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PD Dr. Hamid Tafazoli

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1. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies / Fields of Study / Departments / German studies / Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen und Lehrbeauftragte

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hamid.tafazoli@uni-bielefeld.de  
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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career
- 2017: Post-doctoral habilitation, Modern German Literature, venia legendi, Bielefeld University
- 2006: PhD, German Philology, General Linguistics, Indo-Germanic Linguistics, University of Münster
- 2003: Certificate in ‘Theory and Practice in Teaching German as a Foreign Language’, Goethe-Institut and University of Kassel
- 2000: Master of Arts (Magister Artium), German Philology, General Linguistics, Indo-Germanic Linguistics, University of Münster

Key Areas of Research and Teaching
- Cultures of ambiguity, aesthetics of cultural ambiguity, transformations of culture
- Media theory, with a focus on: media representations of culture, the textuality of film
- Literary theories, with a focus on: aesthetics, intercultural hermeneutics, cultural semiotics, narrative theory
- Modern German literature, with a particular focus on the period from the early modern era to the present day
- Forms of representation of migration
- Heterotopias in culture and society
- The literary canon and literary criticism: history and development since the 18th century
- Research into interculturality in German studies
- Postcolonial studies in German literary studies
- Narrative theories in German literary studies

Publications
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/person/23381969

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