Student assistants

University of Münster
English Department
Chair of English Studies
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
Phone: +49 251 832 4832
Room: ES 314

Mahdiye Kazemi

Mahdiye Kazemi (she/her) is a Master's student in British, American, and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. She completed her Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature in Iran and has since gained professional experience in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), prose editing, and content/visual design. Mahdiye's research interests are situated at the intersections of Political, Literary, and Cultural Studies, with a particular focus on Political Theory in Literature, Cultural History, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Studies, Storytelling Across Media Forms, and Dystopian Literature.

Özge Kayan

Özge Kayan is a Master’s student in National and Transnational Studies program at the University of Münster. She has completed her Bachelor's degree in English Language Teaching in Turkey and has professional experience in education and translation. She is currently writing her MA thesis on graphic representations of reality and affective worldmaking in Bishakh Som’s graphic short story collection, Apsara Engine. Throughout her MA degree, she has worked on the intersections of queer theory, critical posthumanism, and new materialism, and more recently has been focusing on affect theory, comics studies, and literary aesthetics.