{"id":7911,"date":"2017-09-28T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2017-09-28T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:57:52","slug":"congratulations-to-melanie-dilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/28\/congratulations-to-melanie-dilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Melanie Dilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Departments of Comparative Literature<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Modern Languages<\/a> are delighted to announce that Melanie Dilly has completed her PhD in German and Comparative Literature, entitled &#8216;Expatriate Writing: Post-trauma, Post-memory and the Postcolonial&#8217; under the joint supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/hutchinson.html\">Professor Ben Hutchinson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/staehler.html\">Dr Axel St\u00e4hler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie\u2019s thesis focuses on the relationship between postcolonial and post-World War II discourses in contemporary expatriate writing, with a particular focus on Germany on the one hand, and the partition of India on the other.<\/p>\n<p>Her research seeks to show that the Holocaust and WWII have become fixed points of reference for the transnational memory of the traumatic events accompanying the partition of India: Works by Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie, and W.G. Sebald use narrative strategies that already include and point to another trauma, be that the Second World War or colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Dilly.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on a PhD in German and Comparative Literature, please see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/research-german-and-comparative-literature.html\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/research-german-and-comparative-literature.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Languages are delighted to announce that Melanie Dilly has completed her PhD in German and Comparative Literature, entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/28\/congratulations-to-melanie-dilly\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":7920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}