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Marlene Compton, M.A., M.A.

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Marlene Compton

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Department of English and American Studies
Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Lillge)

Room: Room C4A4
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29363
  • Email: marlene.compton@fau.de

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Research and Teaching Areas

  • Memory Studies
  • Research on Antisemitism
  • Literature in the context of collective memory
  • Queer Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies

Biography

My teaching and research focuses on memory studies, specifically how memory of collective trauma is passed down through generations, looking at the link between in the individual and the collective. Literature and cultural objects can represent both an individual’s process of dealing with collective trauma and also serve as tools for collective memory. I hold master’s degrees both in Interdisplinary Research on Antisemitism (Technische Universität Berlin, 2021) and Comparative Literature (Freie Universität Berlin, 2023) after gaining an interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree in Language and Communication. Thus, my work is shaped by interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches and the collective memory as well as the literary depiction of the Shoah has been at the core of my academic interest.

After joining Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in April 2023 as a researcher, lecturer and PhD-candidate, I founded the university’s Queer Staff Network in the fall of the same year. If you have any questions about the network, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Current Projects

Shoah and Postmemory: Anne Blonstein’s Poetry.

If you are interested in a copy of Anne Blonstein’s correspondence with nobody for research purposes, do let me know.

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