Mag. Dr. Michela Borzaga

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Winter term 2020

120023 SE MA-Seminar (Literature/Cultural Studies - Abschlußmodul 6) - How to Write a Thesis: Circumscribing the topic, Methodology as Experience, Exercising Communication

123423 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - 'Momoires': Remembering the Mother between Life-Writing and Fiction

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

128482 SE MA-Seminar (Literature/Cultural Studies - Abschlußmodul) - How to Write a Thesis: Circumscribing the topic, Methodology as Experience, Exercising Communication

Summer term 2020

123041 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - Postcolonial Re-writings

Winter term 2019

123042 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - 'Unhomely Designs': Virginia Woolf's Houses

128303 AR Theory (MA) - Five Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers

Borzaga, M. (2020). Writing and Re-writing Indigenous Human Rights in the African Laboratory. In G. N. Devy (Ed.), Gender and Rights (1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 9-40). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, Vol.. 2

Borzaga, M. (2020). Psychic Unhomings, Amnesia, and the Risk of Decosmopolitanization in Damon Galgut's The Impostor (2008). Humanities - An Open Access Journal, 9(105), 1-12.

Borzaga, M. (2020). Jacqueline Rose. 2018. Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty. Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, (1), 162-164.

Borzaga, M. (2020). Postcolonial Poetics? Review Essay. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56(1), 140-146.

Borzaga, M. (2018). In the Heart of the Country and Pain: Re-reading Space, Gender and Affect. Australian Literary Studies, 33(1), 1-16.

Borzaga, M. (2015). A Life in Research with J.M. Coetzee: An Interview with David Attwell. Life Writing, 12(3), 251-263. https://doi.org/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, 31(1), 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, pp. vii-xxxi). Rodopi. Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Vol.. 153

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

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

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

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

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

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 (pp. 227-248). Rodopi/Brill.

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, pp. vii-xiii). Rodopi.

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 (pp. 75-102). Rodopi/Brill.

Borzaga, M. (2010). Testing the DSM Model in South Africa: An Interview with Ashraf Kagee. In Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews (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, 27-42.

Mengel, E., Borzaga, M., & Orantes, K. (Eds.) (2010). Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Rodopi.

Borzaga, M. (2009). There Was This Goat: by A. Krog, K. Ratele and N. Mpolweni. ITCH - Creative Expression Journal, (3).

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’.