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Alena Cicholewski
Alena Cicholewski is an academic writing instructor at the University of Bremen (Germany). She also teaches at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), where she completed her Ph.D. in English literature in 2020. In her dissertation, ‘Chronopolitical interventions in the afterlife of slavery: Forms and functions of temporal disruptions in contemporary speculative neo-slave narratives’, she analyses how the incorporation of chronopolitical interventions such as time travel, reincarnation or alternate history enables speculative neo-slave narratives to reflect on the past and transform it for the purpose of envisioning different futures by destabilizing conventional notions of temporality and history. Alena’s general research interests include, but are not limited to, young adult literature, graphic novels and postcolonial science fiction. She has presented her research at multiple national and international conferences and has published articles in academic journals such as Jeunesse, SFRA Review and COPAS.
Contact: University of Bremen, Dezernat 6: Studierwerkstatt, Bibliotheksstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany.