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Johanna Munzel

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About me

Johanna Munzel recently defended her dissertation at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany where she was a PhD candidate at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies and member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). In her dissertation, she examines postmigrant resistance strategies against racism, sexism and antisemitism at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin under the directorship of Shermin Langhoff. Her research interests include postmigrant and postcolonial theoretical approaches, critical migration studies, gender studies and memory culture.

She completed her Master of Arts in Migration and Diversity Studies at University of Kiel with a focus on Turkish Language and Islamic Studies and studied one year at Marmara University, Istanbul. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Educational and Political Sciences from Halle-Wittenberg University.

 

Dissertation title: Ein Ort postmigrantischen Widerstands im Zentrum - Das Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. [magna cum laude]

Defence: February 6th 2025

 Academia.edu Profil:https://uni-giessen.academia.edu/JohannaMunzel

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Publications

  • Munzel, Johanna (in preparation): Ein Ort postmigrantischen Widerstands im Zentrum. Das Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Dissertation at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
  • Munzel, Johanna (2022): Postmigrantischer Widerstand im Zentrum von Berlin. Das Maxim Gorki Theater. In: Schmidt, J./Thiemann, J. (Hrgs.): Reclaim! Postmigrantische und widerständige Praxen der Aneignung. Berlin, Neofelis. 
  • Munzel, Johanna (2020): Rassismuskritische Allianzen gegen weiße Dominanz im Kulturbetrieb. KULT_online, Nr. 61 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2020.1033.
Presentations

  • 'Das moral triangle in Berlin - Deutsche, Israelis und Palästinenser:innen im Maxim Gorki Theater'. 05.-08.10.2023, German Studies Association 47th Annual Conference, Montréal, Kanada.

  • 'The moral triangle in Berlin - Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians at the Maxim Gorki Theater'. 24.-28.7.2023, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference 2023, Accra, Ghana.

  • 'A Place of Postmigrant Resistance in the Center: The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin'. 15.-18.9.2022, German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, USA.

  • 'A Place of Postmigrant Resistance in the Centre: The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin'. 20.-24.6.2022. International Federation for Theatre Research Conference 2022, Reykjavík, Island.

  • 'A Place of Postcolonial Resistance in the Centre. The Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.' 10.-13.3.2022. 53rd Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

  • 'A Place of Postcolonial Resistance in the Centre. The Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.' 17.-18.9.2020. RECLAIM! Postmigrantische Diskurse der Aneignung. Interdisciplinary online-conference, Hamburg University, Warburg Haus.



Research Interests

  • postmigrant and postcolonial theoretical approaches
  • critical migration studies
  • gender studies 
  • memory studies
Teaching

Co-Teaching in the seminar Einführung in die kultursoziologische Migrationsforschung at the institut of sociology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Summerterm 2021

Conference

Rethinking Postcolonial Europe: Moving Identities, Changing Subjectivities. Online-conference, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. 10.-12.02.2021

Co-organisation, implementation, panel-moderations.

Memberships

  • Research network »Resistant Practices/Widerständige Praxen«
  • International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
  • German Studies Association (GSA)
  • German Education Union (GEW)
Other

Board member of the community garden INGE e.V. (Initiative for Sustainable Horticulture and Food Sovereignty) in Giessen.