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Dr. Peter Maurits

Peter Maurits

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Research Interests

African Literature and Lusophone-African Literature
Science Fiction and Utopia
Migration and Adaptation of Literary Form
World-Literary Theory and Postcolonial Studies

Current Research Projects

  • The Emergence of African Science Fiction
  • Designs of Literary Futures (with Antje Kley, Dirk Niefanger, Sabine Friedrich, and Georg Tamer)
  • Contemporary Africa-Asia Connections: Science Fiction in Africa and China (with Henrike Rudolph)

Education

Dr. phil. in Comparative Literature and Roman Languages, LMU Munich (2015, summa cum laude)
M.A. in Literary Studies, Utrecht University/Bern University (2012)
B.A. in Portuguese Language and Culture, Utrecht University/University of Coimbra (2010)
B.A. in Journalism, Utrecht (2008)

Employment

  • 2017- present: postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Humanity, Social Sciences, and Theology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2015-16: lecturer/postdoctoral fellow, Department of Comparative Literature at LMU Munich
  • 2010-11: teaching assistant at Utrecht University

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Maurits, Peter J., and Thomas Waller. "Bifurcated futures: Generic discontinuity and speculative form in the post-2008 African novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2024).
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction, by Nivedita Bagchi." Fantastika 5.1 (2021): 89 - 93.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Michael Robertson’s The Last Utopians." Fantastika 4.1 (2020): 189 - 191.
    URL: https://fantastikajournal.com/
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Legacies of marxism? Contemporary African science fiction and the concern with literary realism." African Identities (2020).
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "(Haunted) Cosmopolitan Places: World Literature, the Modern Ghost Story, and the Structure of Debt." Anglistik 30.3 (2019): 57 - 72.
    URL: https://angl.winter-verlag.de/article/angl/2019/3/7
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism by Dan Hassler-Forest." Fantastika 1.2 (2017): 100 - 103.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Vanishing migrants and the impossibility of a European Union." Interventions 17.4 (2014): 503 - 518.
    URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2014.950313
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Poole, W., Scott. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting." Supernatural Studies 1.1 (2013): 100 - 103.
    URL: https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-1-issue-1
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Book Contributions

  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Sedimented Reading Habits? The Future Utopia in Contemporary African Science and Speculative Fiction." The Political Uses of Literature. Ed. Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2024.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007)." Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Transcript-Verlag, 2022.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Worlds of Mia Couto: The Aesthetic of the Global." The Worlds of Mia Couto. Ed. Kristian Van Haesendonck, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 61-82.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Mia Couto and the Aesthetics of the Global." The Worlds of Mia Couto. Ed. Kristian Van Haesendonck, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 61 - 82.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Futurism." Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Ed. Heike Paul, Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019. 131 - 137.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "Geisterwelt." Welt-Komposita. Hrg. Robert Stockhammer and Thomas Erthel, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2019. 86 - 89.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "On the Emergence of African Science Fiction." Te Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Francesca  Barbini, Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2018. 1 - 26.
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "The Mozambican Ghost Story: A Modern Genre." Literatura e Outras Artes na Construção da Memória em Angola e Moçambique. Ed. neke Phaf-Rheinberger, Ana Sobral, and Selma Pantoja, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 168 - 186.
    URL: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64823
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  • Maurits, Peter J.. "The Mozambican ghost story: Local genre or global form?" Globalizing Literary Genres. Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger, New York: Routledge, 2015. 180 - 195.
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Courses (Selection)

  • Aufbauseminar Literature (winter semester 2018-19)
  • Hauptseminar Anti-colonial Literature and Thought (winter semester 2018-19)
  • Histories of Science Fiction: From Plutarch to Wanuri Kahiu (BA, MA)
  • Globalization, Literature, World Literature (BA, MA)
  • Thomas More’s Utopia: A Renaissance Vision of Transition? (BA, MA)
  • The Modern Ghost Story: From Walter Scott to Mia Couto (BA, MA)
  • Literary Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory (BA)

 

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