Dr. Dirk Naguschewski

Knowledge transfer and communications, managing editor of the ZfL BLOG and the podcast Bücher im Gespräch, project coordination Neighborhood and Research, research team leader of the project Nazi‑Looted Books? A Systematic Provenance Review of the ZfL Library Holdings

CV

  • since november 2005 communications manager at the ZfL, current managing editor of the ZfL BLOG and the podcast Bücher im Gespräch
  • managing editor of the journal "Trajekte", 2002-2015
  • contributions to newspapers such as Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  • translator of scholarly texts from French and English into German
  • MA in French language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Library Studies, FU Berlin 1994, Ph.D. in Romance Philology, FU Berlin 2002
  • 2002-2005 research associate at the ZfL in the project "Africa/Europe. Literary transports, translations, and migrations"
  • 1997-2002 research associate and lecturer for French linguistics at the Institute of Romance Philology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 1995-1997 research associate at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, interdisciplinary research group "Challenges of Otherness"

Fellowships

  • 2010 Visiting scholar, Stanford University, USA

Research Interests

  • Visual Culture and Communication (particulary philately, collage art)
  • Provenance Research
  • History of Romance Philology (Max Leopold Wagner, Leo Spitzer)
  • Contemporary Literature in Africa and African Cinema

Publications

English publications only. For publications in German and French see the German entry.

  • Jorge Chamorro. Lust & Luster. In: S. Opitz, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt (Hg.): Zwei Räume für sich allein. Maria von Gneisenau und Schloss Molsdorf (Ausstellungskatalog). Berlin: Revolver Publishing 2016: 210-211.
  • Arrangements of Knowledge. Ruth Hommelsheim’s Pictures from a Private Archive (übers. v. Japhet Johnstone). In: Trajekte 30, 2015: 38-39.
  • Contesting African-ness in African Film Criticism: Djibril Diopl Mambéty’s "Hyenas". In: J. Heinicke/H. Heister/T. R. Klein/V. Prüschenk (Hg.): Kuvuka Ukama. Building Bridges. Heidelberg: kalliope paperbacks 2012: 337-347.
  • Body, Sexuality, and Gender. Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 1 (= Matatu. Journal for African Culture and Society 29-30), ed. with Flora Veit-Wild, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi 2005
  • Reading Foreign Films: African Images and the German Audience. In: P. Stegmann/P. C. Seel (Hg.): Migrating Images: producing ... reading ... transporting ... translating. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2004: 78-93.
  • Book Review: Sada Niang: Djibril Diop Mambety. Un cinéaste à contre-courant. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002; Anny Wynchank: Djibril Diop Mambety ou le voyage du voyant. Ivry-sur-Seine: Editions A3 2003. In: Wasafiri 43 (Global Cinema, Hg. Sukhdev Sandhu), 2004: 65-66.