Professor Monika Shafi

Profile

Monika Shafi is Elias Ahuja Professor of German Literature and Chair of the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. She has published on 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century German literature, with specific emphasis on women authors. Her articles include: ‘Discourses of Work in Uwe Timm’s Kopfjäger: Bericht aus dem Inneren des Landes’ (Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch [special issue: Uwe Timm, ed. Paul Michael Lützeler and Stephan Schindler], 2012); ‘Of Heimat, Words, and Work: Günter Grass’s Grimms Wörter: Eine Liebeserklärung’ in Heimat zwischen Gedächtnis- und Raumdiskursen: Exemplarische Analysen von Literatur und Film ed. Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele (de Gruyter, 2012); ‘New Concept-New Life: Bodies and Buildings in Katharina Hacker’s novel Die Habenichtse’ (Seminar, 47 [special issue: ‘Globalization, German Literature, and the New Economy’, ed. David Coury and Sabine von Dirke], 2011): 344-56; and ‘Günter Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling The Onion)’ in The Novel in German since 1990 ed. Stuart Taberner (Cambridge UP, 2011). Her most recent book, Housebound: Selfhood and Domestic Space in Contemporary German Fiction, a study on the role of houses in selected post-Wall literature, was published by Camden House in 2012.