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Martin Lindner is a second-year AHRC and Clarendon-funded doctoral student at Brasenose College. His research interests lie in the intersection between Postcolonial Studies, Narratology and German and Austrian literature in the 19th and early 20th century.

Research

As and AHRC and Clarendon scholar, Martin’s doctoral research focuses on colonialist discourses in Germanophone literature and culture from around the end of the Habsburg Empire. Supervised by Prof. Carolin Duttlinger, his project will examine the specific role of narrative form in expressing or challenging colonialist power structures within Central Europe. Martin’s project will also explore to what extent aesthetics of similarity existed in this context, and in how analysing such aesthetics can serve as a productive paradigm extension for postcolonial narrative research.

Martin holds an MPhil from Cambridge and gained two years of professional experience in the International Education Division of Oxford University Press before starting his doctorate studies.

Publications

 

Conference Papers

  • ‘"In europäischen Anschauungen befangen"? Kafka’s Formal Aesthetics of Transcending Empire(s) and Postcolonial Interpretations of His Texts' - Kafka Transformed International Conference, University of Oxford (18/09/2024)
  • ‘“Wer ‘ihr’? Wen meinst du mit ‘ihr’?” - Questions of Jewish Belonging in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit (2000) and Doron Rabinovici's Ohnehin (2004)’ - Interdisciplinary symposium ‘Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood’, Center for Narrative Research (CNR), University of Wuppertal (24/02/2022)

Teaching

German Prelims: Grammatikübung A (2024/25)

German  Final Honours School (2024/25)

  • Translation into German (St Edmund Hall)
  • Paper X: Tutorial Teaching for Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Convenor and organiser of the German Graduate Seminar and the Annual Oxford German Graduate Symposium (2023/24 & 2024/25)

Student tutor for module ‘Introduction to German Literary Studies’, Leipzig University (10/2019 – 02/2020)

Prizes

  • Winner of the Charles Carlton Prize for the best MPhil performance in History, Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences at Wolfson College, Cambridge (10/12/2021)
  • Winner of the Postgraduate Essay Prize of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) for module essay on contemporary Jewish-Austrian writing (08/06/2021)