sephardic literatures of the present
    • Coming to terms with the past in post-authoritarian systems
    • Cuba and the GDR
    • "epistemología otra/fronteriza/del Sur" in Amazonian literatures

Lectures

  • "Decolonial Performances of Lusophony", guest lecture by Danae Gallo González, Institute of Romance Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 03.07.2024.

  • "Crises nos impérios. Narrativas do Antropoceno na literatura portuguesa contemporânea", Section Crises do império. Utopia, distopia, reescrita / Crises of empire. Utopia, dystopia, rewriting, 15th Lusitanian Day, West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau (WHZ), 22.09.23.

  • "Extractivismo espiritual y 'epistemología otra' en la literatura psicodélica", Section Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad: rentabilidad, distanciamiento, mediación, XXIII Deutscher Hispanistentag, University of Graz, 22-25.02.23.
  • "Portuguese and Spanish poetry in times of pandemic crisis", Corona Fictions. Workshop on Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics, University of Graz, 09.12.21.
  • "Transmigrando en tiempos de vuelos low cost", Section Körper/Grenzen - Fremde/Körper: Migration, Exil und Grenzerfahrung in der Romania, XXXVII Romanistentag, 04.-07.10.2021.
  • "Portuguese Axes of Departure and Reversal of a migração permanente", Section Axes and Spectra of Migration in Romance Literatures and Visual Media of the 21st Century, XXXVII Romance Studies Conference, 04-07.10.21.
  • "Estratégias artísticas para confrontar a precariedade em tempos de crise", XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa: Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento, 15-17.09.21.
  • "Portuguese Literature in Times of Crisis", guest lecture at the Institute of Romance Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen, 08.07.2021.
  • "Asimilando la crisis socioeconómica: estrategias artísticas en la Península Ibérica ", Symposium La crisis en España diez años después - balance y perspectivas, Centro de Estudios Hispánicos / University of Regensburg, 10-13.10.2018.
  • "The Socioeconomic Crisis as European Memory Place: The case of Portugal", Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, University of Copenhagen, 14-16.12.2017.
  • "Systeme der 'Vergleichzeitigung von Entferntem' in sephardischen Gegenwartstexten", lecture in the section Transkulturelle Begegnungsräume? Aesthetic strategies of superimposition, pluralization and simultaneity in contemporary Romance literatures (XXXV. Romance Studies Conference Zurich), 11.10.2017.
  • "Submundos e imortalidades na literatura contemporânea portuguesa em tempos de crise", lecture in the section Vozes do além - Poliperspectivismo no exemplo de figuras mortas, 12th German Lusitanians' Day: Polyphony - One language, many voices, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 14.09.2017.
  • "Representations of the Crisis in Portugal in Photography and Literature", Prof. Dr. Cornelia Sieber, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz/Department of Translation, Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, 22.06.2017.
  • "Literaturas transterritoriales sefardíes en las Américas", Conference: Beyond Borders. Literaturas y culturas transfronterizas mexicanas y chicanas, Chair of Romance Literary Studies/ Iberoromania, University of Augsburg, 29.03.2017.
  • "Transterritorial writing? Sephardic literatures of the present". Guest lecture at the Institute of Romance Studies, Ibero-Roman Literary Studies, University of Augsburg, 08.12.2016.
  • "Documentos do autodiagnóstico social: fotografia, cinema e literatura da crise", Prof. Dr. Margarida Medeiros, guest lecture at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 08.03.2016.
  • "Portugiesische Krisendokumente", Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura, guest lecture at the Chair of Romance Literature/Hispanic Studies, Bamberger Vorträge der Iberian Studies, University of Bamberg, 18.01.2016.
  • "Sephardic and Mizrahi Topographies in Contemporary Texts", 4th Junior Conference on Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., 11/2015.
  • "Close-up of a crisis: Portugal in Self-diagnosis", Distance and/or Closeup: Visuality, Community, and Affect in Representations of History", Romanisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 10/2015.
  • "Topographies of Remembrance in Contemporary Autobiographical Sephardic Writing", The World in Movement Iberoamerikanisches Forschungsseminar der Universität Leipzig (IAFSL)/Frankophones Forschungsseminar der Universität Leipzig (FFSL), 09/2015.
  • "Documentos de la perturbación. Modos de representar la crisis en Portugal", lecture in the section " Krisenumschreibungen " (section leader with Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm), XXXIV Romance Studies Conference, Romance Studies and Economics: Structure, Culture, Literature, University of Mannheim, 07/2015.
  • "Sephardic places and spaces? Contemporary Sephardic and place-relatedness in Tela de Sevoya by Myriam Moscona, 30th Forum Junge Romanistik/University of Bern, 03/2014.

Monographs

  • Cuban students in the GDR. Ambivalent memory between contemporary witness and archive. Monograph. TKKL series: Theory and Critique of Culture and Literature. Ibero-American Research Seminar, Hildesheim: Olms 2015.

