Dr. Peter Maurits

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

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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)