Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research overview
Caroline May is a postgraduate researcher in German Literary Studies, undertaking a joint doctoral program at the University of St Andrews and the University of Bonn. Her research is focused on authorship and queer narratology in contemporary German-language novels. As a research assistant, she is affiliated with the St Andrews Institute for Cultural Identity and Memory Studies. She has taught German language and literature as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant at Bard College and as a lecturer at the Universities of Bielefeld and Koblenz, as well as within the European Teaching Network for Intercultural Communication (EMICC).
Research interests
- Narrative Identity Construction
- Authorship
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Memory Studies
- Berlin poetry in the 20th century
- Literature of the inter-war period
Academic/Professional Qualification
- since October 2024: Co-Tutelle-PhD in German Literary Studies at the University of Bonn and the University of St Andrews
- 06/2024: Master of Linguistics in Intercultural Communication at the University of Utrecht (with Distinction)
- 03/2024: Additional Teaching Certificate for German as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Bayreuth
- 07/2023: Bachelor of Arts in German Studies, English Studies and Educational Sciences at the University of Bayreuth
Teaching activity
Summer term 2026:
- Workshop: Intercultural Readings in Literary Studies: Methods and Concepts at the University of St Andrews, SCT
Winter term 2025:
- Seminar: Intercultural Perspectives on Gender Studies at the INALCO, FR
- Workshop: Introduction to Literary Analysis and Terminology at the University of St Andrews, SCT
Summer term 2025:
- Seminar: Lyrik im Deutschunterricht: Barock, Sturm und Drang und Romantik at the University of Koblenz, GER
- Seminar: Identitätserzählungen im Deutschunterricht at the University of Koblenz, GER
Summer term 2024
- German Language Class: Deutschkurs A1, Summer School Geschichte at the University of Bielefeld, GER
- German Language Class: Deutschkurs B2/C1 + Fach(sprachen)projekt Technik at the University of Bielefeld, GER
- German Language Class: Deutschkurs B2/C1 + Fach(sprachen)projekt deutsche Wissenschaftssprache at the University of Bielefeld, GER
Academic year 2019/20
- German tutoring: Beginning German Intensive at Bard College, USA
- German tutoring: Intermediate German II at Bard College, USA
- German tutoring: German Advanced at Bard College, USA
- German tutoring: German Literature at Bard College, USA
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Research output
- 1 Article
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"Berlin, du deutsche deutsche Frau": Berlin as a woman in twentieth-century German poetry
May, C., 23 Dec 2025, In: Amsterdam Museum Journal. 5, p. 34-53 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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From Dysphoria to Recognition: The Body as Locus of Identity in Yaghoobifarah's Schwindel
May, C. (Speaker)
7 Mar 2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation
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Queer Afro-German Interventions in Chantal-Fleur Sandjon's Die Sonne, so strahlend und Schwarz
May, C. (Speaker)
6 Mar 2026Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation
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Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (Organisational unit)
May, C. (Participant)
1 Sept 2025 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of research network
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Poetics of Disidentification: Narrating Queer Identities in Hengameh Yaghoobifarah’s Schwindel
May, C. (Speaker)
10 Jun 2025 → 12 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation
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sie*er, dey, xier: Neopronomina im DaF-Unterricht
May, C. (Speaker) & Brünger, S. (Speaker)
14 Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Presentation