Dr. Betiel Wasihun is IPODI Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and conducts research on surveillance at the Institute for Philosophy, History of Literature, Science and Technology at the TU Berlin. Before coming to the TU Berlin, she was a Montgomery-DAAD Fellow and Lecturer in Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College and Somerville College). She holds an M.A. (2005) and PhD (2009) in German Studies from the University of Heidelberg and was also a Research and Teaching Fellow at the German Department of Yale University (2006-2008).
In 2010 she published a monograph on the phenomenon of competition in primarily Kafka’s work (Heidelberg: Winter). Kafka has been an ongoing research topic for her but she has also published articles on a wide range of other authors, including Heinrich von Kleist, Philip Roth, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Ulrich Peltzer, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Teju Cole, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dinaw Mengestu.
As of August 2019