Birgit Geipel, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
MA. Supervisor
Office
University of Tübingen
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Department of Korean Studies
Room 60
+49-7071-29 72705
birgit.geipel@uni-tuebingen.de
Office Hours
As the department is currently closed to the public, there are no office hours.
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 North Korean, diasporic and transnational literature and film.
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
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.