M.A.Karen Kuhn

Karen Kuhn
Visiting senior lecturer

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)