د. ماركوس شمتس
Trained in Middle Eastern Studies (U Bochum), English Literary and Cultural Studies (U Münster) and Comparative Literature (U Münster) my decisively interdisciplinary work is located at the intersections of Transnational Middle Eastern Studies and Relational Diasporic Arab Studies. Among my research interests are Anglophone Arab Representations, Forced Migration and Border Regimes, Relational Diasporic Formations, Theories and Practices of Cross-Cultural Comparison, Cultural Resistance, and Decolonial Arts.
Book publications include Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum: Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation/Cultural Criticism without a Center: Edward W. Said and the Counterpoints of Critical Decolonization (2008), Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking (ed., 2013) and Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations (2020).
My current research project is a book-length study with the working title “Escape to Europe: Comparative Refugee Imaginaries.”
ACAMEMIC POSITIONS
- 2024 – Associate Professor at the School of Applied Humanities & Social Sciences, German-Jordanian University, Madaba/Amman, Jordan
- 2021 – 2024 Associate Professor and Consultant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut
- 2018 – 2020 Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory & Media Studies | English Department, University of Münster
- 2017 – 2018 Stand-in Full Professor (W3) of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster
- 2009 – 2017 Assistant Professor at the Chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster
- 2007 – 2008 Postdoctoral Assistant at the Chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster
الخلفية التعليمية
Dr. phil./PhD in English Literary and Cultural Studies (summa cum laude/with the highest distinction), University of Münster
Ph.D. Program in Cultural Studies, University of Potsdam
Magister Artium (M.A.) in Oriental Philology, Islamic Studies, Political Science, University of Bochum
- Cultural Imaginaries of Refuge in Critical Forced Migration and Border Regime Studies
- (Anglophone) Arab Representations & Arab Diasporic Studies
- Theories and Methods of Cross-Cultural Comparison,
- (Trans-)Migrancy and Relational Diasporic Studies,
- Global Comparativism
- Critical Cosmopolitanism
- (Post-)Orientalism/(Post-)Occidentalism
- The Black Mediterranean and Imperial Amnesia
- Counter-Journalism and the Vlogo-/Blogosphere
- Concept and Performance Arts from the Global South
- (Counter-)Archival Studies
- Psychoanalysis as Cultural Critique
- 2024 – Associate Professor | School of Applied Humanities & Social Sciences,
- German-Jordanian University, Madaba/Amman, Jordan
- 2021 – 2024 Associate Professor and Consultant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut
- 2018 - 2020 Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat auf Zeit) for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory & Media Studies | English Department, University of Münster
- 2017 – 2018 Stand-in Full Professor (W3) of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster
- 2009 – 2017 Assistant Professor at the chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster
- 2007 – 2008 Postdoctoral Assistant at the Chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, University of Münster