Dr. Mariya Nikolova
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- Name
- Dr. Mariya Nikolova
- nikolovm (at) hu-berlin.de
- Institution
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- Mailing address
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Bio: Mariya Nikolova is a lecturer at the University of Potsdam and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She completed her doctoral studies at the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms with a joint PhD fellowship between Potsdam University and University of New South Wales (Australia). Her dissertation, titled How Whiteness Claimed the Future. The Always New Vs. the Always Now in US-American Literature, examines avant-gardism's embeddedness in whiteness, and how its tropes have enabled claims on futurity, transformation, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Mariya received a Masters degree in Transnational Literature, Theatre and Film at the University of Bremen, and a Bachelor degree in English-Speaking Cultures and Political Science at the University of Bremen and Birmingham City University (UK). She worked as an interpreter for women affected by HIV at the Bremer Public Health Department and as the coordinator for the Volunteer, English and Youth Zones Departments of the Bulgarian Youth and Children Parliament. Mariya´s academic research revolves around Critical Theory and Experimental Literature. Her non-academic engagements include performance art and photography.
Publications
- "Nekrologika." MUZ 2, forthcoming.
- "Reaching the Limit. Or, How Kathy Acker Used Blackness to Abandon Haiti and Arrive Home Safely." The Minor on the Move. Doing Cosmopolitanisms, Edition Assemblage, 2021.
- "Jumpcut" & "Pinecones." Minor Cosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics and the Universe Together Otherwise, Diaphanes, 2020.
- "On Breaking Dissertations, or How I Read Sideways." U.S. Studies Online: Forum for New Writing, 22 January 2018.
- "White Violence and Spectral Blackness in Don DeLillo's Zero K." COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, Vol 20, No. 2.
- Nikolova, Mariya, et al. "Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies." COPAS 18.1(2017).
- "Race." Critical Cultural Literacy Online (the course authors, Dr. Carly Mclaughlin and Mohammad Dalla, were awarded the 2020 Landeslehrpreis)