Birgit Geipel, Ph.D.
Lecturer
MA Program Director
Office
University of Tübingen
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Department of Korean Studies
Wilhelmstr. 133, Room 56
+49-7071-29 72705
birgit.geipel @uni-tuebingen.de
Office Hours
Wed., August 7, 16-17.30 Uhr via Zoom
Wed.,, Oktober 9, 16-17.30 Uhr via Zoom
Please book a time-slot via the link below.
Portrait
Birgit Geipel received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. Her doctoral thesis and current research examines literary and cinematic discourses of national division and unification in Korea and Germany. Her further research interests include the Korean diaspora, as well as women’s literature.
Academic Profile
2017
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
University of California, Riverside
2009
M.A. in Comparative Literature
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Courses Taught
- MA Translation - Korean Short Stories
- Modern Korean History after 1945
- Premodern Korea
- Recent Research in Korean Studies
- Division Literature in Korea and Germany
- Korean Diaspora
- Korean Women's Literature
- Current Themes in Korean Literature
Publications
Publications
- Geipel, Birgit Susanne. “Illusions of Unity: Life Narratives in Eastern German and North Korean Unification Literature.” Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea. Affinity in Culture and Politics since the 1880s, edited by Joanne Miyang Cho and Lee M. Roberts. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 215-234.