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Katrina L. Nousek is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. She is trained in literary and cultural studies, focusing on history and comparative analysis. Her research and teaching examine how readers and cultural producers engage in world-making practices that reveal the complex interplay of power dynamics and cultural legacies resulting from historical events. Nousek's current book manuscript, "Future History: Postsocialist Subjects and Social Grammars of 1989," investigates how migrating transnational narrators express unfulfilled social dreams across European states. She also explores the 20th-century European socialist nation-building within the context of modernity, challenging prevailing ideologies of progress. Her research project titled "Shadow Arts" delves into cultural techniques that navigate textual gaps arising from colonization and decolonization, examining issues of identity formation. With a commitment to intersectionality, her publications and courses address themes in postwar and contemporary literature, migration, and media studies.
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