Dr. Maria Mayr
Dr. Maria Mayr
Position
Associate Professor
Academics
Honours B.A., Philosophy and Religion, University of Toronto (2003)
M.A., Comparative Literature, Western University (2005)
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Western University (2011)
Research Interests
Memory Studies
20th and 21st century German-language literature and culture
Inter-, trans-, and multicultural literatures
Post-socialist memory
Futurity
Interculturality
European memory discourses
Current Research Projects
Unrealized Futures in Post-Socialist Memory and Culture (with Drs. Michel Mallet Universit茅 de Moncton and Kristin Rebien, San Diego State University)
Re-Conceptualizing Utopia: Thinking the Future Today (with Dr. Christina Kraenzle, York University)
Transnational European Memory in German-language Literature from Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia and
Beyond (SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2016-2022)
Teaching Interests and Projects
German-language literatures and cultures
Contemporary German-language literature
Memory discourses in German-language cultures
Multidirectional memories of genocide
Interculturality in literature
Postcolonial German Studies
Mobilizing Knowledge on the East Coast Trail (experiential learning partnership)
Selected Recent Publications
Refereed Book
(equal authors) Mallet, Michel, Maria Mayr, and Kristin Rebien. Unrealized Futures in Post-Socialist Memory and Culture. Media and Cultural Memory Series. Berlin: de Gruyter. (accepted)
(equal authors) Kraenzle, C., and M. Mayr, eds. The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures鈥擴sable Pasts and Futures. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave, 2016.
Refereed Journal Articles
Mayr, M. 鈥淔rom Collectives to Communities: Marica Bodro啪i膰鈥檚 Mein Wei脽er Frieden (2014) and the Task of Individual Memory.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Unrealized Futures in Post-Socialist Memory and Culture. Berlin: de Gruyter. (accepted)
Mayr, M. 鈥淢odern and Off-Modern Time Regimes: Co-Memorating Trauma and Hope in Alida Bremer's Olivas Garten (2013). Literatur und Erinnerung. PhiN 鈥 Philologie im Netz. Nr. 29 (2022): 10-25.
Mayr, M. 鈥淭he European Future of Postsocialist Nostalgia in German-Language Literature 糖心视频 Former Yugoslavia.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Colloquia Germanica 51 (2020): 325-344.
Mayr, M. 鈥淓urope鈥檚 Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich鈥檚 Die Erdfresserin.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Herman, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. 144-161.
Mayr, M. 鈥溾樏渂erw盲ltigende Vergangenheit鈥: Questioning European Identity in Contemporary German-Language Literature about Former Yugoslavia.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Re-Forming the Nation in Literature and Film. Ed. Julian Preece. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. 229-248.
Contact Information
Email: mmayr@mun.ca
Room: SN - 4023
Phone: (709) 864-7636