Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
Lizzie Stewart studied German and Russian as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests in transcultural literature and in theatre first came together in her MSc in European Theatre, and then were continued in her PhD, both of which were funded by the AHRC and undertaken at the University of Edinburgh. While completing her PhD she was a Research Fellow in Assessment and Feedback, as well as Tutor in German, at the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Cambridge in 2016, Lizzie Stewart was then Teaching Fellow in German at the University of St Andrews. She has also studied in Berlin, as a DAAD-funded researcher, as well as in Heidelberg and Moscow along the way.
Dr Stewart lectures on the following modules and papers in 2016-17: Kafka for paper GE1; Transnational Texts: Turkish-German Literature and Film for GE6; Islam in German Literature for GE13; Staging the Real: Documentary Theatre in the Twenty-first Century for GE15. In the past she has also lectured on the work of authors and playwrights such as Elfriede Jelinek, Herta Müller, and Bertolt Brecht. Dr Stewart very much enjoys teaching translation and this year will also be contributing to teaching on the translation paper GEB2.
Lizzie Stewart’s research looks at theatre and migration in contemporary Germany, a country where one in five people now have a background of migration. She has published on representations of Muslim women in post-dramatic documentary theatre, the role of the archive in Turkish-German theatre and film, and on the plays of Emine Sevgi Özdamar as well as of Feridun Zaimoglu/Günter Senkel. Her research interests include: Contemporary Theatre and Performance (20th-21st Century), Turkish-German Studies, Cultural Production and Migration, Archival Theory, Film.
She is currently developing her doctoral thesis on ‘Turkish-German Scripts of Post-Migration’ for publication as a monograph.
Edited Journal Issues
Oxford German Studies, 45.3, Special Issue on Emine Sevgi Özdamar at 70 (2016), ed. with Frauke Matthes.
Forum: The University of Edinburgh’s Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, 15 & 16 (2012-13), ed. with Laura Chapot (16) and James Leveque (15).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
‘Introduction: Emine Sevgi Özdamar at 70’, co-written with Frauke Matthes, Oxford German Studies, 45.3 (2016), Special Issue on Emine Sevgi Özdamar at 70, ed. Frauke Matthes and Lizzie Stewart: 237-244.
‘Ümmü in Alamania? Female Voice and Song in the Premiere Production of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Karagöz in Alamania (1986)’, Oxford German Studies, 45.3 (2016), Special Issue on Emine Sevgi Özdamar at 70, ed. Frauke Matthes and Lizzie Stewart: 252-274.
‘Turkish-German Comedy Goes Archival: Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)’, Edinburgh German Yearbook, 9 (2015), Special Issue on Archive and Memory in German-Language Literature and Culture, ed. by Dora Osbourne, pp. 107-22.
‘Black Virgins, Close Encounters: Re-Examining the “Semi-Documentary” in Postmigrant Theatre’, Türkisch-deutsche Studien, 5 (2014): 81-102.
‘Countermemory and the (Turkish-)German Theatrical Archive: Reading the Documentary Remains of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Karagöz in Alamania (1986),’ Transit, 8.2 (2013) Special Issue on Participatory Media and Public Memory <http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0fq2m874>.
Dictionary Entries and Reviews
‘Emine Sevgi Özdamar’, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Turkish Novelists Since 1960, vol. 2, ed. Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol (Michigan: Gale, 2016). Forthcoming.
‘Conference Report: Postmigrant Theatre from Germany: Neco Çelik’, Türkisch-deutsche Studien, 6 (2015): 149-153.
Online Teaching Materials for Schools
Lizzie Stewart, ‘Emine Sevgi Özdamar,’ Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (2014) <http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing-ccww/languages/german/emine-sevgi-özdamar> .
Lizzie Stewart and Mikey Wood, Schools Resource Pack on East Germany and Theatre [‘Beyond The Lives of Others’], Who’s Watching Who? (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2014) <http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/whos-watching-who/resources/information-teachers/>.
Lizzie Stewart, ‘Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011),’ Video Presentation, Vocabulary List and Discussion Questions designed for A-Level Students of German, German Film Learning Initiative (2014) <http://germanfilm.co.uk/almanya/>.
Sophie Burt, Lizzie Stewart and Jo Gilbert, ‘Race and Migration in German Film,’ Video Discussion, German Film Learning Initiative (2014) <http://germanfilm.co.uk/race-and-migration/>.
