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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | English and American Literature,Theatre and Media Studies |
| Keywords | literature & history, slavery in literature, contemporary African American culture, third generation literature |
| Honours and awards | 2022: Finalist and Honorable Mention for George Freedley Memorial Award of Theatre Library Association for Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Kara Walker and Suzan-Lori Parks (U of Iowa Press 2021). 2022: Finalist and Honorable Mention for MLA Prize for an Edited Collection for Slavery and the Post-black Imagination, co-edited with Bertram Ashe (U of Washington Press 2020) 2008: SAMLA Book Award for New Deal Theater (Palgrave Macmillan 2007), annual book prize of the South Atlantic Chapter of Modern Language Association |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Erfurt |
| Institution | Universität Erfurt |
| Institute | Seminar für Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft |
| Homepage | http://www.uni-erfurt.de/go/american-literature |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jennifer Jenkins | Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2015 |
Programme(s)
| 2014 | Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | Ilka Saal: Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker. Iowa University Press, 2021 |
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| 2020 | Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe (eds).: Slavery and the Post-black Imagination. University of Washington Press, 2020 |
| 2016 | Ilka Saal: Theatricality in Contemporary Visual and Performance Art on New World Slavery. Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature. Oxford University Press, 2016. |