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Dr Zerka works broadly on medieval literature from the German-speaking and Iberian worlds through a comparative, transcultural and transtemporal lens, putting into dialogue modern theory with premodern Europe. Particular interests include postcolonial theory, Orientalism and representations of the medieval Iberian past, network theory in relation to the mobility and connectivity of literature in medieval Europe, feminist theory, approaches to gender in medieval texts and the representation of medieval women in modern scholarship.
Tutor, Equalities Fellow
Assistant Professor in Medieval German Literature
Dr Zerka completed her first degree in German and Hispanic Studies (European Studies) at Queen Mary, University of London and her MPhil in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. She received her PhD in German and Hispanic Studies from King’s College London for a thesis on representations of Iberia and the construction of identities in medieval German literature. After completing her doctoral studies in 2019, she worked as Lecturer in German for Queen Mary, University of London. Between 2020-2023, she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, considering the role and representation of women as transcultural agents involved in the making of premodern European literature. Her first monograph, Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature, was published with Legenda in the Transcript series in 2023.
Zerka, Doriane. Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature. Cambridge: Legenda, 2023. https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Imagining-Iberia-in-Medieval-German-Literature.
Zerka, Doriane. "Mapping Mobility: Women and Textual Networks in the Fifteenth-Century Prose Epic Herzog Herpin." Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 9 (December 2022): 95–123. https://doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-09-06.
Zerka, Doriane. "Andalusi Space and the European Network in the German Rolandslied." In Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts, edited by Rachel Scott, Abdool Karim Vakil and Julian Weiss, 157–178. London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London, 2021.
Zerka, Doriane. "Constructing Poetic Identity: Iberia as a Heterotopia in Oswald von Wolkenstein’s Songs." Modern Language Review 114, No. 2 (April 2019): 274–293. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.114.2.0274.
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