Kirstin Gwyer

Kirstin Gwyer is Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in comparative twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with a particular focus on Holocaust and Jewish literature, Afro-German, Black and postcolonial literature, literary theory, and intersections between literature and science. She is the author of Encrypting the Past: The German-Jewish Holocaust Novel of the First Generation (Oxford: OUP, 2014) and is currently writing a book on Kafka’s intertextual afterlife in works by authors and theorists responding to human limit experiences: genocide, (post)colonialism, racism, terrorism, environmental collapse.