Doerte Bischoff
Doerte is a professor at the Department of Germanic Literatures and chair of the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on German-Jewish literature, literature and material culture, citizenship studies, exile and transnational literature. She is a co-editor of the Jahrbuch Exilforschung and the Handbuch Literatur und Transnationalität. She co-directs a DFG research unit on trans-exile dynamics in postrevolutionary Mexico as well as a DFG/AHRC project on interconnecting exile in German language writing.
Passport stories: Global citizenship and dis:connectivity in literature
Doerte’s research contributes to citizenship studies from the perspective of literary analysis. Based on the finding that the bond between the individual and the state is prominently negotiated in literary texts through the exploration of passports and identity cards, she is examining constellations in which the convergence of identity papers and manuscripts contrasts different forms of identification. She focusses on historical and contemporary exile literature, which reconceptualises citizenship from a perspective of displacement, opening a tension between connection and disruption.
Have a look at Doerte’s research poster about her project.