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Dr. Melanie Otto

Assistant Professor (English)
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Melanie Otto received her primary degree from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz, and her Ph.D from the University of Wales Swansea.
  20th Century New zealand and Caribbean writing   Postcoloniality and globalization
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Co-editor, Caribbean Literature and Culture (Anglophone), Literary Encyclopedia 2018 - current
ERC Mock Interviews Irish Research Council 13 September 2021
Distance supervision of visiting PhD student from Qurtuba University of Science and Technology, Pakistan July 2020
External Examiner, PHD, UCC May 2020
External Assessor, appointment panel, Maynooth August 2007
NUI Travelling Studentships 2019: I was invited for proposal evaluation in the area of Historical Fiction. June 2019
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
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International Association of Inter-American Studies 2009 present
Irish Association for American Studies 2022 present
Melanie Otto, `The word"s challenging opposite": the visual language of Lorcan Walshe"s The Artefacts Project and Museum Pieces, Word & Image, 38, (4), 2022, p348 - 360, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Melanie Otto, Artists and Exile: Sam Selvon, Cyril Dabydeen, and Kamau Brathwaite , ICAS 2021, Diaspora in the 21st Century, Virtual Conference, Southern Regional College, Newry, 28 - 30 January 2021, 2021, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Reading the Colonial Archive through Joscelyn Gardner's Creole Portraits I-III in, editor(s)Evelyn O'Callaghan, Timothy Watson (volume editors) Alison Donnell (general editor) , Caribbean Literature in Transition, vol 1, Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp409 - 425, [Melanie Otto], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"Other Ways of Being": Ray Bradbury's 'The April Witch' in Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid's 'In the Night' and Leonora Carrington's 'The Seventh Horse' in, editor(s)Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Miranda Corcoran , Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family, New York , Routledge, 2020, pp91 - 107, [Melanie Otto], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Melanie Otto, "To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet": The Truth Behind the Mask in the Work of Lorcan Walshe, NeMLA 51st Annual Convention, Boston, 5-8 March 2020, 2020, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
"I'm a believer in the dance of change" - Metamorphosis and Mutation in Keri Hulme's Short Fiction in, editor(s)Ashmita Khasnabish , Postcoloniality, Diaspora and Globalization: What's Next?, New York, Rowman & LIttlefield, 2019, pp71 - 86, [Melanie Otto], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Melanie Otto, 'From Artefact to Metaphor: The Work of Emily Carr', The Ontology of the Artefact , http://ontologyoftheartefact.xyz, NCAD/Temple Bar Gallery, 2019, -, Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED  URL
Melanie Otto, Rachel O'Dwyer,Aoife Banks, Nathan Cahill, Kate Friedeberg, The Ontology of the Artefact, NCAD ACW Public Programme, The Ontology of the Artefact, NCAD ACW Public Programme, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 30 January , 2019, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Invited Talk, PRESENTED  URL
Melanie Otto, Translating the past: reading the work of Frida Kahlo and Lorcan Walshe, SILAS 2019 Comparisons, Conflicts, and Connections: Ireland and Latin America in the Past, Present, and Future, Trinity College Dublin , 23-26 April 2019, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Caribbean Quarterly: Irish-Caribbean Connections, 64, 3&4, (2018), 377 - 586p, Melanie Otto, Lee Jenkins, Kim Robinson-Walcott, [eds.], Journal, PUBLISHED
  

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Melanie Otto, Challenging the Dominance of Words in Postcolonial Ireland: The Visual Language of Lorcan Walshe"s The Artefacts Project , Hunt Museum Lecture Series, Hunt Museum Limerick, 25 August, 2022, Hunt Museum Limerick, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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MA (jure officii) 2009