Carla Gierich, M.A.

Project Assistant Fellowmanagement

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Schifferstraße 44
47059 Duisburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)203 379-5231
Fax: +49 (0)203 379-5276
E-Mail: gierich@gcr21.uni-due.de

Vita

10/2009-02/2012

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Master of Arts: The Americas - Las Américas - Les Amériques

12/2008-11/2011

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Coordination Film Distribution, Working Student

08/2008-10/2008

Hotel Sol Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain, Reception

Intern

08/2007-09/2007

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Press and Communication

Intern

10/2006-09/2009

University of Duisburg-Essen

B.A. in Cultural Management

08/2005-08/2006

International Cultural Youth Exchange, Costa Rica

Work in Kindergarden and Culture Office

Publications

Gierich, Carla (2016): A Clash of City Images - Appropriating Space in The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez by John Rechy, in: Gadinger, Frank/Kopf, Martina/Mert, Aysem/Smith, Christopher (eds.): Political Storytelling: From Fact to Fiction (Global Dialogues 12), Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), pp. 22-30.

Research Interest

  • Latino/a and Chicano/a Studies
  • Urban Literature
  • Los Angeles as an Arrival City
  • Narrative and Space
  • Hybridity and Transculturality in the Americas

Current Projects

Hybrid Spaces. Los Angeles as an Arrival City in Contemporary Chicano Literature (PhD project)

Membership

  • Association for Literary Urban Studies, Member
  • International Association of Inter-American Studies, Member