Dr Betiel Wasihun
Betiel Wasihun, M.A., Ph.D. (Heidelberg)
DAAD-Montgomery Fellow at Lincoln College
Address: Lincoln College, Oxford, OX1 3DR
Email: betiel.wasihun@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 279780
Research
Betiel Wasihun’s research interests include German and Comparative literature from the eighteenth century to the present with a particular emphasis on twentieth century literature and aesthetics. She has worked on authors such as Kafka, R. Walser, Eichendorff and Beckett. Her current research project examines the literary representations of betrayal in a comparative study from the Middle Ages to the present.
Teaching
German language and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Publications
Gewollt–Nicht-Gewollt: Wettkampf bei Kafka. Mit Blick auf Robert Walser und Samuel Beckett (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010)
Franz Kafka’s perpetual gesture. Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore’, in The Journal of the Kafka Society of America (forthcoming)
,Angst-Beschreibungen – Eichendorff und Kafka’ (in preparation)