Lecturer Office: C407 Phone: ++49 9131 85 29360 (secretary) Email: fatim.boutros(at)gmx.de Office hours during the term break: Feb. 23, March 16: 4:00-5:00

Research Interests

• Postcolonial and Ethnicity Studies
• Caribbean Literature
• Transnational and Diasporic Studies
• Trauma Studies and Ethics of Literature
• Arab American Studies

CV

• Studied English and History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Research periods in Toronto, Ottawa, San Francisco, Miami, Austin and New York
• Guest lecturer FAU Erlangen and OFU Bamberg, 2004-08
• Fellow, interdisciplinary Ph.D. program of the German Research Foundation "Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference & Transdifference," FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2004-2007
• Language Coach for Business English FH München
• Full time lecturer Department of English and American Studies since September 2008
• 2005 and 2006 travel grant of the German Research Foundation for conference attendance and research periods in the US and Canada; travel grant of the Bavarian American Academy for research in the US; travel grant of the Dr. Vinzl-Stiftung foundation for research in the US and Canada

Functions

• Since 2007: associate reviewer, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Edinburgh

Publications

Monographs

1. Facing Diasporic Trauma. Representations of Slavery in the Novels of Fred D'Aguiar, John Hearne and Caryl Phillips. (in preparation)
2. Revision als Illusion? Die Aufarbeitung der Sklaverei in Neueren Romanen der Anglophonen Karibik. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2004.

Workshops & Conferences

Panel Chair of "Caryl: Phillips: Claiming the Right to Tell a Life Story" EACLALS Triennial Conference." Venice International University, Venice, Italy. March 25, 2008.

Papers & Lectures

1. "Combining the Best of Three Worlds?: The Generic Consequences of Caryl Phillips' Loss of Political Patience." Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures. EACLALS Triennial Conference. Venice International University, Venice, Italy. Mar. 25, 2008.
2. "Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips' Literary Work." The Caryl Phillips Conference: 25 Years of Writing. Université de Liège, Belgium Dec. 01, 2006.
3. "Imagined Homelands: The Identificatory Power of African Spatiality for the Global Afro-Caribbean Diaspora." Fissures and Sutures: Sources of Division and Mutual Aid in Postcolonial Reflections on History and Literature. United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 4th International Conference: Santa Clara University, CA, USA. Oct. 08, 2006.
4. "Trauma(d)diction - The Role of Slavery in Artistic Self-Representations of the Caribbean Diaspora." International Conference on Caribbean Studies. University of Texas-Pan American, South Padre Island, TX, USA. Nov. 04, 2006.
5. "Literary Revision of the Past - an Illusion? The Role of Fictional Representations of Slavery in the Positioning of Caribbean Diaspora Identities." Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas. Second World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Aug. 20, 2005.
6. "Cultural Dislocation as the Origin of Hybridity? The Influence of the History of Slavery on the Negotiation of Current Cultural Borders within the Caribbean Diaspora." Caribbean Migrations: Negotiating Borders: International Conference on Caribbean Borders. Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, Kanada. July 22, 2005.
7. "'Oriental Spatialities': The Alienizing Effects of Spatial Metaphors in the Description of Intercultural Processes." Border//Crossings. Culture - Media - Economy: 6th Interdisciplinary, International Graduate Conference at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. Nov. 07, 2004.

Courses

• Representations of Slavery in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
• Caribbean Coming-of-Age Novels
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rereading the Classic
• Caribbean-American Literatures
• Reading Skills
• Introduction to Literary Studies
• Introduction to Literary Theory
• Academic Skills