Monika Raic

Monika Raič is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin; she has a doctorate from the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Innsbruck. In her doctoral project she studied the theoretical intersections of cosmopolitanism, orientalism and world literature. Thematically, she analysed Gustave Flaubert's ‘Voyage en Orient’ in combination with Roberto Arlt’s ‘Aguafuertes’ from Morocco and later texts that include oriental motifs. The spectre of her analysis was widened by an assessment of Maxime Du Camp’s Egypt photography and representations of 'the Orient’ in films from the 1920/30ies (esp. Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Joseph von Sternberg).

Monika's general research interest include aesthetics, literary, media and cultural theory as well as political philosophy with a special interest in current global issues such as discourses on the ‘anthropocene’.