Collected volumes

  • Together with Danae Gallo González, Mylena de Lima Queiroz, Romana Radlwimmer: Império português: crises e reescrita, at De Gruyter, URL: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/iber/2024/99/html

  • Together with Danae Gallo González, Mylena de Lima Queiroz, Romana Radlwimmer: Tecendo futuros. Utopias e distopias contra/coloniais. Special issue of the journal Outra Travessia (Brazil). URL: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/Outra/announcement/view/1999 [editorial reviewed, accepted for publication]

  • Together with Roswitha Böhm (ed.): Krisenumschreibungen. Strategies and Narratives in 19th to 21st Century Romania. Berlin: Neofelis 2020.
  • Together with Romana Radlwimmer (ed.): Medir el mundo. Rentabilidad y distanciamiento desde 1492 in Romance Notes (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. [accepted for publication]

Essays and articles

  • "Crises nos impérios. Narrativas do antropoceno na literatura portuguesa contemporânea", in: Grimaldi, Gallo González, Queiroz, Radlwimmer: Império português: crises e reescrita. Berlin: De Gruyter, 126-138, URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/iber-2024-2008/html

  • "Textilidade na performance Museu das Invasões (2023) de Emiliano Dantas: uma intervenção anti-utópica de futuro na memoria colonial portuguesa", together with Danae Gallo González, Outra Travessia (Brazil). URL: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/Outra/announcement/view/1999 [editorial reviewed, accepted for publication]

  • "Taxonomías selváticas de la percepción en Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía (1981) de César Calvo", in: Radlwimmer, Romana / Grimaldi, Susanne: Medir el Mundo. Rentabilidad y distanciamiento desde 1492. Romance Notes, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. [editorially reviewed, accepted for publication]
  • "Modos de representar a crise socioeconómica em Portugal", in: Revista 2i. Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade. Universidade do Minho. 4 / 2021 Literatura e fotografia: Outras cartografias do olhar. (peer-reviewed) URL: https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/2i/article/view/3459
  • "Este presente de remolino". La primera primavera pandémica en la Península Ibérica, in: Estudios Culturales Hispánicos, 2 / 2021, 155-196. URL: https://ech.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/42
  • "Asimilando la crisis socioeconómica. Estrategias artísticas en la Península Ibérica", in: Estudios Culturales Hispánicos, 1 / 2020, 309-324. URL: https://ech.uni-regensburg.de/
  • "Language as a panacea for integration: the importance and challenges of language acquisition after flight", In: Küpper, Beate / Krewer, Ann Marie (eds.): Arbeit mit geflüchteten und neuzugewanderten Personen: A handout for practice. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich 2020, 89-99.
  • "Photographic and literary documents of a disruption. Crisis processing in Portugal", in: Böhm, Roswitha / Grimaldi, Susanne: Krisenumschreibungen. Strategies and narratives in 19th to 21st century Romania. Berlin: Neofelis 2020, 227-242.
  • "Topographies of Remembrance in Contemporary Autobiographical Sephardic Writing", in: Toro, Alfonso de / Tauchnitz, Juliane (eds.): The World in Movement / Identity and New Diasporas / Hospitality -Belonging - Emotion - Body - Desire. Amsterdam: Brill / Rodopi 2018, 194-204.
  • "Kartierte Lebenswelten - Jüdische Topografien in Dresdens Pirnaischer Vorstadt", in: MEDAON - Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 14 / 2014, 1-7. URL: https://www.medaon.de/de/artikel/kartierte-lebenswelten-juedische-topografien-in-dresdens-pirnaischer-vorstadt/
  • "Lugares de la memoria: The shaping of Sephardic topographies in Myriam Moscona's 'Tela de Sevoya'", in: Fournier Kiss, Corinne / Chariatte, Nadine / Krakenberger, Etna (eds.): Räume der Romania. 30th conference proceedings of the Forum Junge Romanistik in Bern. Bern: Peter Lang 2016, 109-120.

Reviews and conference reports

  • Long review of Doris Wieser / Ana Filipa Prata (eds.): Cities of the Lusophone World. Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations. Oxford / Bern / Berlin: Peter Lang 2018. (Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World, 10), in: Romanische Forschungen. [Accepted for publication]
  • Review of "Enrique Rodrigues-Moura / Doris Wieser (eds.): Identidades em Movimento. Construções identitárias na àfrica de língua portuguesa e seus reflexos no Brasil e em Portugal. Frankfurt a. M.: TFM 2015", in: Romanische Forschungen, 4 / 2018, 570-574.
  • Review of "Romana Radlwimmer: Knowledge in motion. Latina cultural theory/ literary theory/ epistemology. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015", in: PhiN. Philology on the Net. Journal for Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, 80 / 2017, 82-86. URL: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin80/p80t10.htm
  • "Ubiquitous in time, space and matter: Representations of Jewish affiliations in the exhibition 'Vot ken you mach?'", in: MEDAON -Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 15 / 2014, 1-5. URL: https://www.medaon.de/de/artikel/ubiquitaer-in-zeit-raum-und-materie-repraesentationen-juedischer-zugehoerigkeiten-in-der-ausstellung-vot-ken-you-mach/
  • "Conference Report Materiality and Cultural Transfer. Epistemische Verflechtungen in der Erzeugung globalen Wissens/Materiality and Cultural Transfer. Epistemic Entanglements in Global Knowledge Production", 24.01.2014-25.01.2014, Dresden, in: H-Soz-Kult, 07.07. 2014, 1-5. URL: https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/tagungsberichte-5449

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