Dr. Ervin Malakaj

Biography

Ervin Malakaj specializes in late 18th to 21st-century German media cultural history, focusing on 19th-century literary cultures, film studies, queer studies, and humanities advocacy for language learning. His book, "Anders als die Andern" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023), discusses aesthetics and mourning in Richard Oswald’s early queer melodrama. He is progressing on an early queer media theory monograph titled "Divinatory Cultural Techniques: Queer Media Engagement, 1900–1933." Malakaj's literary studies draw from queer theory, narrative theory, and book history, examining the interplay of literary markets and authorial agency. He has completed a manuscript entitled "Fragile Poetics: Precarity Literary Form Early Wilhelmine Germany" and is involved in various initiatives and editorial boards related to diverse scholarly contributions in German studies. He co-founded the diversity and decolonization initiative in German studies and collaborates extensively on enhancing undergraduate German studies at the University of British Columbia. His work encompasses various scholarly publications in peer-reviewed journals and major volumes in German studies, contributing significantly to the fields of queer studies and German cultural studies.

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