drKaren Kuhn
Visiting senior lecturer
- karen@amu.edu.pl
- (+48) 61 829 3572
Collegium Heliodori, room 356
Degrees
- B.A. in Languages, University of Pretoria
- M.A. in Creative Writing, University of Cape Town
Research interests
- Comparative Literature
- Afrikaans Literature
- Psychoanalysis: C.G. Jung
- Creative Writing
- Film Studies
Teaching experience
- Afrikaans literature
- Screenwriting
- Film Studies
- Media studies
Papers read at international conferences
- Rethinking Motion Picture and Performance Education in the New Millennium, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011: Constructive Media: Breaking the Pattern
- Afrikaans Literature Society, Pretoria, South Africa. 2012: Die ander kant van Johanna Brandt se werke.
- Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum Poznań, Poland. 2013: Ooreenstemmende eienskappe van diverse mistieke ervarings.
- Colloquium voor Doctorandi en Habilitandi, Budapest, Hungary, 2014: Dutch mysticism in conversation with South African Literature.
- Afrikaans Literature Society, Pretoria, South Africa, 2014: Translation as meeting point: the Afrikaans translation of the poem ‘Monogramma’ by Odisseas Elitis.
- The International Baccalaureate, (IB)- The Peterson Academic Symposium: Making time for creativity: Why does it matter? The Hague, The Netherlands: 2015 –Expansion via Creativity.
- International Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS-2015), Paris, France, 2015: Identifying Similar Mystical Experiences Within Literature.
- Wêrelde en/in wêrelde: Die Afrikaanse letterkunde en "vertaling". Kongres van die Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), North-West University - Noord-Wes Universiteit, Potchefstroom, 31 Augustus - 2 September 2016.
- Sixth Colloquium on Afrikaans: University of Ghent, Belgium, 2019:
Alchemical transformation within selective volumes of Breyten
Breytenbach (Alchemistiese transformasie binne selektiewe bundels van
Breyten Breytenbach).
Editorial
- Poznańskie Studia Slawistycne Number 4 2013
- Werkwinkel Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies Vol 7 (2) 2012
Publications
- Pomp Kultuurjoernaal [editorial] (Cape Town, Griffel, 2009 - 2012)
- ingeboek [collection of poetry] (Cape Town, Griffel, 2012)