Mr Felix Deichmann

PhD Research Student

Qualifications: MA (Dalarna University, Sweden), BA (Columbia University, New York)

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 3415
Room no: 25 AC 05

Further information

Biography

Felix holds a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University, New York and a Master's degree in African Literature & Postcolonial Studies from Dalarna University, Sweden.  He has written his Master's thesis on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by extracting colonial strategies of subjugating the indigenous which borrow from Jacques Lacan's mirror stage theory.  He is doing his graduate research at the University of Surrey as a distance part time student, streamlining his research on actor/audience interaction in Modern African drama.

Research Interests

  • African Literature & Drama
  • Modern Drama & Poetry in English
  • Exile in English-Language Literature
  • General Literary Theory & Postcolonial Theory

Research Collaborations

Full Erasmus LLP research scholarship in Migration & Narration in the summer of 2010 at Krosno University, Poland with research work on category limitations in Robin Cohen's theory of diaspora, particularly as far as it holds for the African condition.