Author: Barbara Bollig

Barbara Bollig holds a B.Ed and M.Ed in German and English, as well as a MA in English Literatures and Media from the University of Trier. She read English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, as an Erasmus student in the academic year 2014/15 and is currently pursuing a PhD in German Literature at the FernUniversität in Hagen. Her current research is on the Medea myth, theories of mythologization, and the cultural implications of the Medea narrative in various research fields and within German literature since the Enlightenment. She is part of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik and the CePoG (the Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies) at the University of Trier. Barbara has given conference papers on remythifications of the Medea story, the perpetuation of colonial stereotypes in contemporary literary depictions of the so-called European “refugee crisis”, and strategies of female empowerment in literature. Barbara can be contacted on barbara.bollig@cantab.net or via twitter @bb_478