The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform is delighted to welcome this academic year’s visiting fellows at Goethe University.

Shipra Tholia, Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies, FoA, Banaras Hindu University, is interested in German language and literature, narratology, transgenerational memory literature.

Amar Singh, Assistant Professor at the Department of English, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, works on AI Narratives, Film Studies, and Popular Culture. Amar has been awarded DAAD Fellowship to visit FMSP.

Guillem Atienza, PhD candidate in Literature at the Universitat de València, is currently working on his thesis on the presence of the RAF (Red Army Faction) terrorism in contemporary German literature.

Emilie Dybdal, PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, focuses on how contemporary Danish literature engages with and negotiates Denmark’s cultural memory of colonialism in Greenland.

Karen Ornat, PhD candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, investigates how stereotypes rooted in collective memory shape journalistic portrayals of foreign nations, influencing both current perceptions and future projections. 

Özge Özdemir  will remain at FMSP as a fellow of the Humboldt Stiftung and the Hessenfonds.