Mag. Dr. Michela Borzaga

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Winter term 2018

123044 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - Walking in English and Postcolonial Literature

123252 AR Literature Course - Literature 1/2 (MA)British/Irish/New English & Cultural Studies - Virginia Woolf and the Life of Writing

128303 AR Theory (MA) - Theorising Feminism(s) in the Age of Lawfare

Winter term 2017

123210 VO Literatures in English - Virginia Woolf's Modernism(s)

Borzaga, M 2018, 'In the Heart of the Country and Pain: Re-reading Space, Gender and Affect' Australian Literary Studies, vol 33, no. 1, pp. 1-16.

Borzaga, M 2015, 'A Life in Research with J.M. Coetzee: An Interview with David Attwell' Life Writing, vol 12, no. 3, pp. 251-263. DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2015.1053031

Borzaga, M 2015, 'The Present in Pain: Temporal Poiesis in Mongane Wally Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood' Journal of Literary Studies, vol 31, no. 1, pp. 64-81.

Mengel, E & Borzaga, M 2012, Introduction. in E Mengel & M Borzaga (eds), Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays. vol. 2, Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, vol. 153, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. vii-xxxi.

Borzaga, M & Mengel, E 2012, Introduction. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays. Rodopi/Brill, pp. vii-xxxi.

Borzaga, M 2012, Trauma in the Postcolony: Towards a New Theoretical Approach. in E Mengel & M Borzaga (eds), Trauma, Memory, and Narrative: Essays. Rodopi/Brill, pp. 65-92.

Mengel, E & Borzaga, M (eds) 2012, Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays. Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, vol. 153, vol. 2, Rodopi, Amsterdam.

Borzaga, M 2010, But Even Bodies Never Speak Pure Languages: An Interview with Don Foster. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Rodopi/Brill, Amsterdam/NY, pp. 103-126.

Borzaga, M 2010, 'De-Othering' the Perpetrator: An Interview with Annie Gagiano. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Rodopi/Brill, Amsterdam/NY, pp. 187-210.

Borzaga, M 2010, Gender is a Matter of Life and Death: An Interview with Helen Moffett. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Rodopi/Brill, Amsterdam/NY, pp. 227-248.

Mengel, E, Borzaga, M & Orantes, K 2010, Introduction. in E Mengel, M Borzaga & K Orantes (eds), Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. vol. 1, Rodopi, Amsterdam/NY, pp. vii-xiii.

Borzaga, M 2010, Political Violence, Children and Trauma Response: An Interview with Miriam Fredericks and her Team. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Rodopi/Brill, Amsterdam/NY, pp. 75-102.

Borzaga, M 2010, Testing the DSM Model in South Africa: An Interview with Ashraf Kagee. in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Amsterdam:NY, pp. 127-138.

Borzaga, M 2010, 'The Rediscovery of the Extraordinary: A Question of Power by Bessie Head' Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies, pp. 27-42.

Mengel, E, Borzaga, M & Orantes, K (eds) 2010, Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. vol. 1, Rodopi, Amsterdam/NY.

Borzaga, M 2009, 'There Was This Goat: by A. Krog, K. Ratele and N. Mpolweni' ITCH - Creative Expression Journal, no. 3.

Borzaga, M 2008, 'Galgut's Take on Adam's Fall: The Impostor by Damon Galgut' ITCH - Creative Expression Journal, no. 2.

Borzaga, M 2008, 'James Weldon Johnson's Ex-Colored Man's 'Truths'' Moderne Sprachen, vol 52, no. 1, pp. 9-26.

Borzaga, M & Steiner, D 2004, Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader. Poetry Salzburg, Salzburg.

Borzaga, M 2004, South Africa: A Personal Encounter. in M Borzaga & D Steiner (eds), Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader. Poetry Salzburg, Salzburg, pp. 9-14.

Short CV

Michela Borzaga studied English at Salzburg, Belfast, and Stellenbosch. She is working as a lecturer and research assistant in the English department at the University of Vienna. Her areas of teaching and research interests include English literature and culture, literary theory and postcolonial studies. She co-edited Imagination in a Troubled Space: A Poetry Reader (Poetry Salzburg, 2004), Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews (Brill/Rodopi, 2009) Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Essays (Brill/Rodopi, 2012). She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled 'Trauma on the Move: Inside and Outside the Contemporary South African Novel’.