Team > Marian Ofori-Amoafo, M.A.

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachgruppe Anglistik

CURRICULUM VITAE

Marian Ofori-Amoafo is a PhD student in American Studies and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth.

Presently, she is writing her dissertation on the history of slavery in contemporary Anglophone novels.

ACADEMIC CV

• 2017-: Teaching and Research Assistant to the Chair of American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
  
• Since October 2017: PhD Student in American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
• 2016-2017 Winter Semester, Student Advisor for the M.A. program Intercultural Anglophone Studies (MAIAS)
• 2014- 2017 M.A. in Intercultural Anglophone Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Title of Thesis: “Challenging Discourses of Identity in a Post-Soul Era: Space and the Body in Blonde Roots and I Am Not Sidney Poitier”.
  
• 2012-2013 University of Ghana Language Centre, Tutorial Assistant
  
• 2008-2012 B.A. in English and Sociology at the University of Ghana
  
• 2011 Summer Semester at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen (JLU), International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) Exchange Scholar, Student Assistant: International Corpus of English (ICE-Ghana) Project”
  

GRANTS

• 2018: Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD) PhD Grant
  
• 2018: University of Bayreuth Equal Opportunity Department Travel Grant
  
• 2018/2019: Faculty of Languages and Literatures – Research/Travel Grant
  
• 2014-2016 Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD) M.A. Grant
  
• 2014 Norwegian Government Quota Scholarship, Two M.A. Grants received for the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen
  
• 2011 Universities of Gießen/Ghana, International Student Exchange Scholar

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachgruppe Anglistik

Marian Ofori-Amoafo, M.A.

E-Mail: s4maofor@uni-bayreuth.de