Profile:
Maisun Sharif
Maisun Sharif was born in Berlin in 1977. She studied English Literature and General and Comparative Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Sheffield. In April 2004 she joined the doctoral programme Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Transdifference” of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg as a fellow. At present she is working on her doctoral thesis “South African Identities: Bodies and Voices in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee”. Her other research interests include 19 th -century-literature (novel, sensation novel, Romantic and Victorian poetry), postcolonial studies, constructions of masculinity, fantastic literature, film studies, theory.