Jarula M.I. Wegner

Jarula M. I. Wegner is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at University of Frankfurt, Germany, and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Group at the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre. He holds degrees in Chinese (BA), German (MA) and English (PhD) with a doctoral thesis on “Transcultural Memory Constellations in Caribbean Carnivals: Literature and Performance as Critique.” He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (USA), the University of Warwick (UK) and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago). His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as, ARIEL, Caribbean Quarterly, Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Journal of West Indian Literature and Memory Studies. His research interests include concepts of autobiography, memory, transculturality, postcoloniality, carnival, world literature, gender and critical theory.

His post-doctoral project with the working title “Autobiography as Critique” focuses on the intersection of autobiography, critical theory and the politics of citizenship.

Recent publications (selection):

Edited Volumes

Co-edited with Frank Schulze-Engler, Maren Scheurer and Andrea Gremels (eds). Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South. New York: Ibidem. Forthcoming.

Co-edited with Astrid Erll, Maria Elisabeth Dorr, Erin Högerle and Paul Vickers. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, vol. 11. Special Issue: Remembering between Travel and Locatedness: New Horizons of Culture and Media Memory Studies, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2019.1690840.

Essays

With Amanda T. McIntyre “A Life in Carnival and Writing: Michael Anthony at Ninety.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3 (September 2021): 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2021.1957478.

With Amanda T. McIntyre “‘There was no book to tell you anything about this’: Al Ramsawack and the Oral Archives of Caribbean Literature.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 29, no. 1 (April 2021): 11-26.

“Book Review: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.” Memory Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (April 2021): 551-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211003188.

“Rethinking Countermemory: Black-Jewish Negotiations in Rap Music.” Memory Studies, 13(6) (Winter 2020): 1219-1234. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1750698018794801.

“Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition.” A Poetics of Neurosis, edited by Dietmar Meinel und Elena Furlanetto. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. 75-94. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839441329-005

Web: https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/60151272/Jarula-Wegner

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2846-0258