Lecturer

Email: daphne.seemann@tudublin.ie

B.A., University College Dublin; M.A., University College Dublin; Ph.D, University College Dublin.

Daphne Seemann’s teaching areas include German language, German Studies and German-Jewish Literature.

Daphne’s research focuses on Contemporary German-Jewish literature and on contemporary literature of refuge and asylum. Particular areas of interest are gender, generation, memory studies, transgenerational trauma, transculturalism, postmigration, precarious identity.

While employed at the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany (2014-18), Daphne also lectured in English for Academic Purposes.

Recent publications

· Seemann, D. (forthcoming). Moving beyond Trauma-Based Notions of Jewish Identity in the Third Generation: Mirna Funk’s Zwischen Du und Ich. In: Monatshefte. Special Issue: Futurities of Remembrance: Gender, Memorial Practices, and the Third Generation after Second World War and Shoah. 116/3 (Fall 2024).

· Seemann, D. (forthcoming). Refugees and the Relationality of Precarious Lives (Abbas Khider Ohrfeige and Viet Thanh Nguyen The Displaced)’. In: Oxford German Studies. Special Issue: Relationality 53/3 (September 2024).

· Seemann, D. (forthcoming). Abbas Khider's refugee narrative Ohrfeige: A system-critical intervention into the continuing human rights and solidarity crisis. In: Modern Language Review (accepted for publication).

· Seemann, D. (2021). Generation, Gender and Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish literature. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

Recent Conferences

· Upcoming presentation: ‘Contemporary Jewish literature in Germany between transnational and national contexts. Olga Grjasnowa’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt and Mirna Funk’s Zwischen Du und Ich at Postmigrant Reconfigurations: New Approaches to Contemporary German-language Jewish Cultural Production’, King’s College London, July 2023.

· Presentation: Abbas Khider’s Ohrfeige: ‘Exposing the Shared Responsibility of Forced Migration’, at The Politics and Aesthetics of Relationality in Contemporary German-Language Culture – A German Studies Workshop, Museum of Literature Ireland, March 2022.

· Co-organiser of ‘Approaching Contemporary Challenges of Global Migration’, International Conference, organised by the School of Languages, Law & Social Sciences, TU Dublin, July 2021.

· Presentation: ‘Precarious lives in the ‘out-places’ of urban neighbourhoods. Flight, homelessness and non-arrival in Abbas Khider’s Ohrfeige’ at Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood. Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation. International Conference, organised by the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, September 2019.