Arunima Kundu

Arunima Kundu

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Universitätsstraße 40
91054 Erlangen

PhD Project: “Mediating Otherness in Cultural Discourse: the Planetary Posthuman Subject in Afrofuturist Science Fiction”

Research Interests

  • American literary and cultural studies
  • critical posthumanist theory
  • afrofuturism
  • intercultural studies
  • postcolonial studies

Curriculum Vitae

 

  • Since 2022: Doctoral Research Fellow in the DFG research training group “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen” (“Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2020 – 2022: Student Assistant in the DFG Project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in 19th- and Early 20th-Century US-American Literature and Culture” at the University of Bayreuth.
  • 2021: Member of the external commission for the internal re-accreditation of the BA English/American Studies and MA Intercultural Anglophone Studies courses for the Quality Assurance Office (Stabsstelle Qualitätssicherung), University of Bayreuth
  • 2019 – 2022: M.A. Intercultural Anglophone Studies at the University of Bayreuth.
  • 2016 – 2017: Editorial Board Member of the Global Histories: A Student Journal. Volume 3, Issue 1 & 2 (2017) ISSN: 2366-780X – at the Free University of Berlin
  • 2017: Member of the organizing committee for the 3rd International Global History Student Conference, May 20-21, 2017, at the Free University of Berlin
  • 2015 – 2018: M.A. Global History, joint degree program at Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • 2012 – 2018: B.A. (Honours) in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Conference Participation

  • As student assistant in organizing team: Speculative Endeavors. Cultures of Knowledge and Capital in the Long Nineteenth Century, digital conference, October 21-23, 2021
  • As organizer and co-moderator: 3rd International Global History Student Conference, May 20-21, 2017

Roundtables and Workshops

  • 17th HIP Workshop on “South Asia’s Legal Landscapes: Legislation, Litigation and Social Realities” at the Department of South Asian Studies (Institute for Asian and African Studies), Humboldt University, Berlin. (05.02.2016)
  • National Seminar on “Jawaharlal Nehru and the Question of Environmental Sustainability: Historical Perspectives” Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (12.09.2014)
  • “Beyond the Frame: India in Britain, 1858-1950” at the British Council Kolkata, conducted by the British Library and The Open University (2011)

Memberships and Networks