Hallensleben, Markus

Dr. Hallensleben is an Associate professor at the University of British Colombia (UBC). He is an Executive Committee member of the UBC Center for Migration Studies; an affiliated faculty member of the UBC Institute for European Studies; and an Associate faculty member of the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. 

His research interests focus on the regional area of Germany and include thematics such as: cultural studies; decolonial approaches; intercultural communication; literature studies; migration studies; and theatre, film and performance studies

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Institution: University of British Columbia
Fields of Expertise:

Collective Identity

Colonialism

Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism

Cultural Memory and Policy

Environmental Politics and Policy

Ethics and Political Philosophy

European Identity/ EU Citizenship

Gender Politics and Policy

Holocaust Studies

Literature

Memory Politics

Migration

Research groups: Memory Politics
Email: mhallen@mail.ubc.ca
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Languages: English and German
Publications:

“De-essentializing ethnic identities through narrating a plural belonging: Aesthetics of postmigration in Zafer Şenocak’s novel Perilous Kinship (1998).” Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 14, no. 1 (Postmigration: Aesthetics and Interventions), 2023, pp. 71-88, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00075_1 (Open access.)

“‘How are we going to be able to reach a higher degree of self-determination?’: A conversation with writer Max Czollek about ‘Radical Diversity’.” Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 14, no. 1 (Postmigration: Aesthetics and Interventions), 2023, pp. 111-120, doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00078_7 (Open access.)

Migration and Flight as Utopian Spaces of the Plural Society: Postmigratory Diaspora and Movement in Ilija Trojanow’s After the Flight (2017)

Performative Body Spaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts. (2010)

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