Sladja Blazan
Sladja Blazan is a writer and a lecturer. She received her Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin in 2005 and her Habilitation from the University of Würzburg. She is currently a professor at the University of Regensburg, and has previously taught at Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin and University Marburg in Germany, University College Dublin in Ireland as well as New York University and Bard College in the U.S. Most recently, she published a study that explores the intersection of spectrality and morality under the title Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonisation of the Invisible World (UVA Press 2024). Previous publications include an edited collection with the title Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), an edited collection with Nigel Hatton, Literature and Refugees (Königshausen & Neumann 2018); a book publication with the title American Fictionary: Postsozialistische Migration in der nordamerikanischen Literatur [American Fictionary: Postsocialist Migration in North American Literature] (Winter 2006); and the edited collection Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007); as well as a lecture performance with Avital Ronell with the title What Was I Thinking: A Critical Autobiography & Spectral Colloquy (HKF 2010). Her areas of research include speculative fiction, critical posthumanism, critical refugee studies, and migration.
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